Columns
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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
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Comcast Doing a Shoddy Job of Getting Into Netflix’s Business
Comcast actually has the nerve to charge current TV subscribers $5 a month for Streampix if they don’t get Comcast’s cable-TV-Internet bundle
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Berlin Film Fest: A Predictor of Oscar Gold?
Berlin is like a treasure trove of great films waiting to be discovered
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Pan Am Memories: Aloha to Hawaii And to My Mother
The possibly final episode of TV’s “Pan Am” inspires the author, a former real-life Pan Am stewardess, to remember a visit to Hawaii with her mother
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Chieftains Get the T Bone Burnett Treatment on Guest-Filled Anniversary Album
Fresh from the Grammys, Bon Iver and the Civil Wars are among the drop-ins deferring to the Chieftains’ traditional style on a 50th anniversary album
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Sleigh Bells Go With Death Knells On ‘Reign of Terror’
A spoonful of sugary pop, along with a new penchant for heavy metal, make the morbidity go down on Sleigh Bells’ mortality-themed new album “Reign of Terror”
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Sinead O’Connor Rips Up Pope Again — And Bono — On New Album
It’s not just the provocation that’s a return to form for O’Connor on ‘How About I Be Me (And You Be You)’
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In Praise of Meryl Streep’s Margaret Thatcher
Hollyblog: Meryl Streep deserves an Oscar for her hauntingly realistic and sensitive portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in ‘The Iron Lady”