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Evel Knievel Is Riding Into the Next Sundance Film Festival
It’s no secret Johnny Knoxville is a fan of extreme stunts, so it’s no surprise he teamed up (through his production company, Dickhouse) with an Oscar-winning director, Daniel Junge, to bring you what...
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Hey, Golden Girls: The Christmas Episodes. Thank you for Being a Thing!
There’s only one thing that can come close to being as awesome as the original cast of The Golden Girls, and that’s an entire cast of drag queens dressed as the Golden Girls… performing the Christmas...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Kate Pierson, From a Trans Woman and Fan, About Your New...
Dear Kate Pierson, I'm a 38-year-old trans woman, and I love you. The B-52s have been one of my favorite bands for the last 26 years. Back when I was in the eighth grade, my father took me to see you...
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The Doha Ajyal Diaries: The Islamic Art Museum, Souk Waqif and 'Made in Qatar'
I love to discover a thread between the real world and the movies. Particularly if that connection pushes humanity to do better and accommodates my ongoing personal agenda to heal and unite, while...
View ArticleJoe Biden at the Golden: A Delicate Balance
OK. It was my fault. I was late for last night's evening performance. Heavy rain. Snarled traffic on 8th Avenue. By 6 minutes for the 8 o'clock curtain. And was herded into the Golden Theater's foyer...
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Macy's Brings Its Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloons Down to Florida
Every year, after Santa's 60 foot-long sleigh float rolls up in front of Macy's Herald Square store on Thanksgiving morning, 50 million television viewers turn off their sets and say "Well, that's it...
View ArticleThe Walking Dead Guns It, Whereas Hell On Wheels Recalibrates
I can see what it is you believe in. You need something to keep you alive, yeah. Such is the two lines from the song "Be What You Want," by Robin Loxley and Oliver Jackson. Which also happens to be...
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DVDs: Boxed Set Bonanza!
OK, Black Friday is gone. Cyber Monday is over. And you still have a lot of shopping to do, don't you? Or maybe it's time you bought yourself a treat, the sort of indulgence you know you want but don't...
View ArticleReese Walks On the Wild Side In "Wild"
Movie Review Jackie K Cooper "Wild" (Fox Searchlight) Reese Witherspoon bares her heart, soul and body in the new film "Wild." She tackles the role of Cheryl Strayed with gusto and determination and...
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Movie Review Jackie K Cooper "Wild" (Fox Searchlight) Reese Witherspoon bares her heart, soul and body in the new film "Wild." She tackles the role of Cheryl Strayed with gusto and determination and...
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The Double and the Christmas Holidays
[NOTE TO EDITORS: PLEASE ADD HUFFPOST BLOGGER JASON APUZZO AS CO-AUTHOR] Do you feel like you're turning into a different person over the holidays? How about your fellow citizens - do they appear to be...
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Live from the Marrakech Film Festival: Dec. 6
I had never been invited to dine with royalty before I arrived at the Marrakech International Film Festival. Sundance, you've got a lot to live up to. As part of the international press corps on hand...
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Live from the Marrakech Film Festival: Dec. 7
It was a three-movie day at the Marrakech International Film Festival, with all of the films set against stark, harsh vistas in which people scramble and struggle just to stay alive. The best of those...
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Olive's Garden
photo credit Jojo Whildon/HBO I can't stop thinking about Olive Kitteridge. I hear her voice; see her face, run scenes over and over in my head and just want more. I was surprised that loving the book...
View ArticleEXCLUSIVE Song Premiere: Happy Fangs "Controlled Burn"
The 9th track on the Happy Fangs debut full-length album Capricorn, set to release on January 27th, 2015, "Controlled Burn" is pure raw energy and powerful vocals with a sexy edge in a free-for-all of...
View ArticleMadonna Alert: Desperately Seeking Attention
As we all have probably noticed, there's a lot of stripping going on in the news, exposing big behinds, flat chests, pregnant bellies, etc. So, where is Madonna hiding? That's what I had been thinking...
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An Open Letter to Bruce Springsteen
Dear Boss, You were magnificent the other night -- performing with U2 for World AIDS Day -- and further establishing yourself as the ultimate "guest" lead singer/band leader. And congratulations on...
View ArticleWhat's Truly Unique About #Blackstormtrooper
On November 28, JJ Abrams released the teaser trailer for Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens and just like every other fanboy I watched the video over and over, often pausing to pick out even the most...
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Music Made By People, Not Algorithms: a DVD Review of Frank
We're told that in our digital future music will be created by computer algorithms. But could an algorithm make music anywhere near as weird and wonderful as Frank? Frank is the titular character of...
View ArticleWhat Martin Scorsese's 'The 50 Year Argument' Tells Us About Today
The 50 Year Argument, a literary documentary on The New York Review of Books directed by Martin Scorsese, available through HBO, is not necessarily the tour de force that only pats the intellectual...
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