Phawker (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
ALICE’S RESTAURANT (1969, directed by Arthur Penn, 111 minutes, U.S.) BY DAN BUSKIRK FILM CRITIC Curiously, there is a a dearth of songs to sing around the Thanksgiving dinner table, despite being based on ideas of gratitude and family — I blame those uptight Pilgrims. Well, there is Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree,” the eighteen-minute talking [...]...
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
A few weeks ago, with zero fanfare, Warner Bros. released a DVD version of Gilda Live, the Mike Nichols-directed concert pic of Gilda Radner’s 1979 one-woman show. The disc — a bare-bones straight-from-video transfer — ended up under the piles of new releases on my desk until yesterday, when I found it, popped it in
It's all about me! (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
I conducted four retirement planning seminars today. When I was finished, I took a walk to ByWard Market and walked around a bit. I had supper at the Aulde Dubliner . Chia Kitty and I shared a Keith's . I had a pork chop with apple butter along with pearl barley ... it was delicious!
DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Recommended THE MOVIE: During the summer of 1979, during her hiatus from Saturday Night Live , Gilda Radner performed a live Broadway show featuring many of the popular characters she had invented for the subversive late-night comedy series. Produced and directed by SNL -mastermind Lorne Michaels, Gilda Live was a big hit with audiences. The year following, a film document of the comedienne's showcase,...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Kenneth Turan offers up a raucous oral history of a New York theater titan.
Pajiba (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
A couple of weeks ago I reviewed Nick Horny's fantastic Juliet, Naked, which was something of a return to form for the author, after a threesome of mildly disappointing novels (for Hornby, anyway). One of those slight disappointments was How...
Letters in Bottles (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
New Orleans is a place that's mediated. It's a place that, before anyone arrives, they've read about and heard about - there were not only preconceived notions, but also wholly formed images in one's head. Kiel, my hometown, does not fit in the same category. A non-native might have an inkling of what he or she might find, but the city doesn't register in the public consciousness nationwide. It's a...
The Nashville Business Journal (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Nashville-area homes sales were up in October compared to last year — the first time since October 2006 that year-to-year home sales increased for a given month.
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Sing your favorite stars a happy birthday in the privacy of your own home. Maybe not out loud. Happy birthday to Ethan, Rebecca and Mike 11/06 Today's filmic / famous birthdays. If it's your own birthday shout it out. It's your day, after all. 1882 Thomas H Ince actor who became a lifeguard then an actor again until he was a pioneering film director who became a studio mogul until he morphed into Cary...
Deceiver (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Poor thing. Natalie Portman just can’t decide what she wants. Back in 2007, she said this to Reuters as to why she bared all in Hotel Chevalier: “I don’t know why, exactly. Sometimes you make rules for yourself and sometimes those rules are made to be broken. You have to test things out and see what works [...]
Celebrity VIP Lounge (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Actor Ethan Hawke is 39. Director Mike Nichols is 78. Country singer Stonewall Jackson is 77. Singer Eugene Pitt of the Jive Five is 72. Singer P.J. Proby is 71. Country singer Guy Clark is 68. Actress Sally Field is 63. Singer Glenn Frey is 61. Actress Lori Singer (”Fame,” “Footloose”) is 52. Actor Lance Kerwin [...]
Liquor Barn's Party Line Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Btms^ for Friday, November 6. Drink 4cast 4 2day: A Tequila Sunrise, 2 toast 2 “The Eagles” Glenn Frey, born 2day in 1948. Friday, November 6 from 5 to 7 pm @ Springhurst: Special French Wine Tasting with Clos du Gravillas wines and owner John Bojanowski, Complimentary samples of his wines include: CLOS DU GRAVILLAS L’INATTENDU CLOS DU GRAVILLAS [...]
Baxojayz - Centricity (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
felicitous \fuh-LIS-uh-tuhs\ , adjective; Suitably applied or expressed; appropriate; apt. Happy; delightful; marked by good fortune. Origin: Felicitous is derived from Latin felicitas, "fertility, hence success, happiness," from felix, "fertile, successful, happy." to your point Phrase used to contradict another person's ideas, while making it feel like you have agreed with them....
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Director Mike Nichols is 78. Actress Sally Field<p/>is 63. Singer Glenn Frey is 61. Actress Lori Singer (Footloose) is 52. Actress Kelly Rutherford is 41. Actor Ethan Hawke is 39. Actress Thandie Newton is 37. Model-actress Rebecca Romijn is 37. Actress Emma Stone (Superbad) is 21.
MetsBlog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
According to Stadium Journey, which toured 29 ballparks this summer, 21 other ballparks are better than Citi Field, including Camden Yards, Turner Field, the new Yankee Stadium and Citizen’s Bank Park. Now that he won a World Series MVP, is 35 years old and a free agent who can’t play the field, Greg Pomes of Mets [...]
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