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How Actress Zineb Oukach Won Her Role in "The Wolf of Wall Street"
Zineb Oukach, a Moroccan born beauty, is set to stand out amongst a male driven cast which includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Jean Dujardin, Rob Reiner, Kyle Chandler and Matthew McConaughey in...
View ArticleEmbracing the (Music) Spirit of the Holiday Season
The holiday season is a time of mirth and merry for many of us, and depending on our personal circumstances, it just may take a little extra work to get into the ho-ho-holiday spirit. The Christmas...
View ArticleIn My Family, Holidays Mean Chop Suey and A Christmas Story
On Christmas day, as my wife and I have been doing for the last three decades, we will cap off a morning of gift-giving, mimosa-drinking and chips-dipping with a trip to a Chinese restaurant for a meal...
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San Antonio Rodeo Provides Excellent Value for Country Music Fans
The San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo is a special time of year for the Alamo City. This event is such an integral part of the San Antonio culture that the Spurs, San Antonio's beloved basketball team,...
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Women Warriors and Soft Men: Lessons from The Hunger Games, Hobbit and Other...
The international success of The Hunger Games film sequel, Catching Fire, has made me think of the concept of women warriors in fantastic stories. As highlighted by the character Katniss Everdeen in...
View ArticleDucks and Race
Phil Robertson thought he was a TV star. Now he's in trouble. The concern is his remarks about homosexuals. "Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there. Bestiality, sleeping around...
View ArticleDuck Dynasty and Madonna
In April 1989, the Pepsi Corporation announced that it was canceling plans to broadcast a television commercial that featured Madonna, then arguably the most popular singer in the world. Madonna had...
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Movie review: Grudge Match
A few years back, a practice known as "bum fights" -- in which young adults would pay homeless men to brawl with each other, then post videos on the Internet -- shocked sentient adults for its...
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Aging Out Of My Career
I have been a standup comedian since the fall of 1980. Back then, it was a novelty to be one. Hell, no one really understood what a standup comic was. And the only women hugely successful at that time...
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My Favorite Films of 2013
It's the time of year when critics release their lists of the year's best films. It feels like a competitive sport -- or a provocation, which all of these lists are, by nature. As in: "This is my list...
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Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
There is an epiphanic moment in Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues when the news icon Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell) comes up with the winning idea which will allow the graveyard shift to which he has...
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How Actress & Billionaire Heiress Josie Ho Won Her Family Feud
Josie Ho is a multi-awarding winning / nominated actress and stars opposite Sharlto Copley in the suspense thriller "OPEN GRAVE" directed by Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego ("Apollo 18"). Visit Josie's website....
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Holly Jolly Guide to Christmas Movie Filming Locations
Do you spent Christmas Day watching Ralphie? When you order pizza do you tell the driver to "keep the change, ya filthy animal"? Or perhaps you've called someone a "cotton-headed ninny muggins" more...
View ArticleRalph Fiennes' Invisible Woman: Felicity Jones
Invisibility is perhaps desirable if you are going to be the mistress of one of the most popular writers of all time. The story of Charles Dickens' mistress, a young actress named Nelly Ternan, 27...
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A-Sides "Aside": A Very Awesome Holiday with Gabba Gabba, Aye?
The Suburbs is probably in my top three favorite albums of all-time. But, I've been floored with all of Arcade Fire's albums. I deeply felt all of the cuts on the dark Neon Bible, and caught on early...
View ArticleFACE IT: We Need Subtlety in the New Year
Is it just me, or does everything and everyone seem over the top? Maybe it was surviving three hours of Leonardo di Caprio's unceasing depiction of sex, drugs and profanity in his latest film. Maybe it...
View ArticleMy Top 10 Movies for 2013
As movie years go, 2013 was a very good year. As I looked back over my list of movies and their scores I found I could have made a top 20. That is not the usual case as in past years I have had to...
View ArticleThe Hustle in American Hustle Music: An Interview with Susan Jacobs
The French provincial brocade couches in Carmine and Dolly's Camden, New Jersey house in "American Hustle" tell you what you need to know about the characters' domestic life. But the "American Hustle"...
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Christmas in Connecticut
Peter Godfrey 's Christmas in Connecticut (1945) is a winter's version of Midsummer Night's Dream. In the movie which played as part of the Stanwyck festival at Film Forum, Christmas Eve, Stanwyck is...
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The 10 Best Records of 2013
Every year at this time, my friend Andy sends out a hotly excitable email asking his most music-crazed friends -- sound engineers, clubsters, DJs, me, anyone for whom music is less a casual dalliance...
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