We’ll get to the sex stuff in a moment, but before we do, a brief look back… The first time I visited Los Angeles, I spent a lot of time at Universal Studios. In those days, Universal was a television…
Monthly Archives: August 2014
I Can’t Stop Watching: Sex and the TV Drama Revolution
Tagged with: Boardwalk Empire, Breaking Bad, Broadchurch, Bryan Cranston, Claire Danes, D.B. Weiss, David Chase, David R. Benioff, Dennis Weaver, Downton Abbey, Eddie Albert, Fargo, Game of Thrones, Homeland, House of Cards, Jenji Kohan, Justified, Kevin Spacey, Kojak, Mad Men, Martin Scorsese, Masters of Sex, McCloud, Nic Pizzolatto, Orange Is the New Black, Robert Wagner, Switch, Telly Savalas, The Americans, The Bridge, The Fall, The Sopranos, Top of the Lake, Toronto International Film Festival, True Detective, Universal Studios, Vince Gilligan, Wolf of Wall Street
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I Tripped Lauren Bacall
This is how I came to trip a Hollywood legend. First of all, let’s set the scene: It is opening night at Detroit’s grand old Fisher Theatre. A new musical based on the classic 1950 Bette Davis movie, All About…
Tagged with: Adolph Green, All About Eve, Applause, Bette Davis, Betty Comden, Broadway, Charles Strouse, Detroit, Fisher Theatre, Humphrey Bogart, Key Largo, Lauren Bacall, Lee Adams, Len Cariou, Margo Channing, Ray Bennett, The Big Sleep, To Have and Have Not, Toronto Telegram
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On Top of the World With Robin Williams
The world premiere of the musical Popeye, a live action movie based on the iconic spinach-eating comic strip character, written by Jules Feiffer and directed by Robert Altman, music by Harry Nilsson, was held on a warm December night at the legendary…
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