Columns
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‘Real Housewives of Atlanta’: Sweetie’s Getting Fired and We’re Getting Tired
GUEST BLOG: Kim can’t find Sweetie, Phaedra’s mastering mortuary makeup and Peter and Cynthia celebrate one year together
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Why Reality TV Will Never Produce a Julia Child or Picasso
“Next Great [Whatever]” shows don’t want great talents — they want ratings. Which strips away any real drama over who wins
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Magnetic Fields Review: Anything Comedic Goes on Hilarious ‘Love at the Bottom of the Sea’
If you love both Stephen Sondheim and Soft Cell, you’re the target audience for Stephen Merrit’s latest marriage of ’80s-style synth-pop and arch, theatrical wit-eracy
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New Zealand Is Fertile Ground for a Filmmaking Boom
New Zealand has magnificent and highly diverse landscapes within close proximity of each other and, thanks to filmmakers like Peter Jackson, an incredible local infrastructure
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Real Housewives of Atlanta Leave Africa – But Is Kim Really a Racist?
Chima Simone’s recap: Souvenirs were not the only baggage the women brought home with them
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The 5 Stages of Oscar-Viewing Grief
Every year, people act as if this hasn’t happened before and are plunged into the same Kubler Ross stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance
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Two Kinds of Stage Fright For the Price of One
There is stage fright in which you worry about how well you’re going to pitch your producer. And there is the other kind, in which it doesn’t matter how well you pitch it …
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Brad Pitt, George Clooney in All-Star Gay Marriage Play ‘8’ (Video)
As a pro-gay-rights lawyer, Martin Sheen was the effortlessly passionate standout in a streamed reading of "8" that also featured Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Kevin Bacon, John C. Reilly, and Jane Lynch
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HBO’s ‘Game Change’: McCain’s National Shame of Palin
Film revisits Palin’s lack of fitness for office and McCain staff’s negligence
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Davy Jones Appreciation: ‘Monkees’ Star Wore the Mantle of Teen Idol Effortlessly
Davy Jones’ death leaves the 16 Magazine generation crying at the loss of a teen idol that never chafed at the restraints placed upon him
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How to Sell a TV Show: Have Tricks Up Your Sleeve
Talk to people, hear ideas, don’t go off of network mandates, because a lot of the time they don’t know what they want until they see it
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Carve Out Some ‘Wall’ Space for Pink Floyd’s Brick of a 7-Disc Box
Two discs of previously unreleased demos show how Roger Waters’ opus of alienation became rock’s own “Catcher in the Rye”
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Lyle Lovett Makes Writer’s Block Work for Him, Again, in ‘Release Me’
Review: It’s hard to complain about Lovett’s spate of mostly-covers albums when he resurrects such juicy blues, country, and Texas-music obscurities
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‘The Artist’ Producer Thomas Langmann Learned From His Film Family
Thomas Langmann, producer of Oscar-winner “The Artist,” learned the value of taking risks and the joy of a challenge as a child on the beaches of St. Tropez