"Clifford The Big Red Dog" is celebrating a BIG birthday and Scholastic is throwing him the BIGGEST birthday EVER! "Clifford The Big Red Dog" has been entertaining children, parents, and teachers for 50 years with his BIG adventures, using humor to teach important social-emotional and essential literacy skills. Now YOU can be a part of [...]
Ben Affleck has done it behind the camera again-- directed a first rate thriller! It's sleeker, sharper, and surer than his previous directorial work-- and it's already being touted as a possible Best Picture nominee: ARGO. It's a movie about making a movie, a story within a story, and as such is a great cinematic [...]
CHECK THIS OUT!! Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, and Scarlett Johansson in that shower scene from PSYCHO! Here's a preview of the movie about auteur Alfred Hitchcock! The film opens 11/23!
Christie Brinkley, Jack Kerouac, Andrew Jackson, and a beloved "war horse"-- all trod the boards this Fall! Here's what I'm looking forward to: WAR HORSE* I saw âthe horseâ in preview and I still canât believe that three men, some sticks, and a bunch of metal and fabric brought the animal to life before my [...]
The silly season is over. Now itâs time for some serious funâand that means FALL MOVIES with Oscar in mind. Here's what I can't wait to see! (Check out the link to my article on Page 68 of EXHALE Magazine!) ARGO is directed by and stars Boston's own Ben Affleck! (I recently chatted [...]
Tom Brady take notice-- and all those aspiring to play his game. Getting hit in the head repeatedly can kill you--it's a no-brainer, that is, it can literally destroy your brain. From Oscar-nominated HOOP DREAMS director Steve James and Harvard defensive tackle Chris Nowinski who wrote the book, comes a shocking, powerful, and bluntly effective [...]
It's one of my all time favorite musicals: the monumental and deeply American tale based on E.L. Doctorow's novel RAGTIME! Producing director Meg Fofonoff's Fiddlehead Theatre Company--in collaboration with the American Civil Liberties Union-- mounted this Tony-Award-winning musical as the season opener at the newly refurbished Strand Theatre in Dorchester. Ragtime's themes of social justice [...]
Here's a FIRST LOOK at Universal Pictures epic LES MISĂRABLES. The motion-picture adaptation of the beloved global stage sensation Les MisĂ©rables hits theaters on Christmas Day! Helmed by The Kingâs Speechâs Academy AwardÂź-winning director, Tom Hooper, the film features an all-star cast that includes Hugh Jackman, OscarÂź winner Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie [...]
The SpeakEasy Stage Company is off to a roaring start! Obscene? Most definitely. Three legged kittens, mothers, the deity herself --no one escapes unscathed. There's even mention of oral sex at Appleby's. But I was moved, and glued--first scene to last-- to this "street smart comedy" about deeply flawed people and their bruising [...]
I'm raffling myself off at the Arsenal Center for the Arts!! You could be the lucky winner that joins me at a Broadway Across America show in Boston! We'll share a champagne toast at the performance, and you'll come stylin' with a new Broadway Playbill Purse and a blowout and style at SalonCapri on Newbury [...]
