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Movie Critic Dorri Olds is a Manhattan-based award-winning freelance writer who was born obsessed with movies and celebrities. She’s written for a variety of publications including The New York Times and The Jewish Daily Forward and is a weekly contributor to Petside. Olds sees a dizzying number of movie screenings, interviews A-List actors and is a member of the exclusive organization American Society of Journalists & Authors (ASJA). You may contact Dorri with your comments and questions.
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New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said Aurora shooter James Holmes had dyed his hair reddish orange and claimed to be The Joker, the green-haired villain from the Batman movies. Facts are still being uncovered about this deranged killer and what motivated his massacre. He will use the insanity defense.
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Devan Sipher, wedding columnist for The New York Times, has written his first novel, ‘The Wedding Beat.’ It is a humorous romantic chicklit book about a guy who writes a wedding column for a big newspaper.
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In the Indie film Union Square, Academy Award winner Mira Sorvino shows her chops once again playing Lucy, a deeply troubled, self-absorbed, erratic and emotional sister to Jenny, played by the stunning and talented Tammy Blanchard. In a powerful cameo, Patti LuPone plays their narcissistic, chain smoking mother.
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The new movie, ‘Red Lights’ written and directed by Rodrigo Cortes stars Cillian Murphy, Sigourney Weaver, Robert De Niro, Toby Jones, Elizabeth Olsen and Joely Richardson. With a powerful cast like that one expects better. The problem isn’t with the acting, though. It’s the writing that falls down. The synopsis is intriguing: Dr. Margaret Matheson (Sigourney Weaver) and her team … Read more
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Mira Sorvino at a New York City press event to promote her latest film ‘Union Square’ — a low-budget yet high-spirited family drama in which Sorvino plays a troubled sister to Tammy Blanchard. Directed by Nancy Savoca.
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Actor Cillian Murphy and Director Rodrigo Cortes open up at a New York City press event for their new movie Red Lights opening July 13, 2012.
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Actress Tammy Blanchard and Director Nancy Savoca discussed their upcoming movie ‘Union Square’ with journalist Dorri Olds.
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Woody’s attitude regarding paparazzi seems much healthier than, say, Alec Baldwin’s. Alec Baldwin allegedly punched Daily News photographer Marcus Santos. Here also is a photo of Alec wearing a bedspread over his head. During an interview with Marcus Santos he said that Alec Baldwin came at him “like a raging bull.”
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If Woody hadn’t set the bar so high, critics of his new movie wouldn’t be as niggling. Alec Baldwin summed things up, “Woody Allen’s less successful efforts are far better than most other films you’ll see.” So, while it doesn’t have the magical intrigue of Midnight in Paris, Woody’s zany humor throughout To Rome With Love makes it well worth schlepping to the theater for.
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