The terror in "The Twilight Zone" always comes from "What if?" What if there was a little boy with way too much power for anyone to tell him "no"? What if what you thought of as Heaven turned out to be more like Hell? What if man-eating aliens arrived and made humans as docile as lambs to the slaughter?
These questions may be outrageous fantasy, but the terror of them is timeless. We still watch "The Twilight Zone" decades later, and the best episodes can still leave you chilled -- all thanks to the imagination of series creator Rod Serling.
Serling is synonymous with "The Twilight Zone" even for casual viewers; one could call him TV's first auteur. His reputation was as much thanks to his on-camera work as his writing. Serling was the narrator of "The Twilight Zone," introducing and closing out each episode. (He got the job after...
These questions may be outrageous fantasy, but the terror of them is timeless. We still watch "The Twilight Zone" decades later, and the best episodes can still leave you chilled -- all thanks to the imagination of series creator Rod Serling.
Serling is synonymous with "The Twilight Zone" even for casual viewers; one could call him TV's first auteur. His reputation was as much thanks to his on-camera work as his writing. Serling was the narrator of "The Twilight Zone," introducing and closing out each episode. (He got the job after...
- 5/12/2024
- by Devin Meenan
- Slash Film
Updated, with Clinton statement and details on arrangements: David Mixner, the activist and political strategist who lobbied — and protested — political figures in the movement for LGBTQ equality, died on Monday. He was 77.
Mixner suffered from complications from long Covid, a friend, Steven Guy, told The New York Times.
Mixner also was a playwright, having recounted his decades of activism in a series of plays including Oh Hell No!, which he performed in New York, Los Angeles and other cities in 2014, 2015 and 2016, and later 1969 and Who Fell Into the Outhouse? The stagings, benefitting major LGBTQ organizations, featured Mixner recalling his early years of rural poverty, his involvement in protests of the Vietnam war, his experiences coming out, living through the AIDS crisis and his support and break with longtime friend Bill Clinton when the then-president failed to end a prohibition on gays and lesbians in the military.
White House Press Secretary...
Mixner suffered from complications from long Covid, a friend, Steven Guy, told The New York Times.
Mixner also was a playwright, having recounted his decades of activism in a series of plays including Oh Hell No!, which he performed in New York, Los Angeles and other cities in 2014, 2015 and 2016, and later 1969 and Who Fell Into the Outhouse? The stagings, benefitting major LGBTQ organizations, featured Mixner recalling his early years of rural poverty, his involvement in protests of the Vietnam war, his experiences coming out, living through the AIDS crisis and his support and break with longtime friend Bill Clinton when the then-president failed to end a prohibition on gays and lesbians in the military.
White House Press Secretary...
- 3/12/2024
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
After months on political life support, Ron DeSantis has finally put himself — and everyone else — out of his misery and suspended his campaign for the 2024 Republican nomination. While the Florida governor ran on a wet dream policy package for extremist, culture war-obsessed conservatives, his campaign simply could not overcome its biggest obstacle: Ron DeSantis himself.
American presidential politics has a storied history of promising candidates tanking over awkward moments and unfortunate gaffes. Jeb Bush begging his audience to “please clap,” Howard Dean’s scream, Richard Nixon looking super sweaty during...
American presidential politics has a storied history of promising candidates tanking over awkward moments and unfortunate gaffes. Jeb Bush begging his audience to “please clap,” Howard Dean’s scream, Richard Nixon looking super sweaty during...
- 1/22/2024
- by Nikki McCann Ramirez
- Rollingstone.com
Mort Engelberg, a producer of the films Smokey And The Bandit and The Big Easy, has passed away. Engelberg was 86, and he died in Los Angeles in the company of his wife, Helaine Blatt, a success herself as a high-end jewelry broker.
Engelberg was producing films when he took time away from his day job and organized a famous bus tour taken by Arkansas governor and presidential aspirant Bill Clinton and his running mate Al Gore through numerous states the summer after the Democratic Convention in 1992. Engelberg served a similar role previously for candidates Walter F. Mondale in 1984 and Michael Dukakis in 1988. For Clinton, the bus tour was a rousing success. It bonded Clinton, Gore and their wives, and presenting the amiable presidential candidate as an everymen who thrived mixing with real people in cities across the country. It would become a trademark for Clinton’s successful two presidential runs.
Engelberg was producing films when he took time away from his day job and organized a famous bus tour taken by Arkansas governor and presidential aspirant Bill Clinton and his running mate Al Gore through numerous states the summer after the Democratic Convention in 1992. Engelberg served a similar role previously for candidates Walter F. Mondale in 1984 and Michael Dukakis in 1988. For Clinton, the bus tour was a rousing success. It bonded Clinton, Gore and their wives, and presenting the amiable presidential candidate as an everymen who thrived mixing with real people in cities across the country. It would become a trademark for Clinton’s successful two presidential runs.
- 12/11/2023
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Can America still build big things? It's the central question of The Big Dig, a new podcast announced today from GBH News and Prx, examining American infrastructure through the lens of the most expensive highway project in the nation's history.
The nine-part limited series premieres on September 27, the 40th anniversary of the project's announcement by then Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, just days before a congressional deadline on the highway funding that defined the Interstate Era.
The Big Dig is available on all major podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, and Spotify, at the GBH News website and the GBH News YouTube Channel. Subsequent episodes drop weekly on Wednesdays.
"The megaproject known as the Big Dig embodies the deep cynicism afflicting American infrastructure today," said Lead Producer and Host Ian Coss. "It's often described as a 'boondoggle,' but beyond that narrative of scandal and outrage, the project has also...
The nine-part limited series premieres on September 27, the 40th anniversary of the project's announcement by then Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, just days before a congressional deadline on the highway funding that defined the Interstate Era.
The Big Dig is available on all major podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, and Spotify, at the GBH News website and the GBH News YouTube Channel. Subsequent episodes drop weekly on Wednesdays.
"The megaproject known as the Big Dig embodies the deep cynicism afflicting American infrastructure today," said Lead Producer and Host Ian Coss. "It's often described as a 'boondoggle,' but beyond that narrative of scandal and outrage, the project has also...
- 9/14/2023
- Podnews.net
For the season 5 season finale, Writer/Director/Producer Adam McKay returns to the podcast to discuss movies from his favorite year of cinema… 1987.
The Movies That Made Me will return with Season 6 in January. Happy Holidays! Thank you for listening!
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Tin Men (1987)
Billy Jack (1971)
The Menu (2022)
Boyz N The Hood (1991) – John Landis’s trailer commentary
Menace II Society (1991)
Straight Out Of Brooklyn (1991)
Do The Right Thing (1989) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary
School Daze (1988)
The Swarm (1978) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
The Squeeze (1987)
Squeeze Play (1979) – Lloyd Kaufman’s trailer commentary
Diner (1982)
Robocop (1987) – Dan Ireland’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray and 4K Blu-ray reviews
The Evil Dead (1983) – Fede Alvarez’s trailer commentary
Evil Dead II (1987) – Mike Mendez’s trailer commentary, Alex Kirschenbaum’s review
Broadcast News (1987)
Raising Arizona (1987)
The Princess Bride (1987) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
This Is Spinal Tap (1984) – John Landis’s...
The Movies That Made Me will return with Season 6 in January. Happy Holidays! Thank you for listening!
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Tin Men (1987)
Billy Jack (1971)
The Menu (2022)
Boyz N The Hood (1991) – John Landis’s trailer commentary
Menace II Society (1991)
Straight Out Of Brooklyn (1991)
Do The Right Thing (1989) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary
School Daze (1988)
The Swarm (1978) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
The Squeeze (1987)
Squeeze Play (1979) – Lloyd Kaufman’s trailer commentary
Diner (1982)
Robocop (1987) – Dan Ireland’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray and 4K Blu-ray reviews
The Evil Dead (1983) – Fede Alvarez’s trailer commentary
Evil Dead II (1987) – Mike Mendez’s trailer commentary, Alex Kirschenbaum’s review
Broadcast News (1987)
Raising Arizona (1987)
The Princess Bride (1987) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
This Is Spinal Tap (1984) – John Landis’s...
- 12/20/2022
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
Bernard Shaw, who was the lead anchor at CNN for two decades, died Wednesday, September 7, from non-Covid-related pneumonia at age 82, according to his family. He retired from CNN in 2001. He was one of the very first Black anchors of a network evening news show. Shaw began his television broadcasting career as an anchor and reporter for Wnus in Chicago in 1964. He worked as the White House correspondent in the Washington Bureau of CBS News from 1971 to 1977. Shaw then moved to ABC News, where he left to join CNN in 1980. His coverage of the assassination attempt of Ronald Reagan in 1971 helped to establish CNN in the station’s early days. Due to Shaw listening to a police scanner, it had beaten the other networks in announcing the shooting of Reagan by four whole minutes. (Credit: Mark Mainz/Getty Images) Shaw also moderated the 1988 presidential election debates where he questioned anti-death penalty Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis,...
- 9/9/2022
- TV Insider
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Bernard Shaw, the venerable TV news anchor who helped turn CNN into a powerhouse, has died. He was 82.
Shaw died Wednesday from pneumonia not related to Covid-19, his family said.
Based in Washington, D.C. when CNN launched, Shaw, known as Bernie to friends and colleagues, was the cable news channel’s lead anchor for two decades until his retirement in 2001.
During his tenure, Shaw anchored major breaking news events, like the attempted assassination of President Reagan in 1981, the Tiananmen Square student revolt in 1989 and every presidential election.
But it was his coverage of the Gulf War in 1991 that helped transform CNN’s fortunes, establishing the channel as a news juggernaut. Shaw reported from Baghdad during the war, the first conflict that was broadcast live for the world to see.
“The skies over Baghdad have been illuminated; we are seeing bright flashes going off all around the sky,...
Bernard Shaw, the venerable TV news anchor who helped turn CNN into a powerhouse, has died. He was 82.
Shaw died Wednesday from pneumonia not related to Covid-19, his family said.
Based in Washington, D.C. when CNN launched, Shaw, known as Bernie to friends and colleagues, was the cable news channel’s lead anchor for two decades until his retirement in 2001.
During his tenure, Shaw anchored major breaking news events, like the attempted assassination of President Reagan in 1981, the Tiananmen Square student revolt in 1989 and every presidential election.
But it was his coverage of the Gulf War in 1991 that helped transform CNN’s fortunes, establishing the channel as a news juggernaut. Shaw reported from Baghdad during the war, the first conflict that was broadcast live for the world to see.
“The skies over Baghdad have been illuminated; we are seeing bright flashes going off all around the sky,...
- 9/8/2022
- by Alex Weprin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Bernard Shaw, the first chief anchor for CNN who helped lead breaking news coverage for more than 20 years, has died.
Shaw died Wednesday of pneumonia unrelated to Covid-19, his family announced in a statement to the network. He was 82.
From CNN’s launch on June 1, 1980, Shaw delivered to viewers breaking news in a warm voice and matter-of-fact style, helping the upstart 24-hour news network gain stature against its broadcast rivals. That was evident when he anchored coverage of the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan in 1981, a breaking news event that established CNN as a reliable outlet to turn to in the midst of national moments of crisis.
By 1988, Shaw moderated a presidential debate, but drew some controversy when he posed a hypothetical question to Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis that referred to the rape and murder of his wife. The point of the question was to elicit Dukakis’ views on the death penalty,...
Shaw died Wednesday of pneumonia unrelated to Covid-19, his family announced in a statement to the network. He was 82.
From CNN’s launch on June 1, 1980, Shaw delivered to viewers breaking news in a warm voice and matter-of-fact style, helping the upstart 24-hour news network gain stature against its broadcast rivals. That was evident when he anchored coverage of the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan in 1981, a breaking news event that established CNN as a reliable outlet to turn to in the midst of national moments of crisis.
By 1988, Shaw moderated a presidential debate, but drew some controversy when he posed a hypothetical question to Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis that referred to the rape and murder of his wife. The point of the question was to elicit Dukakis’ views on the death penalty,...
- 9/8/2022
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
This article contains Irresistible spoilers.
This isn’t right. When Gary, a political strategist played with constant anxiety by Steve Carell, enters the civics center of Deerlarken, everyone is smiling. Stranger still, both camps separated by a political divide he engineered are satisfied with the results of their election. This isn’t how politics is supposed to work. Not in America!
Yet this is the Twilight Zone reality Gary finds himself in during the finale of Jon Stewart’s Irresistible. Despite the fact Gary’s DNC internal polling shows there has been no voting conducted on election day, the town is publicly announcing that the Democratic contender Jack Hastings (Chris Cooper) tied with the Republican mayor in the local election. So the town is going to seemingly just treat it as a wash. Of course that’s easy to do when it turns out this isn’t their election day.
This isn’t right. When Gary, a political strategist played with constant anxiety by Steve Carell, enters the civics center of Deerlarken, everyone is smiling. Stranger still, both camps separated by a political divide he engineered are satisfied with the results of their election. This isn’t how politics is supposed to work. Not in America!
Yet this is the Twilight Zone reality Gary finds himself in during the finale of Jon Stewart’s Irresistible. Despite the fact Gary’s DNC internal polling shows there has been no voting conducted on election day, the town is publicly announcing that the Democratic contender Jack Hastings (Chris Cooper) tied with the Republican mayor in the local election. So the town is going to seemingly just treat it as a wash. Of course that’s easy to do when it turns out this isn’t their election day.
- 6/27/2020
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
The stumbling block for political satire is that it’s almost always partisan — which is great if it flatters your views, and grating if it doesn’t. But not for Jon Stewart. In his first writing-directing gig since 2014’s docudrama Rosewater, the former late-night fixture ingeniously makes it impossible to take sides … since both sides totally suck. As host of The Daily Show between 1999 and 2015, Stewart knew that the only way to deal with the toxic mix of politics, media, and money afflicting the body politic was to resist. Or...
- 6/23/2020
- by Peter Travers
- Rollingstone.com
In 1988, presidential candidate George H.W. Bush dismissed his rival Michael Dukakis as a “card-carrying member of the Aclu.” By contrast, Bush proclaimed himself “for the people,” as though the American Civil Liberties Union, a nonprofit organization that defends the equal human rights established in the Constitution, was instead championing UFOs.
There’s a documentary or 12 to be made about the public being led to believe that their protectors are the problem, or the long history of sticky political smears. (Bush’s words deliberately evoked the “card-carrying Communist” panic of the Cold War.) Yet, Elyse Steinberg, Josh Kriegman and Eli Despress’ , during which they’ve filed no fewer than 147 lawsuits.
The directors want to grant humanity to the lawyers themselves. Aclu Deputy Director Lee Gelernt is, like most of his colleagues, an unslept, diet-soda-swilling workaholic under pressure to forgo his personal needs, including time with his own family, to try...
There’s a documentary or 12 to be made about the public being led to believe that their protectors are the problem, or the long history of sticky political smears. (Bush’s words deliberately evoked the “card-carrying Communist” panic of the Cold War.) Yet, Elyse Steinberg, Josh Kriegman and Eli Despress’ , during which they’ve filed no fewer than 147 lawsuits.
The directors want to grant humanity to the lawyers themselves. Aclu Deputy Director Lee Gelernt is, like most of his colleagues, an unslept, diet-soda-swilling workaholic under pressure to forgo his personal needs, including time with his own family, to try...
- 1/24/2020
- by Amy Nicholson
- Variety Film + TV
Imagine someone in the news business, a television producer, who wasn’t concerned about truth. That apparent anomaly describes Roger Ailes, the late Fox News chief, according to filmmaker Alexis Bloom.
“He never said truth was important to him, in terms of Fox News. It was all about entertainment and messaging,” Bloom tells Deadline. “He never said ‘factual accuracy is what we’re all about.’ He didn’t.”
Bloom delved deeply into Ailes’ life and impact on news media and politics for her Emmy-contending documentary Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes. The film from A&e is nominated for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking, an exclusive category determined by select members of the TV Academy’s Nonfiction Peer Group.
To understand Ailes’ conservative worldview, Bloom dialed back to his childhood in small town Warren, Ohio.
“Growing up where he did inculcated in him a sense of patriotism and American...
“He never said truth was important to him, in terms of Fox News. It was all about entertainment and messaging,” Bloom tells Deadline. “He never said ‘factual accuracy is what we’re all about.’ He didn’t.”
Bloom delved deeply into Ailes’ life and impact on news media and politics for her Emmy-contending documentary Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes. The film from A&e is nominated for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking, an exclusive category determined by select members of the TV Academy’s Nonfiction Peer Group.
To understand Ailes’ conservative worldview, Bloom dialed back to his childhood in small town Warren, Ohio.
“Growing up where he did inculcated in him a sense of patriotism and American...
- 8/15/2019
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Martin Scorsese’s new Bob Dylan film begins with George Méliès’ 1896 short “The Vanishing Lady,” in which the famed illusionist and “Hugo” subject makes his assistant Jehanne d’Alcy disappear before our eyes, but some viewers might not cotton to how this strange prologue sets the table for Scorsese’s own sleight-of-hand. More than just a concert documentary or an inside look at the fabled tour of the same name, “Rolling Thunder Revue” is nothing less than a feature-length magic trick of a movie — a séance disguised as a straightforward PBS-style program. There’s a reason why it’s streaming on Netflix with the subtitle “A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese.”
It’s entirely possible to watch and enjoy “Rolling Thunder Revue” without picking up on how it blurs the line between fact and fiction, but this feels like a movie that wants to get caught. It becomes a richer,...
It’s entirely possible to watch and enjoy “Rolling Thunder Revue” without picking up on how it blurs the line between fact and fiction, but this feels like a movie that wants to get caught. It becomes a richer,...
- 6/12/2019
- by David Ehrlich, Chris O'Falt and Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Back in mid-December, before setting out on his vision-quest road trip, Beto O’Rourke held one last town hall as El Paso’s three-term congressman. By then, he had already seen himself rapidly become the Democratic establishment’s dream candidate for president after narrowly losing his U.S. Senate challenge to Ted Cruz — “He’s Barack Obama, but white,” one big donor gushed to Politico. And then, just as quickly, he’d watched his voting record (more conservative than many Democrats) and “bipartisan” rhetoric undergo a level of harsh scrutiny he...
- 3/14/2019
- by Bob Moser
- Rollingstone.com
At his death, George Herbert Walker Bush is suffering the unkind fate of being celebrated as an anti-Trump. A man of Yankee-style dignity and prudence, who at his core believed himself to be a patriotic public servant, Bush would have been honored to have his career measured according to a very different, wholly honorable standard, that of a former president like Dwight Eisenhower, perhaps, or even of his own father, Senator Prescott Bush of Connecticut, who played a role in censuring Senator Joseph McCarthy. Not that Bush ever boasted...
- 12/5/2018
- by Sean Wilentz
- Rollingstone.com
President Donald Trump used Twitter to stoke anti-immigrant sentiment in a video that brazenly ties migrants fleeing poverty in Central America to a cop-killer smirking as he brags about his crimes.
The president has spent the final weeks ahead of the midterm election attacking the thousands of migrants from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador heading for the U.S. border, a group he has dubbed a “caravan” of invading hordes.
Last week, Trump amplified his anti-immigrant statements at campaign rallies with a video that reached more than 6 million viewers on Twitter, and offered a preview of one of the most racially charged political attack ads to appear on television in decades.
The minute-long social media video begins with an unsettling image of a bald man smirking under the headline: “Illegal immigrant Luis Bracamontes killed our people!”
As Bracamontes can be heard profanely bragging about the murders and threatening to commit...
The president has spent the final weeks ahead of the midterm election attacking the thousands of migrants from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador heading for the U.S. border, a group he has dubbed a “caravan” of invading hordes.
Last week, Trump amplified his anti-immigrant statements at campaign rallies with a video that reached more than 6 million viewers on Twitter, and offered a preview of one of the most racially charged political attack ads to appear on television in decades.
The minute-long social media video begins with an unsettling image of a bald man smirking under the headline: “Illegal immigrant Luis Bracamontes killed our people!”
As Bracamontes can be heard profanely bragging about the murders and threatening to commit...
- 11/5/2018
- by Dawn C. Chmielewski
- Deadline Film + TV
President Trump has provided America with yet another reminder to never underestimate how deep into the gutter he will crawl to win an election. On Wednesday afternoon, the president tweeted a new, deeply racist campaign ad in which he continued to drive the narrative that Democrats are pro-crime. It begins with footage of a Mexican man named Luis Bracamontes bragging about how he killed police officers. Bracamontes has been deported, but re-entered the United States illegally, and in February was convicted of killing two deputies in California. The Democrats are to blame,...
- 11/1/2018
- by Ryan Bort
- Rollingstone.com
For all of its modern technology and progress, America has continued to live in the clutches of its puritanical roots when it comes to sex. When a sex scandal is thrown our way we can’t not look. Nothing can grab attention quicker, nothing can keep our attention longer. That is how we live now.
It wasn’t always that way, at least where political leaders were concerned. Jason Reitman’s new film, “The Front Runner,” which had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival, ponders the question whether politicians owe us transparency in their personal lives. And it also asks, in public life, is anything personal?
Hugh Jackman plays Senator Gary Hart, the leading candidate for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination. Early in the primaries, he was polling ahead of certain Republican nominee George H.W. Bush, who was running on fumes from Ronald Reagan’s two terms, during...
It wasn’t always that way, at least where political leaders were concerned. Jason Reitman’s new film, “The Front Runner,” which had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival, ponders the question whether politicians owe us transparency in their personal lives. And it also asks, in public life, is anything personal?
Hugh Jackman plays Senator Gary Hart, the leading candidate for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination. Early in the primaries, he was polling ahead of certain Republican nominee George H.W. Bush, who was running on fumes from Ronald Reagan’s two terms, during...
- 9/1/2018
- by Sasha Stone
- The Wrap
They're back together again! Exes Bruce Willis and Demi Moore recently reunited for their eldest daughter Rumer Willis' 30th birthday — and Rumer just posted all the best party pics to Instagram on Sunday, Aug. 19. In the snapshots, Rumer appeared to be having a great time with her parents, who famously split after 13 years of marriage in 2000. In one adorable pic, Demi and Bruce can be seen each giving their daughter a huge kiss on the cheek. "Thanks for making me.
- 8/20/2018
- by Joyann Jeffrey
- Closer Weekly
Washington — Gonring, Spahn and Associates, the Los Angeles-based government relations, public relations, and philanthropy firm, is opening a D.C. office led by Kevin Ryan.
The firm, headed by Andy Spahn and Jennifer Gonring, has long represented clients such as Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg.
Ryan, who has been vice president of Gonring Spahn, is being promoted to partner.
“The Washington of today is so unpredictable and it’s more critical than ever that our clients have a foot on the ground and a seat at the table,” Ryan said. In an interview, he added that there is a greater interest among clients in what is happening in D.C. The firm also has clients involved in telecom issues, education technology, and green energy.
Ryan lived in D.C. earlier in his career, working for the Democratic National Committee, and Michael Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen’s 1988 campaign, and also on...
The firm, headed by Andy Spahn and Jennifer Gonring, has long represented clients such as Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg.
Ryan, who has been vice president of Gonring Spahn, is being promoted to partner.
“The Washington of today is so unpredictable and it’s more critical than ever that our clients have a foot on the ground and a seat at the table,” Ryan said. In an interview, he added that there is a greater interest among clients in what is happening in D.C. The firm also has clients involved in telecom issues, education technology, and green energy.
Ryan lived in D.C. earlier in his career, working for the Democratic National Committee, and Michael Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen’s 1988 campaign, and also on...
- 7/25/2018
- by Ted Johnson
- Variety Film + TV
Talk about amicable exes! Demi Moore was surprisingly the center of her ex-husband Bruce Willis' Comedy Central roast over the weekend, and she made some very funny digs at the actor during her performance. First, she joked that she was "married to Bruce for the first three Die Hard movies, which makes sense because the last two sucked," according to Variety. (Photo Credit: Getty Images) She then went on to explain why they split after 13 years of marriage in 2000. "People wonder why our marriage came to an end, and in all honesty I think it was because some jealousy started to creep in. I think Bruce never really got over the fact that I rocked the bald look better than he did," she said. Demi continued by making jokes about Bruce's career, "After our divorce, he said he considered the end of our marriage his biggest failure, but Bruce,...
- 7/16/2018
- by Samantha Faragalli
- Closer Weekly
As the focus of this year’s Comedy Central Roast, Bruce Willis was hit with repeated jabs about his age, his marriage, his Planet Hollywood business venture, his side music career and his recent string of less-than-spectacular films — and most of them came from the surprise appearance of ex-wife Demi Moore.
Saying that she was “married to Bruce for the first three ‘Die Hard’ movies, which makes sense because the last two sucked,” Moore served as an impromptu roaster as she recounted memories of raising their three daughters, who were also in attendance, together.
“People wonder why our marriage came to an end, and in all honesty I think it was because some jealousy started to creep in. I think Bruce never really got over the fact that I rocked the bald look better than he did,” Moore joked. “After our divorce, he said he considered the end of our marriage his biggest failure,...
Saying that she was “married to Bruce for the first three ‘Die Hard’ movies, which makes sense because the last two sucked,” Moore served as an impromptu roaster as she recounted memories of raising their three daughters, who were also in attendance, together.
“People wonder why our marriage came to an end, and in all honesty I think it was because some jealousy started to creep in. I think Bruce never really got over the fact that I rocked the bald look better than he did,” Moore joked. “After our divorce, he said he considered the end of our marriage his biggest failure,...
- 7/15/2018
- by Kirsten Chuba
- Variety Film + TV
Looks like the old Mac vs. Windows debate now has a political twist to it. If strictly Mac users had voted in the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton would’ve won in a landslide, according to new data from SurveyMonkey. Based on results from 100,000 post-election interviews, Clinton would’ve hauled in a massive 443 electoral college votes from MacOs respondents, compared to a meek 58 for Donald Trump. Sad! Also Read: Jeff Bridges Talks Trump: 'I'm Rooting for the President' Clinton’s Mac-driven win would’ve been the biggest landslide since George H.W. Bush demolished Michael Dukakis 426 to 111 back in 1988. Ah, but the country isn’t.
- 6/30/2017
- by Sean Burch
- The Wrap
2017-06-28T06:46:12-07:00Hugh Jackman to Play Presidential Candidate
Hugh Jackman will star as Sen. Gary Hart in Jason Reitman’s political drama “The Frontrunner.”
Hart was the frontrunner during the early stages of the 1988 race for the Democratic presidential nomination when his campaign was rocked by revelations of an extramarital affair with Donna Rice. The Colorado senator then dropped out of the race.
Matt Bai, Jay Carson, and Reitman wrote the screenplay, based on Bai’s book “All the Truth Is Out,” which chronicles Hart’s rise and dramatic fall. Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, who had been trailing Hart, won the Democratic nomination and then lost to Republican George H.W. Bush.
Read the rest of this article at Page Six.
Hugh Jackman has recently appeared in Logan.
Hugh Jackman will star as Sen. Gary Hart in Jason Reitman’s political drama “The Frontrunner.”
Hart was the frontrunner during the early stages of the 1988 race for the Democratic presidential nomination when his campaign was rocked by revelations of an extramarital affair with Donna Rice. The Colorado senator then dropped out of the race.
Matt Bai, Jay Carson, and Reitman wrote the screenplay, based on Bai’s book “All the Truth Is Out,” which chronicles Hart’s rise and dramatic fall. Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, who had been trailing Hart, won the Democratic nomination and then lost to Republican George H.W. Bush.
Read the rest of this article at Page Six.
Hugh Jackman has recently appeared in Logan.
- 6/28/2017
- by EG
- Yidio
Author: Zehra Phelan
Hugh Jackman is shaking off the shackles of his X-Men persona, Logan and re-immersing himself back into Hollywood in a political role as the frontrunner in the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination politician Gary Hart in The Frontrunner.
Jackman only this year hung up his Wolverine claws in what can be seen as Logan’s most emotional and greatest outing, now he will don the cap of a political leader who was rocked by shame when his extramarital affair with Diane Rice saw Hart having to concede his nomination.
Based on the 2014 book from political journalist Matt Bai, All the Truth is Out, the story focuses on Hart’s meteoric rise and dramatic fall as he sought the nation’s highest office. Massachusetts Gov. Mike Dukakis, who had been trailing Hart, wound up landing the Democratic nomination. He eventually lost to George Bush. But the Hart story proved to...
Hugh Jackman is shaking off the shackles of his X-Men persona, Logan and re-immersing himself back into Hollywood in a political role as the frontrunner in the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination politician Gary Hart in The Frontrunner.
Jackman only this year hung up his Wolverine claws in what can be seen as Logan’s most emotional and greatest outing, now he will don the cap of a political leader who was rocked by shame when his extramarital affair with Diane Rice saw Hart having to concede his nomination.
Based on the 2014 book from political journalist Matt Bai, All the Truth is Out, the story focuses on Hart’s meteoric rise and dramatic fall as he sought the nation’s highest office. Massachusetts Gov. Mike Dukakis, who had been trailing Hart, wound up landing the Democratic nomination. He eventually lost to George Bush. But the Hart story proved to...
- 6/28/2017
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Hugh Jackman is ready to trade in slashing bad guys for shaking hands and kissing babies (and possibly some other, more scandalous stuff), with Variety reporting that the Logan star has signed on for the title role in Jason Reitman’s new film The Frontrunner. Jackman will star as Senator Gary Hart, the 1988 Democratic candidate whose hopes for the presidency were destroyed when allegations arose that he was engaged in an extramarital affair. Although Hart attempted to weather the accusations, his credibility was damaged, leaving opponent Michael Dukakis to get crushed in the ’88 campaign against George H.W. Bush.
The Frontrunner marks a return to more political film-making for Reitman, who made a name for himself with 2005’s Thank You For Smoking. The Oscar-nominated director is currently finishing up work on his latest feature, Tully, with Charlize Theron and Juno writer Diablo Cody.
The Frontrunner marks a return to more political film-making for Reitman, who made a name for himself with 2005’s Thank You For Smoking. The Oscar-nominated director is currently finishing up work on his latest feature, Tully, with Charlize Theron and Juno writer Diablo Cody.
- 6/28/2017
- by William Hughes
- avclub.com
Richard Kelly’s rereleased tale of suburban angst, starring a tremendous Jake Gyllenhaal, is a captivating triumph
In 2001, 27-year-old writer-director Richard Kelly created a pop classic of American suburban paranoia in Donnie Darko, now on rerelease – a movie with something of Back to the Future, Twin Peaks, American Beauty and of course Harvey. This film made Tears for Fears hip (kind of) and had a tremendous discovery in the young Jake Gyllenhaal, playing Donnie, a high-school kid on medication for the symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia. When a jet engine falls out of the sky one day on Donnie’s house, an event that would have killed Donnie had he not been sleepwalking around the local golf course, it creates an anxiety spasm that ruptures his already fragile wellbeing and he hallucinates a huge, scarily voiced rabbit that tells him to commit acts of violence. I remember being a bit reserved...
In 2001, 27-year-old writer-director Richard Kelly created a pop classic of American suburban paranoia in Donnie Darko, now on rerelease – a movie with something of Back to the Future, Twin Peaks, American Beauty and of course Harvey. This film made Tears for Fears hip (kind of) and had a tremendous discovery in the young Jake Gyllenhaal, playing Donnie, a high-school kid on medication for the symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia. When a jet engine falls out of the sky one day on Donnie’s house, an event that would have killed Donnie had he not been sleepwalking around the local golf course, it creates an anxiety spasm that ruptures his already fragile wellbeing and he hallucinates a huge, scarily voiced rabbit that tells him to commit acts of violence. I remember being a bit reserved...
- 12/22/2016
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Nocturnal Animals Focus Features Reviewed by: Harvey Karten, Shockya Grade: B+ Director: Tom Ford Written by: Tom Ford, adapted from Austin Wright’s 1993 novel “Tony and Susan” Cast: Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Isla Fisher, Armie Hammer, Ellie Bamber, Laura Linney Screened at: Park Avenue, NYC, 11/1/16 Opens: November 18, 2016 During the 1988 presidential debate, when Michael Dukakis was asked by CNN’s Bernard Shaw how he would react if his wife Kitty were raped and murdered, Dukakis, a long-term enemy of the death penalty, said, “I think there are better ways of dealing with violence.” That may have cost him the election, given the mentality of [ Read More ]
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- 11/7/2016
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Whatever Mike Pence and Tim Kaine say to each other in tonight’s vice presidential debate, you can bet it won’t be as good as the legendarily sick burn that Lloyd Bentsen dropped on Dan Quayle in the VP debate on Oct. 5, 1988. Bentsen was the Democrat, aligned with the not-exactly fiery Michael Dukakis. Quayle was the Republican, supposed to inject some Kennedy-esque swagger into the Republican ticket toplined by George H.W. Bush. Quayle, it soon became clear, was painfully outclassed. We’ll just let you watch the video. If you’re over 40, you’ve seen it many, many times before,...
- 10/4/2016
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
Last week, CNN’s Brianna Keilar left Donald Trump advisor Michael Cohen looking helpless as she asserted that Trump is down in the polls — “all of them.” But in one poll, Trump wasn’t doing so badly. On the day of Keilar’s meme-ready moment, Aug. 17, the USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times Daybreak poll had Trump at 43.2 percent and Clinton at 44.2, even as other polls had him trailing. In the week since, Trump has led Clinton for three days — according to the poll. Also Read: Remember When Mike Dukakis Led George Bush by 17 Points? Conservative sites have pointed to the...
- 8/24/2016
- by Brian Flood
- The Wrap
The New York Times just kicked off its new campaign podcast “The Run-Up” with an episode called “The Landslide Odds,” which says Hillary Clinton’s advantage over Donald Trump is better than anyone’s since her husband, Bill Clinton, beat Bob Dole in 1996. But anyone thinking Hillary Clinton will cruise to a crushing win might want to look back eight more years, to 1988. About this time 28 years ago, Massachusetts Gov. Mike Dukakis had what appeared to be an insurmountable lead over then-Vice President George H. W. Bush. He came out of his Democratic National Convention at the end of July with a.
- 8/10/2016
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
Last year HitFix threw down a 21-question quiz for Oscar fanatics, and this year we're at it again. Join us for an ultimate Oscar test featuring three tiers of difficulty: hard, harder, and hardest. Get out a notepad! The answers are on the next page. (Please note that the term "actor" can mean a man or a woman, and that any listed year refers to the time of the movie's release, not the year of the ceremony.) Hard 1. What's the highest-grossing of this year's eight Best Picture nominees? 2. Jennifer Jason Leigh just received her first Oscar nomination for Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight. Only two performances in Quentin Tarantino's filmography have earned Academy Awards. Who performed those roles? 3. Which of this year's Best Picture nominees stars a character named Joy? 4. Who's the only person in history to win both an acting Oscar and a songwriting Oscar? 5. Name one...
- 2/24/2016
- by Louis Virtel
- Hitfix
PBS has ordered a multi-part documentary that spotlights “unforgettable” presidential and vice-presidential candidates whose dramatic campaigns may or may not have been successful, but earned a place in the history books nonetheless. Sarah Palin, Gary Hart, Michael Dukakis, Geraldine Ferraro, and Howard Dean are among those whose campaign stories will be covered in 16 for ’16. The profiles will be presented in 16 half-hour weekly episodes leading up to the presidential…...
- 1/18/2016
- Deadline TV
Simon Brew Jul 12, 2017
We rewatched the classic 1980s comedy, Top Secret! It took surgeons two weeks to wipe the smile off our face...
"Is this the potato farm?"
See related Fargo season 3 episode 1 review: The Law Of Vacant Places
"Yes, I am Albert Potato"
If you're laughing at the quote above, then it's fair to say that you're already a Top Secret! fan. But if you're wondering what that actually means, then chances are you've missed out on one of the very best comedies that the 1980s had to offer.
Now the classic comedy Airplane!, rightfully, has been the beneficiary of some hugely forensic work, just to try and keep on top of its many, many background jokes. In fact, one DVD edition had a special feature just to point out all the things you may have missed on your first, tenth or fiftieth time around. Turns out there were...
We rewatched the classic 1980s comedy, Top Secret! It took surgeons two weeks to wipe the smile off our face...
"Is this the potato farm?"
See related Fargo season 3 episode 1 review: The Law Of Vacant Places
"Yes, I am Albert Potato"
If you're laughing at the quote above, then it's fair to say that you're already a Top Secret! fan. But if you're wondering what that actually means, then chances are you've missed out on one of the very best comedies that the 1980s had to offer.
Now the classic comedy Airplane!, rightfully, has been the beneficiary of some hugely forensic work, just to try and keep on top of its many, many background jokes. In fact, one DVD edition had a special feature just to point out all the things you may have missed on your first, tenth or fiftieth time around. Turns out there were...
- 7/28/2015
- Den of Geek
We rewatched the classic 1980s comedy, Top Secret! It took surgeons two weeks to wipe the smile off our face...
"Is this the potato farm?"
"Yes, I am Albert Potato"
If you're laughing at the quote above, then it's fair to say that you're already a Top Secret! fan. But if you're wondering what that actually means, then chances are you've missed out on one of the very best comedies that the 1980s had to offer.
Now the classic comedy Airplane!, rightfully, has been the beneficiary of some hugely forensic work, just to try and keep on top of its many, many background jokes. In fact, one DVD edition had a special feature just to point out all the things you may have missed on your first, tenth or fiftieth time around. Turns out there were quite a few in my case.
The Naked Gun, made just under a decade later,...
"Is this the potato farm?"
"Yes, I am Albert Potato"
If you're laughing at the quote above, then it's fair to say that you're already a Top Secret! fan. But if you're wondering what that actually means, then chances are you've missed out on one of the very best comedies that the 1980s had to offer.
Now the classic comedy Airplane!, rightfully, has been the beneficiary of some hugely forensic work, just to try and keep on top of its many, many background jokes. In fact, one DVD edition had a special feature just to point out all the things you may have missed on your first, tenth or fiftieth time around. Turns out there were quite a few in my case.
The Naked Gun, made just under a decade later,...
- 7/28/2015
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
When the world lost comedy legend Robin Williams back in August, Billy Crystal lost his "dearest friend." During his Tonight Show appearance on Thursday, Crystal and host Jimmy Fallon paid tribute to the late comedic genius, swapping their favorite first-hand Williams stories.
In the above clip, Fallon commends Crystal for his brave, touching Emmy tribute to Williams. "It was really a hard thing," Crystal reflects, noting that the entire crowd was feeling "the same sadness, bewilderment, frustration and this overall 'What?!'
"It was only two weeks after. And to...
In the above clip, Fallon commends Crystal for his brave, touching Emmy tribute to Williams. "It was really a hard thing," Crystal reflects, noting that the entire crowd was feeling "the same sadness, bewilderment, frustration and this overall 'What?!'
"It was only two weeks after. And to...
- 9/19/2014
- Rollingstone.com
During his appearance on The Tonight Show last night, Billy Crystal emotionally told Fallon about eulogizing his friend Robin Williams at the Emmys. That prompted a sad—but, naturally, hilarious—remembrance of Williams from both Crystal and Fallon.
“Because of you I have one of my favorite Robin stories,” Fallon said. He recalled an all-star bus ride to Crystal’s Mark Twain Prize ceremony, wherein a bomb-sniffing dog prompted a Williams’ riff about his movie failures. Crystal meanwhile described his late night phone calls with Williams, saying, “When we finished, we were like two jazz musicians who just got new horns.
“Because of you I have one of my favorite Robin stories,” Fallon said. He recalled an all-star bus ride to Crystal’s Mark Twain Prize ceremony, wherein a bomb-sniffing dog prompted a Williams’ riff about his movie failures. Crystal meanwhile described his late night phone calls with Williams, saying, “When we finished, we were like two jazz musicians who just got new horns.
- 9/19/2014
- by Esther Zuckerman
- EW.com - PopWatch
Last year, I noticed an ad for Apple. I mean, you can’t not notice them, since they air every few minutes. This one was special, though, quoting someone quoting Walt Whitman. I wondered if it was made by the same agency that made the Patti Smith Levi’s commercial. And I wondered why the unseen narrator sounded so familiar.
It was Robin Williams, from The Dead Poets Society.
As I’m sure you know, Robin Williams died Monday. God, I’m going to miss him
Now is the time when I would like to tell you what good friends we were, but that would be a lie. Instead, I have only loved him since the first times I saw him do his stand-up on television shows. I was lucky enough to see him perform, twice.
The first time, back when John and I were publishing Comedy Magazine (and why...
It was Robin Williams, from The Dead Poets Society.
As I’m sure you know, Robin Williams died Monday. God, I’m going to miss him
Now is the time when I would like to tell you what good friends we were, but that would be a lie. Instead, I have only loved him since the first times I saw him do his stand-up on television shows. I was lucky enough to see him perform, twice.
The first time, back when John and I were publishing Comedy Magazine (and why...
- 8/15/2014
- by Martha Thomases
- Comicmix.com
It is not too shabby in what the Northeast (New England) part of the United States has produced in terms of past and present actors/actresses making their show business dreams come true. Film careers can be a lot like ice cubes–they start out solid and cool but if you sit around in stagnation your efforts and hard work can melt away before one’s very eyes. Certainly no one can accuse this talented crop of thespians of being one-hit wonders on the big screen. After all, one does not become a recipient of an Academy Award by just sheer luck and charitable fortune.
As a native Bostonian and life long New Englander, I felt compelled to spotlight those Massachusetts-born and bred actors from the same region that had ultimate success on the big screen in winning the Oscar for their acting achievement and contribution to the motion picture industry.
As a native Bostonian and life long New Englander, I felt compelled to spotlight those Massachusetts-born and bred actors from the same region that had ultimate success on the big screen in winning the Oscar for their acting achievement and contribution to the motion picture industry.
- 7/11/2014
- by Frank Ochieng
- SoundOnSight
All About Ann: Governor Richards of the Lone Star State
Directed by Keith Patterson and Phillip Schopper
USA, 2014
The unapologetically liberal All About Ann: Governor Richards of the Lone Star State profiles a species that’s harder to find in the real world today than fairies, unicorns, and vampires combined—the truly powerful Democratic politician in Texas. Even stranger than Richards’s ascent to her state’s governorship—and damn if it isn’t as strange as hell—is the fact that it wasn’t exactly ancient history.
Richards’s political career began in the early 1980s when she was elected State Treasurer and becomes the first female official elected to Texas state office in 50 years. Her goal: open the Treasurer’s office up to women and minorities. The result: lots and lots of money coming into the state of Texas.
A woman without fear and (perhaps more importantly) a natural comedienne,...
Directed by Keith Patterson and Phillip Schopper
USA, 2014
The unapologetically liberal All About Ann: Governor Richards of the Lone Star State profiles a species that’s harder to find in the real world today than fairies, unicorns, and vampires combined—the truly powerful Democratic politician in Texas. Even stranger than Richards’s ascent to her state’s governorship—and damn if it isn’t as strange as hell—is the fact that it wasn’t exactly ancient history.
Richards’s political career began in the early 1980s when she was elected State Treasurer and becomes the first female official elected to Texas state office in 50 years. Her goal: open the Treasurer’s office up to women and minorities. The result: lots and lots of money coming into the state of Texas.
A woman without fear and (perhaps more importantly) a natural comedienne,...
- 4/19/2014
- by John Gilpatrick
- SoundOnSight
Filmmaker Greg Whiteley was given total control over his documentary Mitt – which premiered this week at the Sundance Film Festival – so long as he promised not to release any footage until after the 2012 presidential election. That unfiltered access proved extraordinary: We see the former Massachusetts governor goofing around in the snow, tearfully praying with his family, chatting in SUVs and hotel rooms, prepping for debates and debriefing with aides. Mitt presents the political campaign as both home-movie and horserace and is almost entirely uninterested in policy. Whiteley's platform is practically nonexistent,...
- 1/21/2014
- Rollingstone.com
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There are several types of Hollywood scandals – the tragic, the unnecessary, the heart rending – and then there are the Schadenfreude ha ha he got caught with his pants down moments. The list below contains both types of scandals – endless fodder for conspiracy theorists and the sleaziest tabloids.
Unfortunately for every Hugh Grant caught with a hooker scandal, there are morbid tales of death and self destruction – River Phoenix, Heath Ledger, Brittany Murphy – are among the unfortunate talents who succumbed to the lure of the dark, seedy underbelly of fame.
I have listed 10 of the worst scandals that have ever shocked Hollywood. Please add your own below.
10. Rob Lowe
Robe Lowe is a talented actor whose popularity has spanned from being a member of the 1980s Brat Pack of actors (starring in films like St Elmo’s Fire and About Last Night…) right...
There are several types of Hollywood scandals – the tragic, the unnecessary, the heart rending – and then there are the Schadenfreude ha ha he got caught with his pants down moments. The list below contains both types of scandals – endless fodder for conspiracy theorists and the sleaziest tabloids.
Unfortunately for every Hugh Grant caught with a hooker scandal, there are morbid tales of death and self destruction – River Phoenix, Heath Ledger, Brittany Murphy – are among the unfortunate talents who succumbed to the lure of the dark, seedy underbelly of fame.
I have listed 10 of the worst scandals that have ever shocked Hollywood. Please add your own below.
10. Rob Lowe
Robe Lowe is a talented actor whose popularity has spanned from being a member of the 1980s Brat Pack of actors (starring in films like St Elmo’s Fire and About Last Night…) right...
- 12/11/2013
- by Clare Simpson
- Obsessed with Film
Under different circumstances, I might begin by complaining about how The Simpsons is putting a lot of time and effort into making some overly complex title sequences and not investing much time in doing if not original storytelling, at least comedic storytelling. However, it’s pleasure to say that this week, the show had all the bases covered. Episode writer Tim Long kept a pretty tight focus on the main story, a fairly smart and even-handed political satire that trumpets the grand quality of bi-partisanship.
During a rainy recess, Lisa ducks into the library and meets the new girl at Springfield Elementary, second grader Isabel Guiterrez (guest voice Eva Longoria). They bond over the Brontë sisters, and the fact that they’re both middle children who have to sit on the hump in the middle of the back seat, and later they decide to do a project about Fdr together...
During a rainy recess, Lisa ducks into the library and meets the new girl at Springfield Elementary, second grader Isabel Guiterrez (guest voice Eva Longoria). They bond over the Brontë sisters, and the fact that they’re both middle children who have to sit on the hump in the middle of the back seat, and later they decide to do a project about Fdr together...
- 11/25/2013
- by Adam A. Donaldson
- We Got This Covered
Cemetery Dance has announced a brand new anthology coming this December featuring original horror short stories by several of our favorite authors. Read on for the details.
All the info you need is below; visit Cemetery Dance's online store to order your copy.
From the Press Release:
We're pleased to announce a Top Secret surprise addition to our December publication slate, Turn Down the Lights edited by Richard Chizmar, and the trade hardcover edition is already rolling at the printer!
This brand new anthology features original horror stories by Stephen King, Norman Partridge, Jack Ketchum, Brian James Freeman, Bentley Little, Ed Gorman, Ronald Kelly, Steve Rasnic Tem, Clive Barker, and Peter Straub that capture the genuine love of the genre that pushes Cemetery Dance Publications forward year after year.
This exciting new anthology will be published in three states including a trade hardcover for general readers (shipping in December) and...
All the info you need is below; visit Cemetery Dance's online store to order your copy.
From the Press Release:
We're pleased to announce a Top Secret surprise addition to our December publication slate, Turn Down the Lights edited by Richard Chizmar, and the trade hardcover edition is already rolling at the printer!
This brand new anthology features original horror stories by Stephen King, Norman Partridge, Jack Ketchum, Brian James Freeman, Bentley Little, Ed Gorman, Ronald Kelly, Steve Rasnic Tem, Clive Barker, and Peter Straub that capture the genuine love of the genre that pushes Cemetery Dance Publications forward year after year.
This exciting new anthology will be published in three states including a trade hardcover for general readers (shipping in December) and...
- 11/13/2013
- by Debi Moore
- DreadCentral.com
To commemorate twenty-five years of Cemetery Dance magazine, they’ll be releasing a new book of short stories. Titled Turn Down the Lights, the book will feature new original stories from Clive Barker, Stephen King, Peter Straub, and more:
“It was December 1988: George Bush had just defeated Michael Dukakis in the Presidential Election. Pitcher Orel Hershiser and the Los Angeles Dodgers had beaten the Oakland A’s in five games to win the World Series. People were waiting in line at movie theaters to watch Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man. Tom Clancy’s The Cardinal of the Kremlin and Anne Rice’s The Queen of the Damnedwere atop the bestseller lists. The most acclaimed genre books of the year were Thomas Harris’s The Silence of the Lambs and Peter Straub’s Koko.
And twenty-two year old college student Richard Chizmar had just published the premiere...
“It was December 1988: George Bush had just defeated Michael Dukakis in the Presidential Election. Pitcher Orel Hershiser and the Los Angeles Dodgers had beaten the Oakland A’s in five games to win the World Series. People were waiting in line at movie theaters to watch Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man. Tom Clancy’s The Cardinal of the Kremlin and Anne Rice’s The Queen of the Damnedwere atop the bestseller lists. The most acclaimed genre books of the year were Thomas Harris’s The Silence of the Lambs and Peter Straub’s Koko.
And twenty-two year old college student Richard Chizmar had just published the premiere...
- 11/12/2013
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
This week, the clock on the Newsroom story we’ve known all season was going to blow up in the News Night team’s faces starts ticking down in earnest – and one key player is revealed as a liar who’s basically responsible for the whole debacle. Elsewhere, I fear there’s another misguided Jim hook-up on the horizon. (Ladies love the floppy hair, I guess?) Without further ado, let’s review the major developments that take place in “One Step Too Many.”
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- 8/19/2013
- by Kimberly Roots
- TVLine.com
The '80s was a decade where big hair, big parties and the brat pack ruled Hollywood. Tom Cruise hadn't even heard of scientology, Julia Roberts still wore her hair curly and Meryl Streep rode the New York City subway. Take us back, please?
Winona Ryder at the premiere of "Great Balls of Fire" in 1989.
Rob Lowe, Tom Cruise and Emilio Estevez at the premiere of "In The Custody of Strangers" in 1982.
Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks at their wedding in 1988.
Cyndi Lauper performing in St. Paul, Minn., in 1984.
New Kids on the Block in 1989.
Julia Roberts and her mother in July 1989.
Madonna at the 1985 Live Aid concert.
Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray in 1985.
Spike Lee and Flavor Flav in September 1988.
Corey Haim and Corey Feldman in 1989.
Molly Ringwald, Michael Anthony Hall, Ally Sheedy and Judd Nelson on Jan. 1, 1990.
Sarah Jessica Parker and Robert Downey, Jr. at a Michael Dukakis...
Winona Ryder at the premiere of "Great Balls of Fire" in 1989.
Rob Lowe, Tom Cruise and Emilio Estevez at the premiere of "In The Custody of Strangers" in 1982.
Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks at their wedding in 1988.
Cyndi Lauper performing in St. Paul, Minn., in 1984.
New Kids on the Block in 1989.
Julia Roberts and her mother in July 1989.
Madonna at the 1985 Live Aid concert.
Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray in 1985.
Spike Lee and Flavor Flav in September 1988.
Corey Haim and Corey Feldman in 1989.
Molly Ringwald, Michael Anthony Hall, Ally Sheedy and Judd Nelson on Jan. 1, 1990.
Sarah Jessica Parker and Robert Downey, Jr. at a Michael Dukakis...
- 8/16/2013
- by Jessica Goodman
- Huffington Post
There's unmarriageable and then there's unmarriageable: The Catherine Sloper of Henry James's Washington Square is an 1850s heiress of "plain, dull, gentle countenance" who "devoted her pocket money to the purchase of cream cakes" and is "decidedly not clever." The Catherine Sloper of Ruth and Augustus Goetz's 1947 play The Heiress (which is merely "suggested" by Washington Square) is a bright young thing buried under a bushel of insecurities, crippled by an awkward fashion sense and near-cataleptic social anxiety. (In William Wyler's film version, Olivia de Havilland was slapped with a pair of Mike Dukakis eyebrows to uglify her into premature spinsterhood.)Now comes The Help's Jessica Chastain, the latest slightly nontraditional beauty to play the ostensibly uncomely Catherine: She gets a frizzy wig and a stammer-y, standoffish way with strangers. Is this enough to make her convincingly unappealing in the withering gaze of her father (David Strathairn...
- 11/2/2012
- by Scott Brown
- Vulture
Six years after her death, filmmakers Jack Lofton and Keith Patterson team up to portray the most memorable woman in Texas politics in their directorial debut, Ann Richards' Texas. The documentary reminds me of a happier time when women's rights were championed by formidable progressive supporters in the Lone Star State. The movie screened at Aff after its world premiere at the 2012 AFI SilverDocs Festival, where it won the WGA Documentary Screenplay Award.
Former Texas Governor Richards was an outspoken woman who went from housewife and teacher to a politician who led the state in 1990. It was her keynote speech at the 1988 Democratic National Convention in support of presidential candidate Michael Dukakis that moved her into the spotlight and the Governor's Mansion -- a formidable accomplishment for a Democrat in a red state, not to mention for a woman who wasn't a "good old boy" millionaire like her Republican opponent,...
Former Texas Governor Richards was an outspoken woman who went from housewife and teacher to a politician who led the state in 1990. It was her keynote speech at the 1988 Democratic National Convention in support of presidential candidate Michael Dukakis that moved her into the spotlight and the Governor's Mansion -- a formidable accomplishment for a Democrat in a red state, not to mention for a woman who wasn't a "good old boy" millionaire like her Republican opponent,...
- 10/30/2012
- by Debbie Cerda
- Slackerwood
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