iPhone app iPad app Android phone app Android tablet app

Irving Thalberg

The More They Rehearse, the Better They Fall

George Heymont | Posted 10.08.2012 | Arts
Read More: Douglas Fairbanks, Film, Lorenzo Pisoni, San Francisco Silent Film Festival, American Conservatory Theater, Bebe Neuwirth, Annie Hughes, Buster Keaton, Leonard Bernstein, The Cameraman, Stephen Sondheim, Irving Thalberg, Humor Abuse, Harold Lloyd, Pickle Family Circus, Victor Borge, Charlie Chaplin, Terrence McNally, Ken Ruta, Wrong Note Rag, Video, Arts News
George Heymont

Most creative talents have a professional bag of tricks they like to employ in the course of creating art. From alliteration to asymmetry, from pointilism to pizzicato, these gimmicks help startle an audience and add to an artist's personal style.

Read Whole Story

Hello, The Marx Brothers Must Be Coming

Michael Sigman | Posted 06.20.2011 | Comedy
Read More: Gummo Marx, Bill Marx, President Obama, Norman Cousins, Groucho Marx, Saturday Review, Bob Hilliard, Barbara Ehrenreich, Chico Marx, Carl Sigman, The Marx Brothers, Jesus, Harpo Marx, Howie Richmond, Zeppo Marx, Mrs. Rittenhouse, Irving Thalberg, CGH Society, Audley Upton, Comedy News
Michael Sigman

My passion for the absurd may derive from early childhood exposure to my mom's twisted song parodies. My fave was "I've Got the World on a String," in...

Read Whole Story

Honorary Academy Awards: Memo to Tom Sherak, the Separate Ceremony Is a Travesty!

Michael Russnow | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Glenn Close, Kirk Douglas, Academy Awards, Peter O'Toole, Ernest Lehman, The Emmy Awards, Deborah Kerr, The Oscars, Cbs, Irving Thalberg, Hollywood and Highland, Jean-Luc Godard, Myrna Loy, Creative Arts Ceremony, Steven Spielberg, Jeopardy, Ram Productions, Eli Wallach, Philadelphia, Abc, Award Season, Roger Corman, Nbc, Twitter, Facebook, Tom Sherak, John Hughes, Schindler's List, Tom Hanks, Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Russnow, Youtube, Oscars 2010, Lauren Bacall, Kevin Brownlow, Entertainment News
Michael Russnow

The Motion Picture Academy does an injustice, not only to the recipients but to their fans, by continuing its new policy of presenting honorary Oscars at a special function in November instead of the ceremony next February.

Read Whole Story

Recalling "The Lubitsch Touch"

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Tom Hanks, Carole Lombard, James Stewart, Billy Wilder, Greta Garbo, Best Movies on DVD, Ernst Lubitsch, Best Movies by Farr, Meg Ryan, Irving Thalberg, Jack Benny, Entertainment News
John Farr

If you have not experienced the German director Ernst Lubitsch's special "touch," well -- here's your chance.

Read Whole Story