Archive for January, 2009
Jim Barry
Much has been made about the mortgage crisis nationwide. When you are looking for someone to help you with your mortgage, you want someone you can trust. Someone who knows what it is like to live, work and play on Long Island.
“Idol” Speculation on the Job Interview
The new American Idol season launched a week ago and I’m back watching the tube. One friend argues that it doesn’t get interesting until they decide on the 12 finalists, but for me, the auditions are fascinating.
Inkheart
Hollywood making a movie about the magic to be found in reading books is a little like General Motors singing the praises of riding a bike. So the biggest challenge for Iain Softley’s storybook fantasy Inkheart is to not have the lavish visuals drown out the wonder of words on the page.
The Lodger
Though Jack the Ripper left horrifically mutilated female bodies scattered across London’s teeming slums way over a century ago, the enduring fascination and folkloric status of his dastardly deeds says as much about the most famous serial killer in history as it does about a public still obsessing over him.
Notorious | Paul Blart: Mall Cop | The Unborn
If white filmmakers have been historically culpable of perpetrating tasteless black caricatures on screen, emerging black bourgeois filmmakers today don’t seem to have much more of a clue.
American Life
I just noticed something: Last week, I wrote an 800-word column about the new Kelly Clarkson single, and not once did I mention the name American Idol.
