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After heart surgery and seven years away from the stage, comedian Robin Williams is ready to storm Broadway with his one-man show It takes some confidence to extend the Broadway run of your one-man show before opening night,...
Clues are found in the history of Globes category Separating dramas from comedies and musicals has always invested the Golden Globes with extra interest. Genre: Straights dressing up Classic Precursor: "Some Like It Hot"...
Concerned about Oscar night's flagging TV ratings, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences this year decided to remove the awarding of its honorary Oscars from the main event in March in order to devote more time to...
Right off, let's clear up any residual confusion: Despite its mouthful of a title, Bad Lieutenant: Port of CallNew Orleans is not remotely a remake of the 1992 Abel Ferrara film. That movie was a famously brutal and bleak drama...
How an Iranian became one of the most successful TV directors In a career spanning forty plus years, an Iranian director, by the name of Reza Badiyi has logged in more hours of directed television than any other individual. Mr....
By Bob Young Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - “When I do a concert, it’s vacation time for me,” said Legrand, who makes a rare appearance in Boston on Wednesday at Symphony Hall with a little vocal help from Dionne Warwick and...
the story of two Hungarian filmmakers who reconfigured the landscape of American film in the 1960s and 70s. Though they would eventually rise to the forefront of what many have dubbed the "American New Wave," cinematographers...
Film (theatrical and television) director Robert Altman, auteur of some 40 movies (you know what I mean, the stuff that, during what may one day be referred to as America’s Golden Age, was shown on very big screens in halls...
Illustrations by Cristiana Couceiro; clockwise from top left: “The Best of Youth,” Miramax Films/Photofest. “The 40-Year-Old Virgin,” Universal Pictures/Photofest. “Million Dollar Baby,” Warner Brothers/Photofest. “Wall-E,”...
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) Paul Newman's career was so prolific that any collection of his movies would naturally be incomplete. But "Paul Newman: The Tribute Collection" has some big omissions and who-cares inclusions that...
