The acclaimed avant-garde theater and opera director Robert Wilson was passing through New York one day when he received an urgent phone call from his friend Marina Abramovic, the celebrated performance artist, demanding that he should see her immediately. When he protested that he was busy the whole day, she didn’t let up. ‘I NEED … Continue reading
For Bobbi Jene Smth a Principal Dancer with the acclaimed Batsheva Dance Company in Tel Aviv, her impending 30th Birthday was going to be the time for big life changes. Most of which were of her own choosing, but very few of them she was about to undertake were going to be executed with a … Continue reading
Richard and Robert Sherman are two remarkable songwriters who so excelled at writing smash hit songs for family musical that they became the only in-house composers that the Walt Disney Studios ever hired. They were responsible for all the sugary hits in classic children movies such as ‘Mary Poppins’, ‘The Jungle Book’, ‘The Parent Trap’, … Continue reading
Russell Brand is not an easy person to like. The 40-year-old British comic and recovering drug addict and a former Mr Katy Perry is an obnoxious, loud-mouth, narcissistic, vain, self-serving, hedonistic irritating man. He is however side-splittingly funny when he is on stage performing and that is the saving grace of both Brand himself and … Continue reading
I guess you could call Jeannette Maier a lucky Madam, as unlike Deborah Jeanne Palfrey the so called DC Madam, for when the FBI raided her New Orleans Brothel in 2005 she just lost her livelihood but not her life. In this fascinating documentary on the life of the media-dubbed ‘Canal Street Madam’ what comes shining through is the very … Continue reading