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Culture Shot

Friday, July 13, 2018

ScarJo’s done it again — what she and Hollywood can learn from the current casting controversy

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Johansson was recently announced to play Dante “Tex” Gill in “Rub & Tug,” a biopic based on the real-life transgender man.
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Culture Shot

Sunday, June 3, 2018

Some development shouldn’t be arrested: The problem with the men of ‘Arrested Development’

What fans didn’t bank on was that the same ridiculousness that the “Arrested Development” cast so perfectly affected would seep into the actors’ real lives.
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Film & Television

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Flexibility of farce in ‘The Death of Stalin’: An interview with Armando Iannucci

For director Armando Iannucci, it’s ripe for a punchline. “It is comedy and tragedy plus time,” he stated in an interview with The Daily Californian.
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Film & Television

Thursday, September 29, 2016

‘Transparent’ season three asks big questions, answers none

“What if you had to be your own Messiah?” That is the question posed by Rabbi Raquel Fein (the very wonderful Kathryn Hahn) in the first episode of the messy, spiritual third season of “Transparent.” She is trying to write a sermon for Passover — the holiday frames the entire
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