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Appreciation – Sidney Lumet
“There’s no such thing as a small part, just small actors.” – Sidney Lumet Being out of town delayed this post by a few days, but when you’ve contributed to American cinema what Sidney Lumet did, an...
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‘A Most Violent Year’
You know, we’ve been in ‘anti-hero’ mode for so long, it was really nice to see an old-fashioned New York pic like ‘A Most Violent Year’ show up. The National Board of Review’s Best Film of 2014...
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Song of the Day –‘The Godfather Theme’
My theme for my ‘sermon’ this week was pettiness. The results will become visible in due time, but things are going my way right now. Power corrupts all of us (let’s get that out of the way), but...
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Legends
Maybe my most memorable L.A. birthday was at Kate Mandellini’s. Probably would have been the regular spot if it still existed. Anyway, pretty much everyone I know was pissed we didn’t get to be in...
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‘The Irishman’
Got to see this on the big screen last night. If this is presumably the last time we see these four (Marty, Pacino, DeNiro and Pesci) go into this genre that they didn’t invent but essentially...
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