Entertainment
Josh Boone landed Academy Award winner Jennifer Connelly to play mom Erica and Academy Award nominee Greg Kinnear as the dad. Nat Wolff plays the son and Lily Collins (daughter of Phil Collins) plays the daughter. Additional cast members include Patrick Schwarzenegger (son of Arnold Schwarzenegger), Liana Liberato, Logan Lerman and Kristen Bell for his movie ‘Stuck in Love.’
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“Stuck in Love” is written and directed by first-timer Josh Boone. The cast includes Academy Award winner Jennifer Connelly, Academy Award nominee Greg Kinear, Nat Wolff, Lily Collins (daughter of Phil Collins), Patrick Schwarzenegger (son of Arnold Schwarzenegger), Liana Liberato, Logan Lerman and Kristen Bell.
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“Lovelace” debuted at the 29th annual Sundance Film Festival and stars Amanda Seyfried as porn star Linda Lovelace (nee Linda Susan Boreman) in this intense, moving and entertaining biopic. Peter Sarsgaard plays her Svengali husband Chuck Traynor and the film’s directors are Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman with a screenplay written by Andy Bellin. The all star cast includes Adam Brody, James Franco, Hank Azaria, Bobby Cannavale, Chris Noth, Eric Roberts, Chloë Sevigny, Wes Bentley and an unrecognizable Sharon Stone who plays Linda’s cold and domineering mother, Dorothy Boreman.
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Jeff Bridges, who has been dedicated to stamping out hunger for the past 30 years, is now starring in a powerful documentary, “A Place at the Table.” The film is brought to you by Participant Media, a company with an amazing track record of building social action campaigns and producing films like “Waiting for Superman” and … Read more
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“Europa Report” is a science fiction thriller about six astronauts who agree to go on a privately funded mission to one of the freezing cold moons of Jupiter. “Cold moons of Jupiter” would’ve been a great Jimi Hendrix song title, but let’s not digress. The space travelers’ mission is to look for signs of life. … Read more
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Although 79% of the 2,100 companies surveyed are either using or planning to use social media channels, a measly 12% of those firms feel that they are using them effectively. According to research from a Harvard Business Review Analytics report, 58% of companies are engaged in social media networks like Facebook, microblogs like Twitter, and … Read more
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Q&A: CIA agent Nada Bakos talks about ‘Manhunt’ and terrorism and inaccuracies in ‘Zero Dark Thirty’
“Manhunt” is an official selection for the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. It’s a documentary by Greg Barker about the CIA’s search and capture of Osama bin Laden. Nada Bakos, who is featured in the film, served as an analyst for the CIA. She was on the team charged with analyzing the relationship between Iraq, Al Qaeda, and September 11. Bakos was privy to the inside track on what happens behind doors in the Central Intelligence Agency. Bakos was apprehensive at first about working with Barker but he won her over and she agreed to do her part in the documentary.
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It is impossible not to make comparisons between “Manhunt” and last year’s movie, “Zero Dark Thirty.” The Oscar nominated Best Picture raised a lot of questions, especially about torture used during CIA interrogations. Searching for the truth, Examiner Dorri Olds interviewed Nada Bakos this week. It is clear that Bakos thinks before she speaks. She’s careful with her words and uses very few but she comes across as very likable and engaging.
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Books by author Gary Buslik A Rotten Person Travels the Caribbean: A Grump in Paradise Discovers that Anyplace it’s Legal to Carry a Machete is Comedy Waiting to Happen, Akhmed and the Atomic Matzo Balls: A Novel of International Intrigue, Pork-Crazed Termites, and Motherhood; The Missionary’s Position: A hilarious novel set in the Caribbean. An unusual writer.
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“The Iceman” opens this week. It’s an intense, crime thriller. It is fascinating, disturbing and darkly exciting. Inspired by actual events, the story is about Richard Kuklinski. Stars Michael Shannon, Winona Ryder, Ray Liotta, Chris Evans
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