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Tinseltown is Taking Over South Beach
South Beach is THE place to be this week. Art Basel is in town and people from around the world are in attendance in hopes of purchasing some of the art on display. National and International dealers...
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How Nelson Mandela Changed My World
As I grew up on my continent, our own history was never told. Being a young girl raised in Benin, West Africa, I was even taught my ancestors were the Gauls! At age nine, I discovered by accident the...
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Hotel Therapy for Trauma Survivors: Lisa Lanseth's Film Hotel in Competition...
As someone who once spent eight months wandering from hotel to hotel in South America after three miscarriages and a painful break-up, I was immediately drawn into Lisa Lanseth's new film Hotel,...
View ArticleThe Celebrity Age Gap
As has been widely publicized, Olympian Tom Daley came out as bisexual in a YouTube video with a script reportedly penned by boyfriend Dustin Lance Black. Like many other celebrity pairs, there is a...
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Jonathan Allen Talks LGBT Issues and Life After America's Got Talent (AUDIO)
This week I talked with 21-year-old singer Jonathan Allen, who touched our hearts singing his way into the semifinals on America's Got Talent. When Jonathan first took the stage before delivering a...
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Mexican Director Amat Escalante Speaks About Being on Martin Scorsese Jury in...
"I came because of Martin Scorsese," Mexican director Amat Escalante said, explaining his reason for accepting a position as member of the jury at the Marrakesh International Film Festival, which will...
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4 Observations From The Week In Oscar Precursors
As Mark Harris wrote for Grantland, this week's wave of Oscar nomination warm-up acts -- The Gotham Awards, New York Film Critics Circle and National Board of Review -- don't amount to a hill of beans....
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Live From the Dubai International Film Festival: Saturday, Dec. 7
Discovering films -- and discovering talent -- are part of the joy of attending a film festival. It's all about the surprise -- going in cold and seeing a movie you know nothing about (and then...
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The Winners of the Marrakech International Film Festival
The closing awards ceremony of the Marrakech International Film Festival this evening was unusually emotional for me -- for after a week of running into the directors, actors, producers and the...
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Thirteen Years in the Making: Michèle Stephenson and Joe Brewster Talk About...
One of the enduring hopes of the digital age is that technology can break down the barriers between peoples and races. Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson explore this idea first hand in their...
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I Remember Papa: Jonathan Winter's Smurfy Swan Song
When it came time to find just the right voice for Papa Smurf, Raja Gosnell and Jordan Kerner were admittedly feeling a little blue. Why for? Because the casting department at Sony Pictures Animation...
View Article10 More Things You Never Noticed About The Wizard of Oz
As authors of the new tribute book The Wizard of Oz: The Official 75th Anniversary Companion, we were pleasantly surprised at the popular reception of our recent Huffington Post article entitled 10...
View ArticleHawaii Five-0s Powerful Episode About Pearl Harbor & Japanese American...
We're fans of the CBS series Hawaii Five-0 for lots of reasons, including the fact that it's a showcase for Asian and Pacific Islander actors such as Daniel Dae Kim and Grace Park, and the entertaining...
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Inside Llewyn Davis
In movies like the recent Searching for Sugar Man, the performer endures suffering to succeed. An ordeal is rewarded with success. The ordeal is the rite of passage. Leave it to the Coen Brothers to...
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Victoria's Secret Fashion Show Highlights And Lowlights
Rough day at the office This year I was lucky enough (after a little begging and groveling) to attend the 2013 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show at the Lexington Avenue Armory in New York City. Here are...
View ArticleGodzilla Trailer Rampages Online
An old familiar monster is coming to theaters this May, and he looks bigger and badder than ever. The new Godzilla trailer hit the Interwebs yesterday and we got a better look at the look and feel of...
View ArticleDid It's a Wonderful Life Get It Wrong?
It's a Wonderful Life is -- by far -- my favorite movie. I've seen it at least 20 times, in every incarnation: colorized renditions, the two-hour edited-for-TV cut and the full-length version projected...
View ArticleATM I'm OBVS ROFL... OMG LOL
In my first ever blog for The Huffington Post, I am going to discuss the shift in social normality towards using acronyms, as well the distinct lack of physical human interaction nowadays... There are...
View ArticleThe Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug: No Regrets
If you're planning to see the film this weekend, prepare yourself. The movie is epic in both scope and nature, with rousing cinematography and plot twists that will either irate or satisfy. While it...
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My Picks for the Best of Jazz 2013
This year was a particularly fertile year for new, contemporary music by young composers. If the music has to be categorized at all it probably falls into that all-encompassing genre we call " jazz."...
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