While I mull over whether to compose and post an essay titled "The Woody Allen Plank" (it's not likely, I gotta say), I ask you to check out the movie…
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WARNING: This piece should only be read after you've seen The Wolf of Wall Street. Thanks. Writing about the Randy Newman album Born Again in 1978, the critic Robert Christgau…
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WARNING: The below divulges substantial plot components of both Joel and Ethan Coen's Inside Llewyn Davis and Ernest Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber." You will like me…
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The ensemble of American Hustle, beloved of David O. Russell, and why not: Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Renner, Christian Bale, Jennifer Lawrence. In an interview last winter with Mary…
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I am proud that a woman and writer as great as Farran Smith Nehme, the Self-Styled Siren, is a friend. At her blog she just posted a brilliant rebuttal to…
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George Clooney in Gravity. N.b.: I offer the below in the spirit of nipping what I believe to be a particularly noxious meme in the bud. I've tried to keep…
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