Robert Wagner -- Movies, Hollywood Style, Barbara Stanwyck and Titanic
"Moral conduct is imperative; it causes the least trouble and leaves fewer regrets," said Jacques Barzan. I think he was quoting the Stoics. •Some of us had a really high old time at the Y on Lex at 92...
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Batman Fans: Please Shut Up
You ever walk into a bar where a local band is playing and have to unfortunately sit through their set of original songs? You suffer, you cry, you can't hear your friends. You DRINK. Then, something...
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10 Youth Movements That Changed History
Teenagers didn't always exist. They had to be invented. As the cultural landscape around the world was thrown into turmoil during the industrial revolution, and with a chasm erupting between adults and...
View Article15 Minutes With Andy Garcia and Ray Romano
I'm sitting in a room in the Beverly Hills Four Seasons with Andy Garcia, and we're waiting for Ray Romano. I'm feeling guilty. On the way over, I passed a group of Girl Scouts selling cookies. I was...
View ArticleA Songwriter's Cyber Showcase
Welcome One and All to Dan Bern's Theme Park If you put me in a box, make sure it's a big box. -- Dan Bern "Jerusalem" "If I were to stage a theme show of my songs, say, around girl's names, what would...
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How Artists Are Banding Together to Celebrate the Muppets
Sweetums by Beth Sparks In anticipation of this month's debut of Muppets Most Wanted, many are declaring their Muppets love -- some more creatively than others. Earlier this month, Zwoltopia, an...
View ArticleWhat Are These Celebrities' Unusual Middle Names?
This past Monday was National Middle Name Pride Day. But middle names weren't always popular in the United States. Prior to the American Revolution, it was rare to give a child a middle name. And even...
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Nat Geo's Live From Space Launches Audiences Into Orbit
"Ground control to Commander Sagers?" The question brought me back to the surreality of the moment, away from multiple reminisces of a childhood where I watched an orange blaze head towards the...
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It's Never Too Late To Find Your Voice; Inside The Bachelor Backfire
While you can look at the popular ABC series, The Bachelor, as pop culture entertainment, it can also, surprisingly, provide some real life lessons. In this case, a dramatically unexpected finale that...
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Visit the New York Filming Locations of HBO's Girls
Girls is the coming-of-age love child of a Nora Ephron rom-com, Joan Didion prose meandering and Woody Allen-esque awkwardness over a Sex and the City best frenemies through-line. But the starring role...
View ArticleThe Limits of Looking
Now that the first season of HBO's Looking has come to an end, it is worth reflecting on the series' achievements, and lamenting some of its shortcomings. Much has been written about the "butch"...
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Parenthood Season Five, Episode 17 Recap: "Limbo"
Last night's Parenthood hit all the right notes and squeezed out the maximum number of tears. The episode may have been called "Limbo," but this is the first time in weeks that there seems to be a...
View ArticleGay Is the New Black: The Best Gay Web Series You've Never Heard Of
Orange might be the new black on Netflix, but being gay is the new black in America. From the popularity of Looking on HBO to expanding marriage rights in states all across the country, it's a great...
View ArticleJon Favreau Dishes On His Film CHEF | #SamsungSXSW
Jon Favreau, and the rest of the cast, stopped by the SXSW Samsung Blogger Lounge to discuss his new film, "Chef," cooking culture, and writing the one script that's hit him "really since I wrote...
View ArticleSpring, 1973: Me 'n Jake Get Status Quo Ripped on New York Reefer
Uhhh...Status Quo? Who's that? To almost every American about to read this story, I'll 'splain you all about the Mighty Quo. Apologies at the top to all possible Huffington Post UK readers for the...
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Beware the Ides of March: TV Characters Who Really Need a Comeuppance
Today's the day to keep one eye over your shoulder, or so the old saying goes. Since our backs are usually nestled in between couch cushions in front of the TV, we actually feel pretty safe. But we...
View ArticleKiller Legends Brings Legends to Life
A few months ago, filmmakers came to my workplace and interviewed me at length about four contemporary legends for a new documentary. That documentary, Killer Legends, airs this Sunday, March 16, on...
View ArticleNymphomaniac Part I: Lars von Trier's Coitus Interruptus
Filmmaker provocateur Lars von Trier's latest movie exceeds even his own perversions. The title, Nymphomaniac, tells you much. A troubled woman named Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg) is rescued and helped to...
View ArticleSXSW Film: Damnation, a Documentary That's Testing the Waters of Corporate...
In 1935, FDR promoted the building of dams and this grew to include over 75,000 dams standing more than 3 feet tall throughout the United States. Many of these dams have outlived their usefulness, and...
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Behind the Scenes of Bad Words with Actor & Director Jason Bateman and...
What is the character arc of Guy in Bad Words? This question originally appeared on Quora. Answer by Jason Bateman, Director/Actor/Producer for Bad Words I prefer my lessons, arc, or themes to be...
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