| Stephen Rea on Stuck: "It's appalling. But you can't help but laugh." He's right. My Houston Chronicle Q&A with Rea can be found here. | |
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| At once tightly focused and microcosmic, The Unforeseen -- Laura Dunn's prize-winning film about the clashes between developers and environmentalists in and around Austin -- is by turns rapturously... | |
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| I was 15, going on 16, and it was during my summer break as a student at St. Aloysius High School, in New Orleans. Since September, I'd been reviewing movies for the school paper, The Aloysian. (My... | |
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| Perfect casting. And Andrew Sullivan agrees. | |
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| Segregated schools. “Whites Only” water fountains. Blacks compelled to sit on the back of the bus. TV news bulletins about civil rights workers found buried in shallow graves. Newspaper ads for In... | |
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| From The New York Times: "On June 13, Sony Pictures Classics, one of New York’s wilier distributors of independent films, plans to open its little comic thriller Baghead... in Austin, Tex., where its... | |
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| You can't walk into a Bourbon Street souvenir shop without seeing him on a T-shirt. | |
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| Having a great time back in New Orleans... especially on Bourbon Street. Will resume posting... whenever. | |
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| This is my favorite Sydney Pollack memory: It’s December 1982 in New York, during a press junket for Tootsie. Pollack approaches the roundtable of critics and feature writers with a spring to his... | |
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| Dick Martin was the blissfully self-assured doofus to Dan Rowan's bemusedly incredulous straight man as the dapper duo hosted Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1968-73). And if you're old enough to... | |
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