Do you believe in karma? Why did Shep Gordon beg John Lennon to have his picture taken with Anne Murray? Who created the celebrity chef? What really happened the night Alice Cooper didn't bite the head off of a chicken? And can *anyone* just drop in at Shep's home in Maui? Ken and Todd discuss Mike Myers's endearing (perhaps too endearing) portrait of the king of all the talent managers.
In a week where the dominant news story has been about leaked nude photos of celebrities, some of them apparently underage, it actually feels a little counter-cultural to watch a show that acknowledges sex has the power to scar us as well as titillate us.
The Toronto International Film Festival starts later this week. Here are five films we're looking forward to reviewing....
The words "violent" or "gritty" and "prison drama" give me pause when used in the same sentence.
If I could ask one question of series creator and writer Michelle Ashford it would be whether or not Masters of Sex has a specific end in mind.
I wouldn't begrudge anyone who thinks the films Snowpiercer and The Giver have as much in common as an elephant and a plum, but I have been thinking about the two in conjunction recently.
For all of the rightful emphasis placed on the way contemporary society pressures and damages young women by placing ridiculous and unhealthy expectations on them, we may be even more uncomfortable looking at how cultural stereotypes can hurt boys trying to become men.
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In Maier's work, that argument increasingly comes across as the way Masters sold the study to the public and made his work sound more respectable and altruistic than it perhaps always was. The show is starting to echo that. For all its heavy-handedness, I continue to appreciate that it doesn't idealize or rationalize the adultery.
Dream Deceivers stops short of insisting on an explicit connection between Mrs. Vance's religion and her willingness to blame heavy metal music for her family's dysfunction. But only just.
