‘Hollywood’: Larry McMurtry from ‘Hud’ to ‘Brokeback Mountain’
On Tuesday, Simon and Schuster will publish the slim but very entertaining “Hollywood: A Third Memoir” by Larry McMurtry. McMurtry has been lucky enough to enjoy three separate careers — as a novelist,...
View ArticleIs ‘I Love You Phillip Morris’ too gay for America?
Jim Carrey gives the best performance of his career in “I Love You Phillip Morris” but the fact-based movie about an extraordinarily clever gay grifter took almost a year to find a distributor in this...
View ArticleThe amazing Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe
If “My Week with Marilyn” wasn’t such a slight film, Michelle Williams would probably have a lock on an Oscar for her performance as Marilyn Monroe making the long-forgotten 1957 British film “The...
View ArticleBest directing: Michel Hazavanicius for “The Artist”
A few weeks ago, the Directors Guild of America gave its top prize to the French filmmaker and if a long-standing tradition holds, that means he will win the directing Oscar. In most years, the...
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