So, a couple months back some very fine folks at a very fine print publication asked me to conjure a piece about the awards season. I believe what they had…
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Jeez. More bad news from the Motor City—Ron Asheton, guitarist for the original and resurrected Stooges, was found dead in his Ann Arbor home, age 60. A heart attack is…
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Here she is, glugging away in Sirk's 1958 The Tarnished Angels. Maybe she's having a presentiment that thirty years or so from this point, she'll be in Basic Instinct. This terrific…
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Whazzzzup?Say what you will about how "meh" the year in actual movies was, 2008 kicked ass in the DVD division. Hence, I give myself no limits, and I dare say…
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Here's a New York Times profile of Frost/Nixon star, and great character actor, Frank Langella. Langella once bought the Broadway rights to the hit kiwi "comedy" Ladies' Night and author…
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Acclaimed broadcaster and (slightly less acclaimed) pianist Jack Perkins has a book coming out. It's a collection of his exceptionally well-written cricket reminiscences from the excellent indie-cricket blog Cricket Mystery.…
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