Parenting in a Celebrity-Drive Society.
The Golden Globes kicked off the 2012 Awards Season for the already accolade-ridden Hollywood crowd. But what most of us look forward to in watching the industry pat itself on the back each year are the fashions and the unpredictability of the live broadcasts; fumbling of lines or some wardrobe or teleprompter malfunctions add a little [...]
If you’ve had ambivalent feelings about Marilyn Monroe’s iconic status in our celebrity-driven society, then My Week with Marilyn will cement them one way or the other; you’ll either understand her much-publicized crumbling personality, or you will develop even more contradictory emotions about the real person behind the blond bombshell. My Week with Marilyn directed [...]
The San Diego Film Festival kicks off its tenth year of bringing together filmmakers and movie aficionados in America’s Finest City. From September 28th through October 2nd the SDFF takes over the bustling Gaslamp district and Reading Cinemas in downtown San Diego transforming them into home base for more than 75 shorts, documentaries, and features [...]
If you watched the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday you figured they were not meant for kids under, say, 13. In spite of seven-year-old Alexis Nycole Sanchez there to accept an award for Best Movie Line, “I want to get chocolate wasted,” for the movie “Grown Ups”, sitting in the audience — close to the [...]
