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Going the Distance in the Entertainment Industry
"Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance." - Samuel Johnson What's it take to go the distance in the entertainment industry? There's no single answer. There are four: pursue,...
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Live from the Toronto Film Festival: Monday, Sept. 8
If I were going to generalize about this year's Toronto International Film Festival based on the films I saw Monday, I'd tell you that it's a great year for dramatic films based on true stories. But...
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Magic & Transmissions: Conversations with Sérgio Mendes and Starset's Dustin...
A Conversation with Sérgio Mendes Mike Ragogna: Sérgio, your new album is titled Magic. What kind of magic went into creating and choosing the material as well as recording it? Sérgio Mendes: Well,...
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Happily Ever After?The Leftovers Finale Recap
Note: Do not read on if you have not seen Season 1, Episode 10 of HBO's The Leftovers, titled "The Prodigal Son Returns." This is what I was waiting for all season. Total and complete chaos. I was sure...
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Patrick Duffy Talks Candidly About Why He Left The Original 'Dallas' And Why...
Patrick Duffy is a stud. There. I said it and I'm not taking it back. For those less enamored, you know him as an accomplished actor who became a household name back in 1978 when he originated the...
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Ten Surprising Facts About 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'
The book grew out of a bedtime story Dahl made up for his first two children, Olivia and Tessa (the second of whom would go on to become the mother of the writer, presenter and model Sophie Dahl). The...
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Girl Boss: How One Young CEO Builds Her Family Business & Her Pop Career
Vladivostok, Russia: May 2013 After ten straight hours of working, Dan Tannenbaum needed to take a break. For the noted producer, the mastermind behind tracks for artists like Dr. Dre and Emeli Sande,...
View ArticleSteve Buscemi's Day Job: HBO's A Good Job: Stories of the FDNY
Stories about firefighters conjure images of 9/11, inevitably, as no one can forget the enormous sacrifice of those men climbing up the stairs as others rushed down. In the documentary, A Good Job,...
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Outlander Starz Episode 105 Review: 'Rent'
To catch up on previous Outlander episodes, go HERE. As the episode begins, we see Claire alone, reciting "Present in Absence" by John Donne as she faces a beautiful loch. To begin with, it seems that...
View ArticleThe Happy Generation
Why is the tens generation is so different from the oughties generation? This new decade is now half done and has an identity so separate from the oughties. In fact, in some ways, the oughties and the...
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Creativity vs. Commonsense: The Entrepreneur's Challenge and the Filmmaker's...
The past few weeks have taken me on a roller coaster ride that has been intriguing, exciting and the most terrifying. I promised in my last article to keep you in the loop as I shot my movie Silver...
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An Exhilarating and Profound Modern Fable: Hector and the Search for Happiness
The world craves more happiness, more mirth, more zen but just exactly how do we attain it? In Peter Chelsom's delightful new movie, based on the global best-selling novel Hector and the Search for...
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AKW's Upcoming EP, and "Acoustic Nights" at House of Blues Demonstrates That...
Music critic and celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain, among others, believes "for better or worse, live acts and live performers are being squeezed out in favor of EDM." But a recent evening out on LA's...
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Who Made the Top 3? MasterChefRecap
Note: Do not read on if you haven't seen Season 5, Episode 16 and 17 of FOX's "MasterChef" titled "Top 5 and Top 4 Compete." Families and bull balls make for an interesting challenge this week. First,...
View ArticleWhat Ray Rice Should Mean for NFL's Female Fan Base
If the men of the NFL won't stand up against violence toward women, then the women of the NFL need to. According to Adweek, the Super Bowl was the most watched TV program among women this year. Sure,...
View ArticleAT TIFF 2014 THE "WOW" IS IN THE ENSEMBLE
So here's the sign of a classy celebrity. You're at the hot-ticket party of the Toronto Film Film Fest - the Sony Pictures Classics dinner in tony Yorkville - always a fest highlight. And this dude...
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Sally Kirkland's Triumphant Return in 'Archaeology of a Woman'
This week, making its New York City premiere, Writer/Director Sharon Greytak's gripping Archaeology of a Woman, plunges deeper into the portrait of dementia and its disturbing effects than any other...
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New Album 'Songs of Innocence' Is Like Hearing U2 for the First Time
When leaks suggested that the highly anticipated new U2 album might be released on iTunes as part of this week's Apple event in Cupertino to unveil the new iPhone 6 and the Apple Watch, music fans sat...
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Live from the Toronto Film Festival: Tuesday, Sept. 9
When I started attending the Toronto International Film Festival in 1984, no one had yet thought to position this festival as an awards-season launchpad. While there were a handful of big studio...
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8 Books About Relationships That Blossomed Online
Like most people, my daily interactions are conducted partly in person and partly online. I connect regularly with people over e-mail, texts, blogs and social media--and some of these friends are...
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