Posts Tagged ‘Cuba’
When School’s Out, Outdoor Movie Screenings Are In
When HBO finally got their act together and agreed to keep funding Screen on the Green with the help of a co-sponsor, movie fans and Facebook petitioners cheered. But there was little instant gratification when organizers announced that the first screening wouldn’t occur until July 20th. Summer officially starts on Sunday and these mild temperatures are perfect for movie-watching under the stars. Luckily, three other groups will be showing movies outside this week for those cinema-philes eager to spread a blanket and enjoy a free movie.
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Cheap Seats Daily: Marbury a Wizard? Can You Party AND Maintain House Ethics? Wake Up Call for Hoop Dreams? Letterman Loses Pride, Battle With Palinites?
As he was heading off the air, I’m pretty sure I heard Dave Feldman at Fox-5 report last night that the Wizards are going to work out Stephon Marbury today.
Did anybody tell Abe Pollin?
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Lebron’s come and gone. But we only have to wait a week for the next celeb sports doc extravaganza: Luis Tiant will be at the E Street Cinema downtown on June 22 for red-carpet screening of “The Lost Son of Havana,” a film about the ex-Indian- Twin-Red Sock-Yankee-Pirate-Angel’s trip back to the Cuban capital, which is his Akron.
After the screening the movie’s producers will throw a bash across the street from the theater at the ESPN Zone. But don’t expect much. In the invitation the party’s organizers just sent out, they’re promising that: “Light refreshments will be served in accordance with House Ethics rules.”
House ethics used to lead to the wildest parties in town. Jack Abramoff mussed up everything.
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Sign of the times or the Times? Despite a big write-up in Sunday’s Washington Times, the Hoop Dreams Scholarship fund had to cancel its next big fundraising event for lack of interest.
Who is “Che”? Soderbergh Hasn’t Got a Clue
Before Shepard Fairey wheatpasted Obama’s portrait to walls, windows and the backs of those pushy midwesterners blocking your view of the jumbotron Tuesday afternoon, Alberto Korda’s 1960 portrait of Ernesto “Che” Guevara was the most ubiquitous piece of hagiography to infiltrate the closets of American youth. Unlike Fairey’s Obama, however, the very mass re-production and clueless consumption of Che’s visage shows that 41 years postmortem, the man’s ideas are as forgotten as they are exalted.
Add to this two dimensional T-shirt portrait yet another flat depiction of the face of the Cuban revolution—Steven Soderbergh’s epic, two-part, 4-hour-and-23-minute biopic Che.
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