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Theatre Is Easy: Broadway 2010-’11 Preview

Molly Marinik July 10, 2010 2

This past Broadway season felt off. The plays were quite good but the musicals were pretty disappointing, and the Tony Awards ceremony, which culminates the year and celebrates the successes, felt artificial and forced.

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Farkakte Film Flashback: It’s Not Personal, It’s Just Business Edition

Pete Chianca October 2, 2009 4

Michael Moore’s latest, Capitalism: A Love Story, opens around the country today, and if the early reviews are any indication, it’s yet another cleverly executed and scathing reminder of how we’re all … wait,

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DVD Review: David Mamet’s “Homicide”

Bob Cashill September 28, 2009 2

Writer/director David Mamet and co-star William H. Macy have a good time reminiscing on the commentary track that accompanies the Criterion Collection edition of Homicide (1991). This “cop movie that didn’t want to be

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Popdose Flashback: Madonna, “Like a Prayer”

Jon Cummings May 25, 2009 12

Love her or hate her, Madonna defined popular music – screw that, she defined popular culture – like no one else during the 1980s. Her 16 straight Top-5 singles (from “Lucky Star” to “Cherish”)

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Political Culture: “November” Spawns a Monster

Jon Cummings January 17, 2008 6

“Why do they hate me?” wails Nathan Lane as the fictional (but not too fictional) President Charles H.P. Smith, early in David Mamet’s new political comedy November. The reply comes without hesitation from Dylan

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