I know what you're thinking -- because the story of Apple's greatness over the past decade is not just about one man, there were loads of people responsible and I don't want to claim all the credit for myself. But, um, no. It's not that. If it were just that I'd have no problem at all. Or maybe you're thinking that it's because I simply feel I don't deserve the award, considering the way I was perhaps...
From the Assistant Village Idiot: My politics aligned somewhat with Michael's, but I found him an unlikeable character. The show had clearly lined up to show Archie and his ideas in the worst possible light, buffoonishly so, and this struck...
In the clip you're about to see, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-il lock lips to the theme song of an erotic video game. That's sort of the punchline. Here's how we got there: " My Boyfriend Is the President " is a risque video game (or eroge) out of Japan. Of course, the game has its own trailer and whiny theme song, seen here: Naturally, dating a president is a rich theme full of narrative...
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It's normally a touchy subject when a well known Television-actor goes behind the camera to direct a film. Cheryl Hines, the director of "Serious Moonlight" and co-star of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" relaxes by the time her film finished screening at the Austin Film Festival.
We Have Milk Day Thanks to 'Meathead' Reiner? File this story under the header "Only in California." This is the only state in the union where the Governor, a former steroid-pumping actor, can be successfully lobbied by a leftist film director who first came to prominence playing a character nicknamed "Meathead," to give the good citizens a gay Harvey Milk Day. From the SF Chronicle's...
Even as Neil Patrick Harris's star continues to ascend--and polls capture the ongoing sea-change in public acceptance of homosexuality--putatively pro-gay Hollywood continues to maintain the celluloid closet. In a fascinating piece on the subject, LA Weekly reports : Only a year ago most of Hollywood was publicly appalled by Proposition 8, the anti–gay marriage ballot measure that passed in...
Shades of Rock Hudson : Only a year ago most of Hollywood was publicly appalled by Proposition 8, the anti–gay marriage ballot measure that passed in November. Heavy-hitter Pitt and Oscar-winning director Steven Spielberg contributed $100,000 checks to the “No on 8” campaign, and dozens of Hollywood big shots, like Rob Reiner and Barbra Streisand, attended an A-list “No on 8”...
This piece by Patrick Range McDonald contains some home truths: Only a year ago most of Hollywood was publicly appalled by Proposition 8, the anti–gay marriage ballot measure that passed in November. Heavy-hitter Pitt and Oscar-winning director Steven Spielberg contributed...
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You may have read our recent post recently regarding an interview with Motherhood star Minnie driver , now we have an interview with Anthony Edwards. Edwards plays Avery, the husband of the super...
There are spoilers throughout. Stanley Kubrick's liberal adaptation of Stephen King's novel, The Shining downplays the book's supernatural element and makes it more about a recovering alcoholic becoming crushed by isolation, despair and failure, and falling off the wagon in the most spectacular way imaginable. I'll be honest: The Shining isn't a movie that grabbed me when I first watched it. It's a...
Some actors wait tables in New York for years before their big break arrives - if it ever does. Penelope Ann Miller broke all the way through to Broadway in well under two. Miller landed a crucial role in “Biloxi Blues“ shortly after arriving in The Big Apple. “I really wanted to be taken seriously,” says Miller, [...] Related posts: WWTW Interview: ‘Free Style’...
The Envelope's Pete Hammond reported last night that Sacha Gervasi's Anvil!: The Story of Anvil has become the first 2009 film to be mass-mailed to the nearly 6000-person Academy membership. The Anvil! team has been hustling hard since last spring, and this shows they haven't relented. It also seems that a belief in Anvil! being one of the best docs of the year has gradually sunk in...even if Hammond...
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