Acting is more than a talent, it is also an aesthetic technology. I had never looked at the art of the thespian in that way, not until I recently attended a […]
Married to Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw, and Frank Sinatra, and divorced from all three of them, Ava Gardner was fodder for 20th-century gossip columnists and a signature component of the Golden Age of […]
Tragedy lasts a lifetime for those who experience it first hand. Though it may fade over time, the trauma never entirely disappears. It was October 1, 2017 when tragedy struck in Las […]
Though on the cover of the playbill for The Secret Comedy of Women — currently being performed at the Huntington Beach Library Theater through October 16 — it says “Girls Only,” this show is […]
In 1998 it was published as a book, originally titled The Surgeon of Crowthorne, by Simon Winchester. When it was published in the United States, the title was changed to “The Professor and […]
In what has been humorously referred to as a docu-comedy, the 2016 film Elvis and Nixon, featuring Michael Shannon as the former and Kevin Spacey as the latter, reached movie theaters, and though it’s a largely forgotten movie, Elvis and Nixon gets […]
It started with the publication of his 2005 autobiography, Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star, coauthored by TCM’s film noir aficionado and host, Eddie Muller. It quickly rose to the top of the […]
Uncoupled is a new Netflix romcom by Darren Star and Jeffery Richman starring Neil Patrick Harris as Michael, a high end New York City real estate broker, whose partner Colin (Tuc Watkins), […]
Along with Harold Lloyd and Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton was seminal among silent film actors. What’s more, like Lloyd, Keaton was a courageous stunt performer. In 1996, “Entertainment Weekly” rated Keaton […]
What constitutes good acting? Honesty? Authenticity? Realism? Charisma? The culture critic Isaac Butler explores these questions as well as past as prologue in his absorbing new book, The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act. In this […]
