Columns
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Steve Jobs’ Advice Book for Teens Hits Asia — Hmmm!
“25 Lessons That Steve Jobs Taught the Young” chalks one up for better publishing through shady translations
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Dan Bloom -
The Movie in My Mind
What is the genesis of a story? It begins rumbling around inside our head, begging to be heard, begging to be told …
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Review: ‘Idol’ Finalist James Durbin’s Hair Metal Is Cheesy Fun
Chris Daughtry isn’t the only hard-rock-singing fourth-place finalist releasing an album this week
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Important Lessons I Learned from Roger Corman
Watching Roger — and me — on screen in Alex Stapleton’s wonderful “Corman’s World” reminded me how he changed the course of film history
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Review: Rihanna Seesaws Between Romance and Raunch in ‘Talk That Talk’
Rihanna alternates between would-be filth and deep feelings on her new album, but she’s more convincing at sex talk than real talk
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‘Real Housewives Recap’: ‘Papa Smurf’ Makes Everyone Blue
Baby showers — a time for Apollo to decide between pummeling Peter in the face or walking away for a quick photo op
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Review: Taylor Swift Goes From Country Girl to Broadway Baby in ‘Speak Now’
The AMAs’ top honoree has a solid document of a tour that memorably married her post-adolescent poetry to gleefully over-the-top pageantry
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Overboard! — Ang Lee Wishes Taiwan’s Paparazzi Would Leave Him Alone
They follow him everywhere, from hotel to location shoot, from bathroom to restaurant table — he doesn’t like it very much
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Dan Bloom -
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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Mark W. Travis -
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