Wanderlust is about two children of the 90s (Paul Rudd and Jennifer Anniston) trying to find their identities after suffering career setbacks. They end up in a hippie commune where their own stereotypes of bohemian life (gleaned from their Spin Doctors-s
This is the story of Central Field Command drug squad, Team 3, and the long, at times tumultuous, effort to investigate and prosecute officers and also stave off a full-blown public inquiry. The saga has never been publicly told in its entirety. It's abo
By: Jenny Marder In 1947, when film star Alan Alda was 11-years-old, he asked a teacher the seemingly innocuous question, "What is a flame?" The answer, "oxidation," was thoroughly unsatisfying to young Alda. Fast forward to 2012. Out of that interaction
Eeee! This is the one we had! With the wood trim for extra fancy. Because I wasn’t feeling old enough after my annual Mole Patrol visit to the dermatologist today, I just discovered that Atari just turned 40. Oh, yes, the fine people who brought you such
TUNE in, turn on, drop out. It’s the all-hippy adage of which many of us dream. This comedy of ill manners, which includes partner-swapping, nudists and memory loss, pokes fun at a materialistic society reliant on technology to forge connections. Upwardl
View full sizeChuck Crow, The Plain DealerWhen Chris Perez opens his mouth, you never quite know what's going to come out. This is probably not a good time for Chris Perez to say he grew up with a picture on his wall of the '97 Marlins celebrating. Chris
Mr. Langella likes to keep the audience watching on eggshells. I loved this interview. Frank is now on my list of mentors and I look forward to reading his book. I was hooked from the moment he talked about his age and that it wasn't over. I'm in my earl
"Wanderlust" (2012, R, 98 min., $29.98). With Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston in the lead roles, along with the attachment of Judd Apatow, one would think "Wanderlust" is a can't-miss comedy. Unfortunately, the movie wastes all that potential in an awful
It takes a particular sense of humor to find David Wain’s writing and directing funny. “Bizarre” would be a more appropriate word to describe it, which is why Wanderlust’s “Bizarro Cut” would have worked so much better for Wain fans than the theatrical r
Debuting Sunday night, HBO's "The Newsroom" proves that producer/scripter Aaron Sorkin sometimes delivers the best writing on television, but always gives the most writing, at least on a word-per-minute basis. Nearly without exception, his characters tal
Hyperbole can be fun. That’s why, a decade ago, in a now famous review, a critic labeled a novelist I happen to admire “the worst writer of his generation.”* I think it’s safe to say that the real worst writer of his generation (I’ll take nominations) wo
Bobby Cannavale will star opposite Al Pacino in the upcoming Broadway revival of "Glengarry Glen Ross." Cannavale is set to play top-dog real estate agent Ricky Roma, the part Pacino played in the 1992 movie adaptation of the 1983 play by David Mamet. Pa
This photo perfectly captures the vibe of the infamous parties at George’s apartment. Hanging out in this one room are George’s fellow Paris Review cofounders Peter Matthiessen and Doc Humes, longtime friends William Styron and Terry Southern, and an imp
The fifth and most recent season of Mad Men has just ended, which made me sad for two reasons: a) We waited like 17 years for a new series and it was over in no time and b) It marked the end of the road, in the most tragic and grizzly way possible for lo
NEW YORK -- Bobby Cannavale is doing double duty on Broadway this season, signing up to star opposite Al Pacino in the fall in a revival of David Mamet's 1984 Pulitzer Prize winning drama about a ruthless bunch of real estate sharks, Glengarry Glen Ross.
Having seen four different television series created by Aaron Sorkin — "Sports Night," "The West Wing," "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip," and now "The Newsroom," a new HBO drama that premieres Sunday night at 10 — I feel I understand some of the man's cor
If a movie is funny enough, does it need to have a point? Can a comedy be shaggy and artless, or is it better if it has a sense of visual style and a taut structure? What’s the proper standard here? Caddyshack or Brazil? Those questions popped into my he
“Wanderlust” (2012, R, 98 min., $29.98) With Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston in the lead roles, along with the attachment of Judd Apatow, one would think “Wanderlust” is a can’t-miss comedy. Unfortunately, the movie wastes all that potential in an awful c
They give away too much content without doing enough selling They do too much selling without giving away enough content And it’s costing them a lot of money. But there’s also a third way that hardly anyone uses. A way that satisfies your audience’s desi
Project X – This “found footage” party-gone-wild movie was a surprise hit at the box office earlier this year. I haven’t had a chance to watch it yet, and I imagine it’s people like me who want to check it out that will make this disc a hit as well. Is i
Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd - teamed previously in "The Object of My Affection" - are reunited in this racy and amusing comedy from one of the producers best known for that formula these days, Judd Apatow. The stars play a suddenly unemployed Manhatta
This week’s new releases at least contain some variety. There’s something for the family to watch as well as a smart adult comedy, a smart adult dramedy and a teen party flick. Big Miracle is based on the true story of an Alaskan town that banded togethe
Recession victims George and Linda ditch their failed Manhattan careers and land in a Georgia commune in this mildly amusing 2012 comedy. Aniston and Paul Rudd in the lead roles are fun to watch despite the tired hippie stereotypes and silly story. Depar
Sixth graders from the Setauket, Rocky Point, Shoreham and St. James school districts were among 6,000 eleven-year-olds selected from around the world to determine the best scientific explanation of a flame. The Flame Challenge, created by famed actor Al
“Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work, risking, and by not qu
THE FP is a film that seems at first to be an impossible joke. You look at the trailer and I found myself a bit flabbergasted by the BEAT BEAT REVELATION game. Were they really going to build a feature length movie around the game… not only that, but an
The third season of The Big C ends not with a bang, but with a whimper. Or at least I think it was the show that was whimpering; it might have been me. Although the series has never fully lived up to its potential, it was agreeable enough for much of its
It’s the first Monday in June, 10 days before Woody Allen’s new movie, To Rome With Love, will open the Los Angeles Film Festival, and Allen, dressed as usual in brown, is perched on a chair in the screening room in his functional office on the ground fl
Jed Bernstein, the man in charge of the makeover to Bucks County Playhouse. July 1946: Crowds wait to get inside the Playhouse. Like the first play to grace its stage in 1939, Springtime for Henry: A Farce in Three Acts, the has had its curtain raised th
Here is a sampling of great listens, whether you are traveling solo, paired, with pals, or hauling the whole tribe. If you have little ones, exert a bit of caution. My older son fondly recalls my desperate swerve to hit pause during a particularly inappr
Gremlins 2: The New Batch It took five years to lure the director Joe Dante back to Warner Brothers to shoot a sequel to “Gremlins,” a family-oriented horror comedy that had been a big hit for the studio in 1984. Granted a rare degree of creative freedom
Ever experience the kind of excitement in life, where you can't wait to get up and don't want to go to bed? The adventure of turning a dream into reality is seasoned with this kind of excitement. You know something special is happening. You may not alway
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New in theaters Great Escape 14 Stadium Cinemas, Moline: -- "Rock of Ages" (PG-13) -- "That's My Boy" (R) Rave Motion Pictures 53, Davenport: -- "Rock of Ages" (PG-13) -- "That's My Boy" (R) Nova 6 Cinemas, Moline: -- "Battleship" (PG-13) -- "Chernobyl D
CLICK, CLICK, CLACK: Photographer Frank Jang takes on 250 assignments annually and wears out one camera per year. Usually it’s the shutter that shuts down. Jang once adverse to divisive political campaigns isn’t turning down candidates shoots …RIGHT TO R
“Wanderlust,” out this week on Blu-ray and DVD, runs with that gentle mockery. Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston play a burned out New York City couple who finds some peace and a whole lotta free love at a hippie compound. Neither film treats the hippies wi
'Glengarry,' Pacino returning to Broadway Al Pacino, who starred in the 1992 film adaptation of David Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross" as the slimy real estate agent Ricky Roma, will graduate to playing the tragic Shelley Levene in a Broadway revival of the
Alec Baldwin has been around a long time, making his film debut in 1987, after seven years of holding recurring roles on "The Doctors" and "Knott's Landing" beginning in 1980. He also has made his share of off-screen headlines, most recently with his get
Al Pacino earned an Oscar nomination playing the cutthroat salesman Ricky Roma in the film version of "Glengarry Glen Ross."Â Plans are in the works for Pacino to take the play by David Mamet to Broadway, only this time instead of playing the shark-like
When I was a kid, syndication was everything. If you wanted to watch an old television show, you had to see it in syndication. If it was too old, or unpopular, you wouldn’t get the chance. Shows usually ran in syndication from the previous ten to twenty
TV—we watch so much of it, it's only inevitable that eventually we'd want to be it too: time-traveling, crime-solving, vampire-slaying, endless-cheeseburgers-at-Luke's-Diner-eating heroes. Once while on a particularly grueling rowing trip on the Hudson R
Plans are in the works for Pacino to take the play by David Mamet to Broadway, only this time instead of playing the shark-like Roma, he will take the part of Shelley Levene, according to a report in The New York Times. A spokesman for Pacino's agency IC
Ida Sessions: "Are you alone?" You Only Live Twice or so it seems, One life for yourself and one for your dreams. You drift through the years and life seems tame, Till one dream appears and love is its name. And all the disparate threads of Mad Men's Sea
ArtsBeat reports that Pacino, who played Ricky Roma in the 1992 film adaptation of David Mamet's drama about salesmen, would play Shelly "The Machine" Levene: "A lead producer of the 'Glengarry” revival, Jeffrey Richards, declined to comment on Tuesday..
Morgan Freeman doesn't have many science- or science fiction-related films on his résumé of almost 100 motion pictures over the past few decades. Although he played a U.S. president who displayed calm while a massive meteor careened toward Earth in 1998'
The original, directed by Robert Mulligan, saw Alan Alda and Ellen Burstyn as an accountant and a housewife who meet quite by accident at a romantic inn. Though they’re both married, they have a one-night stand, which eventually sparks a regular annual m
Al Pacino played hotshot salesman Ricky Roma in the killer 1992 film adaptation of David Mamet’s dark drama Glengarry Glen Ross, a role that earned him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination. Now the New York Times reports Pacino is returning to the pl
Audio for this story from Tell Me More will be available at approx. 3:00 p.m. ET Teach for America is drawing criticism from some education policy observers who say its training for new recruits is rushed and incomplete. The organization, however, vigoro
Audio for this story from Tell Me More will be available at approx. 3:00 p.m. ET Teach for America has been touted for its success in bringing talented people into the field of education. But it has also been drawing criticism, even from former supporter
This video won an international competition in which contestants were invited to explain to an 11-year-old what a flame is. When he was 11 years old, Alan Alda asked his teacher, “What is a flame?” She replied: “It’s oxidation.” Alda went on to win fame
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Three months ago Alan Alda issued a challenge to the world scientific community to explain the flame in a way “that an 11-year-old would find intelligible, maybe even fun.” Stony Brook University’s Center for Communicating Science administered the challe
is co-written by Wain and Ken Marino, and like their last collaboration, Role Models, it's more of a straightforward comedy than Wain's first two movies. Wet Hot American Summer and The Ten share The State's sense of humor. They are episodic, with jokes
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News > Science Twitter Facebook Share Stumble Upon Reddit Linkedin Digg What is this? Share Comments The Winning Answer To A Burning Question Audio for this story from Talk of the Nation will be available at approx. 6:00 p.m. ET June 8, 2012 text size A
Last year, the National Reconnaissance Office gave NASA a gift—two declassified spy telescopes, each higher in quality than anything NASA has ever produced for space. NASA astrophysics director Paul Hertz and Caltech theoretical physicist Sean Carroll di
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It was fitting how Andy Samberg decided to leave Saturday Night Live. His castmate Kristen Wiig's departure had been talked about for months, the anticipation heightened by her Bridesmaids success and Oscar nomination, and she was given an unprecedented
Science may be able to explain many things about how our world works, but communicating such things in a way that can be understood by 11 year olds (or the rest of us) is not easy to do. Take a flame, for example: just what the heck is going on there? Th
In an auditorium overlooking New York City’s Central Park, 100 people hold their breath. Brian Greene, world-renowned theoretical physicist and author of The Elegant Universe, delivers a monologue about quantum mechanics. But that’s not what’s induced th
What is a flame? It's a simple enough question. One you'd think would beget an equally simple and comprehensible answer. But no, for such an elemental phenomenon, one so essential to mankind's success as a species, flame is as mystifying to most as it is
Denzel Washington pilote un Boeing à l'envers, décapite une église et le fait atterrir sur du gazon? Facile. Dans la première bande-annonce de Flight , prochain film de Robert Zemeckis, on découvre l'acteur dans la peau du Capitaine Whitaker en proie aux
The best part of Peter's Friends, which is like a far-less-successful British version of The Big Chill, but starring everyone you've ever loved. Congratulations! Now you will never have to watch The Object of My Affection. Speaking of starring everyone y
The DVD collectors set that fans of classic TV have been waiting for is finally coming out as Time Life will now start taking pre-orders for THE CAROL BURNETT SHOW: THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION. The 22-DVD set contains 50 episodes from the award-winning and i
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In 2005, a KNOW Theatre production of David Mamet's modern classic "Glengarry Glen Ross" was days away from opening when a Broadway revival starring Liev Schreiber and Alan Alda led to the performance rights to the play being yanked. Understandably, the
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"Love in the Wild" is back, gang. We have to say, it was a surprise hit with us last summer - and host Jenny McCarthy tells us that Mike/Samantha and Heather/Miles are still together, which is awesome to hear. We hope they make some cameo appearances on
"He is the first man in the history of this country to turn down a position on the Supreme Court, and it's because he was dedicated to New York," Clinton said at the Waldorf-Astoria, where he was honored at a gala fundraiser for Help USA, a homeless serv
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Ames, who is studying at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, begins his explanation with an introduction of the atoms involved. Carbon and hydrogen are locked up in the wax and wick of the candle, while oxygen is present as a gas in the surrounding a
Ben Ames ILLUMINATING An image from a short film made by Ben Ames, the winner of a contest to explain a flame in terms that an 11-year-old could understand. Ben Ames, winner of a contest to explain a flame in terms that an 11-year-old could understand, w
Several months ago, actor Alan Alda issued a challenge to the world’s scientists: Explain flame in a way that’s easily understood by an 11-year-old. Hundreds of entries from around the world, in the form of poems, graphics, essays, videos and songs, pour
Andy Samberg has wrapped his seven-season run on “Saturday Night Live,” a spokeswoman for the actor-comedian said Friday. Samberg’s exit follows that of “SNL” cast member Kristen Wiig. Like other “Saturday Night Live” alumni, Samberg will be seen on the
Ben Ames' Flame Challenge animation goes to the gates of hell to explain a flame. What is a flame? Scientists were challenged to explain the concept in terms an 11-year-old could understand, and a grad student specializing in quantum physics has taken th
June 2, 2012, 2:08 pm By ANDREW C. REVKIN I recently wrote about the “ Flame Challenge ,” a contest organized by the Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University. In the competition, more than 800 contestants sought to answer — in everythin
A graduate student studying quantum physics in Austria has won the Stony Brook University science award for defining what is flame. Ben Ames, 31, a native of Kansas City , Missouri and a PhD student at the University of Innsbruck , is the first person to
STONY BROOK, NY, June 2, 2012 – The Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University and famed actor Alan Alda have announced Ben Ames, 31, a native of Kansas City, Missouri, currently pursuing his PhD in quantum optics at the University of Inn
Salman Rushdie, the acclaimed Indian-born author who had to go into hiding after Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini called for his execution in 1989, is coming to Portsmouth this fall to talk about those fugitive years. Rushdie's new memoir, “Joseph Anton,” named
By Paul Vigna AMC Don Draper (Jon Hamm) listens to The Beatles. There are more guys pushing strollers these day than herding cattle. But many men still want to believe they’re “men,” and the show’s that played into that desire more than any other in rece
'SNL' funnyman Bill Hader returns as host of TCM movie series By SUSAN KING Los Angeles Times By SUSAN KING Updated: 2012-06-01T23:10:27Z More News LOS ANGELES -- "Saturday Night Live" funnyman Bill Hader is known for his crazy characters, such as Stefon
Alan Alda and Dr. Harold Varmus discuss the 2012 World Science Festival , May 30 – June 3. The Foundation’s mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its impl
Retired Huntington engineer Richard Frauenglass helped put men on the moon. Now he's trying to make science easier for sixth graders to understand.One of eight finalists in a national Stony Brook University contest, Frauenglass did his best to answer the
Canasta (from left) — Ryan Tracy, Matt Priest, Elizabeth Lindau, Brian Palmieri and Jeremy Beckford— shop at Shangri-La in Roscoe Village before leaving on their trip to Mongolia. (Not pictured: Sarah Kneebone) Somewhere in the vacation slides of Canasta
WOW, WHAT A POW WOW . The Gateway to Nations Pow Wow kicks off three days of Native American singing, dancing, music, jewelry and food at the Aviator Sports Center. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Adults, $12; children/seniors, $7; kids under 6, free. Floyd Bennett Field
Texas 1st is 1st: That was a parody of a beer campaign that was popular at the time. I think for Miller Lite. We used former Red Sox great, Luis Tiant. It took about twenty takes, but I didn’t care. Got to hang out with El Tiante! I've worked with a numb
