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In his Sunday NYTimes Arts&Leisure cover story, "Two Films, Two Routes From Poverty," A.O. Scott writes about Precious and The Blind Side and how it is "useful to imagine these movies in dialogue with one another." It's a point that Armond White made in his review of The ...
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Sandra Bullock
The Blind Side
One of my first jobs out of school was playing a rotating
succession of floozies—some dumb, some angry, all crazy—on MTV’s first-ever
nonmusical program, Remote Control. The
parts were tiny, but Remote Control,
the cultish late ’80s game show in which three college kids ...
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Tonight Blind Pilot headlines Brooklyn, at The Bell House, 149 7th St. (betw. 2nd & 3rd Aves.), Brooklyn, 718-643-6510; 8, $15 ---
The Bishop Allen plays with Twin Thousands and Spanish Prisoners at Union Hall, 702 Union St. (at 5th Ave.), Brooklyn, 718-638-4400; 8, $15
Sam Mickens' ...
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The boys are pumped but the sensuous undercurrent of the saga is lost Catherine Hardwicke’s feeling for teen angst and female anxiety gave Twilight (the first film of the series based on Stephenie Meyer’s novels) immense potential. But Chris Weitz’s sequel New Moon is full of ...
Drama
New Moon
Twilight
Bella
Chris Weitz
A noir-nightmare and Michael Shannon's ill-fitting suit Hot on the heels of Bored to Death, HBO’s neurotic noir starring Jason Schwartzman as the least likely of private detectives, comes The Missing Person, which gets the mood right, but badly miscalculates when it comes to Michael ...
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The Missing Person
Artist Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon, who is best known
for her collaborative environmental arts installations with husband Christo
Javacheff, died today in Manhattan of complications stemming from a brain
aneurysm. Jeanne-Claude, 74, is survived by her husband and son Cyril Christo. ---
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Blogs: Live Tonight: Dirty Projectors, Toubab Krewe, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, Rakim and more
See the poster children of Brooklyn sound, Dirty Projectors, at Music Hall of Williamsburg, 66 N. 6th St. (betw. Wythe & Kent Aves.), 718-486-540; 8, $15 ---
Toubab Krewe brings Malian influence to Santos Party House, 96 Lafayette St (betw. Walker & White Sts.), 212-584-5492; 10, $15
...
Comedy
The Party
Anthony Hopkins
The Walker
We always assumed that people were still smoking inside because the places we tend to hang out are less than savory, but according to Eater, it's happening all over. --- ...
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Next week, Theater 80 will fire up its film projectors for the first time in 15 years, when comic caper film The Brooklyn Heist begins its two-week run at the famed revival house. We asked The Brooklyn Heist director Julian Mark Kheel about how this unique booking came about, and why Theater 80 ...
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The rumors are true: other things will be screening this
weekend besides The Twilight Saga: New
Moon.
Broken
Embraces showcases a few of director Pedro Almodóvar’s favorite things:
bold colors; cinephilia; twisty, melodramatic plots; and, of course, Penélope
Cruz. Broken ...
Drama
Nicolas Cage
Penelope Cruz
The Film Talk guys, Jett Loe and Gareth Higgins, discuss A Christmas Carol and other recent reviews with Armond White. They call him the "most controversial of modern film critics." But the blog chatter is still raging with Preciousmania, and over at The Cooler blog, they've latched on ...
Adventure
A Christmas Carol
The news on Monday that Window Media had finally closed its doors (literally) and that its chain of papers was officially kaput didn't seem to register much. Maybe that's because its two NYC titles, Genre and New York Blade, had already perished earlier this year. But the fact that the ...
Horror
Blade
Hulu has been making some, well, interesting business decisions of late. First, it drops hints that the portal will soon be charging viewers to watch TV shows and movies that are currently "free." Now, they're adding content that is widely available elsewhere. ---
The New ...
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I’m glad I was running too late this morning for breakfast
because the following news is enough to make we want to vomit, swear
excessively and then vomit some more. While
perusing the normally fun-loving photography of Miss Heather on
NewYorkShitty.com, I came across a story that is both ...
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Not all hippies start jam bands, only the evil ones do.
Every day a new star is born. Charismatic, charming, talented—singer
Alex Ebert of Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros has the qualities
that make a star, and after seeing the band's performance at Bowery
Ballroom on Tuesday ...
Adventure
Edward Norton
The Beastie Boys said it best: You've got to fight for your right to party—or, in this case, Pool Parties. The free concert series and summer pool party that is Jelly is facing an uncertain future after the New York State Parks Department and Open Space Alliance announced the summer series ...
Comedy
The Party
There was a moment—one of those collective pant-shitting moments that only the truly great or deeply unstable ones can produce—in which the crowd at last night’s Jesus Lizard show was transfixed by the possibility of David Yow whipping his cock out. --- I think it was ...
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Air Waves addicts can check out the pop trio tonight with Bright Lights at
Brooklyn Bowl, 61 Wythe Ave. (at N. 11th St.), 718-963-3369; 9,
Free.---
Classic rock heartthrobs Big Star play with with Kurt Vile (and the Violators) at Brooklyn
Masonic Temple, 317 Clermont Ave. (at Lafayette
Ave.), ...
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Dylan Baker
On its two albums, A Camp has a lilting, lush sound that wraps its pop sensibility in just enough indie packaging to make it the kind of music that should basically be played during every NPR program, all day, every day. Sure, it’s not what you’d call challenging to the listener, but ...
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Helmer Toro, owner of H&H Bagels, was indicted for tax fraud yesterday. He pled not guilty to charges of withholding over $360,000 in payroll taxes. Surely the owner of the self-described “largest bagel manufacturer in the world” wouldn’t risk an enterprise that promising ...
