If you read and liked the 2003 best seller by Khaled Hosseini- you'll recognize the slavishly reproduced play: New Rep's season opener THE KITE RUNNER. Though I'm told it's faithful, the life has apparently been drained out of it. Set in 1970's Kabul Afghanistan, THE KITE RUNNER tells a tale of friendship between two boys [...]
Theater season is up and running and this week I'll give you my take--beginning with the best show on stage right now: the Huntington Theatre Company's wise and wicked-funny season opener GOOD PEOPLE! It's a Tony-nominated show that's very close to home. Pulitzer Prize-winner and South Boston native David Lindsay-Abaire has set his tale in [...]
If Richard Gere is up on the big screen--I'm watching. I've been smitten since his Armani-clad turn as an AMERICAN GIGOLO. In ARBITRAGE, he's grayer, still a sharp dresser-- and still playing fast and loose with his personal and professional life. Technically "arbitrage" is defined as "the possibility of a risk-free profit at zero cost." [...]
Last summer, Paula Poundstone appeared at Bull Run Restaurant, taking the little town of Shirley, Massachusetts by storm. The crowds kept begging for more, so in response, Bull Run will have her back on Friday, September 21 for two shows, at 7 PM and 10 PM. THE FIRST PERSON TO RESPOND (via “Contact Joyce” on [...]
Last night I interviewed Boston's own Ben Affleck in person before a live audience at the AMC BOSTON COMMON CINEMAS immediately following a 7PM special screening of his latest film, ARGO! Ben stars in and directs this taut thriller about a little known chapter in the Iranian hostage crisis that put the nail in the [...]
If you missed Matthew McConaughey in MAGIC MIKE one of the best films this summer, look for him at Oscar time. Now, a few words about a few flicks still out there as the season slips away: THE BOURNE LEGACY-- Jeremy Renner is no Matt Damon, and can only go through the motions --which are [...]
MUST READ AND PLEASE PASS ON! MIssouri Rep. Todd Akin told a MIssouri TV reporter “If it’s legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down,” in regards to a rape victim becoming preganant. That’s odd, because the Center for Disease Control reported more than 32,000 pregnancies a year are [...]
HOPE SPRINGS-- that movies are still being made (if I may paraphrase our 16th president) of the grownups, for the grownups, and by the grownups... and that they have not perished from the earth. Though far from perfect, HOPE SPRINGS is a funny, painful, tender, and smart take on a long-term marriage gone dry, and [...]
Yoga has saved my life before. I had just concluded my third bout with cancer-- melanoma once, ovarian twice. I had just had yet another surgery and finished six months of chemotherapy, when I decided I needed to get out the big guns and throw everything I had in my power at this disease. That meant [...]
Though I saw TOTAL RECALL a mere 48 hours ago, my recollection of it is less than total. I do remember Kate Beckinsale and Jessica Biel walloping the daylights out of each other. And, as is usually the case in these sorts of action thrillers, neither of them so much as dislodges her lip gloss-- [...]
