The New Power Generation
We are at an unprecedented moment in history when teen girls are redefining what it means to be successful, make money and have meaning in life. Ultimately, they are changing what it means to be...
View ArticleThe Deceptively Simple Pattern in Popular Songs and Speeches That Makes Them...
"Drill, baby, drill!" "Bond. James Bond" "Yeah baby, yeah." Sarah Palin, James Bond, and Austin Powers walk into a bar. What they do in the rest of the joke is anybody's guess, but what they might do...
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Mighty Movie's Temple of Bad: Karate-Robo Zaborgar
Well, here's a ticklish situation: Is Karate-Robo Zaborgar a bad film, or a good film trying to be bad, or a film so good at being bad that it's actually bad? Japanese director Noboru Iguchi -- the man...
View ArticleIs Today's Young Music Too Obscene? (Or Has My Perspective Changed?)
By Tom Cavanagh UCF Forum columnist I know how I am going to sound. Really, I do. And I hate it. When I was younger, I always vowed that when I reached my current age (mid-40s), I would never be that...
View ArticleBach Juan Pablo Recap 10: The Women Tell All (Through Super White Teeth)
On Monday night, all of the rejected ladies gathered on a sound stage in L.A. for one last chance to bring shame and infamy to their respective families. They talked about their Bach experience, they...
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Mardi Gras 2014: Soggy Fun in the Marigny!
Mardi Gras was wet this year. And cold. Everyone I know looked at the weather forecasts the night of Lundi Gras and said "there go MY costume plans." It was an eerie, sad feeling as we went to bed on...
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Ryan Lewis Pops Tag on $3.3M Home
Ryan Lewis -- of Macklemore & Ryan Lewis fame -- just splashed out a whopping $3.3 million for a northwest Seattle estate. The Grammy award-winning producer scooped up the home on January 31 at...
View ArticleGarcia v. Google: Hard Cases Make Bad Law
The recent Ninth Circuit case of Garcia v. Google, which held that an actress in a film had an independent copyright interest in her performance embodied in the film, allowing her to get an injunction...
View ArticleOlder and Fabulous -- It's Not a Fantasy Hollywood Script
Frozen was a victory for Disney at the Oscars, but certainly not for Goldie Hawn or Kim Novak. The blogosphere erupted with icy cold commentary on why these two women hadn't aged gracefully, and...
View ArticleThe Children of the Good Road
Gyan Correa's Indian National Award winning 92 minute Gujarati feature film The Good Road is a story that is dispassionately told. Both the sound and the silence of the film enhance its magnificent,...
View Article6 Things We Learned This Week From Goldie And Kim
The Academy Awards appearances of Goldie Hawn, 68, and Kim Novak, 81, triggered a firestorm of fan reaction. Both actresses appeared with what were perceived to be dramatically altered faces and the...
View ArticleBinge vs. Buzz: The Release Model of House of Cards vs. True Detective
There is no doubt Netflix's strategy of enabling users to binge-watch old TV episodes has been successful, but is it the optimal strategy for releasing high profile new content? They generated huge...
View ArticleHow Netflix Is Ruining My Relationship (And Might Be Ruining Yours)
My boyfriend and I watch most of the TV shows we watch together. There are a few exceptions. He got really into "Sherlock." I didn't. We used to make a point of watching "Girls" together. Now we find...
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Video Premiere: Emerson Hart Presents 'The Best That I Can Give'
Emerson Hart likes to refer to his songs as snapshots, and those pictures aren't always pretty. The first single off Beauty in Disrepair, the Tonic frontman's second solo album, is an intimate glimpse...
View ArticleNew Book by Michael Gross Is "Outrageous"
"Our hopes, like towering falcons, aim at objects in an airy height; The little pleasure of the game is from afar to view the flight." Said Matthew Prior. Michael Gross is a delightful guy who has made...
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Film Fatal Assistance Spotlights Colossal Aid Failure in Haiti
With unintentional understated irony, senior housing advisor Priscilla Phelps of Bill Clinton's Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC) becomes the conscience of Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck's Fatal...
View ArticleAisle View: The Demon Barber of Lincoln Center
There is always a place for a production of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Sweeney Todd, especially one that gives us an oversized orchestra filling the hall with Sondheim's masterful score. The...
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A 'True Detective'-inspired map of America's most macabre murder cases
"Along the shore the cloud waves break, The twin suns sink behind the lake, The shadows lengthen, In Carcosa." - The King in Yellow There's no denying that human beings have always been predisposed to...
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Poetic Justice for Todd Swift, Assaulted by Boy Band The Wanted
It's been less than a month since Irish-British boy band The Wanted announced a hiatus to pursue individual projects, but Canadian poet Todd Swift isn't sad. On 25 July 2013, Swift "went from being a...
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Q&A With John Digweed: Back to the 'City That Never Sleeps'
It's not hard to understand why John Digweed has created such a loyal and widespread network of fans who can't seem to get enough of his music. In a world of over-the-top festival stages and...
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