MovingPictureBlog (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
While joking with Jeff Wells today about pop-culture allusions and readership demographics, some troubling thoughts popped into my head. This fall, the typical incoming college freshman will have no living memory of a time when M*A*S*H was a first-run, prime-time series -- and Law & Order wasn't. And Back to the Future , Top Gun and The Breakfast Club are movies his/her parents might...
RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
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RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
I know I give fanboys a hard time, but I think it is impossible to be a fan of movies and not be excited for The Dark Knight . I am still yet to watch a single trailer outside of the voice over teaser trailer and it remains my most anticipated film of the summer as I am sure it is for many of you. Today, Jeff Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere is reporting from a non-USA exhibition source that...
LA Times (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Here, thanks to Jeff Wells at is to his biographer's website on which author Shawn Levy admits to knowing about and speaks of the loss his fans will face."I have known for a while that Newman was very ill, probably with cancer, and today the Internet is flooded with the news that it's lung cancer and that it's not good. There aren't very good sources on any of these stories, and nobody...
SpoutBlog (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
... irony of ironies! — appears as a dancer in a music video that satirizes soon-to-be-wife Spears.” Jeff Wells takes a look at a piece by Gregg Goldstein on Charlie Kaufmann’s Synecdoche, New York . “The title of Goldstein’s piece is ‘ Synecdoche could improve with edit’; the subhead is ‘Hypnotic film may undergo further cuts.’ The Hollywood Elsewhere response: ‘No shit'’”
The Mason Conservative (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
... both important decisions. I – along with my wife Stephanie – have decided to support our friend Jeff Frederick for Chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia, and ask that you also consider supporting Jeff. Since I was elected to replace Bob McDonnell in the House of Delegates when he became Attorney General, I have come to know Jeff well. Jeff is young, energetic,...
SpoutBlog (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
If my Twitter stream is to be believed , I was the only female, 20-something writer in New York City who was NOT invited to the Sex and the City premiere last night. (Could it have been because of this ? Or this ? Or this ? Hmmm.) Certainly, each picture Julia Allison staged at the event offers up at least 1,000 word on the matter, but who has time to do all that reading? Jeff Wells ‘...
