Tweet The whirlwind celebrity over British author and former TV executive E.L. James continues to build with some 500 people packing Miami’s Biltmore Hotel for a recent signing of her erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey, about a young, college…
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Let Us Now Praise: ‘Wanderlust’ Filmmaker David Wain
Tweet One of my favorite books, from one of my most favorite writers, is James Agee’s 1941 collaboration with photographer Walker Evans, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Here’s my creative stretch. Agee’s book about Alabama sharecroppers, a community of…
‘Fast Five’ Review: Cliché dialogue and a silly finale sap the fun from ‘Fast Five’
Tweet Fast Five Universal Pictures Rated PG-13 Running Time: 130 Minutes Grade: C + They stare each other in the eye as they flex their muscles to see who’s the better strongman. Vin Diesel is a linchpin of the Fast…
The Morning Feed: Katie Couric To Leave Anchor Desk at CBS Evening News
Tweet After becoming the first woman to helm a U.S. network TV newscast, a CBS executive told the Associated Press that Katie Couric is leaving her post as anchor of the CBS Evening News when her contract ends in June.…