Some filmmakers use documentaries to explore complex subjects. Others use docs to ram home their own agendas. That’s certainly the case with The Trials Of Henry Kissinger, a fast-paced, 80-minute exposé that is more an accusation than an examination. Directed by Eugene Jarecki and written by Alex Gibney, Kissinger lays…
Be it by a simple pat on the back, a hefty raise, or a shiny award, everybody wants to be recognized in some small way for the things they do, especially drag doyenne Shelley Novak. Known for his perennial five-o’clock shadow, copious chest hair, and ersatz resemblance to hefty actress…
Thursday, February 13, 2003 For days you’ve been seeing more boats on land than you’ve ever seen at sea. That can only mean one thing: The Miami International Boat Show has dropped anchor through Tuesday, February 18, at the Miami Beach Convention Center (1901 Convention Center Dr.) and the Sealine…
Part armored military vehicle, part dune buggy, Volkswagen’s The Thing briefly blitzkrieged through American automobile culture in the Seventies, a wiggy antidote to the billions and billions of sensible Beetles sold by the German carmaker in the U.S. during the Sixties. Manufactured in Mexico, The Thing was first introduced here…
If English mysteries are your cup of tea, you might want to sample Sherlock’s Last Case, now being served up at the Actors’ Playhouse in Coral Gables. Charles Marowitz’s script, a revisionist take on the legendary detective character Sherlock Holmes, borrows both characters and situations from the classic series of…
While virtually no one in this country foresaw the American disaster in Vietnam, the late British writer Graham Greene glimpsed it with astonishing clarity a decade before the first U.S. “advisor” set foot on Vietnamese soil. Greene’s 1955 novel The Quiet American, which has now been made into a disturbing…
Astaire & Rogers. Hepburn & Tracy. Heck, Ball & Arnaz, Houston & Washington, or Vardalos & Corbett. Over the decades Hollywood has proved that its romantic comedies needn’t suck. But alas, they often do, as is the case with How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. Clearly, bigwig co-producers…
Talk about your etiquette dilemmas: What’s the proper way to say thank you to a kidney donor? Do you marry them? Buy them a car? Pay off their house? Send them flowers every month for life? If you’re spoken-word artist Sekou Sundiata, you write a show about the whole harrowing…
The better a barbecue sauce, the more likely you’ll end up with it all over your hands, says a Southern rule of thumb. If it’s an extremely good sauce, you’ll likely find some smeared around your mouth, giving you that inimitable I-applied-lipstick-while-drunk look. Dirty hands and messy mouths occur because…
Rawson Thurber has been so busy the past few days that by the time he finally returns a reporter’s phone call, he does so at 1:30 in the morning–and he doesn’t even realize the late, or early, hour till he hears the groggy croak on the other end. He’s sorry…
Last October, Sue Vertue found herself in a Los Angeles soundstage watching the filming of a pilot for a would-be NBC sitcom. The storyline of this particular episode dealt, more or less, with the horrific (and, of course, capital-H hilarious!) fallout that comes when a man’s girlfriend finds his porn…
Some plays don’t just offer food for thought; they serve up fresh ideas, then eat them raw. One such carnivore is Nicky Silver’s The Food Chain, now on display in a tasty production at the Mosaic Theatre in Plantation. Silver’s scabrous wit slices and dices a number of human foibles,…
Anat Ebgi and Nina Arias are two young, independent Miami curators who have produced interesting shows in the last year. Most recently during Art Miami, Ebgi put on an all-female exhibit called “Manifest Destiny,” and Arias curated “Drawing Conclusions,” both in the Design District and both critically acclaimed. They have…
First off, make no mistake: Biker Boyz is not, and has no intentions of being, The Fast and the Furious on two wheels, which will be considered a serious shame by the twelve-to-twelve-year-old demographic who were hoping to chug a little more Diesel fuel till the official sequel’s release this…
It used to be that the only Korean films to be seen in the U.S. were somber art-house films like Jeong Ji-yeong’s White Badge or veteran Im Kwon-Taek’s Chunhyang and Sopyonje. But as South Korea has developed a more technically sophisticated commercial film industry, these have been joined by hard-edged,…
Just when a cynic might think there are no more Holocaust stories to be told, yet another undiscovered perspective pops up on local screens. But even if you’ve seen The Pianist and The Fighter and Night and Fog, there is still Shanghai Ghetto, a documentary by Dana Janklowicz-Mann and Amir…
“Act boldly and unforeseen forces will come to my aid,” says Carol Durbin, relating some words that were favorites of Martin L. Marcus, her partner of thirteen years. Marcus, who passed away last month after a long battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), certainly took that expression to heart. Thoroughbred…
Appreciating beer is an art, as is pairing it with the proper foods — and we don’t mean peanuts or pizza. Tasting involves more than just the tongue, claims Patrick Jones, head brewer at Miami’s Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant. He is one who’ll share his enthusiasm for the beverage during…
In some ways schlock is similar to pornography: You may not be able to define it, but you know it when you see it, and there’s a lot of it to be seen on South Florida stages this season. The Coconut Grove Playhouse seems particularly interested in schlock musicals. Earlier…
Compiled in the cold light of day, the sum of Chuck Barris’s contributions to American culture are the top 40 ditty “Palisades Park,” which he wrote in 1962, and his discovery, a few years later, that many people are willing to make complete fools of themselves in front of a…
It all begins with the word. “I believe I may have a first sentence,” murmurs Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman) to her husband, Leonard (Stephen Dillane), commencing labor on the author’s fourth novel, Mrs. Dalloway. The year is 1921, but skillfully intercut segments illustrate that the book’s heady emotional content will…
Small-town stud Tully (Anson Mount) works the family farm with his younger brother Earl (Glenn Fitzgerald) and their inexpressive, unsmiling widower Dad (Bob Burrus) in Tully. The sudden possibility that they might lose the farm opens up a trove of disturbing family secrets, challenging Tully’s heretofore shallow nature. Hilary Birmingham…
