5 articles from 2009
Me and Orson Welles | Review
24 November 2009 10:00 AM, PST
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Director: Richard Linklater
Writer(s): Robert Kaplow (novel), Holly Gent Palmo, Vincent Palmo Jr. (screenplay)
Starring: Zac Efron, Christian McKay, Claire Danes, Ben Chaplin
November 1937 – Orson Welles, producer John Houseman and their theater company at the Mercury Theatre began working on their much fabled production of Julius Caesar (the first Shakespearian play to be presented on Broadway). The Mercury Theatre was founded by Welles and Houseman earlier in the same year after the duo resigned from the Federal Theatre. In 1938, the Mercury Theatre evolved into The Mercury Theatre on the Air – a radio series that included the most infamous and influential radio broadcasts of all time: The War of the Worlds (broadcast on October 30, 1938). Welles and Houseman then moved to Hollywood and made Citizen Kane.
Director Richard Linklater shows us a fictionalized perspective of the Welles (Christian McKay) and Houseman (Eddie Marsan) 1937 production of Julius Caesar. We are introduced
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New “EastEnders”' Character (Finally) Brings Diversity to Soaps
3 November 2009 12:09 PM, PST
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When you look at the history of gay or bisexual people of color on soap operas, it’s a pretty monochromatic picture. With the exception of Nick Chavez, a part Cherokee, part Mexican-American gay character on ABC's One Life to Live, the closeted bisexual Chad Harris on the now canceled Passions, and Ravi Roy, a bisexual southeast Asian character on Britain’s Channel 4 drama Hollyoaks, most previous gay or bisexual male soap characters have been white.
Nick Chavez, Chad Harris, Ravi Roy
But as regular readers of AfterElton.com's Gays of Our Lives column well know, EastEnders, a long-running soap on Britain’s BBC One (and one of the U.K.'s highest-rated programs), recently added some much needed color to the picture. It's something that anyone interested in gay male visibility — soap opera fan or not — will find interesting.
On April 21, 2009, the show introduced the character of Syed Masood,
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- Brent Hartinger
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DVD Playhouse--August 2009
10 August 2009 2:25 AM, PDT
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DVD Playhouse—August 2009
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Allen Gardner
Watchmen—Director’S Cut (Warner Bros.) Director Zack Snyder’s film of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ landmark graphic novel is as worthy an adaptation of a great book that has ever been filmed. In an alternative version of the year 1985, Richard Nixon is serving his third term as President and super heroes have been outlawed by a congressional act, in spite of the fact that two of the most high-profile “masks,” Dr. Manhattan (Billy Cruddup) and The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) helped the U.S. win the Vietnam War. When The Comedian is found murdered, many former heroes become concerned that a conspiracy is afoot to assassinate retired costumed crime fighters. Former masks Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson), Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman) and still-operating Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley, in an Oscar-worthy turn) launch an investigation of their own, all while the Pentagon’s “Doomsday
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Thornafire – Vorex DECONSTRUCCIÓN
24 July 2009 1:28 AM, PDT
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In America, music trends come and go every couple of years, but in South America their undying love for Metal has remained consistent for decades! They’ve produced such great bands as Sacrofago, Pentagram, Sepultura, and Krisiun, to name a few. Let us now look to Chile, where Thornafire’s new CD entitled Vorex DECONSTRUCCIÓN is making a huge impact not only the South American Metal fans, but on Metal fans all over the world.
Thornafire is an occult/anti-Christian Death Metal three-piece that writes immensely aggressive yet catchy songs that retain a groove and memorable structure. Their monstrous guitar riffs coupled with berserk blast beats and guttural growls place them in the vein of Morbid Angel, yet some of their tracks feature interesting keyboard overdubs and other tracks incorporate a female spoken voice. The vocals are entire in Spanish, but their message is blatantly clear, destroy and dominate all!
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Lloyd Kaufman: Obama and Infrastructure of the Mind
18 February 2009 10:10 PM, PST
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January 20, 2009, marked a day which will forever be etched in the minds of those who had the privilege of witnessing it. A significant part of American history transpired: Barack Obama became the first half-black man to be sworn in as President of the United States since Warren G. Harding. As a privileged, Jewish Yale graduate who grew up as a dirt-poor black boy, I was very excited for this momentous occasion.
I was moved as Aretha Franklin, a once fiery soul singer of the 60’s, sang as only a now sweet, grandmotherly type could (and with a bedazzled hat to boot!). And who could forget the poetry? Oof! The fucking poetry. I thought Maya Angelou was bad enough. Where’d they dig up that broad? I’m happy she was able to reschedule her reading at Denny’s so she could speak at Barack’s inauguration.
But back to Obama…
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