What Fun! Seth Rudetsky & James Wesley are hosting ‘Stars in the House’ to benefit The Actors Fund.
As a SAG-AFTRA member, I know that when times are tough—as they are now with the coronavirus continuing to disrupt …
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Feel the need to get away from current events? Spend 5 hours touring Russia’s iconic Hermitage.
Yesterday, I shared some avenues that you can use to visit museums virtually, while the institutions are officially closed over …
Coming to Broadway next month: A new-age musical celebrating first love and the power of music.
I have high hopes for this show. Ben Brantley writes in The New York Times, “A boy presses ‘play’ and the …
This fascinating 1928 film, part of a year-long series from The Met showcases the back-of-the-house.
The Met is marking its 150th Anniversary. Throughout 2020, as part of their sesquicentennial, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in …
Online: NYC’s Museum of Modern Art is digitizing every exhibition since MoMA’s opening in 1929.
Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, Van Gogh was name of the inaugural exhibition of the Museum of Modern Art when it opened …
Here’s the complete 2020 Academy Awards Ballot. Download your copy, print, and party on!
Each January, the entertainment community and film fans around the world turn their attention to the Academy Awards. Interest and …
Get ready to vote. Here’s your 2020 Golden Globes Award ballot. Download, print, and party on.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s 77th Annual Golden Globe®Awards ceremony will air live coast to coast on NBC from The …
Explainer videos are exceptional or awful. 1950s explainers were films and usually pretty great.
Today, corporations make short explainer videos fast and on the cheap. And, most of them look it. While popular data …
Joy, Joy, Joy. And, Happy Holidays! Here’s a video visit to the 2019 Christmas Windows in New York City.
From Bergdorf to Bloomingdales and Macy’s to Saks—take a video stroll through Rockefeller Center and down Fifth Avenue. @JamesandKarla bring …
Nominations announced for the 26th Annual SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS. Here’s your printable ballot.
On March 8, 1998, John Lithgow took the stage and the 4th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® and said, “I …
I’m not a big fan of Halloween, but creepy old movies are close to the top of my favorite-things list.
The Old Dark House, produced by Universal Pictures’ Carl Laemmle Jr., is one of those creepy movies. It was previewed in …
And then there was the time that I played a Secret Service Man—in a Ford commercial.
Baltimore. June 1988. Sandy Mislang produced the spot for W. B. Doner Advertising on behalf of their client, Baltimore–Washington Ford …
From the team that brought you the brilliant documentary, RGB—a new film. Working title: Julia.
A party without a cake is just a meeting. — Julia Child The 1961 publication of her best-seller, Mastering the Art …
Actress Eve Plumb—Jan on The Bradey Bunch—has become quite an accomplished artist.
I’m a big fan of film noir. And, I a big fan of Eve Plumb’s film noir series of paintings—her …
A film treasure came to me today by way of a message from a new Twitter friend, Laurence Fuller.
Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.” In less than 19 minutes, Echoes of You, an …
Sadly, the Paris Theatre has closed for business. I fell head-over-heels in love with Maggie Smith there.
I clicked on Gothamist this morning and was first startled and then saddened to learn that after 71 years, New …
It’s graduation season. Here’s sage advice—midcentury style—for the ambitious young man in the family.
So, Mr. Wiley, the hiring manager says: “How can a man expect to improve on a job if he won’t …
The Lavender Scare: Documentary details results of Pres. Eisenhower’s Executive Order 10450.
Most Americans of a certain age are familiar with the Red Scare of the ’50s and Senator Joseph R. McCarthy’s …
An early ’70s working trip to Florida introduced me to an engineering marvel—The Polaroid SX-70.
I’d been a 35mm film photographer—one who knew his way around darkrooms—for quite a few years before my first SX-70 …
Film: Amazing Grace. Aretha Franklin & choir at Watts’ New Bethel Baptist Church, 1972.
Last week I posted the trailer for the documentary, Amazing Grace, without comment because the power of the content speaks volumes …
