Posted on May 18, 2014 at 9:38 pm
Try to find time to catch the touching “Musical Chairs” on HBO this month from director Susan Seidelman (“Desperately Seeking Susan”). EJ Bonilla, Leah Pipes, and Laverne Cox (“Orange Is The New Black”) star in this inspiring romance about a wheelchair dance competition.
Posted on May 18, 2014 at 4:12 pm
Gia Coppola is the 27-year-old writer/director of a new film called “Palo Alto,” based on a book of stories by James Franco, who appears in the film. Other performers in the movie are, like Coppola, Hollywood-bred. Coppola is the granddaughter of Francis Ford Coppola (“The Godfather”) and niece of Sofia Coppola (“Lost in Translation”), and …
Posted on May 18, 2014 at 8:00 am
My friend Robert Elisberg always has a delightful selection of treats on his blog, almost always items I never see anywhere else. I loved his post about a new series of ads for Travel Wisconsin from the zany guys who made “Airplane!” David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker, originally from Milwaukee, spoofed their own spoof …
Posted on May 17, 2014 at 3:39 pm
“Grey’s Anatomy” star Sarah Drew stars in the delightful “Moms’ Night Out.” I was thrilled to get a chance to interview her. One of my favorite things about this movie was the way it avoided the usual daffy misunderstandings between the married couples. Allyson and her husband were wonderfully supportive of each other and really …
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Posted on May 17, 2014 at 10:42 am
Sixty years ago today the US Supreme Court issued one of the most momentous judicial decisions in history: Brown v. Board of Education, reversing past law holding that “separate but equal” schools violated the Constitution. My sister, Martha Minow, wrote an acclaimed book about the decision and its legacy: In Brown’s Wake: Legacies of America’s …
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