Golden Globes: A Great Night for Women Over 40 in Hollywood
Want to know the latest celebrity beauty secret? Aging beauty is hot! Amongst this year's Golden Globe nominations 17 nominated actresses are in their 40s and above. And what's more, they are growing...
View ArticleMeryl Streep's Ode to Emma Thompson at the National Board of Review Gala
What can't Meryl Streep do? Presenting a Best Actress award to her friend Emma Thompson, she offered the 700 gala guests of the National Board of Review at Cipriani 42ndStreet an option, a short speech...
View ArticleFinding Caleb and His Not-So-Straight Parents
When it comes to music, I tend to like artists who aren't mainstream like what you find on pop radio. I enjoy the idea that I'm going to find that next great star before everyone else. I found one who...
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7 Questions for RuPaul's Drag Race's Shangela
If you keep up with RuPaul's Drag Race's Shangela on social media, you know that she has been on the mend after a bad injury that occurred on stage last October. But just because Shangela hasn't been...
View ArticleShould Grandparents Interfere? -- Lessons From Downton Abbey
Downton Abbey's opening episode of season four was as full of relevant life lessons as ever. The obvious takeaway from the season premiere is that while women in the workplace have come a long way,...
View ArticleSnark Sells: Why I Refused to Focus on the Negative on the Red Carpet
A few weeks ago, one of the major local TV networks asked me to contribute to post-Golden Globes red carpet commentary. It was an amazing opportunity that would've put me in front of an audience I...
View ArticleQ & A With All Is Lost's Golden Globe Nominated Composer, Alex Ebert
2013 was a great year for musician Alex Ebert, known to most as the lead singer/songwriter for Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and Ima Robot, he awoke Thursday morning, Dec. 12th with news that...
View ArticleThe Difference of Life in Spike Jonze's 'Her'
The philosophical question underlying Spike Jonze's Her is not one of the realness of virtual relations but how virtual relations differ from ones based in the material world, in material, mortal...
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10 Top Docs of 2013 (Including 9 From Women Filmmakers)
Director Sarah Polley in Lionsgate Home Entertainment's STORIES WE TELL Call it cheating, but I separated out documentaries from narratives for my year-end list. This was just too fantastic a year for...
View ArticleLost Boy Home and the South Sudan Conflict
This short video relates the story of a "lost boy," Zachariah Char, who returned to South Sudan in December to build a medical clinic honoring his father and mother. Two days before he was to travel to...
View ArticleAmerica's Downton Abbey Economy
The BBC's Masterpiece series Downton Abbey certainly gives us a moving picture of how the top one percent in England lived before, during and after World War I in the early 20th century. Putting its...
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'True Detective' Review: McConaughey And Harrelson Are Terrific In New Crime...
It's easy to imagine an alternate resume for Matthew McConaughey. He drifted toward A-list status in the late '90s and early '00s, and if that path had solidified, he could have ridden his Texas-bro...
View ArticleThe Big O: Will the Academy's Love of Female Ensembles Help August: Osage...
What is almost over but has only just begun? The seemingly endless race for the Oscars, of course. With the Golden Globes ceremony on Sunday and Academy Award nominations being announced next Thursday,...
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'Enlisted'-- Is Now the Time to Premier a Military Comedy Television Show?
(Image: Enlisted cast and crew. From left to right: Mike Royce, Chris Lowell, Kevin Biegel, Angelique Cabral, Geoff Stults, Parker Young. Photo Courtesy of Colin Whitman) During a time when our brave...
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Girls Actress Shiri Appleby Talks Balancing Motherhood, Directing and Roswell
Shiri Appleby has been very busy lately. On top of appearing in HBO's Girls as Adam's Girlfriend, Natalia, Appleby is also in the midst of filming a pilot for Lifetime (Unreal), and directing a one...
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A Year in Champagne
Champagne is magically joyful. Yet few understand the struggle involved in creating it. Documentary filmmaker David Kennard is making a trilogy of films about three distinctive wines (burgundy,...
View ArticleThe Bold and the Beautiful's Brooke to Ridge: "I'm Yours!"
What do you say when the leading man leaves your favorite soap? Ronn Moss and Katherine Kelly Lang have been on and off on CBS' The Bold and the Beautiful for decades. When Ronn Moss, the actor playing...
View ArticleAmerica's Most Noble Creation: The Western Movie
Yes, they were racist and sexist; yes, they were corny and formulaic and historically inaccurate (if not downright fantastic), and yes, the rules protecting animals from being treated cruelly weren't...
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How This Real Life NYPD Detective Influenced Some of Today's Biggest TV Series
I recently interviewed several actors who portray law enforcement characters in TV shows premiering this month, including Tricia Helfer who plays a Texas Ranger investigating females who're driven to...
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Don't Ever Call Sundance Actor Ser'Darius Blain This Nickname
Ser'Darius Blain will be attending Sundance for his new movie Camp X-Ray which also stars Kristen Stewart. Ser'Darius is best known for his roles in the 2011 remake of Footloose and J.J. Abrams' Star...
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