"Any Way You Want It" For years, the go-to guys for this thing of ours ("The Sopranos") have been Alan Sepinwall at Tony's hometown newspaper, The Newark Star-Ledger ("The Voice of New Jersey"), and his former Star-Ledger colleague, Matt Zoller…
"It goes on and on and on and on..." It was 1991 and we were talking about "Barton Fink": Joel Coen: ... I also don't think it's as difficult as some people think it is. I mean, some people come…
View image Emission accomplished! "Ten Movies That Shook The World" (1977 - 1999), the semi-sequel to my piece on "How "Star Wars" Changed Everything," is now at MSN Movies. Excerpt: "Beverly Hills Cop" (1984) It's a comedy. It's an action…
"In the midst of death, we are in life, heh? ... Life goes on..." -- Paulie Walnuts, Episode 86 Meantime life outside goes on all around you. -- Bob Dylan, "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" Some will win, some…
"In the midst of death, we are in life, heh? ... Life goes on..."
"One" is the loneliest number. "I'm afraid I'm going to lose my family. Like I lost the ducks." -- Tony Soprano, Episode 1, January 10, 1999 " _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _" -- Tony Sproano, Episode 86,…
At whom is this ad campaign aimed? Judd Apatow's "Knocked Up" ought to be the most-discussed (and argument-generating) movie of the year so far -- which means it's uncommonly smart and subversive and disturbing (and funny), especially for a summer…
Look, it's somebody lying on the TV. Yeah, I know. Stop the presses. A more startling headline might be: "Dog eats food!" It's not news that self-proclaimed morality guardian Bill O'Reilly is a source of misinformation next to whom the…
View image If only the "theatrical experience" could be as good as your living room... An architecture critic for the Los Angeles Times reviews the new Landmark multiplex at the Westside Pavilion: ... [It is] designed to compete directly with…
Television network and cable "news" in a nutshell. From The Onion today, the Wall Street Journal tomorrow: ATLANTA—Last week, after a reported 65 million Americans learned of the bipartisan immigration bill with the breaking news report "Mexicans Stay," it became…
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