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Billy Valentine's Brit Eyed Soul
Brit Eyed Soul, Billy Valentine's forthcoming album of songs by British rockers inspired by the American soul music of the '50s and '60s, hearkens back to the Beatles' first appearance on the Ed...
View ArticleCaptain America: Wise and Wickedly Funny
No spoiler alert. No major plot points will be revealed so you are safe to read this, just a few details are mentioned. Pardon me while I gush. Captain America stood his ground this weekend at the box...
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When The Beach Boys Were Teen Idols
I'm the youngest of four siblings in my family. It's not hard to imagine that our home environment around music was quite eclectic. My oldest sister had already left home by the time I was a teen, but...
View ArticleMy Conversation with Music Legend David Crosby
Tonight on PBS, I welcome legendary singer-songwriter and two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Famer David Crosby for his first interview since undergoing heart surgery earlier this year. As a founding...
View ArticleHere's The Real Reason Gravity Was Such a Great Movie
I finally got around to watching Gravity. I enjoyed the film. The plot was thin. And you're telling me that an American medical engineer knows how to fly a Chinese space station module back to Earth?...
View ArticleHow to Be 10% Happier? Read Dan Harris's New Book
"IF YOU want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." Says the Dalai Lama. Dan Harris is in that small respected world where news correspondents and TV...
View ArticleAt the International Colombian Film Festival in New York, Giving a Voice to...
I was a war correspondent in the late 80's and early 90's. Throughout seven of these years, I visited all the corners of Colombia and was able to document and disclose the brutality of the war in the...
View ArticleTheater: Mild "Threepenny;" Blazin' "Raisin" For Denzel
THE THREEPENNY OPERA * 1/2 out of **** A RAISIN IN THE SUN *** 1/2 out of **** THE THREEPENNY OPERA * 1/2 out of **** ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY AT LINDA GROSS THEATER I love The Threepenny Opera even...
View Article"Bad Guys" Are the Protagonists
"THE RIGHT thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct," said Calvin Coolidge, the 30th President of the United States. •A TV show that interested me last year was The...
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Q&A With Cougar Town, Spin City and Scrubs Producer Randall Winston
I recently had the opportunity to sit down with television producer and director Randall Winston, who spoke about his recently shot Rob Lowe pilot, Lupus, and being openly gay in Hollywood. Robert...
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Warrior's Death a Blow to an Already Devastated WWE Fan
I believed in the Ultimate Warrior. And despite my buried-alive childhood, I still will. Lifelong fans of WWE, like myself, still trying to cope with the ending of the Undertaker's streak at...
View ArticleReelWorld Film Festival Explores Cross-Cultural Connections
It's easy to perceive differences between cultures and conclude the challenges of our own cultures and families are unique. ReelWorld Film Festival provides an opportunity to explore the similarities...
View ArticleDid Charlie White Do a Rumba on 'DWTS' This Week? No, But...
Is that a rumba Charlie's doing in that clip? Nope. Were the judges right to deduct points for that? Yep. He should be held to the same standards anyone else would be. There's only one problem: One of...
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The Art of Y(vonne) Sangudi: The Next Great Songstress
Exclusive: Yvonne Sangudi is a world-class singer, just ask former first lady Laura Bush, President Kikwete (Tanzania), or President Sirleaf (Liberia), who she's sung for on separate occasions. Yet,...
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Child K: A Hidden Horror of the Nazis
Roberto deFeo and Vito Palumbo made waves a couple years ago with the most successful short film in Italian movie history, the horrorific thriller Ice Scream, whose subsequent U.S. version should be...
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Chicks on Speed, Julian Assange, Yoko Ono and Others Join Forces for...
(Photo: Steven Hughes) Long before Lady Gaga was visioning "ArtRaves" in galleries to promote her modern art-infused idea of what pop music should be and, perhaps, become, Munich-based fine...
View ArticleA Transgender Teacher in Hawai'i Inspires a Global Campaign
At a time when transgender and gender-nonconforming people the world over face harassment, violence, discrimination and even murder, we are excited to be launching a new film-based campaign from...
View ArticleUma Thurman Runs Away With 'Nymphomaniac'
"THE TRUTH is, sex doesn't mean that much to me anymore." That was Lana Turner in the final restful decades of her life. And the truth was, Lana, despite her many lovers, never cared much for sex -- at...
View ArticleNew Documentary Series Giving Climate Change the Attention It Deserves
Climate change is the challenge of our generation, but you wouldn't always know that when you turn on the television. Coverage of climate change has not kept pace with the scientific milestones and...
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Kevin Bacon on Six Degrees, Success, and Creating Meaningful Change
We live in a connected world where relationships are increasingly important. After hearing Kevin Bacon speak at SXSW and talking with him about SixDegrees.org, it became clear that how we are...
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