The 9/11 Flag From Ground Zero Is Missing
You know the photo. On September 11, 2001, three firefighters raised an American flag above the rubble at Ground Zero. One hundred feet away, photographer Thomas Franklin snapped a shot for the Bergen...
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10 Crazy '90s TV Moments That You Would Never See on the Small Screen Today
Through the trials and tribulations of the '90s, mankind learned that bleached tips, chain wallets, ponytails tied back with scrunchies, middle parts, and entertainment from out of a VHS player with...
View ArticleHollywood Hypocrisy Versus Annie, Renée And Feminism
Let's bring in three incendiary words we've been bombarded with, and see if we can string them together -- so that they compliment each other: Feminism, Renée Zellweger and Annie Lennox (one ages, the...
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Why The Renee Zellweger Photo Controversy Reminds Me How We're All Terrified...
This post originally appeared on Bustle. By Amanda Chatel I may not be a movie star, but Renee Zellweger and I? We're not so different. At least, that's what I suspect. Let me explain. When I was in my...
View ArticleChris Rock Is a F***ing Genius -- You Already Knew That...
According to the yogis, God gives us all the potential to promote miracles. In the Yoga Sutras (the sacred science book from around 200 A.D. often referred to as the "bible" of yoga), there is a term...
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DVDs/BluRays: I Wanna Live at Pee-wee's Playhouse!
Lots of fun stuff this week, starting with Pee-wee's Playhouse, collected in a new boxed set and looking better than ever. It's not just one of the best kid's shows of all time. I consider it one of...
View ArticleCitizenfour Review: Quiet Moments in a Hong Kong Hotel Room as Edward...
Hong Kong has been ground zero this year in the fight for freedom, with students and Occupy leaders battling police for control of the streets in a desperate campaign to maintain the Chinese...
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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Bats 1,000
A veteran actor with more than 40 film and TV roles to his credit, Denmark native Nikolaj Coster-Waldau finally hit paydirt as the nefarious, yet complicated, Jamie Lannister on HBO's hit series Game...
View ArticleLunch With Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones: The Theory of Everything
Stephen Hawking, ALS and all, is such a "character," he's perfect as the charismatic center of a movie. That's partly because of his brilliance in physics and cosmology, partly because his bold yet...
View ArticleYou'll Never Forget Being "Disgraced" on Broadway
"ALL THE WORLD'S a stage, but in New York, most people are in a David Mamet play, not a Noel Coward comedy!" So writes Joan Juliet Buck for the Bergdorf-Goodman Mega-Fall catalogue. Because my...
View Article23 Blast Is Based On an Amazing True Story
With Keanu Reeves committing endless mayhem in "John Wick", things going horribly wrong in "Ouija" and Bill Murray showing his utmost lovability in "St. Vincent" it has been easy for a family friendly...
View ArticleNorman Lear: An Appreciation
Norman Lear is a comic poet on the order of the Greeks who, just our luck, came of age at the dawn of the television era. In another time he would have been perhaps Aristophanes or Voltaire, or Swift...
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We're Still Processing that Ending to The Walking Dead "Strangers"
I've had a few days to try and recover from that shocking ending to the latest episode of The Walking Dead, but I still get really uncomfortable every time I watch it. Let's not dig too deeply into the...
View ArticleSting's the Last Ship: The Prodigal Son Returns
If you've attended any of the packed previews of The Last Ship at the Neil Simon Theater, you may have noticed its originator and composer Sting lurking about. At your surprise to see him, he exclaims,...
View ArticleAfter the Dawn: Reflections on Kate Bush
In 1990, I spent a college semester in London. It was everything that experience has been for young Americans since the dawn of the Republic -- an eye-opening journey and gateway to a life of travel,...
View ArticleHow Tattoos Went From Subculture to Pop Culture
Let's face it, tattoos have burst onto pop culture and have taken over the current media scenery. TV shows based on the tattoo industry are springing up on major networks, social media pages for tattoo...
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MADE Expands to the Sound of Music: An Exclusive With Mazdack Rassi
As far as gambles go, this property was a big one. The cavernous, multi-story warehouse in New York City's Meatpacking district would have been a hot commodity in any decade. But this was 1996 and...
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The Look of Silence and the End of Fear
A decade ago, Joshua Oppenheimer filmed two men by an Indonesian riverbank as they recounted their part in a political genocide. The army had seized power in 1965, organizing gangs and Muslim groups to...
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Happy Halloween from the Past!
Happy Halloween! This final week of October brings festive costumes, carved pumpkins, lots of candy and even a ghoul or two. Minnesotans are getting ready to head out trick-or-treating, and the City...
View ArticleThe Hypocrisy of Plastic Surgery
We can pretend that we pity Renee Zellweger for falling prey to society's expectations about women and aging, and condemn her for being so vain, but studies show that more, not fewer, people are...
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