Actor and political activist Kal Penn borrowed an insult from 1988 to slam President Trump on Tuesday morning, calling him a “tiny-fingered vulgarian.” Current Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter and novelist Kurt Anderson famously referred to Trump as a “short-fingered vulgarian” in Spy magazine nearly 30 years ago. Penn borrowed the phrase during an appearance on CNN, but said “tiny” instead of “short.” “You’re dealing with a tiny-fingered vulgarian who loves to tweet as a way to get policy done,” Penn said. The size of Trump’s hands became an issue during the Gop primary and Trump eventually defended them during a televised.
- 8/22/2017
- by Brian Flood
- The Wrap
Here's a sampling of what's new on Warner Archive Instant for August 2014!
Warner Archive Instant, the streaming video service that features hundreds of movies and TV shows from Warner Bros.' extensive catalog, just added some great titles for August, including James Garner's critically accalimed western series Nichols and a personal favorite, the Hanna-Barbera live action animal disaster film The Beasts Are On The Streets. Yeah, you read that right - a live-action animal disaster film from cartoon greats Hanna-Barbera. You can click right here to read my review of the DVD for Cinelinx. It's cheesy 70's fun.
If you aren't currently subscribed to Warner Archive Instant, you can click right here to get a free two week trial. Trust me, if you love classic movies and television, it's worth it.
Here's what's new:
Nichols: The Complete Series (1971-72) James Garner stars as Nichols, an Army lifer who...
Warner Archive Instant, the streaming video service that features hundreds of movies and TV shows from Warner Bros.' extensive catalog, just added some great titles for August, including James Garner's critically accalimed western series Nichols and a personal favorite, the Hanna-Barbera live action animal disaster film The Beasts Are On The Streets. Yeah, you read that right - a live-action animal disaster film from cartoon greats Hanna-Barbera. You can click right here to read my review of the DVD for Cinelinx. It's cheesy 70's fun.
If you aren't currently subscribed to Warner Archive Instant, you can click right here to get a free two week trial. Trust me, if you love classic movies and television, it's worth it.
Here's what's new:
Nichols: The Complete Series (1971-72) James Garner stars as Nichols, an Army lifer who...
- 8/8/2014
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Victor Medina)
- Cinelinx
Sad holiday weekend news today. Peter W. Kaplan, the longtime editor of The New York Observer, has died at age 59 of cancer, The New York Times confirmed. Kaplan’s accomplishment was this: he took a salmon-colored weekly and made it a must read dissection on the glitter of Gotham power players. He injected the publication with relevance and invested his personal stamp, a love of dogged reporting on niche subjects like media, high finance and publishing, down to who sat where at lunch in Manhattan’s most important restaurants and who was getting fired in the magazine business and why. In transforming his publication into a must read, Kaplan’s tenure at The Observer reminded me of when Kurt Anderson, Graydon Carter and Tom Phillips launched Spy Magazine. They took a much more acerbic and satirical look at the subjects, but both were imprinted by the vision of editors. Kaplan...
- 11/30/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Tweet Of The Day | The Gatsby Factor | NPR's American Icons | Counterpoint | The First Time
All 256 two-minute episodes of new birdsong programme Tweet Of The Day (weekdays, 5.58am, Radio 4) will be kept online forever. This is the way all broadcasting is going, whether the programme-makers like it or not. You wonder how the above title will play 10 years from now, when the word tweet will be approximately as resonant as the word Betamax.
All access forever means you can compare The Gatsby Factor (Thursday, 11.30am, Radio 4), Sarah Churchwell's exploration of the enduring allure of Fitzgerald's novel, which appears in anticipation of Baz Luhrmann's hip-hop-inflamed movie version, with the programme Kurt Anderson made for NPR's American Icons series in 2010 and lives online (studio360.org). Neither has seen the new film. Consequently, Churchwell leads you to believe that The Great Gatsby is essentially unfilmable, because the elements of the story that...
All 256 two-minute episodes of new birdsong programme Tweet Of The Day (weekdays, 5.58am, Radio 4) will be kept online forever. This is the way all broadcasting is going, whether the programme-makers like it or not. You wonder how the above title will play 10 years from now, when the word tweet will be approximately as resonant as the word Betamax.
All access forever means you can compare The Gatsby Factor (Thursday, 11.30am, Radio 4), Sarah Churchwell's exploration of the enduring allure of Fitzgerald's novel, which appears in anticipation of Baz Luhrmann's hip-hop-inflamed movie version, with the programme Kurt Anderson made for NPR's American Icons series in 2010 and lives online (studio360.org). Neither has seen the new film. Consequently, Churchwell leads you to believe that The Great Gatsby is essentially unfilmable, because the elements of the story that...
- 5/4/2013
- by David Hepworth
- The Guardian - Film News
Title: Resolution Directors: Justin Benson and Aaron Scott Moorhead Starring: Peter Cilella, Vinny Curran, Emily Montague, Kurt Anderson, Skyler Meacham, Zahn McClarnon, Bill Oberst Jr., Josh Higgins A genre-bending, psychologically twisty, meta-horror tale that played to welcome reception at last year’s ScreamFest and Tribeca Film Festivals, “Resolution” bears a deceptively simple and straightforward title and logline synopsis for a movie that is anything but. When a well-meaning guy holes up with his old junkie friend in a cabin in the woods and forces him to kick cold turkey, strange events, mysterious visitors and personal demons commingle to intriguing, ambiguous effect. A fresh conceit told with an unfussy assurance, ”Resolution” marks a solid calling [ Read More ]
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- 1/25/2013
- by bsimon
- ShockYa
The commander-in-chief's turn as entertainer-in-chief is a David and Goliath plot for the ages, and we're only halfway through
How's the election been for you? On a scale of one to 10? Great? Just Ok? Would you recommend it to a friend? Not to trivialize the historical crossroads at which we find ourselves, still less the opportunity for a frank and rigorous exchange of ideas over the best policy with which to lead this great republic into the 21st century, but: have you had fun? Did it suck? Were you on the edge of your seat? Or was it a complete waste of your TiVo?
That America's political machine is an ever-growing subsidiary of its entertainment industry has long been remarked upon. "All campaigns are movies now, consisting of competing narratives with competing stars," wrote Neal Gabler in his superb 1998 book Life: The Movie, a radical expansion of Norman Mailer's famous comment,...
How's the election been for you? On a scale of one to 10? Great? Just Ok? Would you recommend it to a friend? Not to trivialize the historical crossroads at which we find ourselves, still less the opportunity for a frank and rigorous exchange of ideas over the best policy with which to lead this great republic into the 21st century, but: have you had fun? Did it suck? Were you on the edge of your seat? Or was it a complete waste of your TiVo?
That America's political machine is an ever-growing subsidiary of its entertainment industry has long been remarked upon. "All campaigns are movies now, consisting of competing narratives with competing stars," wrote Neal Gabler in his superb 1998 book Life: The Movie, a radical expansion of Norman Mailer's famous comment,...
- 10/31/2012
- by Tom Shone
- The Guardian - Film News
By Samuel Negin
Last night, I had the great pleasure to attend a taping of Studio 360, a weekly NPR radio program about the arts and culture hosted by Kurt Anderson. This week’s episode will include an interview with James Corden, currently a Tony nominee for his performance in Broadway’s One Man, Two Guvnors. During the taping, Anderson and Corden discussed topics as wide ranging as improvisation and the fears of doing live theater, the differences between TV and the theater, fatherhood, and weight loss. Check your local listings to find out when the show will air on a radio station near you.
Click to read more…...
Last night, I had the great pleasure to attend a taping of Studio 360, a weekly NPR radio program about the arts and culture hosted by Kurt Anderson. This week’s episode will include an interview with James Corden, currently a Tony nominee for his performance in Broadway’s One Man, Two Guvnors. During the taping, Anderson and Corden discussed topics as wide ranging as improvisation and the fears of doing live theater, the differences between TV and the theater, fatherhood, and weight loss. Check your local listings to find out when the show will air on a radio station near you.
Click to read more…...
- 5/23/2012
- by Kailyn Corrigan
- Scott Feinberg
Alec Baldwin will host a new panel discussion about 9/11 in New York City on Thursday. The 30 Rock actor will moderate the talk about "the political and cultural after-effects" of the tragedy as part of the New York Public Theatre's Public Forum program. Playwright Richard Nelson, radio host Kurt Anderson and journalist Carl Bernstein are also scheduled to take part in the event. Writing in his blog for The Huffington Post, Baldwin said that he hoped to open the floor to suggestions on how Americans can step up and grab the "birthright" which he feels is "quickly slipping away". "The attacks of 2001 remain unshakeably frustrating for me. The Us government's response to these events has seemed grossly insufficient and perhaps even negligent in terms of this country's long-term interests. I keep asking myself why (more)...
- 9/8/2011
- by By Jennifer Still
- Digital Spy
Each year New York residents can look forward to two essential series programmed at the Film Forum, noirs and pre-Coders (that is, films made before the strict enforcing of the Motion Picture Production Code). These near-annual retrospective traditions are refreshed and re-varied and repeated for neophytes and cinephiles alike, giving all the chance to see and see again great film on film. Many titles in this year's Essential Pre-Code series, running an epic July 15 - August 11, are old favorites and some ache to be new discoveries; all in all there are far too many racy, slipshod, patter-filled celluloid splendors to be covered by one critic alone. Faced with such a bounty, I've enlisted the kind help of some friends and colleagues, asking them to sent in short pieces on their favorites in an incomplete but also in-progress survey and guide to one of the summer's most sought-after series. In this entry: what's playing Friday,...
- 8/4/2011
- MUBI
Beginning in March 2010, Steven Soderbergh decided to document his cultural diet for the year, noting down everything he watched and read, the results of which have just been made public. Taking in almost a hundred movies, 50 books and several tv shows, Soderbergh also found time to finish shooting two movies, Haywire and Contagion. Put’s us to shame, right?
The list, which is also dated and organised was given to Studio 360′s Kurt Anderson and reveals busy viewing days, possible favourites and no less than 20 viewings of his new film Haywire, 5 of The Social Network (none of the other Oscar noms get a look in!), and several Raiders of The Lost Ark, in black and white! And if he sticks to his retirement plans in the near future, god knows how large this list may grow.
Here is the list of just the movies he devoured and in the order...
The list, which is also dated and organised was given to Studio 360′s Kurt Anderson and reveals busy viewing days, possible favourites and no less than 20 viewings of his new film Haywire, 5 of The Social Network (none of the other Oscar noms get a look in!), and several Raiders of The Lost Ark, in black and white! And if he sticks to his retirement plans in the near future, god knows how large this list may grow.
Here is the list of just the movies he devoured and in the order...
- 4/13/2011
- by Neil Upton
- Obsessed with Film
Studio 360's Kurt Anderson recently got a hold of a list of all books, movies, short stories, plays and TV shows that director Steven Soderbergh has taken in over the last year. Since Soderbergh is arguably one of the most interesting and successful working (though not for much longer), it's fascinating to get a glimpse into his cultural consumption; unlike some filmmakers, Soderbergh doesn't live in some sort of cultural bubble, but rather reads constantly and watches (then rewatches) movies obsessively. Take a look at nine fun facts about Soderbergh based on the list after the jump.
- 4/12/2011
- Movieline
The Hollywood Reporter has reported that Academy Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh has announced he will soon be retiring from filmmaking.
In an interview Soderbergh gave with Kurt Anderson on Studio 360, Anderson asked him about the possibility of taking a bow from the directing chair after making another two movies, Liberace and The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and Soderbergh told him it was true:
“I just need to step out… When you reach the point where you’re like, ‘If I have to get into another van to do another scout, I’m just going to shoot myself,’ it’s time to let somebody else who’s still excited about getting in the van get in the van. It’s just time.”
Soderbergh had his big breakthrough with Sex, Lies, and Videotape back in 1989, which he wrote and directed, winning him the Palm d’Or at Cannes Film Festival and a nomination...
In an interview Soderbergh gave with Kurt Anderson on Studio 360, Anderson asked him about the possibility of taking a bow from the directing chair after making another two movies, Liberace and The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and Soderbergh told him it was true:
“I just need to step out… When you reach the point where you’re like, ‘If I have to get into another van to do another scout, I’m just going to shoot myself,’ it’s time to let somebody else who’s still excited about getting in the van get in the van. It’s just time.”
Soderbergh had his big breakthrough with Sex, Lies, and Videotape back in 1989, which he wrote and directed, winning him the Palm d’Or at Cannes Film Festival and a nomination...
- 3/11/2011
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
In a recent interview with Kurt Anderson, director Steven Soderbergh has announced that he will retire from making movies after his next two films. This isn’t the first time that he has hinted about wrapping up his career in Hollywood, but the man seems pretty well decided at this point. When explaining why he doesn’t want to make movies anymore, Soderbergh said, “It’s just a sense of having been there before. The making of any art is problem solving, and as you work at it, you’re able to eliminate the versions that aren’t any good faster, but at a certain point the salves sort of become the same. And when I started feeling like I’ve done this shot before, I’ve done a scene that’s about this before, that’s when I started thinking seriously about a shift.” I guess he just couldn’t come up with a scenario for...
- 3/11/2011
- by Nathan Adams
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Is Steven Soderbergh done with directing? Matt Damon seems to think so, and the filmmaker himself admitted that he was “exhausted” on Rich Eisen’s NFL podcast back in January. Now, in an interview with Kurt Anderson for Studio 360, Soderbergh talks at length about his plans to move on from filmmaking (admittedly, only after he wraps up work on his next four films). Says the director, “You know when you see one of those athletes hang on two seasons too long? It’s kind of sad, because then your last image of them isn’t when they were great…I mean,...
- 3/11/2011
- by Darren Franich
- EW.com - PopWatch
Nothing like going out on top? Speaking with Studio 360's Kurt Anderson, beloved director Steven Soderbergh reiterated that he plans to retire from filmmaking after he makes two more films. "When you reach the point where you're like, 'If I have to get into a van to do anther scout I'm just going to shoot myself,' it's time to let somebody else who's still excited about getting in the van, get in the van," Soderbergh said. "For the last three years, I've been turning down everything that comes my way, so you're not going to have Steven Soderbergh to kick around anymore." You will, however, have the opportunity to kick Soderbergh for his planned swan song.
- 3/11/2011
- Movieline
Errol Morris must have felt like it was time to lighten up. After his last few documentaries addressed the death penalty, Holocaust deniers, the Vietnam War, and Abu Ghraib, his new one tells an astonishing-but-true story about an insane-but-functional woman named Joyce McKinney. It's called Tabloid, and its purpose is not enlightenment but entertainment.
In 1977, England was delighted by a news story about a North Carolina girl who had come to the U.K. looking for the boyfriend who had left her and was now working as a Mormon missionary. The young man, Kurt Anderson, said that when Joyce McKinney found him in the midst of his religious labors, she abducted him, tied him to a bed, and made him have sex with her. When she was arrested, McKinney insisted it had all been consensual, though she also insisted Anderson was being held by the Mormons against his will, which was manifestly untrue.
In 1977, England was delighted by a news story about a North Carolina girl who had come to the U.K. looking for the boyfriend who had left her and was now working as a Mormon missionary. The young man, Kurt Anderson, said that when Joyce McKinney found him in the midst of his religious labors, she abducted him, tied him to a bed, and made him have sex with her. When she was arrested, McKinney insisted it had all been consensual, though she also insisted Anderson was being held by the Mormons against his will, which was manifestly untrue.
- 9/7/2010
- by Eric D. Snider
- Cinematical
It's been eons since we've gotten a Peter Bogdanovich tale. Aside from some TV work and his Tom Petty documentary in 2007, there hasn't been a big-screen feature since he dug into William Randolph Hearst's dirty laundry with The Cat's Meow in 2001. And before that, The Thing Called Love in 1993. No finishing Orson Welles' The Other Side of the Wind (he stated last month that he didn't think editing the film would ever be possible), and no code cracking. But finally, The Hollywood Reporter posts that he will write and direct an adaptation of Kurt Anderson's novel Turn of the Century.
If anything should reinvigorate the feature career of the man who helmed Paper Moon, The Last Picture Show, and Mask, and bring in a new audience, this is it. The book is a modern social satire oft-compared to Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities. Written in...
If anything should reinvigorate the feature career of the man who helmed Paper Moon, The Last Picture Show, and Mask, and bring in a new audience, this is it. The book is a modern social satire oft-compared to Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities. Written in...
- 2/10/2010
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
It may be a long time since Peter Bogdanovich made critically acclaimed masterpieces such as The Last Picture Show and Paper Moon but the director is still at it and has just acquired the rights to adapt Turn of the Century - a bestselling novel by Kurt Anderson.
Bogdanovich will pen the screenplay (with co-writer Parish Rahbar) about a high-flying Manhattan couple's fast-paced life packed with crazy comic turns.
Turn of the Century will be Bogdanovich's first outing directing a feature since The Cat's Meow way back in 2001.
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Bogdanovich will pen the screenplay (with co-writer Parish Rahbar) about a high-flying Manhattan couple's fast-paced life packed with crazy comic turns.
Turn of the Century will be Bogdanovich's first outing directing a feature since The Cat's Meow way back in 2001.
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- 2/9/2010
- Screenrush
Hugh Jackman will reportedly play Harry Houdini in a Broadway production about the illusionist's life. Composer Danny Elfman, known for his work with director Tim Burton, will write the music for the stage show. New York-based radio presenter and former magazine editor Kurt Anderson is working on a script. According to Fox News, Jackman, who portrayed a magician in (more)...
- 11/27/2008
- by By Simon Reynolds
- Digital Spy
He tried his hand at magic in The Prestige, and now it looks like Hugh Jackman is up to tackling the world’s most famous illusionist – Harry Houdini. It won’t be on camera, though: this version, according to Fox News, will be a Broadway musical based on Houdini’s life. Regular Tim Burton collaborator Danny Elfman is apparently hard at work on the music for the show, while former magazine editor and radio host Kurt Anderson has been tapped to crank out the first draft of the script. Learning Magic Tricks For... .
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- 11/27/2008
- by jwhite
- TotalFilm
Why did Kurt Anderson conduct a radio interview with Synecdoche, New York director/writer Charlie Kaufman in the middle of the dog run at Washington Square Park? Presumably, so we could have the pleasure of watching the above video, in which Kaufman tries to explain is desire "to give the world something that isn't crap," but is distracted when pounced on by adorable puppies ...
- 10/27/2008
- by Karina Longworth
- Spout
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