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7 Romantic Films Men Love
Want to watch a movie with your man on Valentine's Day? "But men don't like romance movies," say many women. Think again. They just have to be the right kind. Common threads of a romantic movie a man...
View ArticleHollywood: Where Villains Are Becoming Empowered and Heroes Are Becoming...
Since the dawn of storytelling, good guys with strong moral compasses were glamorized, while bad guys with wayward moral compasses were vilified. Yes, there were gray areas when good guys sometimes did...
View ArticleThe Enlightenment of a Nation
I started this latest essay while I was visiting Paris, France, where I performed three times in 2013 and will likely again in 2014. I love Paris for its art, music, architecture and progressive...
View ArticleTruth and Fudging in Historical Films
I'm making a film about John Lennon's power to affect people on deep, personal levels. Most of the story is documentary fact although my own intimate section could be guilty of leaning to poetic...
View ArticleHere Is the Greatest Breakup Song in the Universe
It's almost Valentine's Day, and in honor of our most conflicted, candy-covered national working holiday, I have rediscovered the greatest breakup song in the universe. I'm not talking about the angry...
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Two Tales From the Tavern Infuse Hope, Faith and Remembrance: Sara Lee...
By Nancy Chuda Santa Ynez California Courtesy of Jeremy Ball A Magical Night! Tales from the Tavern at the Maverick Saloon was a mixture of musical latitudes blending folk, rocking faith, and...
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Why the Fuss About Shirley Temple Black
When I heard that Shirley Temple passed away this past Tuesday, I had to wipe away a tear. As most of us who grew up watching her on Sunday afternoon movies, we remembered her with love. My grandmother...
View ArticleJuan Pablo Bach Recap 6: Who ISN'T One of JP's "Special Ones"?
Monday night Johnny Pabs and his harem of eight ladies relocated from Full Metal Jacket (Vietnam) to Lord of the Rings (New Zealand). This week's episode saw a group date, two one on one dates, and two...
View ArticleThe Uniting Principles Glenn Beck Should Have Talked About
Incivility can be fun. It was for Glenn Beck, he recently admitted in a Fox News interview. Looking back on his career at Fox, he apologized for the divisiveness he promoted, wishing that he "could...
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Taking the Wheel on Social Media Sunday
For millions of Americans, Big Game Sunday is a time to get together with family and friends, fight over the last chicken wing, root for your favorite team, and of course, shush everybody once the...
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Black Keys Roseland Ballroom Tickets Sell Out Hours Before They Are Scheduled...
In the music industry, it's fairly common knowledge that most of the big money is in live events. So, it should come as no surprise that corporations will use concerts as leverage to exploit artists...
View ArticleDemystifying the Beatles: 5 Common Myths
As excitement builds over the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' arrival in the United States in February, 1964, several myths about the band and the circumstances of the Fab Four's first American...
View ArticleHow to Fix Hollywood's Gender Age Wage Gap
An academic study recently published in the Journal of Management Inquiry followed movie stars' wages over the last 40 years. The brainiacs who did the study used complex algorithms and scientific...
View ArticleCelebrating 10 Years of Kanye West's The College Dropout
Over at Billboard, I wrote a review of Kanye West's debut LP, The College Dropout, which was released 10 years ago this week (Feb. 10, 2004). Despite the piece being something like 2,000 words, I found...
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Heidi Howe's Love: Looking for the Same Kind of Crazy
February 14 went from clandestine handwritten expressions of love and desire to mass-produced greeting cards. For some, it is a day to spend with loved ones exchanging winged-cupid symbols or...
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Conversations with PUSA's Jason Finn, Plus Chatting with Sabina and...
A Conversation with The Presidents of the United States of America's Jason Finn Mike Ragogna: After twenty years together, it's about time you were asked who is or was your favorite president of the...
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This Year's Oscar Season Is So Boring
Welcome to For Your Consideration, an unapologetically obsessive conversation about the Oscar race. Between now and March 2, 2014, Vanity Fair digital director Michael Hogan and Huffington Post senior...
View ArticleThe New Famous: Hollywood vs. Social Media
I was in talent management for just shy of five years, representing funny people. I worked with comedians, writers, actors, hypnotists, magicians and various combinations of all of the above. As a...
View ArticleShirley Temple -- the Good Ship Lollipop Has Lost Its Compass
"Love is like a brick. You can build a house or you can sink a dead body," said Lady Gaga. •CAROLE Radziwill chose this quote to open her new novel, The Widow's Guide to Sex & Dating, coming from...
View ArticleShirley Temple: A Little Princess Remembered
Shocking Hollywood news broke Tuesday when beloved actress Shirley Temple Black, child star turned UN Ambassador passed away at 85, although her cause of death has yet to be revealed, it's believed she...
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