In the fall of 1975, Saturday Night Live premiered on NBC and instantly worked like a fibrillator on moribund American comedy. The show had a crazed energy made up of equal parts countercultural...
Nick Park is one of the greatest filmmakers in motion-picture history -- and chances are that, until this week, you'd never heard of him or his movies. Park has made five films. Four...
The horror parody Scary Movie has proved a staggering box-office success, grossing $ 42 million in its first weekend. That's more than twice what it cost to make, and this box-office...
There was a culture war long before the last few decades -- only the combatants weren't liberal elites versus conservative regular Joes. This was a war between New York City and the rest...
The movie Pay It Forward is a fable about an eleven-year-old boy who comes up with a plan to change the world for the better -- and it's a prime example of a moviegoing phenomenon that...
The brilliant British actor Gary Oldman is not only a star of the new political thriller The Contender, but an executive producer. Oldman's manager, Douglas Urbanski, is another of the...
Las Vegas
"SOME PEOPLE SAY, 'Danny, he's not president any more, you should let up on him . . . "
To which the thousand-strong audience attending impressionist...
AMERICAN HUMORISTS have never been especially adept at political satire, probably because their mass-media audience tends to be spectacularly ill-informed about politics. For satire to...
Since it opened its doors in 1927, the ornate St. James Theater has been the premier venue for musicals on Broadway. Opening in 1943, Oklahoma! was performed 2,213 times on its boards,...
THE DIRECTOR MICHAEL BAY had a dream one night as he considered how to film an epic movie about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. In his dream, he followed a bomb, falling from a plane, as it descended...
RICHARD RUSSO is a writer who dares to repeat himself. His fifth novel, Empire Falls, is about a small town in the Northeastern United States that has seen better days. The only notable difference between...
IN THE SPACE OF FIVE DAYS, a man named Bill Maher, who hosts a late-night program called Politically Incorrect on the ABC network, underwent a kind of public nervous breakdown on national television. The...
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Ed Driscoll DEBUNKING DAVID MAMET. David Mamet made his name by writing edgy plays with crackling dialogue in the early 1980s, and then contributing that same ear for incredible dialogue to mainstream...
Ed Driscoll CRUISE TO CRUISE AGAIN: The Internet Movie Database is reporting that Tom Cruise will be remaking that hoary old Roger Corman 1970s exploitation flick, Death Race 2000. In a way, this...
Ed Driscoll RESTORING CLASSIC MOVIES: Interesting article on the incredible efforts going into restoring It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World by Robert Harris, who helped restore Lawrence of Arabia, Spartacus,...
Ed Driscoll EBERT, YOU MAGNIFICENT SONOFAB**CH, I READ YOUR REVIEW! Roger Ebert has an insightful review of Patton as part of his "Great Movies" series. Ebert notes: The most famous scene is the first...
Ed Driscoll Nina and I saw Gunga Din on Friday night at the Stanford Theater in Palo Alto. What a fun movie--and one that there's no way could be made in these PC times. Unless of course, the producers...
Ed Driscoll LIVE BY POLITICAL CORRECTNESS/DIE BY POLITICAL CORRECTNESS: I didn't watch the Oscars last night (my wife, "Group Capt. Mandrake", and another friend and I went to see "Black Hawk Down"...
Ed Driscoll As I said earlier, I saw Black Hawk Down with a couple of friends and my wife on Sunday night. I had seen it previously, when it first came out, and loved it. I was surprised when the...
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