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BY NEIL FAUERSO The Bond franchise, now on its 21st child, has undergone as many…
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BY PATRICIA DRAZNIN Hollywoodland is a story within a story. At its core is a…
BY PATRICIA DRAZNIN The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart does it with a marking pen. The…
BY PATRICIA DRAZNIN Bad timing: While the JonBenet Ramsey case explodes back into the media,…
BY NEIL FAUERSO Recently released in the U.S. for the first time, Jean-Pierre Melville’s Army…
BY PATRICIA DRAZNIN In The Devil Wears Prada, the cute, unstylish girl-next-doorAndy (Anne Hathaway) gets…
BY NEIL FAUERSO The Proposition has understandably sunk at the box office andreceived little fanfare—after…
BY PATRICIA DRAZNIN “A widow should be long suffering until death, self-restrained,and chaste. A virtuous…
BY CHRISTINE SCHRUM At the Hatha Yoga studio run by mother and daughter team Christina…
BY BONITA CAROL Oooh, mud! The author’s 10-year-old daughter revels in a mud bath. I…