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Reading Christianity in the Age of Glenn Beck

Suzanne Morrison | Posted 10.17.2011

Read More: Yoga, Claire Dederer, Yoga Bitch, Stieg Larsson, Liberals, Ann Coulter, Washington DC, Karen Armstrong, Religion, Garry Wills, Christopher Isherwood, Conservatives, c.s. Lewis, Memoir, Christianity, Religious Conversion, Supreme Court Westboro Baptist Church, Glenn Beck, Reading, Spirituality, G. Willow Wilson, Books News
Suzanne Morrison

When it comes to buying Christian works, and I don't mean just liberal-approved Christian books like Lit, I often buy them online. Why? Well, because I'm embarrassed.

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Literary Love Letters To Los Angeles

Posted 09.07.2011

Read More: James Ellroy, Joan Didion, Steve Erickson, Christopher Isherwood, Charles Bukowski, The Big Sleep, Literary Love Letters, Bret Easton Ellis, Zerovlle, Los Angeles, Raymond Chandler, Books News

From Flavorwire: A while back we did a post on literary love letters to NYC, but we knew at some point we should honor the entertainment capital of...

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Coming Of Age Under The Third Reich: Films On The Loss Of Innocence

George Heymont | Posted 08.14.2011

Read More: Christopher and His Kind, Film, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Christopher Isherwood, Tom of Finland, Jan Terlouw, Anti-Semitism, Alexander Freydank, Hine Ma Tov, Winter in Wartime, Hitler, Nazi, Geoffrey Sax, Matt Smith, Imogen Poots, Oorlogswinter, Jews, Coming-of-Age, Arts News
George Heymont

Every hour of every day someone, somewhere, suffers a life-changing loss of innocence. Whether it occurs while watching the news or at gunpoint, wheth...

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A Portrait of the Artist as an Artist's Model: My Sessions With Don Bachardy

Lisa Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arts, Contemporary Artist, Celebrity Portraits, Christopher Isherwood, Art World, A Single Man, Don Bachardy, Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Art, Painting, Contemporary Painting, Los Angeles, Portraits, Arts News
Lisa Adams

Out of the blue I was contacted by the model booking agent for Don Bachardy, to sit for none other than the venerable portrait master himself--a man w...

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DVDs: Life on Mars, A Single Man and The Crazies

Michael Giltz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tom Ford, Buster Keaton, John Cusack, Dvds, Movies, Life on Mars, TV Shows, The Crazies, Oprah Winfrey, Logan Lerman, Christopher Isherwood, Nicholas Hoult, Charlie Chaplin, Timothy Olyphant, Percy Jackson, David Attenborough, Emmy Nominations, Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

If for some reason you haven't watched the acclaimed UK original Life On Mars, it's all gathered together in one neat package with audio commentary, behind the scenes documentaries and more.

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Homo-Harlem: Learning How to be Gay from Movies

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harlem, James Baldwin, Alain-Leroy-Locke, Carol Brice, Kenneth Mcpherson, Homo Harlem Film Series, The Motion of Light in Water, State Senator Bill Perkins, Henry Van Dyke, Wesley Tann, Nora Holt, Earle Hyman, Jimmy Daniels, Museum of the City of New York, Richard Bruce Nugent, Bricktop, Willard Winter, Gerrie Major, George Platt Lynes, Cecil Beaton, Walter Nicks, Langston Hughes, Marvin and Morgan Smith, Samuel R. Delany, Oaks Bluff, Paul Meers, David Willson, Althea Gibson, Edward Perry, Adelaide Hall, Countee Cullen, Inter State Tattler, Philip Johnson, Dr. Godfrey Nurse, Duncan Grant, Billy Dee Williams, Nella Larsen, Times Square, Tallulah Bankhead, Sex in the City, Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, Dorothy West, Johnathan Brice, J. Fredrick Lohman, Elsa Maxwell, Billy Strayhorn, Wallace Thurman, Charles Leslie, Truman Capote, Tom of Findland, Archie Savage, Marlon Brando, New York Amsterdam News, Carl Van Vechten, Maysles Cinema, Arthur Mitchell, Alvin Ailey, Martha's Vineyard, Jimmy Donahue, Clifton-Webb, Agustus Granville Dill, Monty Wooley, Cole Porter, Cary Grant, Joey Coleman, William Waefieldgeorge Platt Lynes, John Leapheart, Christopher Isherwood, Impact News
Michael Henry Adams

Yesterday, I saw the season's gay hit move of the summer, Sex in the City II, which has received such bad reviews, but my friends and I quite enjoyed ...

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The Scottsboro Boys: New Kander-Ebb Musical, Old Kander-Ebb Formula

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Skin of Our Teeth, Samuel Liebowitz, Brandon Victor Dixon, Jason Robert Brown, Chicago, Kurt Weill, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Sharon Washington, The Visit, Manuel Puig, Friedrich Durrenmatt, Leo Frank, Jerome Kern, Hal Prince, Parade, Musical Comedy, John Cullum, Cabaret, Oscar Hammerstein II, Stephen Foster, Thornton Wilder, Susan Stroman, Fred Ebb, Berlin Stories, Edna Ferber, David Thompson, Show Boat, John Kander, The Scottsboro Boys, Bertolt Brecht, Vineyard Theatre, Christopher Isherwood, Colman Domingo, Forrest McClendon, New York News
David Finkle

Time was, audiences went to musicals--more often called musical comedies then--to see famous entertainers sing great songs written by first-rate lyric...

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A Single Man: The Cinema of Beautiful Death

Dan Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Academy Awards, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Tom Ford, Academy Awards, Academy Award Nominees, Julianne Moore, Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man, Colin Firth, Film, A Single Man Review, Entertainment News, Gay, Entertainment News
Dan Siegel

Too bad A Single Man was overlooked as an Oscar best picture contender. This movie deserves your viewing for Firth's magnificent performance in a wrenching yet life affirming story of love and loss.

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Nicholas Hoult of A Single Man: About a Boy Who's Become a Man -- With Oscar Prospects!

Michael Russnow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tom Ford, Award Season, Academy Awards, Skins, Russnow, David Scearce, Twitter, About a Boy, The Oscars, Facebook, Nicholas Hoult, Christopher Isherwood, Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, Hugh Grant, Michael Russnow, A Single Man, Youtube, Matthew Goode, Leonardo Dicaprio, Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Entertainment News
Michael Russnow

For most of us in America it's startling not only to see the physical change to manhood in Nicholas Hoult, but to remark how intriguing and comparable his roles are in About A Boy and A Single Man.

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The Beautiful and the Buzzed

Erica Abeel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: "A Simple Man, Early 60's, " More Buzz at TIFF, Tom Ford, "Mad Men, Christopher Isherwood, " Julianne Moore, The Weinsteins, Colin Firth, Capitalism: A Love Story, Entertainment News
Erica Abeel

A Single Man, from Gucci-designer-turned-director Tom Ford, gets it spectacularly right.

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Toronto Film Fest Day 6: Mild Disappointment, Happy Success and a Hero

Michael Giltz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Toronto Film Festival, Tom Ford, Todd Solondz, Christopher Isherwood, Colin Firth, Movies, Julianne Moore, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

The strength of designer Tom Ford's film, A Single Man, is not some flashy or gorgeous visual style but the acting. Ford brought out an award-winning performance from Colin Firth.

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