The great Garry Shandling describing Rip Torn's audition for "The Larry Sanders Show": Rip came in for the first time, and his agent said he wouldn’t read. Weeks later it…
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Yesterday morning I was lucky enough to be invited to Radio New Zealand once again, this time to review the new John le Carré novel, Our Kind of Traitor. It's…
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Somebody once said that comedy is just tragedy plus time and Four Lions, a wicked, bitter and hilarious new comedy by Chris Morris, tests that maxim to breaking point (and…
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Eat Pray Love is what they used to call, in the old days, a “women’s picture” and the advertisers who have paid good money to annoy audiences before the film…
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After a week when New Zealand has been forced to confront its own intolerance and social myopia it seems fitting that two films that are essentially about understanding and accepting…
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Grouch Marx (interviewed by Roger Ebert) tells of a visit to W.C. Fields' house: "He invited me over to his house, he had his girlfriend there. I think her name…
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