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Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Director Mike Nichols will receive AFI's Life Achievement Award in a ceremony next summer. Here's 7 good reasons why we're not surprised.
Gold Derby (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Director Mike Nichols will be feted by the American Film Institute next summer with a life achievement award. Nichols is the only one of the 10 winners of the entertainment awards grand slam -- Oscar, Emmy, Tony and Grammy -- to be honored by the AFI. Nichols won a Grammy with then-partner Elaine May for the comedy album "An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May" in 1961, the same year...
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Yesterday's announcement about Mike Nichols' selection as the next AFI Life Achievement Award recipient allows me to re-post a Nichols tribute that I recorded last April at the Museum of Modern Art. It was hosted by MOMA film curator Raj Roy and featured four legendary Nichols collaborators -- Meryl Streep, Elaine May, Nora Ephron and Buck Henry....
Travel (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
By Joan McCray Look below if you came to see motion picture reviews. If you are looking for a movie download site here are some phrases to search. film download searches will include "Download films", "Fast Movies Download", and "Downloadable films". Luv: Murray Schisgal three character hit play in regards to pseudo-eggheads was not designed for motion pictures anyway,...
Hongkie Town (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
As I continue to catalog what's been stacked in cardboard boxes for years, I feel a twinge of nostalgia and sort of wish I hadn't sold off 4/5ths of my collection in 2001. Here's another sampling of what I still have. Autographed, slightly smudged, I wonder if this is or one day would be worth big bucks? The recording is reportedly from Canada from the 1940s. I heard this as a teenager and then one...
ComicList Complete (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
by Elisabeth@TFAW Exclusive Video Interview! IDW Publishing's Starstruck comics have experienced an unusual 20-year journey. It began as an off-Broadway play in 1980 written and starring Elaine May. It then birthed a spin-off comic book series that was serialized in Heavy Metal in 1982, published as one of Marvel's first graphic novels (number 13, to be exact) in 1984, and then expanded and printed...
Travel (Free subscription) | 09/14/2009
By Lillian Pollard The list below has some good movie reviews. You can get to a good film download site through the search engines. A good starting point might be "Full Movie Downloads", after that try "Download Full Movies" or "Movies Download Sites". Leadbelly: Poignant biography of the legendary folksinger Huddie Ledbetter, master of the twelve string guitar and long...
Juxtaposably (Free subscription) | 08/14/2009
(h/t barstool sports) I got nothing. I mean...this is just rich. Elaine Benes may just have found her soulmate. On a side note: At every local music festival, there are these two aging burners in tie dye that we have creatively dubbed the 'dancing couple.' They are probably in their late 40's and at several points in their routine, he bends her over and plays her like a guitar. Now that! is feeling...
Webomatica (Free subscription) | 08/14/2009
Synopsis Ray Winkler (Woody Allen) gathers a team of small-time crooks - including his wife Frenchy (Tracey Ullman) - to tunnel beneath a bank using a cookie store as a front. Complicating matters: everyone involved is a complete moron.
AdPulp (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009
Quaker City Mercantile (the Philadelphia agency formerly known as Gyro Worldwide) has been busy reinvigorating the Narragansett Beer brand. Given the brand's rich history in New England, it made sense to mine the archives and that's what QCM did. Using original 'Gansett commercials from the 1950s that featured husband and wife comedy duo Mike Nichols and Elaine May as an audio bed, QCM, with the help...
Vinyl Is Heavy (Free subscription) | 08/03/2009
by Ryland Walker Knight —Past gold, into dust like scythes of light Heaven Can Wait [Warren Beatty & Buck Henry, 1978] # Co-written by Elaine May, if you remember. And co-starring Julie Christie, as I'm sure you can't forget. She sells everything, and not solely because she's a gorgeous creature. (Annie wasn't feelin' it, btw; her loss.) The Grapes of Wrath [John Ford, 1940] # How's this...
Deep Dish (Free subscription) | 07/25/2009
I first became a fan of actress Barbara Harris in 1976 when my parents took me to see the Disney film, the original Freaky Friday , starring Harris and a young Jodie Foster as a mother and daughter who switch bodies. I loved the movie--especially Harris' delightful performance. Many years later in April of 1991, I was fortunate enough to see the actress on stage in Chicago when she played the supporting...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/12/2009
The Second City: Fifty years old and still going strong, the nation's best known improv and sketch comedy troupe visits San Jose for one week only with a troupe that could contain some of the more famous comedians of tomorrow. This is the company that's...
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
What's a nice Jewish boy doing in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame?
Vinyl Is Heavy (Free subscription) | 07/05/2009
by Ryland Walker Knight [I hope to make this a weekly feature, for me as much as for you, since it seems I'm able to watch a lot more over here, and I'd like to track my thought a little better than simply within my moleskins since, in theory, among other things, the internet is forever. And I don't want to use Twitter for this for some reason. I must say: watching all these, that is being this indulgent,...
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