Category: media

“The principals are all in late middle age now, jowly and graying, and have in some ways become the very sorts of people they used to poke fun at. … The show, on the other hand, hasn’t aged a bit.”

The AP, Slate, True/Slant … In the early reviews, at least, critics seem to be lavishing David Letterman’s revelations of affairs with staff members and an extortion attempt with the sort of enthusiasm they’d give to Mad Men or The Wire.

“The number of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender characters has grown in recent years on prime-time network television, but decreased on cable, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation said.”

As part of her series “The American Way of Dentistry,” June Thomas surveys the cinematic carnage. (And she asks, “Be honest: How long did it take you to show up for your next cleaning after you saw Marathon Man?”)

The target audience for “Star Wars: In Concert” includes fans of the movie, rock ‘n’ roll concertgoers and, “a distant third, classical music aficionados. … [T]he show’s organizers are hopeful that the grown men who wear Darth Maul costumes to ‘Star Wars’ conventions might somehow be smitten by an easy-to-digest taste of an adagio, glissando and rondo.”

“An official from Malaysia’s Film Censorship Board said the movie was considered unacceptable because of its story line, offensive language, jokes and racy nature. … ‘It’s banned because the story is based on gay life … There are a lot of sex scenes,’ she said. ‘It’s contrary to our culture’.”

“British actors seem to have invaded American television. … Depending on who you ask, it’s either a monstrous conspiracy to reclaim some shred of George III’s lost colonial empire, or the tanking entertainment economies in Britain and Hollywood, or it’s simply all Hugh Laurie’s fault.”

Debra Levine, co-founder of the grassroots group Save Film at LACMA, recounts the inside story of a campaign that “lived almost entirely in cyberspace” and “was at times surreal and at others as disciplined as a war game.”

“Pablo Pineda won the prize for his portrayal of a man with Down’s syndrome who gets a university degree and falls in love in Yo Tambien (Me Too).”

“Over the last several months, collectors of movie memorabilia have been rocked by claims that a Georgia-based collector, Kerry T. Haggard, has corrupted what had been seen as a relatively safe market for classic horror film posters by selling or trading forgeries of the promotional art for pictures like “Frankenstein,” “Dracula” and “The Mummy.”