Academy Award winner Jeff Bridges uses his celebrity to help solve hunger

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 “Inconvenient Truth.”

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Richard Pryor Jr

Part II: Q&A with Richard Pryor, Jr., son of a trailblazing, rule-breaking comic

Richard Pryor, Jr was asked to introduce films at “A Pryor Engagement,” is a film celebration of comedian Richard Pryor’s life. This week, the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) will show six Pryor films: “The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings,” “Bustin’ Loose,” “Brewster’s Millions,” “Which Way Is Up?,” “Richard Pryor… Here and Now” and “Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling.”

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New York City Doggies and Tiaras Pageant for Fashion Week 2013

Award-winning pet fashion designer Roberto Negrin is the talented organizer behind this glamorous fundraising event held at The New Yorker Hotel. Roberto, the owner of Hec-lin Couture for Dogs, created this doggie pageant to raise funds for Inky Blue Sea Animal Rescue and to have a heck of a good time with old and new friends and pet loving partiers. Delightful dogs made of fresh flowers adorned the stage while sequined, jeweled doggie dresses dazzled everywhere! Click through to see cute photos from the event here! See Karen Biehl and Eli the Celebrity Chihuahua!

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Q&A: Nicole LaLiberte, star of the thrilling murder spree, ‘Girls Against Boys’ (Photos)

Girls Against Boys: Lu (Nicole LaLiberte) sees that her coworker, a naïve college student named Shae (Danielle Panabaker), is troubled. Lu befriends her. Shae is dazzled by Lu’s confidence and the same seductive vibe as Angelina Jolie’s Oscar-winning character in Girl, Interrupted.

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Q&A with Danielle Panabaker, star of the psycho thriller ‘Girls Against Boys’

In the psychological thriller, “Girls Against Boys,” written and directed by Austin Chick, Shae (Danielle Panabaker) is a naïve college student whose heart gets stomped on by a married jerk (Andrew Howard). After a few more horrid experiences Shae is one hot mess. She is fragile and mad; enter Lu (Nicole LaLiberte), her friendly-yet-psychotic coworker. Lu promises to help Shae regain control of her life.

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Industry News for Writers in my ASJA Monthly Market Monitor Column

Attention Writers! Stay ahead of the game with a Wordpress website, a strong social media presence, branding your image, building your platform. So many options for writers to sell their work. It’s a writer’s world out there. American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA.org).

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Q&A with Paul Giamatti about meat monsters and other weird horror stories

In an interview with Examiner Dorri Olds, Paul Giamatti said, “Madame Bovary,” I think will be made at some point this year. The HBO movie, “K Blows Top,” is about Khrushchev. Hopefully that’ll get made this year. “Turbo” is a cartoon. Nice. Fun. That probably comes out this year. It’s about snails. “Saving Mr. Banks” is something I just did. That was a movie about Walt Disney and the woman who wrote Mary Poppins. It’s about the making of Mary Poppins. It’s interesting. Very interesting. “Romeo and Juliet” should come out this year. “Twelve Years a Slave” is a wonderful movie. They’re all wonderful movies. I’m supposed to go do “Parkland” tomorrow in Texas. That’s about the Kennedy assassination. I’m glad to see I have lots of movies coming out. I didn’t realize that. That’s nice. I’ve been working and that’s good.

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Q&A with Don Coscarelli, writer & director of horror film “John Dies at the End”

“John Dies at the End” is Academy Award nominee Paul Giamatti’s first horror movie gig. The screenplay, written by Don Coscarelli (Bubba Ho-Tep, Phantasm), is based on the comic horror novel by David Wong (aka Cracked editor Jason Pargin).

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Zero Dark Thirty

The year in review, part I: The best movies of 2012

2012 Best movies: Zero Dark Thirty, Django Unchained, The Dark Knight Rises, Argo, Flight, Les Misérables.

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Bob Marley

The year in review, part II: The best movies of 2012

The year in review: The best movies of 2012. Part 2: Marley, A Royal Affair, Middle of Nowhere, Pusher, Headhunters, Seven Psychopaths.

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