Jesse Metcalfe, Jordana Brewster, Josh Henderson and Julie Gonzalo – Kicking Back With the Ewing Young’uns by Jay S. Jacobs TNT’s reboot of the iconic nighttime soap Dallas became one of the surprise smashes of this past television season. The new series was a savvy mix of alumni from the original 1980s series – including … Continue reading
Jay Mohr – Mohr! Mohr! Mohr! (How Do You Like It? How Do You Like It?) by Ronald Sklar The beloved funnyman now rocks a powerful podcast. One person not caught up in the Charlie Sheen hoopla is comedian/actor Jay Mohr. In fact, Sheen, sober, sane and coherent, chilled uncharacteristically with the put-it-there-pal Mohr, who … Continue reading
Blair Redford Knows All There Is To Know About The Lying Game by Jackie Speiss http://www.popentertainment.com/blairredford.htm Bad boy Blair may not be so “bad” after all. Recently we got to sit down with Blair Redford, who plays Ethan on ABC Family’s original series The Lying Game. Redford may have that daring, sultry stare that brings … Continue reading
Django Unchained http://www.popentertainment.com/django.htm Professor Tarantino’s Alternative History course continues. When we last ran across the mad historian, the French resistance and a group of American GI headhunters single-handedly ended World War II by killing Der Fuhrer and every major Nazi officer in a fiery Paris cinema explosion. Of course, this massive historical event didn’t appear … Continue reading
Compliance http://www.popentertainment.com/compliance.htm A few years ago, I read a news report which was a big story for a couple of days. At a McDonald’s restaurant in the Philadelphia metropolitan area, the night manager got a call from a man claiming to be a police detective. The man said that one of the counter girls had … Continue reading
The Tubes – White Punks on Hope by Ken Sharp http://www.popentertainment.com/tubes.htm Despite issuing a string of artistically inventive albums – The Tubes, Young and Rich, Now and Remote Control and a celebrated live stage spectacle showcasing the wild theatrics of lead singer Fee Waybill – by the turn of the ‘80s The Tubes were quickly … Continue reading
Silver Linings Playbook http://www.popentertainment.com/silverlinings.htm Silver Linings Playbook is a good example of the state-of-the-art of modern Oscar wannabe movies: smart, funny, quirky, edgy and not nearly as good as it thinks it is. A romantic comedy-drama in which the two leads just happen to be bi-polar (and a third lead probably is too), Silver Linings … Continue reading
Chris Hayes – Catching Us Up on the Twilight of the Elites by Ronald Sklar MSNBC’s Chris Hayes explains the decay of authority in America, and why you’d better step up. This first decade of the 21st century has been glorious (think iPod and 30 Rock), but it’s also going down as one giant sorry-ass fuck-up. … Continue reading
Keith Powell Two, Two, Two Characters in One by Ronald Sklar http://www.popentertainment.com/keithpowell.htm His 30 Rock character gave us two-for-one; now he’s going for the whole nine yards. “Deep inside of me somewhere there is a Toofer,” 30 Rock actor Keith Powell admits. He’s talking about his TV alter ego, nicknamed Toofer by the 30 Rock … Continue reading
Frankenweenie http://www.popentertainment.com/frankenweenie.htm Despite the long–lasting residual effects of Tim Burton’s well–deserved early reputation as a brilliantly eccentric filmmaker, it is hard to overlook the fact that the guy has spent the last two decades mostly de-fanging classic pop-culture landmarks such as Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, Planet of the Apes, Alice in Wonderland and Dark … Continue reading
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