Showing posts with label entertainment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label entertainment. Show all posts
Saturday, December 16, 2017

Guest Post: The secret behind the success of the new 'Star Wars' films

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Subimal Chatterjee , Binghamton University, State University of New York In the 40 years since the original “Star Wars” film premiered, th...
Thursday, April 20, 2017

Guest Post: Ella Fitzgerald's flirtation with reefer songs

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Adam Gustafson , Pennsylvania State University “The First Lady of Song” Ella Fitzgerald would have turned 100 on April 25: institutions fr...
Wednesday, May 04, 2016

From the Archives: May the Fourth Be With You - Part I

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Seventeen years ago this month, I was among the hundreds of Star Wars fans who camped out in front of the Uptown Theatre in Northwest Washi...
Monday, June 23, 2014

Are Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber an 'Emerging Threat'?

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Last week the celebrity gossip pages were reporting the news that the on-again, off-again romance of bad boy Justin Bieber and Disney Chann...
Sunday, January 11, 2009

Charlottesville's Role in the Golden Globes

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Two movies that had their local premieres at the Virginia Film Festival won big at the Golden Globe awards tonight. Mickey Rourke won the ...
Monday, January 21, 2008

Plan Your SOTU Party Now

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President George W. Bush will make his final State of the Union Address a week from today, on Monday, January 28, before a Joint Session of ...
Thursday, November 01, 2007

Virginia Film Festival 2007 - Preview

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Last night I traveled to Harrisonburg to see a play by Paula Vogel, The Mineola Twins , performed by a local community theatre group, The Pl...
Sunday, September 23, 2007

Marcia, Marcia , Marcia!

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Half a century ago, ad-man Stan Freberg caught heat from the censors for his send-up of radio and TV soap operas, with a novelty record call...

The Rest Is Silence?

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Marcel Marceau has died at age 84. I can't help but imagine that his last words must have been these: " _____________ "