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How to Get Someone to Change His Mind: A Film Review of Diplomacy
How To Get Someone to Change His Mind A film review of Diplomacy by Dr. Lloyd Sederer On a hot night in late August of 1944 the Allies, led by General Patton's army, had advanced to the periphery of...
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National Geographic Channel Takes to the Big Easy to Launch New Food Programming
These days it seems there are more programs about food on basic cable networks than there are viewers available to watch them. It follows, then, that introducing new specials and series on this...
View ArticleDear Claire Dunphy: About Your 'Insane Asylum of Horror'
From one soccer mom to another, here's why your Halloween Insane Asylum of Horror was anything but awesome. You may remember seeing me at the soccer field, the grocery store, the PTA meetings. Like...
View ArticleTana French -- Queen of the Irish Murder Mysteries!...Who Will Bill O'Reilly...
"WHAT I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this -- two things: I crave truth. And I lie"... "Women prefer to hate each other at close range, where you get more bang for your buck"... "Any...
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Betty Who Talks Touring, Her New Album, and Law & Order: SVU
For some time now, Betty Who has been one of the most exciting rising stars in the pop world. She's creating the kind of easy and easy to love hits that get stuck in your head and literally never...
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The Burning Room and Bosch: A Talk With Michael Connelly
Photo by Mark DeLong Michael Connelly is the award-winning bestselling author of the critically acclaimed Harry Bosch detective series and the Mickey Haller novels. His latest Harry Bosch novel, The...
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Project Runway Empire
Image Credit: Aimee Wenske The latest season of Project Runway brought some surprises -- a must for any reality show in its thirteenth incarnation. This season saw a returning designer as the...
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ReThink Interview: Jake Paltrow, Writer/Director of Young Ones
When I was a kid, it always frustrated me to read a movie critic's best-of-the-year list to find it full of movies I'd never heard of, usually foreign films or small independent ones that weren't...
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Movie Review: Interstellar -- Nolan's Overstuffed Vision
Christopher Nolan's philosophy of filmmaking apparently is this: Why make one movie when you can make three? Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't. Interstellar works much more often than it...
View ArticleParents, Don't Discipline Angry
In my eight years as Chief Presiding Judge on the juvenile bench in Fulton County, Georgia, one of the largest court systems in the nation dealing with Family Law, I have heard thousands of...
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Portrait of a Song
All images copyright David Norbut I have known David for a few years now. What first drew me to his work, were the projects and stories he would create with his photography. The first project that...
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If The Characters Of Pride And Prejudice Could Text
This is an excerpt from Mallory Ortberg's new book Texts from Jane Eyre: And Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary Characters which is available on Nov. 4. Below are imagined text...
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How To Win Charts and Alienate People
(This is an excerpt from the forthcoming book, Field Notes from a Music Biz Life.) "It's bad enough Beer has an MBA. Why does he have to flaunt that fucking map?" -- Consensus of record company...
View ArticleFrom Marilyn Monroe to Scarlett Johansson: What's Changed?
For every progressive film or TV show made, there are at least a dozen more undoing its positive influence by upholding antique gender stereotypes. The frightening thing is that one can watch an early...
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Movie Review: 'Interstellar' or Star Bores?
Watching Interstellar's credits roll by after nearly three hours of gleefully geeky, labyrinthine plotting, I wouldn't have been surprised to see Sheldon Cooper listed as co-screenwriter. Yes, just...
View ArticleIconic Interview: Jake Gyllenhaal on 'Nightcrawler'
Every time I tune in to the local news, I end up subjected to an onslaught of personal tragedies exploited to portray a city overrun with random acts of violence -- a frightening place proven to...
View ArticleTime-Lapse Video: A Young Man Transforms Into a Drag Queen
I've always been fascinated with the transformation of butterflies -- how a baby larva eats himself into becoming an earth-bound caterpillar, which then bundles up on a leaf for a couple of weeks and...
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After 'Fury'
I had a date with Logan Lerman this past week. Okay, to be fair, he didn't have a date with me -- he was attending the premiere of Fury, his new World War II movie starring Brad Pitt, who was also in...
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Jimmy Page and Jeff Koons Rock n' Roll
What is the next dream project for Jeff Koons? Designing an album cover for Jimmy Page. The visual artist and the guitar hero were at the 92nd Street Y in New York on November 3 for a discussion,...
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Gay Serial, The Prospectives, Uses Instagram to Tell the Story of Gay Men in...
Author Adam Hurly (photo credit: Nate Poekert) I was recently introduced to The Prospectives, a story, written by Adam Hurly, that follows a gay man making his way in New York City. Hurly is garnering...
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