“The Showoff” Dolph Ziggler may soon be taking his show off of WWE’s “SmackDown Live,” and where the former Kent State standout says he might take his Zig-Zag and Superkick will surprise the hell of out you. The WWE Superstar guested on the “E&C’s Pod of Awesomeness” podcast Friday, when Ziggler told retired pro-wrestlers Edge and Christian that he’s unsatisfied with his role at Vince McMahon’s wrestling promotion. “I hate it,” the former world champ said of his one-note losing ways lately. “But also I’m someone who — I hate that I’m not the champion.
- 12/1/2017
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
Jay Roach is set to direct 67 Shots, a drama based on the 1970 shootings at Kent State University, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
The indie will be financed by Indian-American film investor Shivani Rawat and her ShivHans Pictures shingle. The project also continues a collaboration between Roach and Rawat following ShivHans financing Trumbo, the Bryan Cranston-starring biopic about blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo.
67 Shots will revisit the protest and shootings on May 4, 1970 at Kent State, where the Ohio National Guard fired at students and left four dead. Stephen Belber is adapting the Howard Means book 67 Shots:...
The indie will be financed by Indian-American film investor Shivani Rawat and her ShivHans Pictures shingle. The project also continues a collaboration between Roach and Rawat following ShivHans financing Trumbo, the Bryan Cranston-starring biopic about blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo.
67 Shots will revisit the protest and shootings on May 4, 1970 at Kent State, where the Ohio National Guard fired at students and left four dead. Stephen Belber is adapting the Howard Means book 67 Shots:...
- 10/13/2017
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Jay Roach has been set to direct 67 Shots, a film that recaptures the circumstances behind the fatal shootings at Kent State University in 1970. Shivani Rawat's ShivHans Pictures, which backed Roach’s lauded Bryan Cranston starrer Trumbo, will finance development after winning a competitive auction for a package that has award-winning playwright Stephen Belber writing the script, based on the Howard Means book 67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocen…...
- 10/13/2017
- Deadline
Celebrated folk singer Judy Collins (Judy Blue Eyes) has reunited with Crosby Stills and Nash legend and former beau, Steven Stills, to create a new album, Stills & Collins, Forbes reported. The ’60’s folk icons and fellow Rock and Roll Hall of Famers first met in 1967, during a high point in the young Collins’ career.
The two quickly fell into a tumultuous love affair that was immortalized in the Crosby, Stills & Nash‘s 1969 instantly recognized classic “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes,” off their first self-titled album. Despite ending their relationship, they have remained friends, and are set to release their first album together on Sept.
The two quickly fell into a tumultuous love affair that was immortalized in the Crosby, Stills & Nash‘s 1969 instantly recognized classic “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes,” off their first self-titled album. Despite ending their relationship, they have remained friends, and are set to release their first album together on Sept.
- 8/28/2017
- by Yvonne Juris
- PEOPLE.com
Former presidential hopeful Howard Dean compared President Trump winning the election to the massacre that occurred at Kent State on Friday morning. “I’m hoping the next presidential candidate is under 50, or at least under 55, in our party. We have go to transfer this over to the next generation,” said the former Vermont governor. “The Trump election, I think, was in a sense, their generation’s Edmund Pettus Bridge or Kent State. Their principles have been violated as a whole generation, but they’re going to have to fight through this by themselves.” The Kent State shootings occurred in 1970 when the.
- 8/25/2017
- by Brian Flood
- The Wrap
Kirk Simon: "You walk down the hall of Princeton and the first office is Toni Morrison, then it's Tracy K Smith, then it's Jeffrey Eugenides."
In the third and final installment of my conversation with Kirk Simon on The Pulitzer At 100, we discuss filming Natalie Portman in Paris for her reading of Jorie Graham's The Dream of the Unified Field, Liev Schreiber (who played Martin Baron in Tom McCarthy's Spotlight) picking Death Of A Salesman and The Grapes Of Wrath, Ken Burns and The Statue of Liberty, Toni Morrison (Beloved), Jeffrey Eugenides (Middlesex), photographers John Filo (Kent State) and Nick Ut (Napalm Girl), finding Kim Phuc, Maureen Corrigan on Philip Roth, and the man who started it all - Joseph Pulitzer.
Anne-Katrin Titze: Did you direct the actors who were doing the readings at all?
Liev Schreiber chose Death Of A Salesman and The Grapes Of Wrath...
In the third and final installment of my conversation with Kirk Simon on The Pulitzer At 100, we discuss filming Natalie Portman in Paris for her reading of Jorie Graham's The Dream of the Unified Field, Liev Schreiber (who played Martin Baron in Tom McCarthy's Spotlight) picking Death Of A Salesman and The Grapes Of Wrath, Ken Burns and The Statue of Liberty, Toni Morrison (Beloved), Jeffrey Eugenides (Middlesex), photographers John Filo (Kent State) and Nick Ut (Napalm Girl), finding Kim Phuc, Maureen Corrigan on Philip Roth, and the man who started it all - Joseph Pulitzer.
Anne-Katrin Titze: Did you direct the actors who were doing the readings at all?
Liev Schreiber chose Death Of A Salesman and The Grapes Of Wrath...
- 7/24/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Kent State University football player Tyler Heintz died after collapsing following a workout on Tuesday.
The school announced that the incoming freshman was transported to a local hospital following conditioning drills at Dix Stadium.
The cause of death is not yet known. Portage County Coroner Dr. Dean DePerro told the Record-Courier an autopsy will be performed on Heintz but their findings might not be concluded for weeks.
“Our heartfelt thoughts and prayers are with Tyler’s family and friends, as well as Coach Haynes and the team, our athletics staff and our student-athletes,” the statement said.
The Kenton, Ohio, native...
The school announced that the incoming freshman was transported to a local hospital following conditioning drills at Dix Stadium.
The cause of death is not yet known. Portage County Coroner Dr. Dean DePerro told the Record-Courier an autopsy will be performed on Heintz but their findings might not be concluded for weeks.
“Our heartfelt thoughts and prayers are with Tyler’s family and friends, as well as Coach Haynes and the team, our athletics staff and our student-athletes,” the statement said.
The Kenton, Ohio, native...
- 6/15/2017
- by Stephanie Petit
- PEOPLE.com
Tonight’s Soundtracks: Songs that Defined History on CNN goes to the heart of the Vietnam protests, the horror of Kent State and the music that surrounded the years leading up to it and after. Four students died and nine others were wounded on May 4, 1970 — 47 years ago today — when 28 members of the Ohio National Guard opened fire on students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University in Ohio. The anger and sadness was captured in the Pulitzer Prize-winning photo below, taken by Kent State photojournalism student John Filo. In it Mary Ann Vecchio can be...read more...
- 5/4/2017
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
While there were plenty of highlights in the Ncaa Tournament yesterday, my favorite has to involve Charles Barkley’s public distaste for UCLA star Lonzo Ball’s father Lavar Ball. I’ve publicly expressed my distaste for the Lavar’s exploitation of his athlete sons and Charles Barkley has made it known he doesn’t approve of Lavar’s antics either. Perhaps no more did Barkley show his disapproval of Lavar Ball than yesterday when he was wearing a Kent State Jersey before the UCLA game. Perhaps Charles put the hex on UCLA because despite their victory, star player Lonzo Ball took a scary fall in
Lonzo Ball Took a Hard Fall in UCLA Win Against Kent State...
Lonzo Ball Took a Hard Fall in UCLA Win Against Kent State...
- 3/18/2017
- by Nat Berman
- TVovermind.com
This article originally appeared on Time.com.
Nostalgia for the 1990s is getting pricier. Urban Outfitters is selling a t-shirt decorated with the classic AOL logo, reading ‘America Online’, on sale for $45, CNN reports.
The shirt is made by Altru Apparel, a company which has a commercial that reminds people of AOL’s dial up internet system. If you’re looking for that same “screechy modem” vibe without the cost, you can get a tee depicting AOL’s log-in screens for a mere $20.
It’s less controversial ground for Urban Outfitters than some of their past offerings, which have included...
Nostalgia for the 1990s is getting pricier. Urban Outfitters is selling a t-shirt decorated with the classic AOL logo, reading ‘America Online’, on sale for $45, CNN reports.
The shirt is made by Altru Apparel, a company which has a commercial that reminds people of AOL’s dial up internet system. If you’re looking for that same “screechy modem” vibe without the cost, you can get a tee depicting AOL’s log-in screens for a mere $20.
It’s less controversial ground for Urban Outfitters than some of their past offerings, which have included...
- 2/22/2017
- by Zamira Rahim
- PEOPLE.com
Nostalgia just ain’t what it used to be.
When the poster for American Graffiti (1973) asked the question “Where were you in ’62?” it was marketing a trend, spiked by the increasing popularity of the theatrical musical Grease, for audiences of a certain age to look backward to a time when life wasn’t ostensibly so complicated, when your life was still out there waiting to be lived, to a time when America hadn’t yet “lost its innocence.” The demarcation point for that alleged loss is often assigned to the upheaval of grief and national confusion experienced in the wake of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in November 1963, so it was no accident that the setting for American Graffiti’s night of cruising, romancing and soul-searching was placed a little over a year before that cataclysmic event. The interesting thing about Graffiti was the aggressiveness with which that...
When the poster for American Graffiti (1973) asked the question “Where were you in ’62?” it was marketing a trend, spiked by the increasing popularity of the theatrical musical Grease, for audiences of a certain age to look backward to a time when life wasn’t ostensibly so complicated, when your life was still out there waiting to be lived, to a time when America hadn’t yet “lost its innocence.” The demarcation point for that alleged loss is often assigned to the upheaval of grief and national confusion experienced in the wake of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in November 1963, so it was no accident that the setting for American Graffiti’s night of cruising, romancing and soul-searching was placed a little over a year before that cataclysmic event. The interesting thing about Graffiti was the aggressiveness with which that...
- 2/13/2017
- by Dennis Cozzalio
- Trailers from Hell
Consumer culture sucks the content out of every subculture it touches. All except Glam, which returns every ten years or so altered by time but with its central message of theatricalized otherness unchanged. Glam pop and fashion were in all the magazines both for teenyboppers and young mums. It was commercial, not very musically challenging, and seemed to have arrived already fully absorbed. But British glam (glam of the '70s as opposed to American glam of the '80s, otherwise known as "hair metal") was highly critical of the counterculture.
Hippy
Hippy culture was 'real' as opposed to 'straight culture' which was 'fake'. America's support of democracy in North Vietnam disguised a terrible agenda. The hippies proposed an alternative world; one were real freedom could be cultivated.
Sex
However, women suffered a great deal of abuse in the name of free love. The '60s generation have compained that...
Hippy
Hippy culture was 'real' as opposed to 'straight culture' which was 'fake'. America's support of democracy in North Vietnam disguised a terrible agenda. The hippies proposed an alternative world; one were real freedom could be cultivated.
Sex
However, women suffered a great deal of abuse in the name of free love. The '60s generation have compained that...
- 12/24/2016
- by Millree Hughes
- www.culturecatch.com
Creative liberties? Amazon takes a few in its new series “Good Girls Revolt,” about a group of women who sue over their treatment at a male-dominated newsweekly in 1969-70. Genevieve Angleson plays Patti, a young journalist seen in the pilot marching to work through midtown Manhattan …. past a fairly large anti-Vietnam protest. In December 1969? We can’t find any record of such a protest during that month. However, in May 1970 New York was shaken by the Hard Hat Riot, when hundreds of construction workers attacked students protesting the shooting deaths at Kent State. Patti works at a magazine called...
- 11/2/2016
- by Scott Collins
- The Wrap
Charlie Siskel tracks down the author of The Anarchist Cookbook, who after decades of denial tacitly accepts the damage caused by his epoch-defining text
Charlie Siskel, along with John Maloof, is responsible for Finding Vivian Maier, the documentary about the Chicago street photographer whose genius was only appreciated with the posthumous discovery of her archive. Now he has turned to another intriguing figure – the once marginal yet centrally important William Powell, author of the notorious, radical underground text The Anarchist Cookbook (1971). This was a book that combined standard-issue revolutionary rhetoric with deadly serious and very practical advice about how to make bombs. It has become a standard text, a locus classicus: but not with the revolutionary left, exactly. The book has been linked with almost every killing spree and mass shooting in the Us.
Related: After Kent State: 1970s anti-war student art – in pictures
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Charlie Siskel, along with John Maloof, is responsible for Finding Vivian Maier, the documentary about the Chicago street photographer whose genius was only appreciated with the posthumous discovery of her archive. Now he has turned to another intriguing figure – the once marginal yet centrally important William Powell, author of the notorious, radical underground text The Anarchist Cookbook (1971). This was a book that combined standard-issue revolutionary rhetoric with deadly serious and very practical advice about how to make bombs. It has become a standard text, a locus classicus: but not with the revolutionary left, exactly. The book has been linked with almost every killing spree and mass shooting in the Us.
Related: After Kent State: 1970s anti-war student art – in pictures
Continue reading...
- 9/2/2016
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Forty-six years on, few people remember (or even care) that the 1970 Kentucky Derby was won by a horse called Dust Commander. And yet, the legacy of that particular race continues to loom large — not because of what happened at Churchill Downs, but because Hunter S. Thompson was there to write about it.
"The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved," Thompson's account of the race for Scanlan's Monthly, is the subject of Gonzo @ the Derby, a highly entertaining new entry in Espn's 30 For 30 Shorts series. (You can view the film here.
"The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved," Thompson's account of the race for Scanlan's Monthly, is the subject of Gonzo @ the Derby, a highly entertaining new entry in Espn's 30 For 30 Shorts series. (You can view the film here.
- 5/11/2016
- Rollingstone.com
“Don’t believe everything you read or hear, remember a large part of our world is made up of fiction!!” • Victoria Addino
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” • Albert Einstein
“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.” • George Orwell,1984
“Am I the only one who knows? I’ll bet I am; nobody else really understands Grasshopper but me – they just imagine they do.” • Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
I haven’t read The Man in the High Castle, by Philip K. Dick, for many years, not since my “Introduction to Science Fiction” class in my freshman year at Quinnipiac University.
I didn’t love it, even if it had won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1963, and even though it was one of those books during the 1960s that was blowing everybody’s mind in Haight-Ashbury and anywhere else where people were tuning in,...
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” • Albert Einstein
“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.” • George Orwell,1984
“Am I the only one who knows? I’ll bet I am; nobody else really understands Grasshopper but me – they just imagine they do.” • Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
I haven’t read The Man in the High Castle, by Philip K. Dick, for many years, not since my “Introduction to Science Fiction” class in my freshman year at Quinnipiac University.
I didn’t love it, even if it had won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1963, and even though it was one of those books during the 1960s that was blowing everybody’s mind in Haight-Ashbury and anywhere else where people were tuning in,...
- 10/26/2015
- by Mindy Newell
- Comicmix.com
- 10/10/2015
- by Ryan Berenz
- ChannelGuideMag
I first learned about the story of the Stanford Prison Experiment in high school. It was a journalism/newspaper class of all classes – where I had a monthly movie review column, which served as my first foray into film criticism. The idea of a psychology professor taking students and throwing them into a simulated prison system didn’t make much sense to me then. It seemed cruel and unusual, and my naïve, middle-class upbringing didn’t understand the benefit of forcing students to be cruel to other students. Never the less, that experiment conducted by Philip Zimbardo (played here in the film by Billy Crudup) in 1971 has always fascinated me due to its unusual nature.
Now that I’m older, I understand its meaning and its relevance. The Stanford Prison Experiment, the film, deftly recreates these intense moments that followed over the case of several days, showing the excruciating stress...
Now that I’m older, I understand its meaning and its relevance. The Stanford Prison Experiment, the film, deftly recreates these intense moments that followed over the case of several days, showing the excruciating stress...
- 7/31/2015
- by Michael Haffner
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Take a first look at the cover of Pretenders’ lead singer Chrissie Hynde’s forthcoming memoir, revealed here for the first time. Reckless: My Life as a Pretender will be published simultaneously in the U.S. and abroad on Sept. 8 by Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House. Singer-songwriter Hynde will take readers through her life, from her 1950s childhood in Akron, Ohio to her college days at Kent State (including being on campus during the May 4, 1970 shooting of students by the National Guard) to her move to London in the early 1970s, where she worked at
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- 6/29/2015
- by Andy Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The weather could not have been nicer for Wizard World’s first ever Cleveland comic convention. (I say this, because in Northeast Ohio half a foot of snow is usually the best welcome we can offer to newcomers.) After a good trudge through the slush-covered streets, I managed to step out of the chill air and into the press of con-goers. Despite the icy conditions, Cleveland’s convention center was packed with attendees.
Soon enough, the crowd would be divided, forming lines for booths and celebs (like fellow Kent State alum Dolph Ziggler). As with any Wizard convention, the same complaints come to mind. There were very few comic related guests in attendance. The focus was given mostly to the old standbys from the Wizard group. Jason David Frank, William Shatner, and others were all in attendance. There were a few booths set up for independent comic companies, like Action Lab,...
Soon enough, the crowd would be divided, forming lines for booths and celebs (like fellow Kent State alum Dolph Ziggler). As with any Wizard convention, the same complaints come to mind. There were very few comic related guests in attendance. The focus was given mostly to the old standbys from the Wizard group. Jason David Frank, William Shatner, and others were all in attendance. There were a few booths set up for independent comic companies, like Action Lab,...
- 2/24/2015
- by Cory Weddell
- SoundOnSight
Bruce Springsteen is drawing heat for...supporting our nation's veterans. Though Eminem received his share of criticism for dropping multiple f-bombs at the televised Concert for Valor Veteran's Day event on Tuesday, The Boss (along with collaborators Dave Grohl and Zac Brown) has been taken to task even more harshly by Twitter users and right-wing pundits alike for performing a cover of John Fogerty's anti-war song "Fortunate Son" at the D.C. event. "The song, not to put too fine a point on it, is an anti-war screed, taking shots at 'the red white and blue,'" gripes neocon opinion mag The Weekly Standard. "It was a particularly terrible choice given that 'Fortunate Son' is, moreover, an anti-draft song, and this concert was largely organized to honor those who volunteered to fight in Afghanistan and Iraq." “You’re doing this for an audience of veterans, and it...
- 11/13/2014
- by Chris Eggertsen
- Hitfix
It's a plus-size publicity nightmare.
It’s a big, "fat" Halloween publicity nightmare. This morning if you searched for a plus-size Halloween costume on Walmart, you would have seen the words "fat girl costumes" appear as the category.
Many people took to Twitter to express their outrage and shock over labeling costumes ranging from sexy maids, witches and flappers as "fat" instead of plus-size.
In fact, there was so much anger that the #fatgirlscostumes trended.
Here are just some of the ones directed at Walmart.
.@Walmart Not sure labeling these as "Fat Girl Costumes" is the best approach. #rude http://t.co/UbDq6BpArv pic.twitter.com/SE5BjOUPFs
— Kristyn Washburn (@ItsWithaY) October 21, 2014
Keeping it classy as always @Walmart? Just another one of the many reasons why I shop @Target! #fatgirlcostumes #Rude pic.twitter.com/a2LmnugHX8
— Nicole Vanacore (@NicoleDVanacore) October 27, 2014
"Fat Girl Costumes?" Okay @Walmart, we get it. You're the worst. You can stop...
It’s a big, "fat" Halloween publicity nightmare. This morning if you searched for a plus-size Halloween costume on Walmart, you would have seen the words "fat girl costumes" appear as the category.
Many people took to Twitter to express their outrage and shock over labeling costumes ranging from sexy maids, witches and flappers as "fat" instead of plus-size.
In fact, there was so much anger that the #fatgirlscostumes trended.
Here are just some of the ones directed at Walmart.
.@Walmart Not sure labeling these as "Fat Girl Costumes" is the best approach. #rude http://t.co/UbDq6BpArv pic.twitter.com/SE5BjOUPFs
— Kristyn Washburn (@ItsWithaY) October 21, 2014
Keeping it classy as always @Walmart? Just another one of the many reasons why I shop @Target! #fatgirlcostumes #Rude pic.twitter.com/a2LmnugHX8
— Nicole Vanacore (@NicoleDVanacore) October 27, 2014
"Fat Girl Costumes?" Okay @Walmart, we get it. You're the worst. You can stop...
- 10/27/2014
- Entertainment Tonight
The man known as the “Show Off” Dolph Ziggler has been under WWE contract for ten years now. He signed a developmental deal when he was 24 years old and after a few gimmicks that didn’t get him very far, he became a regular on WWE TV in late 2008.
Ziggler is a rare WWE superstar that really didn’t work anywhere else before he started with them. He was hired because he was a successful collegiate wrestler at Kent State and he learned how to wrestle in WWE’s developmental system in Ohio Valley Wrestling. He’s the definition of what it means to be a homegrown WWE product because that’s all he’s ever known.
His place on the WWE roster is always changing. During his first few years as a regular, he was regular competing for the midcard Ic & Us Titles. He’s had multiple reigns with both titles.
Ziggler is a rare WWE superstar that really didn’t work anywhere else before he started with them. He was hired because he was a successful collegiate wrestler at Kent State and he learned how to wrestle in WWE’s developmental system in Ohio Valley Wrestling. He’s the definition of what it means to be a homegrown WWE product because that’s all he’s ever known.
His place on the WWE roster is always changing. During his first few years as a regular, he was regular competing for the midcard Ic & Us Titles. He’s had multiple reigns with both titles.
- 10/1/2014
- by John Canton
- Obsessed with Film
Like every proud Midwesterner, I think malls are glamorous, wonderful palaces where I can by the $79.99 shirt that will improve my life for at least eight minutes. But in the case of Urban Outfitters, a company that produces some perfectly fine clothes, it's hard for me not to roll my eyes at some of their marketing stunts. Did you happen see that bloody Kent State sweatshirt they took off the market? Pretty dicey. In today's edition of The Snap, I revisit Urban Outfitters' biggest snafus and remind you of the wild antics they've pulled. You cannot redeem this anger with a gift card. (Nsfw, language. Hooray for swear words.) Check out all of The Snap's episodes: Ep. #25: Joan Rivers' True Legacy Ep. #24: Our Unanswered 'Saved by the Bell' Questions Ep. #23: Beyonce's 20 Biggest Flaws Ep. #22: Everything We Learned From Robin Williams Movies Ep. #21:...
- 9/19/2014
- by Louis Virtel
- Hitfix
Welcome back to the Rolling Stone "Everything Index," where we rank the week's pop-culture power players, based solely on their proximity to unlimited breadsticks.
Yes, there's plenty happening in the pop-o-sphere this week – the NFL is falling apart, Scotland is voting for independence, Rihanna is pissed and the Olive Garden is under assault. Luckily, we're here with our advanced algorithms to put them all in proper order. Let's get Indexing.
1. The Wrath of Rihanna: CBS feels the fury of Rihanna's Navy after it pulls "Run This Town" from Thursday Night Football.
Yes, there's plenty happening in the pop-o-sphere this week – the NFL is falling apart, Scotland is voting for independence, Rihanna is pissed and the Olive Garden is under assault. Luckily, we're here with our advanced algorithms to put them all in proper order. Let's get Indexing.
1. The Wrath of Rihanna: CBS feels the fury of Rihanna's Navy after it pulls "Run This Town" from Thursday Night Football.
- 9/16/2014
- Rollingstone.com
Urban Outfitters has again come under fire, but this time it’s because of a “vintage” blood stained Kent State sweatshirt for sale on their website. The sweatshirt, which is no longer available on the site, was advertised as being “one-of-a-kind” and was being sold for $129.99. The shirt is tattered and stained, muddied and faded. It’s speckled red spots near the heart and near the hem. Given its “vintage” titling, it was supposedly Urban Outfitter’s goal to assert a connection to the 1970 campus shooting that left four Kent State students dead. Urban Outfitters said that the red spots were not blood but a “discoloration from the original shade of the shirt.”
This morning Kent State released a statement. “We take great offense to a company using our pain for their publicity and profit," the school wrote. "This item is beyond poor taste and trivializes a loss of life...
This morning Kent State released a statement. “We take great offense to a company using our pain for their publicity and profit," the school wrote. "This item is beyond poor taste and trivializes a loss of life...
- 9/16/2014
- Uinterview
Warning: This story will make you groan, roll your eyes and wonder out loud, "What were they thinking!?" After Urban Outfitters came under fire earlier today for selling a red Kent State sweatshirt with faux bloodstains splattered all over it, we were first outraged like everybody else who was reminded of the 1970 tragedy. But then we started ticking off all the recent controversial clothes sold by retailers: Zara's children's top that resembled uniforms worn by inmates in Nazi concentration camps, or a purse embroidered with swastikas or Urban Outfitters "Eat Less" t-shirt. And our outrage tripled. Unfortunately, the offensive list goes on and on. And on. But what we want to...
- 9/15/2014
- E! Online
Why, Urban Outfitters, why?
Urban Outfitters has done it again.
After previously getting flack for t-shirts that some felt glamorized depression and anorexia, the store seemed to recently hit an insensitive low with this "vintage" Kent State University sweatshirt.
Retailing for $129, the sweatshirt clearly appears to be blood-stained -- a reference to the 1970 Kent State shootings, in which four students died when the Ohio National Guard opened fire on unarmed college students who were protesting the Vietnam War.
News: Zara Apologizes, Stops Selling Shirt That Looks Like a Holocaust Uniform
Kent State University commented on the sweater with the following statement:
"May 4, 1970, was a watershed moment for the country and especially the Kent State family. We lost four students that day while nine others were wounded and countless others were changed forever."
"We take great offense to a company using our pain for their publicity and profit. This item is beyond poor taste and trivializes a loss...
Urban Outfitters has done it again.
After previously getting flack for t-shirts that some felt glamorized depression and anorexia, the store seemed to recently hit an insensitive low with this "vintage" Kent State University sweatshirt.
Retailing for $129, the sweatshirt clearly appears to be blood-stained -- a reference to the 1970 Kent State shootings, in which four students died when the Ohio National Guard opened fire on unarmed college students who were protesting the Vietnam War.
News: Zara Apologizes, Stops Selling Shirt That Looks Like a Holocaust Uniform
Kent State University commented on the sweater with the following statement:
"May 4, 1970, was a watershed moment for the country and especially the Kent State family. We lost four students that day while nine others were wounded and countless others were changed forever."
"We take great offense to a company using our pain for their publicity and profit. This item is beyond poor taste and trivializes a loss...
- 9/15/2014
- Entertainment Tonight
Seriously? No one, not one Urban Outfitters employee from finding/making this sweatshirt allllll the way to posting it on the site stopped and said: "Hey, you know what? This red paint looks like blood. And Kent State had a shooting back in 1970 that left many people hurt or dead. Maybe this will be seen as tasteless." Urban Outfitters, it might be time to rethink the people you have over there. Because the fact that as soon as this sweatshirt was seen online, it immediately set the Internet on fire should tell you that somebody should have flagged this so long before it hit the website. So here's the story. Urban Outfitters posted this "vintage" Kent State sweatshirt on their website for the high,...
- 9/15/2014
- E! Online
Mayim Bialik doesn’t understand Ariana Grande‘s marketing tactic, Martha Stewart doesn’t appreciate Gwyneth Paltrow moving into the lifestyle business, a Django Unchained actress is mistaken for a hooker, and more of today’s First Dibs.
Big Bang Theory actress Mayim Bialik dissed Ariana Grande: “If she has a talent (is she a singer?), then why does she have to sell herself in lingerie?” [Huffington Post] Martha Stewart thinks Gwyneth Paltrow should shut up. [Gawker] Urban Outfitters is getting major cristicism after selling “blood-splattered” Kent State sweatshirts in reference to the 1970 school shooting. The retailer has already come out with a public apology. [People/Twitlonger] Daniele Watts from Django Unchained claims to have been “accosted” by police who mistook her for a prostitute. [Gossip Cop] Miss New York Kira Kazantsev takes the crown as Miss America 2015. [Hollywood Life] Lauren Conrad tied the knot with William Tell over the weekend. [Us Weekly] Kendall Jenner called a photographer a “Perv...
Big Bang Theory actress Mayim Bialik dissed Ariana Grande: “If she has a talent (is she a singer?), then why does she have to sell herself in lingerie?” [Huffington Post] Martha Stewart thinks Gwyneth Paltrow should shut up. [Gawker] Urban Outfitters is getting major cristicism after selling “blood-splattered” Kent State sweatshirts in reference to the 1970 school shooting. The retailer has already come out with a public apology. [People/Twitlonger] Daniele Watts from Django Unchained claims to have been “accosted” by police who mistook her for a prostitute. [Gossip Cop] Miss New York Kira Kazantsev takes the crown as Miss America 2015. [Hollywood Life] Lauren Conrad tied the knot with William Tell over the weekend. [Us Weekly] Kendall Jenner called a photographer a “Perv...
- 9/15/2014
- by Taylor Ferber
- VH1.com
Mayim Bialik doesn’t understand Ariana Grande‘s marketing tactic, Martha Stewart doesn’t appreciate Gwyneth Paltrow moving into the lifestyle business, a Django Unchained actress is mistaken for a hooker, and more of today’s First Dibs.
Big Bang Theory actress Mayim Bialik dissed Ariana Grande: “If she has a talent (is she a singer?), then why does she have to sell herself in lingerie?” [Huffington Post] Martha Stewart thinks Gwyneth Paltrow should shut up. [Gawker] Urban Outfitters is getting major cristicism after selling “blood-splattered” Kent State sweatshirts in reference to the 1970 school shooting. The retailer has already come out with a public apology. [People/Twitlonger] Daniele Watts from Django Unchained claims to have been “accosted” by police who mistook her for a prostitute. [Gossip Cop] Miss New York Kira Kazantsev takes the crown as Miss America 2015. [Hollywood Life] Lauren Conrad tied the knot with William Tell over the weekend. [Us Weekly] Kendall Jenner called a photographer a “Perv...
Big Bang Theory actress Mayim Bialik dissed Ariana Grande: “If she has a talent (is she a singer?), then why does she have to sell herself in lingerie?” [Huffington Post] Martha Stewart thinks Gwyneth Paltrow should shut up. [Gawker] Urban Outfitters is getting major cristicism after selling “blood-splattered” Kent State sweatshirts in reference to the 1970 school shooting. The retailer has already come out with a public apology. [People/Twitlonger] Daniele Watts from Django Unchained claims to have been “accosted” by police who mistook her for a prostitute. [Gossip Cop] Miss New York Kira Kazantsev takes the crown as Miss America 2015. [Hollywood Life] Lauren Conrad tied the knot with William Tell over the weekend. [Us Weekly] Kendall Jenner called a photographer a “Perv...
- 9/15/2014
- by Taylor Ferber
- TheFabLife - Movies
Clothing retailer Urban Outfitters has come under fire online for selling a faux-vintage sweatshirt emblazoned with the Kent State seal and splatters that appear to be blood stains. This would appear to be a reference to the shootings at the college on May 4, 1970, in which four unarmed college students were killed by Ohio National Guardsmen during a Vietnam War protest. After Buzzfeed pointed out the item, it quickly sold out, and its listing page appears to have been removed from the company's website, though the item appeared on eBay shortly thereafter, listed at many times its original price. Kent State...
- 9/15/2014
- by Alex Heigl, @alex_heigl
- PEOPLE.com
Clothing retailer Urban Outfitters has come under fire online for selling a faux-vintage T-shirt emblazoned with the Kent State seal and splatters that appear to be blood stains. This would appear to be a reference to the shootings at the college on May 4, 1970, in which four unarmed college students were killed by Ohio National Guardsmen during a Vietnam War protest. After Buzzfeed pointed out the item, it quickly sold out, and its listing page appears to have been removed from the company's website, though the item appeared on eBay shortly thereafter, listed at many times its original price. Kent State...
- 9/15/2014
- by Alex Heigl, @alex_heigl
- PEOPLE.com
Twenty-five years after he first donned the cape as Batman, Michael Keaton is back and exploring his superhero past.
Keaton got his start on "Mister Rogers," though, most of his work was surprisingly behind the scenes. It really wouldn't be until 1982 that the actor would break out in Ron Howard's "Night Shift," and a few years later, his career went into overdrive. After collaborating with Tim Burton on "Beetlejuice" (1988), the director cast him as the legendary Bruce Wayne in "Batman" (1989). This fall, he revisits his superhero past in Alejandro González Iñárritu's "Birdman," and the acclaim is already rolling in.
From his connection to "Lost" to his history with Larry David, here are 29 things you probably don't know about Michael Keaton.
1. Michael Keaton was born September 5, 1951 in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania to Leona Loftus and George A. Douglas.
2. His father worked as a civil engineer and surveyor, while his mother was a homemaker.
Keaton got his start on "Mister Rogers," though, most of his work was surprisingly behind the scenes. It really wouldn't be until 1982 that the actor would break out in Ron Howard's "Night Shift," and a few years later, his career went into overdrive. After collaborating with Tim Burton on "Beetlejuice" (1988), the director cast him as the legendary Bruce Wayne in "Batman" (1989). This fall, he revisits his superhero past in Alejandro González Iñárritu's "Birdman," and the acclaim is already rolling in.
From his connection to "Lost" to his history with Larry David, here are 29 things you probably don't know about Michael Keaton.
1. Michael Keaton was born September 5, 1951 in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania to Leona Loftus and George A. Douglas.
2. His father worked as a civil engineer and surveyor, while his mother was a homemaker.
- 9/5/2014
- by Jonny Black
- Moviefone
Punishment Park
Written and directed by Peter Watkins
1971, USA
Images of the heavy-handed police response to protests of the fatal shooting of unarmed Missouri teenager Michael Brown have re-ignited discussion about the increasing militarization of U.S. police forces.
They are also reminiscent of this indelible image from Punishment Park, a powerful faux documentary that brought police militarization to its extreme but inevitable conclusion over 40 years ago.
While hardware is a large part of the Ferguson story, Punishment Park’s $95,000 budget (per the original press kit, which is included with a 2005 DVD release) perhaps precluded director Peter Watkins from equipping the cast with anything quite as threatening, but the film’s impacted is hardly blunted. The press kit insists “Punishment Park takes place tomorrow, yesterday or five years from now. It is also happening today.” And this can still be said of it.
Punishment Park is not only a prescient...
Written and directed by Peter Watkins
1971, USA
Images of the heavy-handed police response to protests of the fatal shooting of unarmed Missouri teenager Michael Brown have re-ignited discussion about the increasing militarization of U.S. police forces.
They are also reminiscent of this indelible image from Punishment Park, a powerful faux documentary that brought police militarization to its extreme but inevitable conclusion over 40 years ago.
While hardware is a large part of the Ferguson story, Punishment Park’s $95,000 budget (per the original press kit, which is included with a 2005 DVD release) perhaps precluded director Peter Watkins from equipping the cast with anything quite as threatening, but the film’s impacted is hardly blunted. The press kit insists “Punishment Park takes place tomorrow, yesterday or five years from now. It is also happening today.” And this can still be said of it.
Punishment Park is not only a prescient...
- 8/20/2014
- by Steven Fouchard
- SoundOnSight
Bob Casale, the guitarist for the band Devo, has died. He was 61. Casale succumbed Monday to "conditions that lead to heart failure," according to his brother and band mate Gerald Casale, who posted the news on the band's Facebook page. "As an original member of Devo, Bob Casale was there in the trenches with me from the beginning," Gerald wrote. "He was my levelheaded brother, solid performer and talented audio engineer, always giving more than he got." Devo was formed in 1972 after band members were inspired to make music from personally witnessing the Kent State massacre in 1970, according to Rolling Stone.
- 2/18/2014
- by Sheila Cosgrove Baylis
- PEOPLE.com
Birthday shoutouts go to Kelly Slater (above), who is 42, Jennifer Aniston is 45, Tina Louise is 80, Kelly Rowland is 33, and Burt Reynolds is 78.
Our thoughts are with the family and generations of fans of Shirley Temple Black, who has died at the age of 85.
Hugh Jackman will return as Tony Host this year. He hosted the show from 2003-2005, earning an Emmy in the process. No word on where this leaves Neil Patrick Harris.
Idina Menzel will perform “Let It Go” at the Academy Awards.
TV Line has an exclusive look at Rachel as Fanny Brice on Glee.
Why Abercrombie Is Losing Its Shirt
Sam Wheeler, Kent State Wrestler, Suspended For Anti-Gay Tweets About Michael Sam.
That was quick!
This Week's Cover America Is Ready For Michael Sam (@MikeSamFootball): http://t.co/OjIFIN3ITd pic.twitter.com/MU7xtPHwH6
— Sports Illustrated (@SInow) February 11, 2014
ABC’s Mistresses has cast Joseph May...
Our thoughts are with the family and generations of fans of Shirley Temple Black, who has died at the age of 85.
Hugh Jackman will return as Tony Host this year. He hosted the show from 2003-2005, earning an Emmy in the process. No word on where this leaves Neil Patrick Harris.
Idina Menzel will perform “Let It Go” at the Academy Awards.
TV Line has an exclusive look at Rachel as Fanny Brice on Glee.
Why Abercrombie Is Losing Its Shirt
Sam Wheeler, Kent State Wrestler, Suspended For Anti-Gay Tweets About Michael Sam.
That was quick!
This Week's Cover America Is Ready For Michael Sam (@MikeSamFootball): http://t.co/OjIFIN3ITd pic.twitter.com/MU7xtPHwH6
— Sports Illustrated (@SInow) February 11, 2014
ABC’s Mistresses has cast Joseph May...
- 2/11/2014
- by snicks
- The Backlot
The Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity chapter at Louisiana State University is coming under fire after hanging a sign from their house that mocked the Kent State University shootings, which happened in 1970. The banner read, "Getting massacred is nothing new to Kent State."
When people expressed their anger over the sign over the insensitive sign, the university released a statement, noting they do not condone the message sent by the fraternity. They also spoke with the frat, who offered a formal apology to Kent State.
Then came the apology sign, which reads "We would like to apologize to Kent State for our inappropriate sign." Never before has spray paint on a white sheet sent a stronger message.
This isn't Dke's first tango with insensitive signs, according to local affiliate Ksla. Previously they've hung banners with messages like "Lsu vs. Uab - It's gonna be a gas. Syriasly" and "Like the Batman premiere,...
When people expressed their anger over the sign over the insensitive sign, the university released a statement, noting they do not condone the message sent by the fraternity. They also spoke with the frat, who offered a formal apology to Kent State.
Then came the apology sign, which reads "We would like to apologize to Kent State for our inappropriate sign." Never before has spray paint on a white sheet sent a stronger message.
This isn't Dke's first tango with insensitive signs, according to local affiliate Ksla. Previously they've hung banners with messages like "Lsu vs. Uab - It's gonna be a gas. Syriasly" and "Like the Batman premiere,...
- 9/17/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Get ready to feel old. Jeff Timmons of 98 Degrees turns the big 4-0 today! Just think we'd never have "I Do (Cherish You)" without Timmons, who's the founding member of the band. Jeff was studying at Kent State when he decided to drop out and move to Los Angeles in hopes of pursuing a singing career. The boys found great success like other pop groups of the mid-1990s (*Nysnc, The Backstreet Boys and The Spice Girls to name a few), but like their competition ... 98 Degrees split in the early 2000's to pursue other projects, only to reunite years later.Since singing with the band, Jeff released a solo album "Whisper That Way," appeared on VH1's "Mission: Man Band" and joined the Las Vegas' Chippendales in 2011. Timmons is currently working on a new reality show "Men of the Strip" -- a show which will feature the "hippest, hottest and sexiest male entertainers.
- 4/30/2013
- by tooFab Staff
- TooFab
Day two of the 2013 NFL Draft is in the books.
There were several big names that were still on the board once the draft kicked off its second day at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
By the time the day was over, more of those names did in fact come off the board.
One in particular drastically changed the culture of a franchise, and may have sent Mark Sanchez looking for packing boxes.
The results from Day 2 are as follows:
Round 2
No. 33: Jacksonville Jaguars- Jonathan Cyprien, S, Florida International
No. 34: Tennessee Titans (from Kansas City Chiefs through San Francisco 49ers)-Justin Hunter, Wr, Tennessee
No. 35: Philadelphia Eagles- Zach Ertz, Te, Stanford
No. 36- Detroit Lions- Darius Slay, Cb, Mississippi State
No. 37: Cincinnati Bengals (from Oakland Raiders)- Giovani Bernard, Rb, North Carolina
No. 38: San Diego Chargers (from Arizona Cardinals)- Manti Te’o,...
There were several big names that were still on the board once the draft kicked off its second day at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
By the time the day was over, more of those names did in fact come off the board.
One in particular drastically changed the culture of a franchise, and may have sent Mark Sanchez looking for packing boxes.
The results from Day 2 are as follows:
Round 2
No. 33: Jacksonville Jaguars- Jonathan Cyprien, S, Florida International
No. 34: Tennessee Titans (from Kansas City Chiefs through San Francisco 49ers)-Justin Hunter, Wr, Tennessee
No. 35: Philadelphia Eagles- Zach Ertz, Te, Stanford
No. 36- Detroit Lions- Darius Slay, Cb, Mississippi State
No. 37: Cincinnati Bengals (from Oakland Raiders)- Giovani Bernard, Rb, North Carolina
No. 38: San Diego Chargers (from Arizona Cardinals)- Manti Te’o,...
- 4/27/2013
- by Doug Rush
- Obsessed with Film
New York — A new exhibition is hailing the fashion sense of Katharine Hepburn, whose trademark khakis and open-collar shirts were decidedly unconventional in the 1930s and 40s, when girdles and stockings were the order of the day.
The fiercely independent Hepburn famously once said: "Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, `Try one. Try a skirt.'"
But skirts and dresses abound in "Katharine Hepburn: Dressed for Stage and Screen" at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, which opens Thursday.
Hepburn, who died in 2003 at age 96, saved almost all the costumes from her long career that included four Oscars and such memorable films as "The Philadelphia Story," "The African Queen," "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" and "On Golden Pond." Forty are on view at the exhibition, which runs through Jan. 12.
One of the first things visitors will notice is...
The fiercely independent Hepburn famously once said: "Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, `Try one. Try a skirt.'"
But skirts and dresses abound in "Katharine Hepburn: Dressed for Stage and Screen" at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, which opens Thursday.
Hepburn, who died in 2003 at age 96, saved almost all the costumes from her long career that included four Oscars and such memorable films as "The Philadelphia Story," "The African Queen," "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" and "On Golden Pond." Forty are on view at the exhibition, which runs through Jan. 12.
One of the first things visitors will notice is...
- 10/18/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
It happens quickly -- discomfort in a public place -- and it is a very effective element to control, as you will experience with the work of Carrie Mae Weems. Early on in the exhibition at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video, Weems confronts her audience with her Aint Jokin’ series from 1987-88. Here she combines images and text that project racial stereotyping with works such as "Black Woman with Chicken" [left] and "Black Man Holding Watermelon." In another piece nearby we see a vintagepolitical drawing of Abraham Lincoln looking a bit disheveled, seated in a room filled with props and papers positioned above the question: What Did Lincoln Say After A Drinking Bout?. The answer-box nearby reveals: I Freed The What?. The exposure to this, and other bits of appropriated hurtful humor will surely prompt an uncomfortable feeling in most...
- 10/3/2012
- by ddlombardi
- www.culturecatch.com
The Italian master's challenging and difficult L'Avventura was booed at its premiere in Cannes. But nowadays the director gets something far more hurtful: indifference
This is the centenary year of Michelangelo Antonioni. He was born on 29 September 1912 and died in 2007 at the age of 94, having worked until almost the very end. As well as everything else, he gave us one of the founding myths of postwar cinema: The Booing of L'Avventura. For film historians, it's as pretty much important as the audience riots at the 1913 premiere of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.
At the Cannes film festival on 15 May 1960, Antonioni presented his L'Avventura, a challenging and difficult film and a decisive break from his earlier work, replete with languorous spaces and silences. This was movie-modernism's difficult birth. The film was jeered so ferociously, so deafeningly, that poor Antonioni and his beautiful star Monica Vitti burst into tears where they sat. There...
This is the centenary year of Michelangelo Antonioni. He was born on 29 September 1912 and died in 2007 at the age of 94, having worked until almost the very end. As well as everything else, he gave us one of the founding myths of postwar cinema: The Booing of L'Avventura. For film historians, it's as pretty much important as the audience riots at the 1913 premiere of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.
At the Cannes film festival on 15 May 1960, Antonioni presented his L'Avventura, a challenging and difficult film and a decisive break from his earlier work, replete with languorous spaces and silences. This was movie-modernism's difficult birth. The film was jeered so ferociously, so deafeningly, that poor Antonioni and his beautiful star Monica Vitti burst into tears where they sat. There...
- 9/27/2012
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Chicago – The name Rodriguez alone, although it carries a mysterious cache, isn’t identifiable as any individual. Rodriguez is Sixto Diaz Rodriguez, but when he was a troubadour musician in the 1960s and ‘70s he was simply “Rodriguez.” His extraordinary story is told in the new film “Searching for Sugar Man,” directed by Malik Bendjelloul.
Rodriguez released two notable albums in consecutive years when he first began recording, “Cold Fact” (1970) and “Coming from Reality” (1971). The brilliant tone poems were supersonic dreams from the consciousness of the era. But the albums, and the songs, went nowhere. As with many musicians, Rodriguez faded into obscurity, taking on journeyman jobs in his native Detroit. But half a world away, something amazing was happening. The country of South Africa, so beaten and sorrowful because of apartheid, was embracing the albums and songs of Rodriguez. He became a sensation in the country, and he didn’t even know it.
Rodriguez released two notable albums in consecutive years when he first began recording, “Cold Fact” (1970) and “Coming from Reality” (1971). The brilliant tone poems were supersonic dreams from the consciousness of the era. But the albums, and the songs, went nowhere. As with many musicians, Rodriguez faded into obscurity, taking on journeyman jobs in his native Detroit. But half a world away, something amazing was happening. The country of South Africa, so beaten and sorrowful because of apartheid, was embracing the albums and songs of Rodriguez. He became a sensation in the country, and he didn’t even know it.
- 8/8/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Walk with him: Neil Young makes Canada shake in Demme’s concert film
On R.E.M.’s farewell masterpiece ‘Collapse Into Now,’ Michael Stipe channels the deep need of human beings to make sense of their lives through the music they listen to when he petitions, “please ask Neil, I need to pow-wow now.” The great Jonathan Demme (‘Something Wild,’ ‘Philadelphia,’ and the often misconstrued ‘Rachel Getting Married’) does his part in fulfilling this request in ‘Neil Young Journeys,’ a live concert doc featuring Young’s electrifying, electrified 2011 solo performance at Toronto’s Massey Hall, coming a full 40 years after ‘Live at Massey Hall,’ a quiet acoustic show from Young’s early folk period, was recorded.
On stage, Neil’s guitar growls and groans, quakes the tectonic plates, and imperils the planet’s orbit. Interspersed with the brilliantly sound-mixed concert footage, Demme unobtrusively inserts casual scenes of Young revisiting his hometown (yes,...
On R.E.M.’s farewell masterpiece ‘Collapse Into Now,’ Michael Stipe channels the deep need of human beings to make sense of their lives through the music they listen to when he petitions, “please ask Neil, I need to pow-wow now.” The great Jonathan Demme (‘Something Wild,’ ‘Philadelphia,’ and the often misconstrued ‘Rachel Getting Married’) does his part in fulfilling this request in ‘Neil Young Journeys,’ a live concert doc featuring Young’s electrifying, electrified 2011 solo performance at Toronto’s Massey Hall, coming a full 40 years after ‘Live at Massey Hall,’ a quiet acoustic show from Young’s early folk period, was recorded.
On stage, Neil’s guitar growls and groans, quakes the tectonic plates, and imperils the planet’s orbit. Interspersed with the brilliantly sound-mixed concert footage, Demme unobtrusively inserts casual scenes of Young revisiting his hometown (yes,...
- 6/29/2012
- by Ryan Brown
- IONCINEMA.com
Neil Young is a salty dude. Forthcoming, irreverent, introspective, and witty, even as he approaches his mid-sixties, the musician has lost none of his rockability. The man is still writing new songs, for crying out loud, now nearly 50 years after the inception of Buffalo Springfield made him an international sensation. Jonathan Demme’s new rock documentary, “Neil Young Journeys,” is the third collaboration between the director and the musician, following 2006’s “Heart of Gold” and “Trunk Show” in 2009. The two first met when Young was composing the closing song for Demme’s 1993 film, “Philadelphia,” and this trilogy was conceived of not too long after. In this last installment – part concert video, part interview-on-the-go – Young, and his saltiness, are given their full due in an electrifying rock doc that will make you want to stand up and cheer.
This film depicts two kinds of homecomings for Young, and, in so doing,...
This film depicts two kinds of homecomings for Young, and, in so doing,...
- 6/21/2012
- by Emma Bernstein
- The Playlist
While our managing editor Steve Holtje has done a bang-up job sharing phenomenal Jazz and Classical reviews, I thought I'd share some of my favorite new rock, pop, and soul picks for Summer 2012. It's time for BBQs and beach blanket bingo parties. Time to get your swag on, peoples.
"Radiator Sister" - The Mynabirds Generals (Saddle Creek) - Infectious, bubble-gum snappin' tunes abound on this sophomore long player from singer-songwriter Laura Burhenn. All aptly produced by Richard Swift, but for my limited ducats this iPod-friendly ditty is the bees-ness. Equal parts Bow Wow Wow and T.Rex, with its two-note piano hook.
"Among the Leaves" Sun Kil Moon Among the Leaves (Caldo Verde) - Mark Kozelek remains steadfast in his musical offerings; familiar turf, but still so damn compelling. Alt tunings, heartfelt ballads, and lyrical dexterity all remain firmly in place.The gentle tug of his band behind him keep...
"Radiator Sister" - The Mynabirds Generals (Saddle Creek) - Infectious, bubble-gum snappin' tunes abound on this sophomore long player from singer-songwriter Laura Burhenn. All aptly produced by Richard Swift, but for my limited ducats this iPod-friendly ditty is the bees-ness. Equal parts Bow Wow Wow and T.Rex, with its two-note piano hook.
"Among the Leaves" Sun Kil Moon Among the Leaves (Caldo Verde) - Mark Kozelek remains steadfast in his musical offerings; familiar turf, but still so damn compelling. Alt tunings, heartfelt ballads, and lyrical dexterity all remain firmly in place.The gentle tug of his band behind him keep...
- 6/19/2012
- by Dusty Wright
- www.culturecatch.com
SXSW is usually an incredibly streamlined and well-organized film festival, with everything working with the smoothness of a Swiss watch. But yesterday must have been an "off" day, as a panel centered around beloved film composer and Devo member Mark Mothersbaugh started about ten minutes late and (for some reason) a retrospective video for Mothersbaugh, produced back in 2004, played for another 20 minutes. Meaning that the tight hour that was allotted for the composer was actually more like 30 minutes. And while we wished it were longer, it was worth sticking around for the stories Mothersbaugh shared.
His early career in Devo was inspired by film technology, he recalled. Mothersbaugh said that he was a student at Kent State and in the same anti-Vietnam protest that claimed the lives of several of his peers, and that Devo was partially a gonzo response to that. But the real crux of the band was formulated a few years later.
His early career in Devo was inspired by film technology, he recalled. Mothersbaugh said that he was a student at Kent State and in the same anti-Vietnam protest that claimed the lives of several of his peers, and that Devo was partially a gonzo response to that. But the real crux of the band was formulated a few years later.
- 3/14/2012
- by Drew Taylor
- The Playlist
Horror fans today are spoiled. With the vast array of films available on DVD and Blu-ray via storefronts like Best Buy and Fye, online outlets like Amazon and Deep Discount, and rental/streaming services such as Netflix, there are few films that are unattainable. Virtually anything one might hear of is available some way, somewhere. But it wasn't always so...
Back at a time before disc (or VHS for that matter), the only way - and I mean the Only way - to see classic and not so classic genre pictures was on broadcast television. As a kid, I remember getting the local TV Guide and a yellow highlighter and systematically going through the listings, marking each and every show time of movies I'd heard about either from friends or ones that were obliquely mentioned in Forry Ackerman's Famous Monsters of Filmland . I would meticulously go over each entry...
Back at a time before disc (or VHS for that matter), the only way - and I mean the Only way - to see classic and not so classic genre pictures was on broadcast television. As a kid, I remember getting the local TV Guide and a yellow highlighter and systematically going through the listings, marking each and every show time of movies I'd heard about either from friends or ones that were obliquely mentioned in Forry Ackerman's Famous Monsters of Filmland . I would meticulously go over each entry...
- 3/8/2012
- by Carnell
- DreadCentral.com
San Diego Chargers All-Pro tight end Antonio Gates is ready to officially become the father of his 9-year-old and he's filed paternity papers in Georgia to do just that.According to the docs, Gates would like to establish an official custody and child support agreement with the girl's mother, Lauren Johnson, who went to Kent State at the same time as Gates. He is seeking joint custody, with Johnson getting primary custody. Gates and Johnson...
- 2/4/2012
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
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