Thanksgiving Stuffin' -- Kim, Kanye and MM -- Elizabeth Taylor, AIDS Activist
"IT IS strange to be so known so universally and yet to be so lonely," said Albert Einstein. • ON DECEMBER 7, the London-based auction house, Knaisz, will offer up fifty pieces of memorabilia that once...
View ArticleThe Book Thief Entertains and Educates
In recent years, Hollywood, for better or worse, has played a significant role in educating the public about the Holocaust and its contemporary implications. Sophie's Choice, Schindler's List, Life is...
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Carrie Underwood and Company Shine on the New Cast Album for NBC's Live Sound...
We've all seen endless commercials by now. You'd have to live under a rock not to know that NBC will present Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic musical, The Sound of Music, on Thursday (December 5) at 8...
View ArticleCompulsory Monogamy in The Hunger Games
NPR's Linda Holmes wrote a great article about the gender dynamics in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and concluded, "...you could argue that Katniss' conflict between Peeta and Gale is effectively a...
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Celebrating Twenty Years of Eclectic Musical Delights from The Loser's Lounge...
In 1993, musician/arranger/producer/composer Joe McGinty (his credits include the Psychedelic Furs, Robert Hazard, Ryan Adams, Martha Wainwright, Jesse Malin, the Ramones, as well as a number of...
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The Manly Pursuit of Desire: High Art and Low Sex All the Way Through Evening
Young Australian filmmaker Rohan Spong's love letter to New York and a generation of young composers who died of AIDS, "All the Way Through Evening," opens at the Village East Cinema, 189 2nd Avenue...
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Creating the Bat #5: Chuck Dixon
What does it take to sustain a single character for 74 years? Since Batman's first appearance in May 1939, hundreds of writers, artists, and editors have applied their craft and their personalities to...
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Guccione, Jr. Helps BMI Celebrate a Diverse 75 Years
Bob Guccione, Jr. In A Vintage Photo From Spin What is the essence of American music, and can it be captured in one book? That's the question facing publishing legend Bob Guccione, Jr. and one he's in...
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Curtain Call at Europe's Operas for Subodh Gupta, The Simpsons and Digital Divas
Flitting around Europe to report on art events this Fall threw up evening opportunities to enjoy opera on either side of what was once the Iron Curtain. It still, in a way, remains: the stagings I saw...
View ArticleRace Matters at the Gotham Awards
Lee Daniels, always a provocateur, addressed the huge crowd at Cipriani Wall Street at this week's Gotham Awards with a confession: he hates white people. No one gasped. It was not clear whether this...
View ArticleAlbert Hammond Jr. on new EP AHJ, 10th Anniversary of the Strokes' Room on Fire
To know Albert Hammond Jr. is to know his appearance just as well as his anthems. You might remember the heels of the frizzy-haired rocker's white sneakers curling in as he unleashed a napalm nightmare...
View ArticleMary Poppins Does Not Come Back
This is a cross-post of my column in The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. I knew better than to expect P.L. Travers to write something sweet in my copy of Mary Poppins, but I didn't think it...
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Juliette Binoche Honored at the Marrakesh International Film Festival
Juliette Binoche, in a fluorescent pink dress and a short boyish haircut, stepped out of a limousine looking so nonchalant that it almost did not seem like it was she who was going to walk up the Red...
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Director Bruno Dumont Lectures on Cinema at the Marrakesh International Film...
Director Bruno Dumont spoke passionately to a huge audience of fans and cinema students here in Marrakesh, for nearly two hours, in his Master's Class. Very clear and sure in his ideas, he emphasized...
View ArticleUnderrated Christmas Tunes: 10 Hidden Gems to Spruce Up Your Holiday Playlists
It's Christmastime, and with the wind chill and spiked cider comes the unyielding, inescapable barrage of holiday music. No matter where you go over the next three weeks, you won't be able to shake...
View Article'American Horror Story: Coven' Episode 8 Recap: War Is Coming
Note: Do not read on unless you've seen "American Horror Story: Coven," Episode 8, titled "The Sacred Taking." Halle-freakin'-lujah, dear readers, it's all coming together. After the last two episodes...
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Max Brooks Goes To Hell In "Shadow Walk" Comic Book
Max Brooks already terrified readers by giving new life to zombies with his book World War Z, and now he's focused on a helluva comic book project of biblical proportions. On stands now, Shadow Walk...
View Article'Nashville' Recap: "I'm Tired Of Pretending"
Note: Do not read on if you have not seen Season 2, Episode 9 of ABC's "Nashville," titled "I'm Tired Of Pretending." "I'm Tired Of Pretending" centered around a nexus of daddy issues. As Maddie...
View ArticleAlmost Human Recap, Episode 4, 'The Bends'
There's a new drug on the streets of -- wait, what city is this show in? I know the show is filmed in Vancouver but Vancouver-as-what? Does anyone even know? The new street drug is called "The Bends"...
View ArticleThe Sad Fate of Silent Movies...The Sad fate of Teen-Age Girls Who Emulate...
"LORD, how did we get ourselves into this kind of rat race celebration. What would Jesus do? Certainly, not own a charge card. It has dawned on me that Christmas is coming and I cannot ignore it!" This...
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