Columns
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Fallen Under the Radar — My Resurrection of John Frankenheimer
He was receiving scripts from producers, writers and agents who believed he could turn around their treasured baby — but the studios ignored or ridiculed my suggestion that he come aboard
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Arthur Axelman -
Writing With One Hand Behind Your Back
The screenplay appears so seductively simple with its standard format and three-act 120-page structure — but its simplicity is deceptive
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Review: Drake Is One Lonesome Hip-Hop Lothario in ‘Take Care’
Hip-hop’s biggest freshman of 2010 comes back with a savvy sophomore album about how lonely it is at the (recently-arrived-at) top
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Review: Betty Wright and the Roots Revive the Right ’70s Soul Stuff
A veteran soul singer (and Joss Stone’s mentor) hooks up with the Roots for an album deeply mired, in the best possible way, in the R&B of 40 years ago
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Review: ‘Glee’ Holiday Album Offers the Whitest Possible Christmas
Even with an unambiguously gay “Let It Snow,” the second Christmas album from the “Glee” cast couldn’t be any more musically conservative
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Amazonas Film Festival: Great Films, Greater Venue
No other South American fest can boast a venue like the city’s old opera house built in 1896 and featured in the Werner Herzog classic, “Fitzcarraldo”
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R.I.P. Movie Theaters: How Technology Gave Me More and Less
For someone like me, who was always a back-row, never-on-opening-weekend type moviegoer, having a movie all to myself, anywhere I want, falls squarely under the heading of “beyond awesome”
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Mali Perl -
‘Real Housewives’ Recap: Kandi Caught Between the Queen Bees of Haterville and the Hated One
Meanwhile, Kim has turned me into a birther — I need to see a birth certificate
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Chima Simone -
Why Paul Greengrass’ ‘Green Zone’ Is 1 of the Top 10 Films of the Decade
In my opinion, this is a true masterpiece of filmmaking which didn’t get its proper due as it was marketed as an action film
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Guy Magar -
When ‘Jersey Shore’ Goes Ivy League
Vinny Guadagnino shows up for Professor Diane Vaughn’s class titled “Mistake, Misconduct, and Disaster” to discuss anti-bullying and the importance of being a polite citizen
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Suzette Valle -
Steve Jobs’ ‘Love Letter to His Wife’ Makes Waves in Asia
Many readers didn’t like the way the official translator of the bio presented the letter in Chinese characters
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Dan Bloom -
Don’t Cry for Me Joe Paterno
Does a winning team justify sexual abuse at Penn State’s Happy Valley
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‘Son of the Morning Star’ — the Battle of 3 Networks
It began with that hefty synopsis, larger than most — the new Evan S. Connell novel, the massive and most comprehensive study ever of George Armstrong Custer and Crazy Horse
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Arthur Axelman -
What Is a Story, and Where Does It Come From?
We are all storytellers; the story’s first teller is our self and the first listener is our self
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Mark W. Travis -
Review: David Lynch Makes an Untranscendental, Unmeditative, Transfixingly Odd Solo Album
The filmmaker’s first musical solo effort has a lot of spooky, character-drive, Vocoder-ized slow blues… and a couple of dance tracks that won’t make the Black Eyed Peas lose sleep