A film can live or die by its club scene. A successful one captures the dance floor as a world onto itself. As Barbara Ehrenreich theorizes in Dancing in the Streets, it’s a place of “ecstatic ritual.” And as evinced by one thrilling sequence from Arkasha Stevenson’s The First Omen, a prequel to 1976’s The Omen, it’s where the divine and the blasphemous dance hand in hand. In the film, soaring choral notes blur the lines between the holy and the profane, just as the club’s strobing lights derange the thrillingly sexy and the dangerous.
The night before she takes the veil, Margaret (Nell Tiger Free) trepidatiously grabs her last opportunity to experience what she’s about to relinquish to the Catholic Church. The young American, who’s recently relocated to Rome to work at a convent that runs an orphanage, trades her novitiate garb for...
The night before she takes the veil, Margaret (Nell Tiger Free) trepidatiously grabs her last opportunity to experience what she’s about to relinquish to the Catholic Church. The young American, who’s recently relocated to Rome to work at a convent that runs an orphanage, trades her novitiate garb for...
- 4/4/2024
- by Kyle Turner
- Slant Magazine
Julia Reichert, whose 50-year career as a documentarian included a 2020 Oscar win for American Factory, has died after a battle with bladder cancer. She was 76.
Reichert died Thursday night, her frequent collaborator Steven Bognar told The Hollywood Reporter. Despite undergoing chemotherapy ahead of her Oscar triumph, she attended the 2020 Academy Awards and walked to the stage with Bognar to accept their award.
Long regarded as a godmother of the indie film industry, the director, producer and writer also received Oscar nominations for Union Maids (1976), Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists (1983) and The Last Truck: Closing of a Gm Plant (2009).
Her first film, Growing Up Female (1971), was inducted into the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry by being “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.”
American Factory, about a Chinese billionaire who reopens an abandoned Gm plant outside Dayton, Ohio, to make car windshields, shows Chinese...
Reichert died Thursday night, her frequent collaborator Steven Bognar told The Hollywood Reporter. Despite undergoing chemotherapy ahead of her Oscar triumph, she attended the 2020 Academy Awards and walked to the stage with Bognar to accept their award.
Long regarded as a godmother of the indie film industry, the director, producer and writer also received Oscar nominations for Union Maids (1976), Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists (1983) and The Last Truck: Closing of a Gm Plant (2009).
Her first film, Growing Up Female (1971), was inducted into the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry by being “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.”
American Factory, about a Chinese billionaire who reopens an abandoned Gm plant outside Dayton, Ohio, to make car windshields, shows Chinese...
- 12/2/2022
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Peter Straub, a bestselling novelist who co-authored two beloved books with Stephen King, has died at the age of 79.
Straub’s daughter, Emma Straub, also a novelist, confirmed the news Tuesday on her Instagram account.
According to The New York Times, his wife, Susan Straub, said his death was caused by complications from breaking a hip. He died at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
Fellow writers and collaborators have been mourning the author’s death on social media, including Neil Gaiman, who was one of the first to express his sadness at Straub’s death.
King, whose latest novel “Fairy Tale” debuts in bookstores Tuesday, wrote: “Working with him was one of the great joys of my creative life.”
Also Read:
Barbara Ehrenreich, Author of ‘Nickel and Dimed,’ Dies at 81
Straub’s first horror novel, “Julia,” was published in 1975 by Coward, McCann & Geoghegan. It was adapted into a feature, known as either “Full Circle...
Straub’s daughter, Emma Straub, also a novelist, confirmed the news Tuesday on her Instagram account.
According to The New York Times, his wife, Susan Straub, said his death was caused by complications from breaking a hip. He died at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
Fellow writers and collaborators have been mourning the author’s death on social media, including Neil Gaiman, who was one of the first to express his sadness at Straub’s death.
King, whose latest novel “Fairy Tale” debuts in bookstores Tuesday, wrote: “Working with him was one of the great joys of my creative life.”
Also Read:
Barbara Ehrenreich, Author of ‘Nickel and Dimed,’ Dies at 81
Straub’s first horror novel, “Julia,” was published in 1975 by Coward, McCann & Geoghegan. It was adapted into a feature, known as either “Full Circle...
- 9/6/2022
- by Drew Taylor
- The Wrap
Barbara Ehrenreich, the political activist and author best known for her book “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America,” has died. She was 81 years old.
According to The New York Times, Ehrenreich died of a stroke on Thursday at a hospice facility in Alexandria, Virginia, where she also lived.
Ehrenreich’s book, “Nickel and Dimed,” was a a memoir, telling audiences about three months of her life undercover, which she spent surviving on a series of minimum-wage jobs. Ehrenreich’s reporting on her experiences was so powerful that the book became a best seller and a staple of social justice literature.
“Many people praised me for my bravery for having done this, to which I could only say: Millions of people do this kind of work every day for their entire lives — haven’t you noticed them?” she said while accepting the Erasmus Prize for her work in...
According to The New York Times, Ehrenreich died of a stroke on Thursday at a hospice facility in Alexandria, Virginia, where she also lived.
Ehrenreich’s book, “Nickel and Dimed,” was a a memoir, telling audiences about three months of her life undercover, which she spent surviving on a series of minimum-wage jobs. Ehrenreich’s reporting on her experiences was so powerful that the book became a best seller and a staple of social justice literature.
“Many people praised me for my bravery for having done this, to which I could only say: Millions of people do this kind of work every day for their entire lives — haven’t you noticed them?” she said while accepting the Erasmus Prize for her work in...
- 9/2/2022
- by Andi Ortiz
- The Wrap
Exclusive: The Woodstock Film Festival will give honorary awards to Ethan Hawke, Awkwafina, Leave No Trace director Debra Granik and IFC Films president Arianna Bocco this fall.
The festival’s 23rd annual edition is set to run from September 28 to October 2. The awards ceremony, a consistent industry draw over the years given the fest’s location two hours north of New York City, is also set to feature appearances by actresses Amanda Seyfried and Vera Farmiga as well as filmmaker Marina Zenovich.
Hawke is receiving Woodstock’s Maverick Award, which goes to “a leader and a visionary in the film and media arts who exhibits fierce and independent spirit, strong artistic vision, and the pursuit of positive change.” The four-time Oscar nominee is also a screenwriter, director, producer, and best-selling novelist. He recently directed the well-received HBO Max docuseries The Last Movie Stars, about Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman. Hawke...
The festival’s 23rd annual edition is set to run from September 28 to October 2. The awards ceremony, a consistent industry draw over the years given the fest’s location two hours north of New York City, is also set to feature appearances by actresses Amanda Seyfried and Vera Farmiga as well as filmmaker Marina Zenovich.
Hawke is receiving Woodstock’s Maverick Award, which goes to “a leader and a visionary in the film and media arts who exhibits fierce and independent spirit, strong artistic vision, and the pursuit of positive change.” The four-time Oscar nominee is also a screenwriter, director, producer, and best-selling novelist. He recently directed the well-received HBO Max docuseries The Last Movie Stars, about Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman. Hawke...
- 8/18/2022
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Debra Granik (Leave No Trace) is set to direct a feature adaptation of Una Lamarche’s YA novel Like No Other.
She and Anne Rosellini of Still Rolling Productions optioned the book, in partnership with Mad Dog Film’s Alix Madigan.
Published in 2015 by Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers, Like No Others is billed as a contemporary take on West Side Story. It watches as the unlikely paths of a Hasidic girl and a secular boy meet on Eastern Parkway and blossom into a forbidden romance.
Granik and Rosellini are penning the script for the film, which Rosellini and Madigan will produce. Razorbill VP & Publisher Casey McIntyre is also on board as an exec producer.
“I have so much respect for this team and their incredible body of work,” said Lamarche. “I could not be more thrilled that they are bringing Like No Other to life on screen.
She and Anne Rosellini of Still Rolling Productions optioned the book, in partnership with Mad Dog Film’s Alix Madigan.
Published in 2015 by Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers, Like No Others is billed as a contemporary take on West Side Story. It watches as the unlikely paths of a Hasidic girl and a secular boy meet on Eastern Parkway and blossom into a forbidden romance.
Granik and Rosellini are penning the script for the film, which Rosellini and Madigan will produce. Razorbill VP & Publisher Casey McIntyre is also on board as an exec producer.
“I have so much respect for this team and their incredible body of work,” said Lamarche. “I could not be more thrilled that they are bringing Like No Other to life on screen.
- 7/20/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
The nonfiction book that inspired the Juliette Binoche movie “Between Two Worlds” resulted from nearly six months of undercover reporting by Florence Aubenas. The respected French journalist wanted to understand how roughly one-eighth of the country’s work force — those who rely on non-contract jobs — got by during the recent economic crisis. To observe the situation firsthand, Aubenas moved to the coast, presented herself at employment centers, and tried to get hired, taking practically any gig that was offered — which wasn’t much, and hardly enough to survive on. In the end, she wound up cleaning the ferry out of Ouistreham, describing the experience and those she observed in her book “The Night Cleaner.”
Now, were someone to make a movie of that book, they would almost certainly start by removing Aubenas from the picture. As in American journalist Barbara Ehrenreich’s similar, celebrated eye-opener “Nickel and Dimed,” the writer...
Now, were someone to make a movie of that book, they would almost certainly start by removing Aubenas from the picture. As in American journalist Barbara Ehrenreich’s similar, celebrated eye-opener “Nickel and Dimed,” the writer...
- 7/7/2021
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Emmanuel Carrère’s drama – based on Florence Aubenas’s bestseller Le Quai de Ouistreham – fails to probe fully the injustices faced by low-paid workers
Novelist and film-maker Emmanuel Carrère has contrived this earnestly intentioned but naive and supercilious drama about poverty and the gig economy, starring a tearful Juliette Binoche. It is adapted from the French non-fiction bestseller Le Quai de Ouistreham from 2010 by investigative journalist Florence Aubenas, published in the UK under the title The Night Cleaner.
In it, Aubenas describes her experiences “going undercover” and working in the brutal world of cleaning in Caen in northern France, where desperate applicants have to burnish their CVs with fatuous assurances about how passionate they are about cleaning, in return for dehumanising work with pitiful pay, grisly conditions and no job security. The grimmest part of the work is scrubbing lavatories and cleaning cabins on the ferry between Ouistreham and Portsmouth.
Novelist and film-maker Emmanuel Carrère has contrived this earnestly intentioned but naive and supercilious drama about poverty and the gig economy, starring a tearful Juliette Binoche. It is adapted from the French non-fiction bestseller Le Quai de Ouistreham from 2010 by investigative journalist Florence Aubenas, published in the UK under the title The Night Cleaner.
In it, Aubenas describes her experiences “going undercover” and working in the brutal world of cleaning in Caen in northern France, where desperate applicants have to burnish their CVs with fatuous assurances about how passionate they are about cleaning, in return for dehumanising work with pitiful pay, grisly conditions and no job security. The grimmest part of the work is scrubbing lavatories and cleaning cabins on the ferry between Ouistreham and Portsmouth.
- 7/7/2021
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Former Fine Line Chief Ira Deutchman Options Sarah-Jane Stratford Novel ‘Radio Girls’ For Miniseries
Exclusive: The Sarah-Jane Stratford novel Radio Girls has been optioned by @nyindieguy productions’ Ira Deutchman. The book is a historical novel set in 1920’s London which combines actual events and characters with a fictional mystery at its center. It is based on the real-life character of Hilda Matheson, an MI5 agent during WWI who became an influential producer in the early days of BBC Radio. The story is told through the eyes of a young Canadian woman, who falls into a job at the BBC where she gets caught up in the conflict between Matheson and her more conservative male superior. Along the way she unearths a conspiratorial plot with enormous consequences and potential danger to herself, the institution she works for and the whole of the European continent. The book was published in the UK, North America and Germany in 2016.
Deutchman, the former Fine Line Features chief who produces and teaches at Columbia U,...
Deutchman, the former Fine Line Features chief who produces and teaches at Columbia U,...
- 12/10/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
After winning plaudits for Winter’s Bone and now Leave No Trace, Debra Granik tells Screen why ultra-low budgets are no barrier to effective filmmaking.
What Debra Granik describes as her “social-realist mentality” was first discovered by indie film aficionados with the release of the writer/director’s debut feature Down To The Bone in 2004. It was, however, 2010 follow-up Winter’s Bone — featuring Jennifer Lawrence in a breakthrough performance as a resolute teen trying to keep her troubled Ozark Mountains family together — that confirmed how skilfully Granik could use that mentality to infuse an intimate drama with veracity and emotional force.
What Debra Granik describes as her “social-realist mentality” was first discovered by indie film aficionados with the release of the writer/director’s debut feature Down To The Bone in 2004. It was, however, 2010 follow-up Winter’s Bone — featuring Jennifer Lawrence in a breakthrough performance as a resolute teen trying to keep her troubled Ozark Mountains family together — that confirmed how skilfully Granik could use that mentality to infuse an intimate drama with veracity and emotional force.
- 11/30/2018
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
The project is an adaptation of a book by political activist Barbara Ehrenreich.
Debra Granik, who is flying into Cannes for Sunday’s Directors Fortnight screening of her acclaimed drama Leave No Trace, will be on the Croisette to take meetings on her upcoming Nickel And Dimed.
The narrative project marks the latest entry in Granik’s oeuvre about marginalised figures in Us society. It is based on author and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich’s 2001 book Nickel And Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America.
The book explores the impact of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act on the working poor in the Us.
Debra Granik, who is flying into Cannes for Sunday’s Directors Fortnight screening of her acclaimed drama Leave No Trace, will be on the Croisette to take meetings on her upcoming Nickel And Dimed.
The narrative project marks the latest entry in Granik’s oeuvre about marginalised figures in Us society. It is based on author and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich’s 2001 book Nickel And Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America.
The book explores the impact of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act on the working poor in the Us.
- 5/11/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Girls may run the world, but Beyoncé is making it known that they don't have the paychecks to show for it. The singer has written an essay for The Shriver Report, a media initiative led by journalist and former California first lady Maria Shriver, that aims to document and discuss societal trends that impact women. "We need to stop buying into the myth about gender equality. It isn't a reality yet," she writes in "Gender Equality Is a Myth!" from the 2014 special report entitled, "A Woman's Nation Pushes Back From The Brink," which can be downloaded for free until Jan.
- 1/14/2014
- by Sheila Cosgrove Baylis
- PEOPLE.com
First Run Features Announces U.S. Theatrical Premiere of
Controversial Documentary by Léa Pool
Opening in New York & Los Angeles June 1, 2012
Nationwide Rollout Begins June 8
Who really benefits from the pink ribbon campaigns – the cause or the companies?
Directed by veteran filmmaker Léa Pool for the National Film Board of Canada, Pink Ribbons, Inc. examines the ubiquitous pink ribbon campaigns for breast cancer. The film looks at how the breast cancer movement has moved from activism to consumerism and challenges viewers to rethink their assumptions about the meaning of breast cancer in our society.
The film is inspired by the book Pink Ribbons, Inc.: Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy by Dr. Samantha King, who is interviewed in the film along with activists and medical experts like Barbara A. Brenner, Dr. Charlene Elliott, Barbara Ehrenreich and Dr. Susan Love. Also featured are candid personal discussions among women living with breast cancer,...
Controversial Documentary by Léa Pool
Opening in New York & Los Angeles June 1, 2012
Nationwide Rollout Begins June 8
Who really benefits from the pink ribbon campaigns – the cause or the companies?
Directed by veteran filmmaker Léa Pool for the National Film Board of Canada, Pink Ribbons, Inc. examines the ubiquitous pink ribbon campaigns for breast cancer. The film looks at how the breast cancer movement has moved from activism to consumerism and challenges viewers to rethink their assumptions about the meaning of breast cancer in our society.
The film is inspired by the book Pink Ribbons, Inc.: Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy by Dr. Samantha King, who is interviewed in the film along with activists and medical experts like Barbara A. Brenner, Dr. Charlene Elliott, Barbara Ehrenreich and Dr. Susan Love. Also featured are candid personal discussions among women living with breast cancer,...
- 3/27/2012
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Pink Ribbons, Inc.
Directed by: Léa Pool
Cast: Dr. Susan Love, Barbara Ehrenreich
Running Time: 1 hour 40 mins
Rating: Not Rated
Showtimes at Piff: Wednesday 2/22 8:30pm at Cinema 21 and Saturday 2/25 3:30pm at Whitsell Auditorium Complete Piff Schedule
Plot: This Canadian doc looks at the big business behind breast cancer charities as well as companies who profit off breast cancer while possibly causing it.
Who’S It For? Anyone who was outraged at Komen’s recent attempt to pull grants from Planned Parenthood. If that makes you mad, this may cause a coronary.
Overall
Breast cancer is a horrible disease that strikes one in eight women. But it’s curable and early detection can keep you from dying. That’s what I thought before I saw this movie, now I’m appalled at how naive I was. Pink Ribbons, Inc. isn’t about pointing fingers or finding a bad guy,...
Directed by: Léa Pool
Cast: Dr. Susan Love, Barbara Ehrenreich
Running Time: 1 hour 40 mins
Rating: Not Rated
Showtimes at Piff: Wednesday 2/22 8:30pm at Cinema 21 and Saturday 2/25 3:30pm at Whitsell Auditorium Complete Piff Schedule
Plot: This Canadian doc looks at the big business behind breast cancer charities as well as companies who profit off breast cancer while possibly causing it.
Who’S It For? Anyone who was outraged at Komen’s recent attempt to pull grants from Planned Parenthood. If that makes you mad, this may cause a coronary.
Overall
Breast cancer is a horrible disease that strikes one in eight women. But it’s curable and early detection can keep you from dying. That’s what I thought before I saw this movie, now I’m appalled at how naive I was. Pink Ribbons, Inc. isn’t about pointing fingers or finding a bad guy,...
- 2/16/2012
- by Megan Lehar
- The Scorecard Review
Reuters Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow prays after defeating the Pittsburgh Steelers in overtime last night.
Wow. Tim Tebow, the famously religious quarterback who kneels in prayer before, during and after games, led the Denver Broncos to another apparently miraculous win yesterday. And, as if the win itself weren’t dramatic enough, the football phenom passed for an astonishing 316 yards in ten throws. That would be 31.6 yards a throw. Does that number sound familiar? It should. It’s the verse...
Wow. Tim Tebow, the famously religious quarterback who kneels in prayer before, during and after games, led the Denver Broncos to another apparently miraculous win yesterday. And, as if the win itself weren’t dramatic enough, the football phenom passed for an astonishing 316 yards in ten throws. That would be 31.6 yards a throw. Does that number sound familiar? It should. It’s the verse...
- 1/9/2012
- by James Martin, S.J.
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
The American Library Association, each year, keeps a record from teachers and librarians from around the country recording the number of objections raised against certain books. For the fifth year in a row, now, And Tango Makes Three tops the list of most challenged books. For the unfamiliar, it's about the true story of two male Emperor Penguins hatching and parenting a baby chick at New York's Central Park Zoo.
Hateful, bigoted people, of course, dislike the book, as they should. Gay penguins are melting the ice caps with all that gay penguin sex. The nine other books on the most challenged list are below, along with the chief objections (note, however, that the chief objection against Twilight is not: It's a shitty, poorly written abstinence porn. Salinger fans, however, can rejoice! Catcher in the Rye has finally fallen out of the top ten, as has Alice Walker's Color Purple.
Hateful, bigoted people, of course, dislike the book, as they should. Gay penguins are melting the ice caps with all that gay penguin sex. The nine other books on the most challenged list are below, along with the chief objections (note, however, that the chief objection against Twilight is not: It's a shitty, poorly written abstinence porn. Salinger fans, however, can rejoice! Catcher in the Rye has finally fallen out of the top ten, as has Alice Walker's Color Purple.
- 4/13/2011
- by Dustin Rowles
As a taxpaying American citizen, you are entitled to write your local public or school library and formally request that they remove a book from their shelves. They don't have to listen to you, but they often report these requests to the American Library Association, which publishes an annual list of the books that got the most people up in arms. And apparently, people don't want their children reading about gay penguins.
And Tango Makes Three, the heartwarming true tale of two male penguins in the Central Park Zoo that adopt an abandoned egg and then raise the baby penguin, is the book that is most often challenged by parents for its positive depictions of gay (avian) lifestyles. And school districts around the country have removed it from their shelves in response to many of those challenges.
The Twilight books, which glorify the occult, also come up for targeting, as...
And Tango Makes Three, the heartwarming true tale of two male penguins in the Central Park Zoo that adopt an abandoned egg and then raise the baby penguin, is the book that is most often challenged by parents for its positive depictions of gay (avian) lifestyles. And school districts around the country have removed it from their shelves in response to many of those challenges.
The Twilight books, which glorify the occult, also come up for targeting, as...
- 4/11/2011
- by Morgan Clendaniel
- Fast Company
By Vadim Rizov
If you're a sane human being interested in film but still harboring an instinct for financial self-preservation — if, in other words, you're interested in watching rather than making or writing about movies — you're probably not aware of events like The Conversation, in which a few weekends ago (to borrow the official copy)you could join in a day that promised to "bring together media-makers, techies, and social media strategists to share experiences and advice, map out the future together, and ideally begin some lasting collaborations." (Translation: network and chatter.)
Topics of discussion: marketing your movie, making use of the pestilent chimera known as "New Media" and so on. Bloggage ensued, though pretty much exclusively from participants. Still, nothing could top this quote from Kino Lorber president Richard Lorber: “everything’s possible but nothing’s working.”
That's the problem in a nutshell: all the talk of becoming...
If you're a sane human being interested in film but still harboring an instinct for financial self-preservation — if, in other words, you're interested in watching rather than making or writing about movies — you're probably not aware of events like The Conversation, in which a few weekends ago (to borrow the official copy)you could join in a day that promised to "bring together media-makers, techies, and social media strategists to share experiences and advice, map out the future together, and ideally begin some lasting collaborations." (Translation: network and chatter.)
Topics of discussion: marketing your movie, making use of the pestilent chimera known as "New Media" and so on. Bloggage ensued, though pretty much exclusively from participants. Still, nothing could top this quote from Kino Lorber president Richard Lorber: “everything’s possible but nothing’s working.”
That's the problem in a nutshell: all the talk of becoming...
- 4/9/2010
- GreenCine Daily
Bright-sided: How the Relentless Pursuit of Optimism is Undermining America is a Barbara Ehrenreich's takedown of positive thinking. To some, this may seem needlessly negative, a knee-jerk cynical response to other folks' optimism. However, Ehrenreich's writing makes a great deal of sense, especially to me -- it fits well with my worldview.
Ehrenreich is not railing against hope or optimism, but rather the head-in-the-sand approach of positive thinking that has become increasingly ubiquitous due to books such as The Secret. The Secret is based on the premise that if you wish for something really hard, and send positive thoughts about it out into the universe, it will happen. I've never read the book, because holy jeezy creezy, I do not want to sit through hundreds of pages of that crap. You see, the problem with this 'positive thinking' is not so much that it encourages people to think positively,...
Ehrenreich is not railing against hope or optimism, but rather the head-in-the-sand approach of positive thinking that has become increasingly ubiquitous due to books such as The Secret. The Secret is based on the premise that if you wish for something really hard, and send positive thoughts about it out into the universe, it will happen. I've never read the book, because holy jeezy creezy, I do not want to sit through hundreds of pages of that crap. You see, the problem with this 'positive thinking' is not so much that it encourages people to think positively,...
- 2/25/2010
- by Dustin Rowles
"And the madness of the crowd is an epileptic fit." - Tom Waits, In the Colosseum Like anyone who didn't greet Cameron's Avatar as The Second Coming, I received predictable responses to my review of the film. Some brave souls were relieved to hear they were not alone in perceiving that the Emperor wore slinky glittery togs, but was nevertheless drooling. The percentage of these was higher than I expected, which made me hopeful that humanity may achieve long-term survival without regressing to a resemblance of the Flintstone cartoons. Some insisted that I didn't get Avatar's subtle environment and native culture-friendly message because I'm a jaded cynic out of touch with cosmic harmonies. These are probably the same people who think that positive thinking cures cancer (addressed sharply - in both senses - by Barbara Ehrenreich in her recent book Bright-Sided)....
- 1/12/2010
- by Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.
- Huffington Post
Great balls of fire, y'all. Every day there's another Pajiba "Top Ten of 2009" list, or "Ten Best/Ten Worst/Ten Cutest/Ten Stupidest" list, or a "Hey Did You Know It's The End of The Decade?" Guide to What's Good For You. Do we really need another top ten list?
Yes, yes we do. We need more lists. We need lists that have lists, and those lists need footnotes of lists. "List" is a funny word. Say it five times. Listlistlistlistlist. Oooh, my tongue is all twisty. Hey, "twist" rhymes with "list!" I have obviously lost my mind. You may not know this, but Kolby and I share a brain and we take turns with it. I hope to God she has it right now, otherwise we're screwed.
Where was I? Oh, right, top ten lists. I have one for you! Aren't you excited? Can you please show some goddamn enthusiasm,...
Yes, yes we do. We need more lists. We need lists that have lists, and those lists need footnotes of lists. "List" is a funny word. Say it five times. Listlistlistlistlist. Oooh, my tongue is all twisty. Hey, "twist" rhymes with "list!" I have obviously lost my mind. You may not know this, but Kolby and I share a brain and we take turns with it. I hope to God she has it right now, otherwise we're screwed.
Where was I? Oh, right, top ten lists. I have one for you! Aren't you excited? Can you please show some goddamn enthusiasm,...
- 12/14/2009
- by Dustin Rowles
Broadway Speaks is hosting "A Very Mary Christmas" to benefit The Ali Forney Center in providing services to homeless Glbt youth. Guests are Sandra Berhardt and RuPaul's Drag Race winner Bebe Zahara Benet (pictured in teaser photo), while performers include Nick Adam's biceps, Logo's own Jeffery Cole, Cole Escola, Bd Wong and more. Tickets are available from $25.
I spend so much time writing about homophobic NFL players and homophobic NBA players that I don't know what to do with gay-supportive NHL players. First we had a retired player write an editorial in USA Today wishing he'd done more to combat homophobia. Now we have Brendan Burke, son of hockey legend Brian Burke, coming out to his family, and his college team, and finding nothing but support.
It's not enough that The Daily Show is the best advocate we have on television, they have to go and make it even easier to love them,...
I spend so much time writing about homophobic NFL players and homophobic NBA players that I don't know what to do with gay-supportive NHL players. First we had a retired player write an editorial in USA Today wishing he'd done more to combat homophobia. Now we have Brendan Burke, son of hockey legend Brian Burke, coming out to his family, and his college team, and finding nothing but support.
It's not enough that The Daily Show is the best advocate we have on television, they have to go and make it even easier to love them,...
- 11/25/2009
- by lostinmiami
- The Backlot
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