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...Short films. In the golden age, an evening at the movies was just that: an A feature and a B feature, buttressed by selected short subjects. In the first years of sound, dozens of vaudeville acts achieved their only immortality. Blacks rarely had prominent roles in feature films, but Ethel Waters, Bessie Smith and a seven-year-old Sammy Davis starred in shorts. TCM runs Robert Benchley and Joe McDoakes comedy shorts and Fitzpatrick travelogs. The weirdest series: MGM's early-'30s Dogville Comedies, one-reel movie parodies (The Dogway Melody, The Big Dog House, Trader Hound), in which pooches...
...McConaughey a movie star? Because he gets a significant number of people to pay to see him in dreck. And Ghost of Christmas Past is down there with the worst. Its deficiencies are too severe to bother tearing apart: Connor's short, charisma-deficient brother (Breckin Meyer) who comes from a totally other gene pool, if not gene planet, than his studly sib; cinematography that makes everyone except McConaughey look ugly (the same artless deglamorizing recently evident in 17 Again and State of Play); hapless guest appearances by Michael Douglas and Anne Archer, who must have wished they were back...
...caseload increased to 109 in 11 states, with hundreds of school closures that sent some 160,000 students home. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said that a new flu pandemic is imminent, yet some pharmacies (in New York City at least) are temporarily running short of the antiviral Tamiflu. So, no one would blame you for feeling scared about getting sick...
...starts to matter. It’s someone’s paycheck. It’s a review.” Despite trepidations about leaving the warmth of Harvard’s theater community, Rich is excited for the challenges of New York theater. “In the short term, I’d just like to be an independent person, getting professional work, not living in my parents’ home,” she says. “In the long term, the sky is the limit! I want to do everything.” She pauses...
...diversity in the show is not only reflected in the artwork, but in the stories of the artists themselves. The program for the show will include short biographies of all artists, whose backgrounds range from artists who grew up with painters in the family to varsity athletes and biology students. One graduate student in the show spent time in Nepal and, consequently, all the profits resulting from the sale of his artwork are going to a charity for Nepalese orphans...