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The 2017 Tribeca Film Festival begins Wednesday, April 19 and runs through Sunday, April 30. This is the 16th year of awe-inspiring offerings. Many thanks go to co-founders Jane Rosenthal and Robert De Niro for this long-standing celebration of New York City, movies, media, and activism.
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The 16th edition of the annual cultural festival announced the program’s big closer on Saturday, April 29—A celebration of the 45th anniversary since The Godfather’s hit theaters. There will be back-to-back screenings of the The Godfather and The Godfather Part II at Radio City Music Hall. That will be followed by an all-star panel discussion with Academy Award®-winning director Francis Ford Coppola and actors Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, and Robert De Niro.
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After Cannibal Cop Gil Valle served 21 months in prison, the judge, Paul Gardephe, shocked everyone by overturning the verdict. Now Valle has written a memoir, Raw Deal: The Untold Story of NYPD’s “Cannibal Cop.
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Ex-NYPD cop Ken Eurell sold cocaine and was memorialized in the documentary ‘The Seven Five’ wrote memoir ‘Betrayal in Blue: The Shocking Memoir of the Scandal that Rocked the NYPD.’
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‘How to Murder Your Life’ by Cat Marnell is what every addict memoir should be: adventure-packed, shocking, darkly humorous, and gut-wrenching—the only thing missing is sobriety. You’re likely to read it in one fast sitting. It’s a fascinating, yet disturbing, tale about Adderall addiction.
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a lean 6’1” with a full head of almost-black hair. And has the chiseled face of a GQ cover. He walked in smiling and sure got a kick out of sharing behind-the-scenes pranks. On the off hours during the making of “Elvis & Nixon,” Alex Pettyfer—cast as fellow Memphis Mafia member, Jerry Schilling—apparently played along with Knoxville’s tomfoolery. But, Michael Shannon? Not so much.
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Dorri Olds met with Elvis Presley close friend Jerry Schilling. An exclusive interview. Topics include Tribeca Film Festival 5-star film Elvis and Nixon. Hilarious send-up re: peculiar piece of 1970 Americana. Elvis Presley (Michael Shannon)
Presley showed up unannounced at White House to ask Nixon to Elvis a federal agent.
Tribeca Film Festival’s 40th anniversary celebration of movie Taxi Driver at the Beacon Theatre included Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, writer Paul Schrader, producer Michael Phillips and TFF co-founder Jane Rosenthal.
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One of Tribeca Film Festival’s highlights this year was Detour, a suspenseful neo-noir thriller deliciously saturated in drugs and alcohol. The central character, Harper (heartthrob Tye Sheridan), is stepson to alcoholic no-goodnik Vincent, played by Stephen Moyer of True Blood. Also stars Bel Powley and Emory Cohen. Written and directed by Christopher Smith.
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In “One More Time,” a comedy drama that won Official Selection at Tribeca Film Festival 2015, beautiful, burned-out wannabe rock star Jude (Amber Heard) lives a pitiable life of one-night stands. Although loaded with inherited musical talent, she’s only good at drinking. Self-loathing and systematic self-destruction make Jude incapable of making it on time to even sing commercial jingles.
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