Big Time Rush The Music Sounds Better with Elevate by Deborah Wagner What do you get when you take four friends from Minnesota, fly them to Los Angeles and try to make them pop stars? The answer would be Big Time Rush (a.k.a. BTR) – a Nickelodeon hit TV show, lots of laughs, hit records, concert tours and so much more. With a well-received hour long … Continue reading
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Julie Benz – Living Life off the Ricochet
Julie Benz Living Life off the Ricochet by Jay S. Jacobs Julie Benz has made a career as part of mysterious, dark, brooding TV drama, so it’s not a huge surprise that her latest role – that of the wife of a southern judge involved in a murder in the TNT adaptation of Sandra Brown’s best selling … Continue reading
Marcia Gay Harden Is Not That Innocent
Marcia Gay Harden Is Not That Innocent by Jay S. Jacobs For years now, Marcia Gay Harden has been one of the finest actresses on stage, screen and TV. Yet, despite the fact that she has a face that everyone knows, somehow, she has never completely become a household name. Still, she plugs away, having … Continue reading
Evanescence – Do What They Want
Evanescence Do What They Want by Jay S. Jacobs It is rare for a band to explode on the scene like Evanescence did in 2003. It is also rare for a band to have so much turmoil in success’ wake. However, not quite a decade into its popularity, a greatly changed but still rocking version of the … Continue reading
Juno Temple & Jeremy Dozier Dress Up Dirty Girl
Juno Temple & Jeremy Dozier Dress Up Dirty Girl by Brad Balfour Despite a substantial effort to integrate gays into mainstream America, anti-homosexual violence continues for those who don’t conform to this country’s far-too-conservative mores. Though it’s hard to believe that it continues, bullying still spurs teen suicides in a country charged by Tea Party … Continue reading
The Bangles – America’s Sweethearts
The Bangles America’s Sweethearts by Jay S. Jacobs It’s hard to believe, but the Bangles have now been reunited for even longer than their original glory days. Even harder to believe is the fact that their latest CD, Sweetheart of the Sun, is as good as any of their albums. This is coming from a band which … Continue reading
Basia – New Day for Her
Basia New Day for Her by Jay S. Jacobs “Once upon a time it was for real. Nothing mattered then, we were together.” Those are the first lines of “From Now On,” the first song that Basia Trzetrzelewska ever wrote with her long-time musical collaborator Danny White nearly thirty years ago. And somehow, decades after … Continue reading
Josh Hartnett Pulls the Strings with Bunraku
Josh Hartnett Pulls the Strings with Bunraku by Brad Balfour The California-born Josh Hartnett had developed a steady career appearing in such Hollywood films as The Faculty, Black Hawk Down, Lucky Number Slevin and Pearl Harbor. In 2002, he starred in an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Othello, O, set in an American high school, as Hugo – the film’s version of Iago. … Continue reading
The Zombies – Play It For Real, Once Again
The Zombies Play It For Real, Once Again by Ken Sharp Copyright ©2011 PopEntertainment.com. All rights reserved. Posted: September 25, 2011. When a beloved band from your past reunites and records new music, lofty expectations are likely to be met by inevitable disappointment. Whether you’re The Rolling Stones, Moody Blues or any other legendary classic rock … Continue reading
Judy Gold – Living Life As Sitcom Fodder
Judy Gold Living Life As Sitcom Fodder by Ronald Sklar “Exhausting but fulfilling” is how comedian Judy Gold half-kvetches about the demands of her off-Broadway hit, The Judy Show (DR2 Theater). The one-person performance (which includes piano playing), about how Judy pines for her own sitcom and amazingly can’t get it, is the ironic basis for, well, a hit sitcom. … Continue reading