With respect to all this "did Ricky Gervais go to far" rumination and such: not that I actually give a shit (I think I've gone the extra mile in establishing…
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Sandra Bernhard, Jerry Lewis, and Robert DeNiro, The King of Comedy, Martin Scorsese, 1982. "I don't want to screw up the Santa Barbara Film Festival timetable, but...well, the Academy needs…
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In Images, Robert Altman, 1973. An obituary is here. Richardson's Tom Jones and Pollacks' They Shoot Horses, Don't They? will be most frequently cited; my own York favorites were/are Neame's…
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Because it's the Purps, bro. And because it's funny, cuz my birth date is August 8.
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Julius Tannen, after a long fame on the stage, came on hard times in Hollywood. For a number of years he was unable to get a job acting. Tannen’s friends…
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At MSN Movies, I review the two big new releases, Michel Gondry's The Green Hornet and Ron Howard's The Dilemma. I am ambivalent, that is to say, partially-to-surprisingly-largely positive, and…
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