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...Vegas call girl who causes a rift between the two. The tension between Stillman and Vinson mounts as both enter the World Series of Poker Tournament and end up face-to-face at the final table. Several big-name poker players appear as themselves in the film, including Phil “The Unabomber” Laak and Antonio “The Magician” Esfandiari. Actress Jennifer Tilly, who won the 2005 Ladies No Limit Hold’em competition, plays Karen “Razor” Jones. Although she is only featured in a few scenes...
...devote substantial time or serious attention to either its study or its performance. But the quote is not a description of the current jazz scene: it comes from a 1974 article by Jim Cramer ’77 in these pages, reviewing a Harvard Jazz Band concert with trombonists Phil Wilson and Carl Fontana. And although Cramer, who would be come The Crimson’s president, expressed hope that “Monday night’s concert will signal the beginning of Harvard’s sprint to overtake the rest of the collegiate runners in a race...
...attack on the Bush administration as a raging liberal could wish for. The documentary makes no attempt at balance or impartiality and jumps straight into the ring to tear apart the credibility of the pro-war brigade. This makes for a compelling, but wildly-biased, viewing experience. Directors Phil Donahue (yes, that Phil Donahue) and Ellen Spiro use a mix of small- and large-scale stories to convey their point. Scenes showing Young attempting to recover from the injuries he sustained after being shot just a week after arriving in Iraq are interspersed with footage from the Congressional debates over...
Even on less uplifting reality shows, the language of therapy is pervasive. Fox's lie-detector show, The Moment of Truth--in which players reveal hurtful secrets for money--is exploitative, garish and excruciating. But it is also essentially Dr. Phil in game-show form. Like a self-help talk show, Truth brings in family members to air dirty laundry, aiming for confrontation and catharsis. For every awful disclosure (a woman admits to having cheated on her husband), there's a sentimental moment (a father offers to become a bigger part of a grown child's life...
...Having a single company control so much of the live music market is almost guaranteed to mean one thing: ungodly ticket prices. In 2007, the cost of two seats to see Phil Collins and a re-united Genesis warble Mama was around $400, while two of the best seats for Jay-Z's current 28-date Live Nation tour with Mary J. Blige go for $500.00. Anti-trust laws prevent Live Nation from selling more than 10% of its own tickets, but at those prices, 10% adds up fast. For consumers, the pain could be acute...