All posts tagged "hollywood"
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Movies & TV
Charlie Chan: A Hero of Sorts
October 17, 2024An ethnic image is tricky, full of half-truths and snapshot attributes. In the Chan mysteries, there...
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Biography
Stanley Kubrick: The Legacy of a Cinematic Legend
August 13, 2024Many continue to see the director’s films as cold and cynical, as being somehow stripped of...
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Movies
The Big Country: How the West Finally Won
July 22, 2024It’s not a classic in the sense of Casablanca or Citizen Kane, but it’s a kind...
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Movies & TV
The Weekly Listicle: The Dark Side of the [Holly]Wood
May 1, 2024Hollywood, California. Tinseltown. The City of Dreams. Land of the Giant Sign. The Big H. Where...
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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Tell-All by Chuck Palahniuk
February 21, 2024Tell-All follows the general plotline of the movie Sunset Boulevard, which pairs a down-and-out young writer...
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Biography
Marlee Matlin: Bold Moves and Few Regrets
December 18, 2023"I worry about nothing except doing work that I like and that I look at as...
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Books
Hollywood Lives: George C. Scott and Tony Curtis
December 7, 2023At the airport, customs agents discovered a bag of marijuana and a handgun inside his baggage....
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Theatre
Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews
November 24, 2023Again, it took an intervention, this time by Moss Hart, to point her in the right...
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Fiction Reviews
True Grandeur is a Hollywood Novel for the 21st Century.
November 14, 2023True Grandeur, written by Hollywood actor, writer, and filmmaker Cal R. Barnes, has generated near-universal acclaim...
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Fiction Reviews
Trashed by Alison Gaylin
November 10, 2023These driven individuals scour celebrity garbage cans, pose as anyone but themselves, lie as though the...