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Peter Handke's "The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez" Receives Standing Ovation at...
A man and a woman are sitting at a picnic table in a garden of bottles. Each bottle contains a flower. "Tell me," the man says to the woman. "About your first experience with a man." "My first...
View ArticleCinephiles Will Love "Listen Up Philip"
Movie Review Jackie K Cooper "Listen Up Philip" (Tribeca Film) No matter how many movies you have seen this year, you haven't seen one like "Listen Up Philip." This film, which is directed by Alex Ross...
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The Midtown Men Tell It Like It Is ... Was ... Will Be ... (Part 1)
The Oxford English Dictionary defines 'phenomenon' as an occurrence, perceived through the senses, the cause or explanation of which is in question. I cannot imagine a more fitting description for The...
View ArticleWhat Do Fans Want to Know About Top Artists? A Study According to Google...
Most fans want to know more about their favorite music artists. Some songs can give fans a glance into the inner workings of a musician, but in the information age, many want to know more. What exactly...
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Marcial Garlitos, Local 52, Set Carpenter for Boardwalk Empire, The Sopranos...
A New Jersey boy through and through -- he was born and raised in the tough streets of Newark -- Garlitos never imagined he'd one day build sets for the two most popular mob TV shows of all time, one...
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10 Actors Who Completely Transformed for Roles
The Amazon Prime original series TransParent, in which Jeffrey Tambor plays a transgendered person, was just renewed for a second season. So we started thinking about all the actors who have gone to...
View ArticleNightcrawler: Graveyard Shifts
Jake Gyllenhaal is really creepy. He inhabits Nightcrawler's Lou Bloom, spouting moronic self-help platitudes and shopworn organizational nostrums like a broken pipe gushing effluent into the stream of...
View ArticleFlying Lotus "You're Dead" Tour at The Wiltern in Los Angeles
On Friday, November 14, sound manipulator and beat master, Flying Lotus, captivated an audience at The Wiltern in Los Angeles. Upon entry, the scene seemed crowded and chaotic. I could hear the...
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Celebrity vs. Social Influencer
Once upon a time, there was a little known marketing strategy for brands called The Celebrity Endorsement. Brands would gift their product to celebrities in hopes they would be seen wearing them, using...
View ArticleStealing from the Best
The outpouring of responses I received for my piece about Gene and the upcoming stage production of An American in Paris prompted me to think about creativity and influences and the question -- from...
View ArticleMexico's Biggest Movie Star Asks For Help: "We Cannot Keep on Going Like This"
For the past two weeks, Gael García Bernal has been making the rounds on TV -- late night shows, morning shows, news programs, and even fake news programs -- to promote his newest film, the Jon...
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'Happy Valley', the Movie
Credits: Pat Little "In this town if you are religious and think God is the all mighty and all encompassing, you could put Joe Paterno in that realm and Jesus -- who is his son -- would be Jerry...
View ArticlePopcorn Preview: Rosewater
Rosewater (2014) Cast includes: Gael García Bernal (The Motorcycle Diaries), Kim Bodnia (In China They Eat Dogs), Claire Foy (Season of the Witch), Shohreh Aghdashloo (House of Sand and Fog)...
View ArticlePopcorn Preview: She's Beautiful When She's Angry
She's Beautiful When She's Angry (2014) Cast includes: Rita Mae Brown, Susan Brownmiller, Kate Millet, Ellen Willis, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Alix Kates Shulman Director: Mary Dore (The Good Fight: The...
View ArticleShe Broke Me: The Internet's Letter of Resignation
I am writing to inform you that I will be resigning from my job as the Internet, effective immediately. I've greatly enjoyed my work for the last 45 years connecting IP networks around the world. (Did...
View ArticleShould Netflix Pull the Plug on Cosby?
Wouldn't ya know it? Just when the boys at Netflix think they have HBO right where they want 'em (the online content giant is just days away from challenging HBO's dominance in the comedy arena with a...
View ArticleConfessions of a NYC Matchmaker
It seems that on a weekly basis, the media decides to "lynch" a matchmaker. The noose is a heavily promoted article focusing on the "victims" of matchmakers. The media seems to relish in painting these...
View ArticleInterstellar: Imperfect Epic Addresses Big Questions About the Future, Time,...
"We used to look up at the sky and wonder about our place in the stars. Now we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt." Matthew McConaughey's Cooper in Interstellar Christopher Nolan's...
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How a droopy diaper and a cute rice cooker inspired Baymax's distinctive look...
If you're a new parent and find that there's something strangely familiar with Baymax, the huggable robot star of Big Hero 6, there's a good reason for that. "It took us a while to find just the right...
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The Sleepwalker Shows Christopher Abbott in an Unfamiliar Role (Video)
I saw Mona Fastvold's The Sleepwalker while at Sundance, which is available on VOD and at opening at New York's IFC Center November 21st. The film stars Gitta Witt, Christopher Abbott and Brady Corbet...
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