All posts by Randy Shulman
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Dangerous Liaisons
David Cronenberg's films have always been uneasy creations, disturbing excursions into the human psyche and its corporeal container. His earliest gore-enriched works, The Brood, Scanners...
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Naked Gunn
He materialized on the scene in 2004, seemingly out of thin air, this maven of style and taste. The show, Project Runway, was the gilded...
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Living Testament
Talking to Bruce Ward about his play, Lazarus Syndrome, is like navigating a minefield -- albeit one in which you long to step on the...
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Super Duper
Since the early '80s, the high school male coming-of-age comedy has become almost as much a rite of passage as the actual event itself. Each...
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Homer's Odyssey
Cast of 'The Simpsons Movie' WOO-HOO! With super-duper hype and hullaballoo, The Simpsons Movie finally arrives in theaters and lands with... a big comic BANG!...
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Camp Out
Ah, summer, the season most attuned to the coming of age of the all-American boy -- even the all-American gay boy. And what's more representative...
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Signature Style
Ask Eric Schaeffer what he loves most about musicals and here is the answer you get: ''I just love how musicals are about big emotions,...
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Scott G. Brooks
Scott G. Brooks ''Royally Ducked'' 36'' x 48'' oil on canvas 2007 Broken Eggs. Downtrodden fairy tale figures. Princesses, fairies, carnival sideshows. Amputated stumps. Wide-set...
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Capital Pride 2007
Yes, that was Mayor Adrian M. Fenty marching and throwing bead necklaces at the Capital Pride Parade on Saturday, June 9. Fenty joined hundreds of...
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Shipwrecked
There is a terrifically clever moment in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, the third and unlikely final installment in the box-office blockbusting series,...
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Web Head
The giddy anticipation of a movie is sometimes better than the movie itself. You enter more excited than you ultimately exit. Such is frequently the...
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Unburied Treasure
Escobar, right, with Russotto.|Stan Barouh In 1994, Washington theater lost a treasure. In 2007, that treasure has been reclaimed, albeit briefly. For those who don't...
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Monsters and Mayhem
Wake up, moviegoing America! Right before your eyes last weekend came an original: a witty, exceedingly well-crafted tribute to the exploitation flicks of the '70s,...
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No Secrets
After opening night of Sherry Glaser's one-person hit Family Secrets in New York, in 1993, her father bought out the entire theater for the next...
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Scene Stealer
I don't want to be premature about this, but it seems Joseph Gordon-Levitt has completely conquered the ''Curse of the T.V. Sitcom Child Actor.'' Many...
