Peter McAlevey
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Twists of Fate Bring James Badge Dale Full Circle in ‘The Pacific’
Actor was to have starred in “Radio Flyer,” but was replaced by Joseph Mazzello, who now is his “Pacific” co-star
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What Hollywood Owes to Oxford
Starting as a way for two guys to stay in school in the ’70s, the Oxford Film Society has yielded stars, Oscars and hit films and filmmakers
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Weinstein Is Hoping to Turn Tarantino Into John Wayne
And he’s doing it by exploiting his own ethnicity with blatant lies
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A Beer Run for The Ramones
“Are they all brothers?” I asked naively. “No, they’re The Ramones.”
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There at the Birth — of ‘Exile on Main Street’
And doing something nasty in the punch bowl behind Bianca Jagger’s back
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Stuff a Stocking With ‘Pictures at a Revolution’
It’s as glorious and detailed a history of the post-war film industry as could be considered humanly possible
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Dan Melnick and the Cutthroat Maniacs
I liked them more than the phony-polite, business-school crowd that followed.
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How ‘Flatliners’ Went From a Verb to a Noun
Unknown writer coined word to title his script, and the rest is history.
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Is Tarantino Following the Downward Spirals of Spielberg, Ford & Kubrick?
Unfortunately, it seems that true auteurs have a limited life span.
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Boobs as Leading Indicators: an Economics Lesson
If the Dow’s on a roll, big breasts must be back in style — What a stimulus package!
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Au Revoir, Roger Avary
My old friend is off to prison. Let’s back up to the ’90s for a story about Roger and Tarantino.
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Once You’re a Jet, You’re a Jet …
Before they remade “Fame,” they should have talked to Lewwy from 106th Street.
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Army, Where Are You Now That We Need You?
It was an exclusive crowd at Alana Stewart’s book signing, but no one there to record it.
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‘Nixon Weathergirl’ Diane Sawyer? Really, Bob?
To replace Charlie Gibson with Sawyer is inexplicable — save that Iger wants to destroy what credibility the network has left.
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Do I Really Have to Defend My Tarantino Post?
My last blog post seems to have set off a firestorm of controversy.
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