Posted on February 18, 2015 at 8:00 am
Actor/comedian Patton Oswalt (“Ratatouille”) has written a memoir about immersing himself in old movies. Silver Screen Fiend: Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film is not just about the hundreds of movies he watched; it is about how he used what he saw as a kind of therapeutic education in life. Oswalt describes this …
Posted on February 17, 2015 at 3:57 pm
Why is complete artistic failure so fascinating? I’m a huge fan of Epic Fail: Bad Art, Viral Fame, and the History of the Worst Thing Ever by Mark O’Connell, who pays tribute to the “sort of accidental surrealism” of bad art from people who have no idea how bad it is. He describes a mental …
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Posted on February 17, 2015 at 8:00 am
“The Odd Couple” is coming back to television, starring “Friends’” Matthew Perry as the slob and writer/actor Thomas Lennon as the neatnik. The long-running television series starred Tony Randall and Jack Klugman. There have also been versions with a black odd couple, a female odd couple, and even an animated cat and dog odd couple. …
Posted on February 16, 2015 at 7:20 pm
We mourn the loss of French movie star Louis Jourdan, who has died at age 93. Best remembered as the handsome, elegant, bored Gaston who lost his heart to Gigi (Leslie Caron), he appeared in a variety of roles opposite leading ladies from Elizabeth Taylor (“The VIPS”) to Grace Kelly (“The Swan”), Shirley MacLaine (“Can-Can”), …
Posted on February 16, 2015 at 3:55 pm
“Ballet 422” is a new documentary directed by cinematographer Jody Lee Lipes (Lena Dunham’s breakthrough “Tiny Furniture,” Judd Apatow’s upcoming “Trainwreck,” written by Amy Schumer). It is an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at the creation of a new dance number for the New York City Ballet, choreographed by a young member of the Corps de Ballet …
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