Charles Chaplin

Universal Soldiers: Conversations With Donovan and Tommy Roe

Mike Ragogna | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Roy Orbison, Joseph Campbell, Supergirl, John McLaughin, Donovan, Black Sabbath, Classics IV, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Dennis Yost, The Beatles, Alan Parker, David Lynch, Rick Levy, Ione Skye, The McCoys, Paul Horn, Burt Berns, Geezer, Paul McCartney, Jeff Beck, Donovan Leitch, Tommy Roe, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Marvel Comics, Dick Clark, Chris Spedding, Cher, Larry Klein, Ringo Starr, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Jim James, Joni Mitchell, Superman, Mickey Most, Charles Chaplin, Snow White, Jimmy Page, Epiphone, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

"The Beatles and I went to India for ourselves at first because fame had become extraordinarily overwhelming. We turned to ourselves in a way by going to the ashram, learning about ourselves, de-stressing our incredible nervous systems that had been shocked by enormous fame."

Read Post

Tribeca 2011: French Film My Piece of The Pie Hits Back at Wall Street

Linda Hassler | Posted 07.03.2011

Read More: Goldman Sachs, My Piece of the Pie, Inside Job, Charles Ferguson, Social Network, Cedric Klapisch, Charles Chaplin, Moliére, New York News
Linda Hassler

The Wall Street flimflam boys who made mad gambles to enrich themselves, knowing losses would be government-backed, are still at large. We now have at least a fictional comeuppance for these thieves.

Read Post

Great Artists Can Be Cads, But Can They Not Be?

Stanton Peele | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Laurence Olivier, Yul Brynner, The Brothers Karamazov, Look Back in Anger, Oona O'Neil, Richard Burton, Limelight, Claire Bloom, Rod Steiger, Philip Roth, Leaving a Doll's House, Relationships, Charles Chaplin, Healthy Living News
Stanton Peele

In her memoir, Claire Bloom describes Philip Roth as an extremely self-centered, often abusive man to whom she devoted herself for almost two decades.

Read Post

Kingjongilia: North Korea's Undeniable Hell

Tom Gregory | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Holocaust, IFC Center, Documentary, Wwii, Adolf Hitler, OJ Simpson, Kim Jong Il, Charles Chaplin, N.C. Heikin, North Korea, Docuweek, Kimjongilia, Entertainment News
Tom Gregory

Kimjongilia, the new documentary directed by N.C. Heikin, is enough proof-on-film to convict North Korea's leader Kim Jong Il of mass murder, terrorism, and sadistic insanity.

Read Post

Best Movies By Farr: When Oscar Screws Up

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Edward G. Robinson, The English Patient, The Exorcist, Tom Hanks, History of the Academy Awards, Julie Andrews, Milk, Fred MacMurray, John Wayne, The Wrestler Stanley Kubrick, As Good as It Gets, Capote, The Great Ziegfeld, Traffic, L.A. Confidential, Driving Miss Daisy, Dr. Strangelove, Fargo, High Noon, Million Dollar Baby, Joan Allen, My Left Foot, Around the World in Eighty Days, Slumdog Millionaire, The Academy Awards, The Sting, Rocky Balboa, Letters From Iwo Jima, Double Indemnity, Shirley MacLaine, Rex Harrison, Little Miss Sunshine, Ed Harris, Life Is Beautiful, Peter Finch, Shakespeare in Love, Charles Chaplin, James Dean, Giant, Crash, My Man Godfrey, Barbara Stanwyck, The Contender, Network, Imelda Staunton, Academy Awards, Titanic, Louis B. Mayer; Daryl Zanuck; Samuel L Goldwyn, Hotel Rwanda, The Apartment, The Departed, Peter Sellers, Pulp Fiction, Burt Lancaster, Gladiator, Vera Drake, Sean Penn, Modern Times, Elizabeth Taylor, Chicago, Field of Dreams, Billy Wilder, Pollock, Al Jolson, Forrest Gump, William Powell, John Travolta, Carole Lombard, Singin' in the Rain, Taxi Driver, Cecil B. DeMille, My Fair Lady, Jack Lemmon, The Searchers, The Hours, Robert De Niro, Entertainment News
John Farr

2005 -- for Best Picture, give me Capote over Crash any ol' time. Another uninspiring year, I thought.

Read Post