Denver Post (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
Imagine the motion picture academy giving the best-picture Oscar to Adrian Lyne's "Unfaithful" and you have an idea how Italians — obviously after chug-a-lugging a little too much chianti — honored Giuseppe Tornatore's lurid melodrama "The Unknown Woman."
Festival21.com (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
Ed Limato, the legendary agent of many Hollywood stars (representing the likes of Denzel Washington, Mel Gibson, Richard Gere, Steve Martin, Michael Biehn, Thomas Jane, Derek Luke, Sam Neill, and Adrian Lyne) will receive – on Friday July 18Th, at Villa La Colombaia at Forio d’Ischia (the former home of Luchino Visconti) – the Art Legend Award, a special prize for a career rich of artistic achievements....
StyleCritics (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
Natalie Portman Has been a strict vegetarian since the age of 8. Has taken dance lessons since the age of 4. Was a member of the [...]
Popdose (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Let’s just ask the obvious question: how the hell did this song become a hit? This is not to say that the song is awful so much as it’s really, really lucky. In the spring of 1986, with America still in the throes of Duranmania, bassist John Taylor – who had admitted that he had not [...]
Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | 05/24/2008
A STAGE version of the classic film Flashdance is to get its world premiere in Edinburgh.
feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Steve Cohen , Tennessee's liberal Congressman (we have one), has joined the rest of the good old boys with his snide and deadly sexist comment about the nation's first ever major female presidential candidate. Never mind that millions of women and men are turning out in droves to vote for Hillary Rodham Clinton. Steve Cohen wants the woman to quit. Well, that's too bad Congressman Cohen because Hillary...
Defamer (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
newVideoPlayer("barbvf_defamer.flv", 463, 387,""); The ladies of The View had a lengthy meta-conversation all about the "very beautiful!" and "sexy!" photos of their own Barbara Walters in this...
Turkish daily news (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
One of the producers of "Deception" says in the movie's production notes that he views it as "something of a throwback to an earlier era of filmmaking." He must be referring to the 1980s,
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
For a while, "Deception" has some guilty-pleasure allure. Eventually, though, it collapses into a ridiculous pile of twists and double crosses.
The Anniston Star Online (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008
One of the producers says in the production notes that he considers this movie as 'something of a throwback to an earlier era of filmmaking.' He must be referring to the 1980s, because this feels like the kind of slick, mindless thriller Adrian Lyne used to make — for better and for worse.
Starpulse News (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
One of the producers of ''Deception'' says in the movie's production notes that he views it as ''something of a throwback to an earlier era of filmmaking.'' He must be referring to the 1980s, because this feels like the kind of slick, mindless thriller Adrian Lyne used to make - for better and for worse.[...] Read more!
Media Assassin (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008
What a feeling: Carlton Draught’s “Kevin Kavendish” gets footloose Here’s the safest bet you can possibly make in your life: When director Adrian Lyne released Flashdance, on April 15, 1983, dollars-to-donuts that neither he nor the movie’s distributor, Paramount, was counting on anyone talking about it a quarter of a century later. addthis_url [...]
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Academy Award-winning actor and critically acclaimed screenwriter, director and producer Tim Robbins will deliver the opening keynote speech on Monday, April 14
New Statesman (Free subscription) | 03/27/2008
Despite Hollywood success, Anthony Minghella never jettisoned his sensibility or his intellect
Figleaf's Real Adult Sex (Free subscription) | 03/14/2008
Posting has been more erratic than usual lately. I'm up to my neck in a final project for my combined sex-education / women's studies / interpersonal communications course. It's a bit of a doozie: a collaborative, multi-page, multi-dimensional analysis of the relationship in the 1986 Adrian Lyne honker Nine 1/2 Weeks, with Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke. OOOF! What a trainwreck! Just a walking, talking...
