Pat Sajak On Aging, Obsessions And The Most Misunderstood Strategy On 'Wheel'
Pat Sajak could be anybody's best friend. For a woman, he'd be the soft shoulder. For a man, he'd be the comedy relief guy. The fellow you've been watching spinning that 'wheel' every night for the...
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'Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind' Is Truly The Love Story Of Our Time
We are always trying to forget, because forgetting means an escape from the dark and ugly truths that come with love and life. The first time I watched 2004's "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,"...
View ArticleHow HBO's Girls Glamorized Unemployment
Warning: SPOILERS AHEAD. Didn't Lena Dunham's Hannah proclaim to be the "voice of a generation"? Watching Season 3 of Girls always leaves me wondering: Which generation was she referring to? I love...
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4 Ways to Love Movies As Much As Children Do
We should love new movies more than old movies. Today's movies have bigger budgets and better technical quality. Yet, generation after generation seems to believe with certainty the movies from their...
View ArticleDownton or House of Cards: Sequential or Batch TV Releases?
Other than sports and news programs -- along, of course, with our daughter's favorite shows -- I am not a big television watcher. Having said this, I felt quite left out a few weeks ago when, on the...
View ArticleDWTS Update: So What Planet is Charlie White From Exactly?
Okay, there's the face and the smile and the laugh and the hair and the sick ice dancer thighs -- have you noticed those things when he hoists a partner into the air? Dude. What planet is this kid...
View ArticleWomen Stars in Video Game Industry
The Los Angeles Times recently had a major business story about a woman named Shannon Studstill, the studio chief at Sony Santa Monica Studio, a video-game producer and incubator. As I read the story,...
View Article5 Myths About Launching a Music Career
The problem I've always had with reading definitive "how-to" lists is that depending on the individual, the lists may show too much bias one way or another. It's rare to find an unbiased list. Mine is...
View ArticleA Mother's Prayer Answered
He made his grand entrance into this world on September 13, 1969 and during his adolescent years he faced abuse and many difficulties, but yet he survived the nightmare and has become a living...
View ArticleDealmaker Kawaja 'Lands' a Part on Hit Show Mad Men
LOS ANGELES -- Terance Kawaja, founder and CEO of the New York boutique investment bank Luma Partners, which primarily handles digital media clients, will appear in the hit TV show Mad Men next...
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SXSW Interview: Juliette Lewis and Jonny Weston Get a Little Inappropriate in...
Juliette Lewis and Jonny Weston. Courtesy of the Filmmakers It's hard to remember a time when Juliette Lewis wasn't making a memorable mark on the big screen -- can you believe Cape Fear came out in...
View Article'The Americans' 'A Little Night Music' Recap: Granny's Back!
Note: Do not read on if you have not seen Season 2, Episode 4 of FX's The Americans, titled "A Little Night Music." Claudia is back! And she's nice! She's back because she needs to find Emmett and...
View Article"Batman" Revival -- Circa 1966!.... David and Devine Are in the Pink
"HOLY NOSTALGIA, Batman!" •WHO DOESN'T remember the fun and frolic of the 1966 "Batman" series, starring Adam West (still working steadily on "Family Guy") and Burt Ward as Robin? The show ran only...
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The World According to Andrew Ginsburg
In the time-honored tradition of stand-up comics before him, Andrew Ginsburg works the stage at Caroline's on Broadway in Midtown Manhattan. Caroline Hirsch's famed comedy club has been host to the...
View Article"Is This the Couch of a Countess?"
"IS THIS the couch of a countess? Is this the couch of a princess? Oh, no tra-la, tra-la, tis only the couch of a laundress!" So did the great Gladys George, as Madame DuBarry, bristle during her...
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Need for Speed and All Is By My Side Actress Imogen Poots on the Fusion of...
These questions originally appeared on Quora. Answer by Imogen Poots, Actress, All Is By My Side and Need for Speed Q: What is it like to have your film debut at the South by Southwest film festival?...
View ArticleMr.Rogers Got It: Generations Are Stronger Together
This post was co-authored by Dr. Sally Newman, founder of Generations Together at the University of Pittsburgh and Editor in Chief of the Journal of Intergenerational Relationships. She was Fred...
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Why the "Art of Cool" Is the Best Festival in 2014 You Might Sleep On, Until...
In late April, its going down. That is, an eclectic mix of Jazz, Neo-Soul, jazzy Hip-Hop and Retro Funk for two days. Purely that. Straight, no chaser, as North Carolina's Theolonius Monk might say....
View ArticleNina Arianda: The "IT" Girl in Tales from Red Vienna and Rob the Mob
As a desperate widow in MTC's new play, Tales from Red Vienna, Nina Arianda's Helena Altman is demure in period weeds, even as the gentlemen she services rip her black lace. In her new movie, Rob the...
View ArticleMy Conversation With Professor Peniel Joseph on Stokely: A Life
Tonight on PBS, I'm joined by Professor Peniel Joseph, a leading scholar of African American history and an award-winning author. Joseph teaches at Tufts University and also founded a growing subfield...
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