Working class immigrant kids won the top prize at Cannes last week, for “The Class.”
“The Class” (”Entre Les Murs”) recreates a lively high school class in Paris, complete with the actual students and teacher (François Bégaudeau) playing themselves, based on a novel written by the teacher himself. I haven’t seen the film yet, but they [...]
Broadway’s Tony Award nominations for 2008 were announced yesterday, and the word of the day was “diversity.”
Musicals about life in the Latino neighorhood of Washington Heights, Manhattan, and an African-American musician’s journey from South Central Los Angeles to Amsterdam (“Passing Strange,” pictured below) lead the race for gold on June 15.
Meanwhile, an all-black revival of [...]
Sydney Pollack died today, of cancer, just short of 74 years old.
He was one of my favorite movie-makers. Pollack directed, produced and acted in dozens of American classics, including “The Way We Were” (in which a young Barbra Streisand famously told heartthrob Robert Redford, “See ya, Hubbell”). Hollywood won’t be the same.
An interesting thread that [...]
Video game makers are finally getting hip to the world’s largest market: Women.
Nintendo’s new Wii Fit targets that 51% of the world with two X chromosomes and real curves. The Japanese game company already demonstrated it has a way with the ladies: Original Wii recently became the first console that’s more popular with gals than [...]
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