Unfinished Business: What I Learned From the Good Wife
I don't watch much television anymore. I have my TV viewing whittled down to a handful of shows that I intentionally watch. And none of them are "reality" shows, because a) there is no reality in...
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Piano Ombre Plays Perfectly
It's been over a week since Frà nçois and the Atlas Mountain released Piano Ombre, and I've taken my time in forming an opinion. You could say I wanted to be sure I loved it as much as I thought. The...
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'No More Mutants'
I first fell in fascination with the Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff) during the X-Men House of M story arc in the comics. Wanda was ridiculously powerful and also unhinged, broken-hearted and...
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Re-Casting The Breakfast Club for 2014
Did you know that this week is the 30th anniversary of the Saturday detention in the 1985 movie The Breakfast Club? Thirty freakin' years! Man, we're old. Not only do we know the entire movie by...
View Article7 eBook Singles That Would Make Great Movies
Hello Hollywood! Get out your checkbooks. We think that some of the ebook singles (between 20 to 100 pages) that we've reviewed over the past year would make great movies. They've got rich characters,...
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7 Secrets For Breaking in to the Film and TV Business (That They Don't Want...
I have been successfully making movies and television shows for over twenty years now, and this is the first time that there is such a huge disconnect between what is real, and what everyone thinks is...
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Funny Girl Celebrates Its Golden Jubilee: A Russian Girl's Love Letter
It's truly remarkable that the hit show that almost never was celebrates its 50th anniversary. Exactly five decades ago this week, the legendary Funny Girl made its unforgettable debut on Broadway,...
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Terry Ray Talks From Here on OUT, His New Gay Sitcom for Here TV (AUDIO)
This week I talked with Terry Ray, an actor and writer, about his new sitcom From Here on OUT, which makes its television broadcast premiere on Friday, March 28, exclusively on Here TV, the LGBT...
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5 Places Trans People Exist
5. Social Media Networks In today's world, social media networks have become places where people can customize and cultivate their true identity on their own terms, which is particularly beneficial if...
View ArticleThe Americans 'The Deal' Recap: Will Stan Snitch for Nina?
Note: Do not read on if you have not seen Season 2, Episode 5 of FX's The Americans, titled "The Deal." Wig Count: 2. One very convincing "Betty Butt-insky" wig worn by Elizabeth to play Jennifer,...
View ArticleDerek Jarman Remembered: Will You Dance With Me? at London's BFI LGBT Film...
There would have to be something miraculous about a new film by gay, British art-house director and artist Derek Jarman, but that's exactly what London's BFI Flare LGBT Film Festival offered last...
View ArticleDefining the Breakup and Consciously Uncoupling: Paltrow and Martin
Breakups are not an uncommon occurrence in Hollywood. Every day TMZ and similar entertainment news outlets report on the latest failed Hollywood relationship. Given the pressures associated with being...
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The Zombie States of America: The Best and Worst Places to Survive the Zombie...
Do you live in constant fear of the impending zombie apocalypse? No? Well, with The Walking Dead wrapping up its season, it's literally all we can think about. We know how Rick and the gang are faring...
View ArticleConscious Uncoupling: What It Means
Conscious Uncoupling Is About Compassion, Respect and Awareness The phones have been busy here since Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin announced their split, with media inquiries about what "Conscious...
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Texas Chain Saw Massacre Secrets Revealed After 40 Years
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was my very first horror movie. I remember it vividly. I came home from school in 5th grade and popped the VHS my dad had taped off the TV into the VCR and it rocked my...
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The 16th Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival: From Donald Rumsfeld to ADHD
"Everyone should have a chance to do this," gushed my sister Katy Frissora, speaking about our week together at the recent Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival in Greece. "See documentaries from all...
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After 22 Years, Lella Smith Checks Out as Creative Director of Disney's...
When Lella Smith's 10-year-old godson, Rey, found out she was retiring from the Walt Disney Animation Research Library, he was incredulous. "Why would you do that, Auntie?" he said. "You've got the...
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Campbell's Scoop No. 3: Energy
The most important thing with any job is to arrive with energy. No matter what the job, whether it is on the runway, at a photoshoot, producing and filming for The Face, my charity work, or even doing...
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Trapeze Artist Becomes a Quadriplegic and Still Flies: Olivier Meyrou's Acrobat
It was my favorite film at the recent Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival: Olivier Meyrou's Acrobat, about trapeze artist Fabrice Champion, once a performer for the prestigious Les Arts Sauts troupe...
View ArticleExodus: When Actors Decide to Leave the Shows We Love
It's easy to forget sometimes that the fictional TV characters we grow so attached to have another side to them. Behind every brooding vampire, every caustic detective, every promiscuous doctor lies a...
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