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The Extremely Hard Lessons That the Themed Entertainment Industry Learned...
For music fans, it's all about being able to say that they were there at the Newport Folk Festival when Dylan went electric. For baseball fans, it's being able to say that they were at Dodger Stadium...
View ArticleThe Americans 'New Car' Recap: 'I'm a Good Person, I Swear!'
Note: Do not read on if you have not seen Season 2, Episode 7 of FX's The Americans, titled "New Car." Wig count: 3 and one scar Best one-liner: "Don't you like any of this?" Phillip finally pulls the...
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Masters Of Sex, Girls & 'Boogie Train': Conversations with Michael Penn and...
Photo courtesy Cinemedia Promotions A Conversation with Michael Penn Mike Ragogna: Michael, what have you been up to recently? Michael Penn: I've been busy scoring stuff, I've been working on the...
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Mellie Grant Is The Unsung Antihero Of 'Scandal'
"I want his head in the fire and I want to see him burn. I have been destroyed while I have made him president. It is my turn," first lady Mellie Grant told political fixer (and her husband's...
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More Goes on Under the Skin Than Meets the Eye: Hour of the Wolf Movie Review
"I reeeeeally want you to review Under the Skin for Hour of the Wolf," Jim Freund said to me a couple of weeks ago. That was good, because I reeeeeeally wanted to review Under the Skin, but constraints...
View ArticleDisneynature Film, Bears, Opens Friday, April 18, Earth Day
Disneynature Bears is a perfect film for the whole family, particularly if you have young ones with an interest in science and nature. This film, the fifth theatrical release from the Disneynature...
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Actress/Writer Juliette Fairley Is a Vampire in Tribeca Film Festival's...
Juliette Fairley sure has a secure head on her shoulders! That is, if a vampire from her new film Summer of Blood premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival doesn't bite it off! Twitter: @JulietteFairley...
View ArticleWhy Steve Harvey Needs to Have a Seat
As Mimi Faust and Nikko Smith's sex tape makes the rounds on the Internet, I knew it was only a matter of time before the policing began. Sure enough, yesterday, a friend posted a recording of Steve...
View ArticleBlood Orange Amazes All At Great American Music Hall
There's nothing better than a good ol' fashioned get-down at the Great American Music Hall on a Tuesday night. Blood Orange provided the ambiance and groove needed to accomplish just that. On my way to...
View ArticleSing for Ed Sheeran: The Most Talented Young Solo Artist
Last Monday, the seventh, I listened to Ed Sheeran's long anticipated new single "Sing" when the view counter on youtube was just over 300. At this time, my fingers pressing against the keys, the first...
View ArticleEric Hutchinson's Pure Fiction
It was one of those brutal New York City winter nights this past January when I met up with Eric Hutchinson at the Monkey Bar in midtown. He was sitting alone in a booth towards the front across from...
View ArticleTheater: 'Lady Day' Sings; Steven Soderbergh Slips
LADY DAY AT EMERSON'S BAR & GRILL *** out of **** THE LIBRARY ** out of **** SOUTH PACIFIC ** 1/2 out of **** LADY DAY AT EMERSON'S BAR & GRILL *** out of **** CIRCLE IN THE SQUARE Audra...
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Grey's AnatomyRecap: Yang Loses in 'Go It Alone'
Note: Do not read on if you have not seen Season 10, Episode 20 of ABC's Grey's Anatomy, titled "Go It Alone.'" I mentioned last week that I feel some nostalgia for "Grey's" of yore, and even one of...
View ArticleZaki's Review: Transcendence
Marking the directorial debut of premier cinematographer Wally Pfister, Transcendence is so desperate to capture the ineffable mojo that exec producer Christopher Nolan brings to his films (and for...
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Week in Film: Transcendence, Fading Gigolo
There are so many potentially interesting elements swirling around Wally Pfister's Transcendence - something old, new, borrowed and blue - that the disappointment when they don't add up to a...
View ArticleHill Staffers: Your Reality Is Not Made for TV
There are reports that a reality show starring "D.C. up-and-comers" is in the works. If you wanted to attach an anchor to your career in politics, my advice to you would be to sign up. Whether this...
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Mark Duplass and Elisabeth Moss at the Tribeca Film Festival
Mark Duplass is an indie staple who has re-pioneered a Neo-Realism as an actor, producer, writer and director in films like The Puffy Chair, Cyrus and Humpday. In The One I Love, now screening at the...
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LA's Spring Dandy Lions
I've always loved spring's rites of passage with vibrant florals bursting of color and alluring scents -- along with it comes the whisper of newness and sometimes the roar of the familiarity. This...
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ASCAP'S 'I Create Music' EXPO, Plus Conversations with E-Streeter Nils...
ASCAP'S "I CREATE MUSIC" EXPO At the end of the month, ASCAP once again is sponsoring their annual "I Create Music" EXPO, this being the event's 9th time at bat. Listed here is the lineup that's taking...
View ArticleThe Name's Mamet, Clara Mamet
Clara Mamet has an old soul. Something about her reminds me of Mel Brooks and Myron Cohen, except Mamet is 19-years-old and has probably never heard of the Ed Sullivan Show, where I was first...
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