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Wrapping Up Sundance 2014
I look back on this year's Sundance Film Festival as an immersive experience, the recipe for which is: See 20 films in four days, then hop on a red-eye back to New York. I "festival" (yes, even that...
View ArticleHe's Justin Bieber: Or So He's Been Told
You could say that Justin Bieber's recent arrest was inevitable. At the very least, predictable. His bad behavior, after all, has been escalating for a while. Last summer, he was caught on camera...
View ArticleImpolite Society: I'm Offended, He's Offended, They're Offended, We're Offended
The summer before my senior year of high school (way back in 1988), my friends and I adopted the catchphrase "I'm offended." It was used as a response to a shocking or outrageous statement. Think of it...
View ArticleWeeklings!: Gay Grammy Predictions (VIDEO)
The Grammys! Next to the Golden Globes, they might be the most happily meaningless telecast on the planet. I can't wait. In this edition of Weeklings!, I forecast what'll happen with Macklemore and...
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Gay Men Are Losing Our Pizazz, and It's a Problem... or Something?
Recently Esquire published an article written by the intuitive Mick Stingley synopsizing HBO's Looking for the straight-male community. In the article, Mick astutely points out that "this show is...
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The Sundance Interviews: The New Mitt Romney Documentary Reveals the Man Some...
The Day for Night series traveled to Sundance to talk to some of the makers of the films playing at the festival this year. Based on the promise that he would reveal no footage until either after Mitt...
View ArticleTheater: Debra Messing's Broadway Debut -- How'd She Do?
OUTSIDE MULLINGAR *** out of **** MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB I've often wished Emmy winner Debra Messing had been born in the era of screwball comedies so Hollywood would know what to do with her many...
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Why I Wanted to Remember Cary Grant on His Birthday
The other day as I was driving into Manhattan, I turned on my favorite XM radio station called Radio Classics. I instantly recognized the actor speaking and thought to myself, "Perfect timing." Despite...
View ArticleNollywood, Piracy and the Millennial Crisis
Dammy Krane, an emerging superstar in the Nigerian music scene, was born in 1993. This was the same year that the then military president, General Ibrahim Babangida, annulled what many still believe...
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The Sundance Interviews: David Cross and the Cast of His Film, Hits, Mount an...
The Day for Night series traveled to Sundance to talk to some of the filmmakers and cast with films playing at the festival this year. David Cross's film, Hits, is a dark comedy exploring the nature...
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The 'Bamboo Ceiling': Hollywood Shuns Asians, While New Media Embraces Them
In a recent New Yorker cartoon, a dog is shown lounging by a pool and saying to a pup: “Youtube’s one thing, but cats will never make it on the big screen.” A funny commentary, surely, but in America...
View ArticleHarlem's Apollo Theater Celebrates 80th Anniversary
The Apollo Theater in Harlem Billie Holiday was so terrified by her Apollo Theater debut that she had to be gently shoved on to the stage. She triumphed and earned her place at the legendary theater,...
View ArticleAn Irish Moonstruck: Outside Mullingar with Debra Messing and Brian F. O'Byrne
It would be impossible to imagine two more wrong-headed individuals than Anthony Reilly and Rosemary Muldoon, the next-door neighbors in John Patrick Shanley's new play, Outside Mullingar. The idea...
View ArticleJustin Bieber's Out of Jail - But We're Not
The whirring of helicopters woke me before the alarm at 7:45 Thursday morning -- my last hours in South Beach, Miami, the end of a two-week time out from real life. I'd built in enough time to take a...
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Rest in Peace, Mr. Mallrats...
In this picture above, from the set of Mallrats -- the guy in glasses on my right? The guy who kinda looks like my beardless Dad (and kinda was)? That's the producer Jim Jacks. 20 years ago, Jim Jacks...
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The Sundance Interviews: Video with Paul Reiser, Cheryl Hines, Molly Shannon,...
The Day for Night series traveled to Sundance to talk to some of the filmmakers and cast with films playing at the festival this year. Life After Beth is a comedy with a zombie twist, boasting some...
View ArticleComparing Philomena, Wolf of Wall Street, and Nebraska... and the Winner,...
Bad title. Instead, Philomena , played by Dame Judi Dench, should have been titled something like, "They're Taking Anthony". This movie is: a mystery and an attempt to solve a heinous crime; a story...
View ArticleWho's Afraid of Beyoncé? Maybe Jamie Foxx
You might feel that you saw a little too much of Beyoncé's behind at the Grammys last night. You could be tired of her PDA with Jay Z. Twitter certainly reflected those two viewpoints during and after...
View ArticleJay Leno: Sticking His Landing
After 22 years of hosting the "Tonight Show," Jay Leno is -- again -- stepping aside to make room for some younger blood. As he told viewers and apparently every entertainer who ever asked him, in show...
View Article2014 Grammy Awards, as Tweeted
Last night, I watched The Grammy Awards, like I do, while hosting a Twitter party where we commented intensely from #GrammyExp. This kind of "event television" is so much more fun when watched en...
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