Space For Commerce, by Brian Dunbar (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
John Varley on Bad Language. ... if you’re less than my 60 years. But I invite you to just listen to this movie. I am a lifelong advocate of free speech, and the freedom to use dirty words. Shit, I use them in my reviews. But the excessive use of such speech has now become just a symptom of laziness. Robert Shaw never yelled, never cursed, and succeeded in being much more frightening than Travolta,...
Sylvia Plath Info (Free subscription) | 07/31/2009
This August, director Robert Shaw's version of Sylvia Plath's "Three Women" will be on stage at the Edinburgh Festival . What you need to know: Where: Assembly Rooms, 54 George Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2LR, Scotland Phone: 0131 623 3030 Website: Assembly Festival When: Thu 6th Aug - Mon 31st Aug Cast: Neve McIntosh, Louisa Clein, Lara Lemon Thanks to Jo Gill for bringing this to our attention....
AfriClassical (Free subscription) | 07/26/2009
[ Scott Joplin's Treemonisha; Houston Grand Opera Original Cast Recording; Polygram 435709 (1992)] Veteran broadcaster Ed Martin has a radio show, Cactus Corners , which airs Sunday morning on KDVS 90.3 FM, and streams on KDVS.org from 2:00 AM-4:00 AM Pacific Time, or 5:00 AM-7:00 AM Eastern Time Sunday. KDVS-FM is run by students at the University of California Davis. Ed has scheduled a complete performance...
The TV and Film Guy's Reviews (Free subscription) | 07/07/2009
In 1975, the film Jaws opened. It was, as you may already know, a huge hit. In fact, some argue that Jaws helped bring about the current "blockbuster" era of filmmaking, but that's neither here nor there. Whether or not Jaws reshaped the film industry (personally, I'd argue that it did), it certainly gave way to a lot of imitators. It is a truism of any form of media that upon witnessing...
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