Columbia Records / Music with a Twist
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Last week, I found myself at a grungy little bar in far west SoHo where it was all…pretty gay. It was the launch party for a new label called Music with a Twist, a brand that features gay and lesbian artists. They are calling themselves “the [...]

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A while ago, Patrick and I attended a taping of the Comedy Central show “Live at Gotham” here in New York City, hosted by none other than Mr. Twitchy Finger himself, Lewis Black. The man is a genius, but that genius is overshadowed by the sheer magnitude of the back of my head in [...]

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Random House Films and Rogue Pictures announced yesterday that Scott Sigler’s next novel, a thriller entitled “Infested,” has been acquired by the two companies for development. It’s the first in a series of at least two books, according to the press release, and will be published by Crown Publishers (a Random House imprint).
Crown SVP [...]

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Buena Vista Home Entertainment
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The television season has officially ended, and I really had no choice but to finally blow the dust of the copy of “Apocalypto” that had rolled in a couple weeks back. No, it was not an anti-Mel thing, let’s get that out of the way right now. As [...]

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HASBRO Toys
I really love the Summer Blockbuster season. The plethora of billboards, commercials, and potato chip cross-promotions just sends a tingle up my spine. This season promises to be a big one, delivering conclusions to three trilogies, a fourth “Die Hard,” and Michael Bay’s “Transformers.” And, of course, a film that was inspired from a [...]

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Rumors are flying around town about Steven Tyler leaving Aerosmith!! WHAAAATTTT????? Reportedly…or shall I say Apparently… Steven’s Daughter, Liv Tyler has been “ranting” on and on to people that “her dad is going to announce he’s leaving Aerosmith soon because he can’t take how the rest of the band is treating him. She said they [...]

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So the top prize at Cannes this year has gone to a Romanian director named Cristian Mungiu. His film, “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) takes place in the last years of communism, as two college roommates in a small town deal with a forbidden abortion. According to the trades, we can [...]

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