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Getting Stoned with De Niro

October 7, 2010 By Ed Rampell Leave a Comment

Ed Rampell: Will moviegoers feel they’d rather not feel so all alone, and that everybody must get Stone-d?

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Wall Street: Oliver Stone’s Das Kapital-ist

September 23, 2010 By Ed Rampell 1 Comment

Ed Rampell: Oliver Stone’s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps is a bold, visually stunning movie and the best critique of the capitalist system and its 2008 financial meltdown since Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story.

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Break The Whip — A Spicy Theatrical Gumbo

September 21, 2010 By Ed Rampell Leave a Comment

Ed Rampell: Break the Whip. A theatrical people’s history of the United States according to Tim Robbins and the Actors’ Gang.

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Fly Away, Mockingbird

August 10, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

John Summers: As the armies of tolerance celebrate To Kill a Mockingbird–it’s the 50 anniversary this month—one is put in mind of a maxim by W.H. Auden: “You do not read a book,” Auden said. “A book reads you.”

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