Elliott Gould was the anti-movie star and therefore the perfect movie star for the anti-decade of the 1970s. The Brooklyn Academy of Music is celebrating Mr. Gould’s otherness in ELLIOTT GOULD: STAR FOR AN UPTIGHT AGE , a three-week 10-film series beginning on Friday.
ANCHORAGE -- Skip Hurst grew up on hip-hop, on beats and rhymes and flowing hooks, on lyrical confessions from the street about girls and guns and getting high.
Bill Cosby. Alex Rodriguez. Brad Pitt. Michael Jordan. President Clinton. Jackie Joyner-Kersee. Martin Sheen. Derek Jeter. Neil Diamond. And, Denzel Washington.. What do all of these people, and millions more throughout America, have in common? They are all alumni of Boys & Girls Clubs of America.
MOSCOW †For decades, Komsomolskaya Pravda served up article after leaden article about Soviet officials meeting with other Soviet officials. Now, reinvented as a tabloid, the newspaper has a rowdier agenda †and a huge audience.
MANILA, Philippines – Also known as the Pied Piper of Manila, Carlos Celdran is often seen leading a pack of enthusiastic tourists through the narrow streets of historic Intramuros and Binondo, regaling his guests with history laced with droll humor that nonetheless reveals the seamier side of the city.
From Euripides to Kafka to Mamet, we've championed writers who reach into the guts of human existence and throw up the digestive muck for our entertainment and enlightenment. Only the modern equivalents do it just for sport. And to make you feel bad about the human race. Rating: ***
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