Music and the Mob
I'm looking forward to Clint Eastwood's new flic, Jersey Boys, based on the Broadway play of the same name. It's about an era and music I grew up with. Brooklyn in the 1950s and early '60s was all...
View ArticleSchlubby Dude Gets Hot Chick: 22 Jump Street Revives Hollywood's Favorite Trope
Jonah Hill has a lot of winning qualities: he's funny, smart and may be one of the best comedic actors working in film today. What he's not is conventionally "hot." In fact, in 21 Jump Street and its...
View ArticleMichael Jackson: Five Years Gone and It's the Music That Endures
It's been nearly five years since the death of Michael Jackson on June 27, 2009. During the last decade of his career, the King of Pop, who had once ruled the charts and MTV during the 1980s, now made...
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Body Language and Poker Tells
If you want to be a master poker player, you have got to master your body language--and know how to be a master at reading tells. I get asked all the time in my body language and human lie detection...
View ArticleThe Farrelly Brothers Give Us An Exclusive Behind The Scenes Look At 'Dumb...
If you're as excited as we are for the November release of "Dumb and Dumber To," you're going to want to check out our exclusive interview with the Farrelly Brothers, the masterminds behind the sequel...
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Chats with ZZ Top's Billy F. Gibbons, Rich Robinson, The English Beat's Dave...
A Conversation with ZZ Top's Billy F. Gibbons Mike Ragogna: Billy, in addition to ZZ Top's tour, there's a new double disc retrospective CD at Warners being released as well as your Live At Montreux...
View ArticleINTERVIEW: John Lloyd Young, Erich Bergen, and Michael Lomenda on Jersey Boys
For his new film Jersey Boys, legendary director Clint Eastwood translates the blockbuster jukebox musical about the rise and fall (and rise) of singer Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons from the stage...
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Why I Like the Critics' Choice Television Awards Better Than the Oscars
I know what you're thinking, "What? Are you nuts?" Well, just take it easy and hear me out. You see, I've been to roughly 10 Oscars, a dozen or so Golden Globe Awards, a ton of Emmys and numerous...
View ArticleWhy Think Like A Man Too Is Headed for Number One
With Think Like A Man Too hitting theaters nationonwide Friday, predictions for the film are floating everywhere. The widely accepted notion is that Too is slated to hit #1 this weekend in lieu of...
View ArticleThe Thawing of Dave Chappelle: Comedy's King Returns to New York City
In a bit of comedy confessional ("I've had to watch the news for two weeks to catch up"), Dave Chappelle delighted the packed Radio City Hall crowd Wednesday night in his first New York City stand-up...
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Childish Gambino and the Metamodern Ennui, Part II
This is the second in a series of four essays examining how Childish Gambino's Because the Internet functions as part of a new avant-garde in contemporary art. Read the first one here. Oscillation is...
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Famous Favorites: Read The Books That Spurred Your Idols To Greatness
How did Oprah become so wise, Bill Gates so successful, and J.K. Rowling so creative? We think the answer is something along the lines of "you are what you read." Even the president, Mark Zuckerberg,...
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Honours: Much More Than Angelina!
UK Foreign Secretary William Hague and Angelina Jolie at the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict at the Excel Centre in London. Photo by Andrew Parsons / i-Images / Crown Copyright....
View Article4 Bad Side Effects of Reading Fiction According to the 19th Century
These days we're desperately trying to get more people to read ("Please, read anything, here's a YA novel by the Kardashians") but in the 1800s, it was a different story. Books were supposed to teach...
View ArticleAmerica's Coolest Music Venues (PHOTOS)
Les Schwab Amphitheater has beautiful grass, and it's right along the Deschutes River, so there's usually a lovely breeze," says Noelle Fredland, marketing director for Bend, OR's Old Mill District,...
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The 50 Best Quotes From 2014 Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity
With another festival almost over, Cannes Lions continues to capture the intersection of entertainment, business, culture and advertising. The festival has hosted an amazing range of speakers -- here...
View ArticleMore Concerning The Death of Klinghoffer
Since the Metropolitan Opera's announcement that it would cancel plans for a global simulcast of the controversial John Adams opera, The Death of Klinghoffer in response to concerns that the opera's...
View ArticleEmmanuelle Seigner in Venus in Fur: The Interview
Most theater does not translate well into film. The film genre invites expansion and theater can feel claustrophobic. Unless claustrophobic is what you want as in the case of Roman Polanski's...
View ArticleBoyhood Opens BAMCinemaFest and Other Summer Movies: Third Person and Begin...
Wisdom has it, summer is for action thrillers, rom-coms, and other popcorn movies, but this season is particularly rich. Last week's opening night for the BAM CinemaFest set the tone of excellence with...
View ArticleLee Grant's Dazzling, Delicious, Delirious, Daunting Memoir -- I Said Yes To...
""LITTLE Lyova Haskell Rosenthal is precocious," commented the New York Times after the young child actress had warned the tenor onstage that an actor was sneaking up on him with a big knife in a scene...
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