DVD Review: Lars and the Real Girl
After being nominated for a for a Best Actor in 2007 for his role as Dan Dunne in Half Nelson, no one would have been surprised if Ryan Gosling took the opportunity to cash in and make a series of big budget blockbusters. At only 27, with boyish good looks, the Canadian-born actor could no […]
Dusty Springfield – “Get Ready”
I found this clip of Dusty Springfield singing the classic Temptations hit “Get Ready” and had to post it. Someone emailed me recently asking if her version of “Get Ready” was available on CD. I haven’t been able to find that anywhere, but her performance of the song on British TV is available on the […]
DVD Review: Tell Me You Love Me – The Complete First Season
Before Tell Me You Love Me debuted on HBO in September of 2008, the show got a lot of press for the amount of explicit sex the series contained. While that is indeed true, Tell Me You Love Me is geared at an adult audience, to call it simply a show about sex, misses the […]
DVD Review: Charlie Wilson’s War
Based on a true story, Charlie Wilson’s War brings together three top stars Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Phillip Seymour Hoffman. The script was written by The West Wing and A Few Good Men scribe Aaron Sorkin, a man who has made a very successful career out of exposing the underbelly of Washington’s political machine. […]
Academy Honors Bette Davis
Beverly Hills, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, in association with the Film Department of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, will present “A Centennial Tribute to Bette Davis” on Thursday, May 1, at 8 p.m. in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Hosted by Robert Osborne, the program will honor […]
DVD Review: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2-Disc Special Collectors Edition)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is based on the Tony Award-winning musical with a book by Hugh Wheeler and words and music by Stephen Sondheim. The Broadway show originally opened on March 1, 1979. Len Cariou won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his portrayal of Sweeney Todd. […]
DVD Review: Cloverfield
With an aggressive marketing campaign, Cloverfield was poised to make a splash on the theatrical scene. Like The Blair Witch Project and Snakes on a Plane before it, the buzz started in earnest on the internet. For awhile, the film was simply known as 1-18-08 in cyberspace and clues, theories and plot points were showing […]
DVD Review: Bernard and Doris
Doris Duke was the only child of tobacco and electric energy tycoon James Buchannan Duke and his second wife, Nanaline Holt Inman. When Doris’ father died in 1925, he left roughly $100 million (about $1 billion in 2005 dollars), to Doris. This lead to her being referred to as the “richest girl in the world,” […]
Book Review: In An Instant: A Family’s Journey of Love and Healing by Lee & Bob Woodruff
My schedule doesn’t allow me to watch the evening news shows much anymore, but I’m old enough to remember Walter Cronkite’s last couple of years as CBS news anchor. After Cronkite left the anchor chair back in 1981, I remember watching ABC’s World News Tonight with my parents. While Jennings could never take the place […]
Sophie Dahl on “The Book Show”
Sophie Dahl, granddaughter of writer Roald Dahl and actress Patricia Neal, has her second book, Playing With the Grown-ups: A Novel debuting in the United States tomorrow. Publishers Weekly describes the novel this way: “The full-length debut by the granddaughter of Roald Dahl and Patricia Neal centers on a dreamy, romantic English woman who hasn’t […]