I’ve had my share of tough/bad interviews but I also have to realize that it’s a mistake to take them personally.
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In the first entry in the Nathan Rabin's Happy Place Literature Society we explore Mayte Garcia's poignant, powerful memoir of her life with ex-husband Prince.
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I stopped writing for the A.V Club five years ago yet my byline is popping up on “new” pieces” there all the time.
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somewhere along the line Ricky Gervais traded in the honest comedy of self-degradation for the narcissistic faux-comedy of cruelty.
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John Travolta and Nora Ephron flopped big time with Adam Resnick’s deliciously mean screenplay about the darkly comic machinations of some small-time, small town losers in 1980s Pennsylvania.
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The Happy Place turns four this week and I, for one, would like to wish it a VERY Happy Birthday!
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As part of my reader-funded jaunt through the films of David Bowie, I watched and wrote about 2008’s August, an insufferable 9/11-themed internet melodrama with a mesmerizing cameo from the legendary rock star and a punch-worthy lead turn from Josh Hartnett
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He's an upwardly mobile dude!
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Al engages with tabloid culture and a particularly outrageous supermarket tabloid in a delightful album cut from Al’s first great record, In 3-D.
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Now that the world is atwitter with controversy about Bert and Ernie’s sexuality, why not take a look back at my exceedingly awkward interview with Frank Oz?
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