Jennifer Love Hewitt turns tricks on Lifetime
Expect terrible reviews and huge ratings when Lifetime unveils “The Client List” on July 19 at 9 p.m. With an irresistible mix of down home wholesomeness and porno tease elements, this tale of a nice...
View Article‘Hollywood’: Larry McMurtry from ‘Hud’ to ‘Brokeback Mountain’
On Tuesday, Simon and Schuster will publish the slim but very entertaining “Hollywood: A Third Memoir” by Larry McMurtry. McMurtry has been lucky enough to enjoy three separate careers — as a novelist,...
View Article‘Barney’s Version’: trying to get a good novel right
Mordecai Richler was considered a national treasure in Canada for much of his life — he died in 2001 at the age of 70 — but moviemakers haven’t done very well by his novels. Although Richler himself...
View ArticleRent it now: The original ‘Heartbreak Kid’
Successful remakes have a way of getting in the way of the original — “An Affair to Remember” is much more popular than “Love Affair” — but if there’s any justice, the 2007 Farrelly brothers version of...
View ArticleLincoln Center Film Society celebrates ‘Hollywood’s Jew Wave’
Among the many movie revolutions of the 1960s was the way that the Hollywood studios finally allowed Jewish actors to embrace their ethnicity and Jewish writers and directors to explore their culture....
View Article‘Last Screening’: when movie love is taken to extremes
The icy French horror film, “Last Screening,” is about about movie watching carried to a dangerous extreme by obsessives who would just as soon replace the reality of life with a fantasy life fueled by...
View Article‘The Best Man’: Broadway as it was 52 years ago
We’ve grown so used to plays with only a handful of characters that it is shocking (and thrilling) to see small crowds of people gathered on stage in the current revival of the Gore Vidal play “The...
View Article#FridayReads ‘Madeline Kahn’ by William V. Madison
William V. Madison delivers an honest and appreciative biography of a terrific actress in “Madeline Kahn” which was recently published by the University Press of Mississippi. Madison talked with many...
View Article‘Since Yesterday’: a filmmaker’s rise & fall
Bill Teck’s melancholy 2014 look back at the career of film director Peter Bogdanovich – “One Day Since Yesterday” – is streaming on Netflix and was recently released by the Warner Archive...
View ArticleLinda Fairstein – keeping a crime series fresh
One of the best parts of the dog days of summer is the annual publication of a new installment in Linda Fairstein’s ongoing series of crime novels about New York City assistant DA Alexandra Cooper....
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