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    Ordinary People

    posted May 17, 2012 / No Comments / 28 views

    By: Dan Jones (For a brief blurb on “Ordinary People,” go to our BOOKS TO MOVIES section.) No, they’re not extraordinary.  They may sense, or [...]

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    The Role of a Lifetime

    posted April 17, 2012 / No Comments / 200 views

    By: Dan Jones NOTE:  After researching this category, as I always do before stating any carefully-examined list, I’ll admit I have my fair share of [...]

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    Being, Doing, Acting: A Creative Workshop with John C Forman

    posted April 17, 2012 / 1 Comment

    Being, Doing, Acting: A Creative Workshop with John C Forman In-Depth Acting Craft Techniques For the Professional Actor Spring Acting Workshop Starts April 28 [...]

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    Books to Movies – “Hunger Games”

    posted March 31, 2012 / No Comments / 211 views

    By: Dan Jones (For a brief blurb on “Hunger Games,” go to our BOOKS TO MOVIES section.) One may read a book before the movie.  [...]

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    “21 Jump Street” Review – Late and Lazy

    posted March 23, 2012 / No Comments / 582 views

    By: Dan Jones A woman walks in on a man, steaming, wrapped in a towel.  “Take your time,” she says. In the following scene:  A [...]

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    Born Yesterday

    posted March 17, 2012 / 1 Comment / 217 views

    By: Dan Jones We don’t know why we like watching her.  She does a shake-shake boogie to that song she likes, and we don’t want [...]

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    ‘Ben-Hur’ to ‘John Carter’

    posted March 10, 2012 / No Comments / 307 views

    By: Dan Jones There are silent epic journey stories in the desert with gladiators and Christ and Moses and wars. There was also “Alexander the [...]

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    His name is …

    posted March 4, 2012 / 1 Comment / 278 views

    By: Dan Jones Now, I’m sure you don’t confuse John T. Walsh with Craig T. Nelson (Walsh is the man with the darkening conscience of [...]

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    What about ‘What about Bob?’

    posted February 26, 2012 / No Comments / 430 views

    By: Dan Jones Bill Murray plays Bob – “multi-phobic personality characterized by acute separation anxiety and extreme need for family connections.”  This is the private [...]

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    “Bitter Moon” rising

    posted February 12, 2012 / No Comments / 306 views

    By: Dan Jones The MPAA gives “Bitter Moon” an R rating for the strong depiction of a perverse sexual relationship. For example, Peter Coyote (as [...]

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