All the Lady-Movies Now Are About Sluts!
I’m still waiting to watch Easy A, but only because I haven’t found the exact right moment of “I have two hours to kill and I want my mind to shut off entirely so, yes, I will let this movie that is...
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Franchise Nation
They came slowly, the franchise films, the grandchildren of the serials. The other night I was in the theater trying to see The Green Hornet for the second time (the first time, the theater started to...
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The World Must Be Good if Anna Faris is Becoming Famous
It’s always exciting when the girl who was never supposed to make it totally makes it! And so yay, the New Yorker profile of Anna Faris today (subscription only!), who can now place herself on a list...
View ArticleHollywood as Free Money
“Hollywood is essentially in the business of not making movies,” said Henry Finder, editorial director of The New Yorker. “They only make a movie when they run out of reasons not to make it.” —That’s...
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How Much More Are Movie Stars Making Today?
We all know that our movie stars are not only a precious natural resource, but also a group of individuals that are very highly compensated, not just now, but even back then, when we were just figuring...
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David Denby Does Something Relevant
Over the weekend, Sony freaked out when they heard David Denby’s review of “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” was coming out in the New Yorker today, sending out a dramatic “please respect our embaaaaaargo”...
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Three Interesting Things About These Meh Oscar Nominations
• This is actually Nick Nolte’s third Oscar nomination! (For Warrior.) He was most recently snubbed for his work in Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore. • While, as usual, women don’t direct...
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Liberal Teamster Thugs Want L.A. Bicyclists to Die!
Or something like that. Anyway, everyone’s real upset over the (quickly fading) neon-green Spring Street bike lane that runs past L.A.’s City Hall, because it… impedes the film industry’s ability to...
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Robert Downey Jr. Explains Hollywood Stardom
This subscription-only profile of Ben Stiller has a substantial digression on Hollywood business and what currently constitutes a “star” (and who and who is not one). (Notably absent from assessment:...
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'Spider-Man' And 'Prometheus': The Not-Even-Mildly-Amazing Blockbusters Of...
Having gabbed at some length regarding Hollywood’s abject betrayal of our cultural hunger for narrative, Elmo Keep and Maria Bustillos repaired to the movies to remedy the defects in their Summer...
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Advice From Lycia Naff, The Original Three-Breasted Prostitute From 'Total...
When I heard the new Total Recall had remained true to its predecessor by including a mutant three-breasted hooker (newcomer Kaitlyn Leeb, who’s already steeping in the positive and negative attention...
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How To Get Your Lion Back When It Runs Away: Life Lessons From Tippi Hedren
Tippi Hedren and Melanie Griffith on the set of Roar. Of course you know Tippi Hedren from The Birds. Less likely is that you’ve seen another movie she was in called Roar. It came out in 1981 and...
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11 Liz Taylor Things It Was Fun To Watch & Read While "Liz And Dick" Was On
1. Elizabeth Taylor as Helen Burns in the 1943 version of Jane Eyre. The movie, which had Orson Wells as Mr. Rochester and Joan Fontaine as Jane Eyre, was made when Taylor was 11. It was filmed right...
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Two-Headed Shark Fetus Killed By Shark Abortionist
This delightful creature was inside the mommy shark when a shark fisherman killed them both. Or all three of them. Experts who examined the two-headed shark say it’s the first ever bull shark to be...
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Does Your Hollywood Box Office Analysis Kowtow to China?
• “Does ‘Gravity’ Kowtow to Chinese Ticket Buyers?” –Oct. 6, 2013 (Bloomberg) • “All that kowtowing, and what’s there to show for it?” –Oct. 1, 2013 (Rolling Stone) • “Movie moguls once collaborated...
View ArticleThe Man Who Put The Fun Back In Movies
Hal Needham was never a household name, something about which he did not care. He passed away last week at the age of 82. He was (by his account) the highest paid stuntman of all time and the director...
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Guess Which Homo Is Going To See "Ender's Game" Tomorrow?
Spoiler, it’s me. I am going. The Ender’s Game boycott movement has chugged along in its way. God bless! Yes, author Orson Scott Card is a hilariously foolish man, it’s really quite ridiculous his...
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Fear Of A Black Opening Weekend
The Best Man Holiday is a success. That is not particularly a “surprise.” It did not “over-perform,” nor did it soar for a “race-themed film,” as USA Today originally wrote. To speak of it in these...
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Cashew's Diary
September 14 We start filming Monday. When I think about the mall pet store where I was born, my tiny jet black eyes fill with tears. I will never forget the day my mother—who was also born in a mall...
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The Extra Woman
One in an irregular series of profiles of fabulous older women. The first time I met Adele Daniller, she kept offering me food. This was several years ago, at her home in Tarzana, CA, in what Los...
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