Sam Shepard

Sacrificing Baby Ducks for the Arts

Howard Sherman | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Arts, Baby Animals, TV News, Arts Journalism, Arts Advocacy, Arts News, Sam Shepard, Arts in the News, Culture News
Howard Sherman

News directors, please leave the animal stories and pictures to the Internet, which was apparently built specifically to disseminate such "aw"-inspiring material. And with the time you free up, maybe you can spare a minute for the arts now and then.

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Movie Review... The Unsafe Safe House

Carole Mallory | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Sam Shepard, South Africa, Nuns on the Run, Denzel Washington, Julian Assange, Brendan Gleeson, Cia, Ryan ReynoldsDavie Guggenheim, Capetown, Billy Budd, Daniel Espinoza, L Hope Crosy Road Films, Vern Farmiga, Dick Cheney, Entertainment News
Carole Mallory

Denzel Washington plays one badass sociopath, murderer, traitor and still manages to steal screen time from all of those around him and be charming to...

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Jessica Lange, Sam Shepard Separate

Posted 02.18.2012

Read More: Video, Jessica Lange Sam Shepard Separated, Jessica Lange Divorce, Jessica Lange, Jessica Lange Sam Shepard, Sam Shepard Married, Jessica Lange Separated, Sam Shepard, Celebrity News

They appeared to be in it for the long haul. Alas, Jessica Lange and Sam Shepard confirmed media speculation today that they have ended their rela...

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Sam Shepard On Playing Aging Butch Cassidy

Minneapolis Star Tribune | COLIN COVERT | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Western, Butch Cassidy, Mateo Gil, Blackthorn, Sam Shepard, Pulitzer Prize, Fifty News

Sam Shepard made a big entrance into the world of movie acting as the doomed romantic farmer in Terrence Malick's critically acclaimed "Days of Heaven...

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Interview: Mateo Gil discusses Blackthorn

Marshall Fine | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Bolivia, Sam Shepard, Spanish Cinema, Agora, Abre Los Ojos (Open Your Eyes), Blackthorn, Marshall Fine Interview, Sundance Kid, Marshall Fine, Butch Cassidy, Westerns, Pedro Almodovar, Mateo Gil Interview, Mateo Gil, The Sea Inside, Spain, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

To writer-director Mateo Gil, the western is the essence of the movies. Which is why his film Blackthorn is, in his words, "a very personal statement....

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Movie Review: Blackthorn

Marshall Fine | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Bolivia, Sam Shepard, Stephen Rea, Western, Eduardo Noriega, Padraic Delaney, George Roy Hill, Blackthorn, Pinkerton, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Dominique McElligott, Movies, Sundance Kid, Movie Reviews, Marshall Fine, Butch Cassidy, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Jimmy Stewart, Gabby Hayes, Mateo Gil, Blackthorn Movie Review, Nicolaj Coster-Waldau, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

The cowboy - rugged, stoic and resourceful - will always be a cinematic archetype, though the western has all but disappeared as a commercially popula...

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Sing It Loud: Chatting with k.d. lang, JD Souther and Bobby Long, Plus a Beginners Audio Exclusive

Mike Ragogna | Posted 07.24.2011

Read More: Jelly Roll Morton, Bonnie Raitt, Guster, Linda Ronstadt, The Eagles, Eric Roberts, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Fred Eltringham, Chris Walters, Joe, Georges Delarues, Laura Nyro, Dave Palmer, Mike Mills, Ornette Coleman, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Chuck Mitchell, Kruu-Fm, Tim Hardin, The White Stripes, Cole Porter, Roger Niell, Barry Mann, Leonard Cohen, Duke Ellington, Eye of the Beholder, Joni Mitchell, Frank Sinatra, American Idol, Roy Orbison, Glenn Frey, Elliott Smith, Mélanie Laurent, Judee Sill, Count Basie, Henry Mancini, Lex Price, k.d. Lang, Neil Young, Gilbert and Sullivan, Ewan MacGregor, The Kinks, Glen Campbell, Miles Davis, Daniel Clark, Rogers & Hammerstein, The Beatles, Jeff Coffin, John Coltrane, Longbranch Pennywhistle, Rob McGaha, Carly Simon, Gus Van Sant, Elton John, Don Henley, Christopher Plumber, Brian Reitzell, Bing Crosby, Quincy Jones, Tony Bennett, The Rolling Stones, Sam Shepard, Joe Pisapia, Carole King, Gershwin, Nona Hendryx, Harold Arlen, Viktor Krauss, Bob Dylan, Peggy Lee, Tom Waits, Liam Watson, Brian Sutton, Mark Ethridge, Meryl Streep, Waddy Wachtel, Randy Newman, Jackson Browne, Fats Waller, JD Souther, Gene Clark, The Band, Jimmy Webb, James Taylor, The Wallflowers, Josh Grange, Bruce Springsteen, Salmonberries, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

One of my favorite tracks on k.d. lang's new album is the opener, "I Confess," which sounds like Brill Building meets country, meets...okay, I'll shut up now, k.d. lang has the rest.

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International Slate Set For Tribeca Film Festival

AP | By JAKE COYLE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tribeca Film Festival 2011, Tribeca Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival Slate, Tribeca Film Festival Lineup, Tribeca Film, Sam Shepard, Tribeca, Robert De Niro, Arts News

NEW YORK -- The 10th annual Tribeca Film Festival boasts an international slate, with movies from 32 different countries. On Monday, Tribeca announ...

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Movie Review: Fair Game

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sam Shepard, Karl Rove, Polly Holliday, George W. Bush, Valerie Plame, Sean Penn, Joseph Wilson, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Doug Liman, Robert Novak, Dick Cheney, Niger, New York Times, Yellowcake, Naomi Watts, Judith Miller, Fair Game Movie Review, Scooter Libby, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

Doug Liman's Fair Game is both a compelling and an infuriating film, for a couple of reasons. For starters, it's true - and yet the victims of this s...

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Q&A: Inhale Director Baltasar Kormakur

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fool for Love, Sam Shepard, Inhale, True West, Iceland, Baltasar Kormakur Interview, Dermot Mulroney, Juarez, Reykjavik 101, Diane Kruger, Marshall Fine Interview, Bjork, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

At 44, actor-director Baltasar Kormakur may soon be Iceland's most famous export since Bjork. And now, with his first American film, Inhale, reaching theaters today, his profile could expand.

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HuffPost Review: Inhale

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dermot Mulroney, Sam Shepard, Inhale Movie Review, Diane Kruger, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Organ Tourism, Baltasar Kormakur, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

A movie that won't win any awards from the Mexican-American Border Tourism board, Inhale takes the idea of organ-transplant tourism and drops it squarely in the middle of a dramatic thriller. It's not a comfortable fit.

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Q&A: Alessandro Nivola talks about Who Do You Love

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sam Shepard, Darnell Martin, Howlin Wolf, A Lie of the Mind, Who Do You Love, Alessandro Nivola Interview, Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson, Willie Dixon, Leonard Chess, Blues, Jerry Zaks, Marshall Fine Interview, Cadillac Records, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

In Who Do You Love, directed by Jerry Zaks and opening in limited release Friday, actor Alessandro Nivola plays record mogul Leonard Chess. Nivola took time recently to chat about the film.

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What HuffPost Readers Are Reading (PHOTOS, POLL)

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepoll, Sam Shepard, Joe Sacco, Reading, Christopher Moore, Books, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, HuffPost Readers, Books News

Early this month, we posted a slideshow of books that we had overseen people reading in public. What we found from the huge number of comments on the ...

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Ethan Hawke Survives a Vampire Film to Direct a Sam Shepard Revival

Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sam Shepard, Vampire, Revival, Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Oscar Nominee, Marin Ireland, Keith Carradine, Josh Hamilton, Frank Whaley, Acorn Theater, Laurie Metcalf, New York News
Brad Balfour

What would Ethan Hawke do differently if he could live life without fear of death? "I would smoke all the time and I would ride a motorcycle everywhere."

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Book Review Roundup

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sam Shepard, Book Reviews, From Eternity to Here, Louis Howe, New Books, Nothing to Envy, Mark Halperin, Book Review, Truth Peter Temple, Books, The Girl With Glass Feet, John Heilemann, Game Change, Fun With Problems, Warren Beatty Book, North Korea, Books News

From the political to the philosophical, here are some of the reviews you may have missed this weekend: "Game Change" John Heilemann and Mark Halperi...

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HuffPost Reviews: Twilight's New Moon, Kerouac's Big Sur, Cohen's Isle Of Wight, and more including This Week's New Albums

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Jackson, Jason Mraz, The Jacksons, Son Volt, Lawrence Ferenghetti, Joan Baez, Miles Davis, Flight of the Conchords, John Mayer, Jay Farrar, Judy Collins, The Killers, Woodstock, Thom Yorke, David Bowie, The Jackson 5, Curt Worden, Sam Shepard, Jack Kerouac, Twilight, Kris Kristofferson, Big Sur, Patti Smith, The Twilight Sage: New Moon, Radiohead, Tom Waits, Benjamin Gibbard, The Doors, Kings of Convenience, Leonard Cohen, Death Cab for Cutie, Robert Francis, Murray Lerner, The Band, Bruce Springsteen, New Moon, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

Leading off with Death Cab For Cutie's infectious "Meet Me On The Equinox," New Moonmay be after your traditional teen market's pop dollars, but they're also attempting to tap into 20-something angst.

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Jim Sheridan Touts Brothers At The Monkey Bar

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Natalie Portman, Sam Shepard, Tobey Maguire, Susanne Bier, Brothers Movie, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jim Sheridan, Entertainment News
Regina Weinreich

The war in Afghanistan may be an American subject, but through Irish director Jim Sheridan's lens, it is about families. His film Brothers brings the war home, to an undercurrent of emotion more threatening than any battle on the ground.

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Full Metal Racket: Consider This Ed Harris' Just Say No-No

Michael Bialas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Glenn, Sam Shepard, Ed Harris, Jackson Pollock, Amy Madigan, Stanley Kubrick, Mayor John Hickenlooper, Jennifer Connelly, Denver Film Festival, R. Lee Ermey, Peter Weir, Agnieszka Holland, Denver, Movies, Denver News
Michael Bialas

During an impressive career in which he's played the good (The Right Stuff), the bad (Pollock) and the hideously ugly (A History of Violence), Ed Harris has no regrets.

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Q & A: Actor Gary Sinise Helps "Brothers At War" And Grapples With The Iraq War's Effect on A Family

Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Forrest Gump, Sam Shepard, CSI NY, Presidential Citizens Medal, Detective Mac Taylor, Films, Directing, Feature, Plays, Music, Producing, Redacted, Acting, Hit TV Series, Executive Producer, Oscar Nominee, Brian DePalma, Gary Sinise, Documentary, Emmys, Jake Rademacher, Brothers at War, Buried Child, Tony, Entertainment News
Brad Balfour

Sinise: "It's a look at military families and military life, the Iraq war and the integrity of the people that I know that are serving that; I responded to positively and wanted to support that."

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Sam Shepard Pleads Guilty To DUI In Illinois

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sam Shepard Guilty Plea, Sam Shepard Drunk Driving, Sam Shepard Dui Guilty, Sam Shepard Dui, Sam Shepard, Chicago News

BLOOMINGTON, ILL. — Actor-playwright Sam Shepard has pleaded guilty to speeding and drunken driving charges in central Illinois. Shepard apolog...

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Sam Shepard DUI Arrest

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sam Shepard, Sam Shepard Dui, Sam Shepard Drunk Driving, Sam Shepard Arrested, Entertainment News

NORMAL, ILL. — Police in Illinois say actor and playwright Sam Shepard has been arrested on preliminary charges of speeding and drunken driving....

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