Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Tonight’s complimentary pre-release screening of Zodiac was nothing short of cinematic greatness. Let me tell ya, nothing happens in this 160 minute movie … but it doesn’t matter because of the outstanding performances you get. Here, A-listers Jake Gyllenhaal and Robert Downey, Jr., up-and-coming A-lister Mark Ruffalo, TV favorites Anthony Edwards and Donal Logue, [...]
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Greater than my love of reading, is my love of affordable reading. As coincidence would have it, all of my Winter 2007 reading came to me very affordably.
Falconer, John Cheever, pub. 1992
In 1993 I attended a Sherman Alexie book lecture, Q&A and signing in support of his Ten Little Indians. During [...]
Monday, February 26, 2007
For Valentine’s Day I received a Nikon D40 SLR with 18-55mm lens. On the 19th I started a new job as Marketing Director with Jean Madeline. On the 20th I attended a PFS sponsored screening of The Namesake, followed by a Q&A with director Mira Nair. On the 24th I attended a Independent Spirit Award’s [...]
Sunday, February 11, 2007
I’m limiting this to three movies only because I want to make sure that if you’ve never seen these movies, you’ll rent them, or at least ask to borrow them from my DVD library:
Beautiful Girls, dir. Ted Demme (1996) – Few people recognize this as a Valentine film. However, pay close attention to the scene [...]
“I’m the father of Anna Nicole’s baby.”
1. Larry Birkhead
2. Howard K. Smith
3. Prince Frederick von Anhalt (husband to Zsa Zsa Gabor)
4. Anyone’s guess
For a limited time only you can own your very own “I’m the father of Anna Nicole’s baby.” t-shirt. Original design by Incredible Meat Deals, Inc. Special promotion price of $25.99 in S, [...]
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
No sooner do I make a big to-do about the film “Zoo” (click here for previous posting) then do I find this very beautiful portrait of Harry Potter himself, Daniel Radcliffe. My first thought on seeing this image was, “Are these “Zoo” outtakes? Maybe audition tapes?” But no, according to the accompanying article Radcliffe is [...]
Saturday, February 3, 2007
The Feb. 2-8, 2007 issue of Philadelphia Gay News reported on the January 24th murder of Pennsylvania gay porn producer Bryan Kocis who owned Cobra Video, a Web-based pornography company specializing in twink films. Above is a picture of Kocis and the video cover of a popular-selling Cobra Video release, Take it Like a Bitch [...]
What this effectively translates into for those of you not from Philly is, University of Pennsylvania’s WXPN’s Free at Noon concert series, today hosted, in partnership with World Cafe Live and Comcast, Atlantic Records’ recording artist Paolo Nutini.
Not even that much branding could keep me away from this show. I thought this guy seemed promising [...]