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Theater: Tales of Two Kings -- Carole and Rodney
BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL *** out of **** RODNEY KING *** out of **** BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL *** out of **** STEPHEN SONDHEIM THEATRE It's poor praise to say Beautiful is the best...
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Seniority and Pay Parity It's important to look at the seniority argument from a real-world perspective. Seniority is rarely, if ever, the single determining factor in deciding how much to pay an...
View ArticleAll The Doors to Hollywood and How to Open Them -- Special Effects
What does special effects do? According to Dave Beavis, special effects essentially "recreates physical things that can't exist, or can't exist conveniently, on a sound stage -- rain, snow, mist --...
View ArticleAdjusting to Loss: Lessons from 'Downton Abbey'
Warnings: Contains spoilers! One of the most common reasons that people seek therapy is in order to adjust to a loss or a traumatic event. This week's episode of Downton Abbey explores this painful and...
View ArticleUsing Skyfall to Fight Back Against Kim Jong-un
Dennis Rodman is back from his latest trip to North Korea, where he sung happy birthday to the dictator he calls his "friend for life." His entourage included a group of former NBA players who came and...
View ArticleMy Conversations With Two of 2013's Rising Film Stars: Somali-born Actor...
Tonight on PBS, I sit down with actors Barkhad Abdi and Lupita Nyong'o. Two years ago, Abdi was picked from an open casting call to co-star with Tom Hanks in the film Captain Phillips. His debut screen...
View ArticleTop 10 Hits from the Sixties: Who Played on 'Em
The Wrecking Crew, a much-needed documentary about the behind-the-scenes elite crop of studio musicians who provided the instrumentation for many of the hits of the 1960s, has been shown on the...
View ArticleIs Wall Street Entertainment's Next Playground?
A few days after Christmas, my fiancée and I caught The Wolf on Wall Street, the popular Martin Scorsese adaptation of a novel about Jordan Belfort, a stockbroker who made millions in the 1990s. Just...
View ArticleToo Much, Too Quickly -- The Movie Awards Season Is Upon Us -- But Who Has...
"DENNIS RODMAN, the off-key Charles Lindbergh of North Korea!" goes the quote from New York mag's Approval Matrix. I wonder how many young would-be historians got this remark? Before World War II, the...
View ArticleSongs With Literary References
Under my previous post, on pre-19th-century literature, discussion briefly turned to some post-19th-century music. That happened after commenter "Dave B. (ultrabop)," in offering an example of earlier...
View ArticleAisle View: Sizzlingly Good
An awkwardly insecure girl from the tenements of New York is forced, by societal conditions and a lack of viable options, into marriage to her boss; motherhood; and such continued repression that she...
View ArticleLast 'Call to Post' at Historic Hollywood Park
With a new year comes many beginnings, but one chapter in Los Angeles history will end this month with the closing of the historic Hollywood Park in Inglewood, Calif. It may be difficult to understand...
View ArticleIt's Time To Calm Down About Movie Theater Disruptions
When a retired cop shot and killed a fellow moviegoer who was texting his 3-year-old daughter's daycare center on Monday, Twitter exploded in a variety of directions. A subset of movie writers -- who...
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Award Season? No, It's Engagement Season!
Love is in the air! The past few days have brought a flurry of engagement announcements and wedding celebrations. We here at Dish Nation want to make sure you're staying on top of the latest romantic...
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Is Paris Hilton a Good DJ?
This question originally appeared on Quora. Answer by Aaron Ellis, Former Music Critic with Artist Farm This is the photo that will always be remembered. In the middle of Paris Hilton's subpar deejay...
View Article'Lone Survivor'
"No soldier ever really survives a war."- Audie Murphy The theater was packed for the first show of Lone Survivor on a Saturday morning. We sat riveted by the story of Marcus Luttrell, a big, shambling...
View ArticleEither Robin Thicke Is Unworthy of an NAACP Image Award or the Awards Are...
In 1942, NAACP Executive Director, Walter White, worked with politicians and studio executives to establish an ad hoc committee with the major studios to monitor the image and portrayal of African...
View ArticleMy Conversation With Bruce Dern
Tonight on PBS, I chat with one of Hollywood's most iconic actors, Bruce Dern, who has appeared in more than 80 films, including Coming Home, for which he was nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe in...
View Article15 Minutes With Natasha Lyonne
I'm going broke, and need to move to a smaller place. I should be out apartment hunting, but instead, I'm ignoring financial woes and vacillating between delusions, denial and a screaming nervous...
View ArticleChicago PD's Sophia Bush Opens Up About Her New Role, Intense Training, and...
Have you ever wondered how much training goes into making those fast-paced, high action cop shows you see on television? The answer: a lot! Sophia Bush can fully attest to the amount of training she...
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