Forty years ago, a line of actors and actresses came out on a Manhattan stage and dropped their robes to face the audience naked. My reaction then was “That’s interesting, now what else have you got?” As it turned out, very little. Despite sketches by Samuel Beckett, John Lennon and other literati, “Oh Calcutta” was deemed “sophomoric and soporific” by a New York Times...

This one is for all the music and art teachers out there.. God Bless Them All

She’s always giving us good music

Sonny predicted she would win, calling it a “kind of lifetime achievement award”. Yet looking over Bullock’s filmography, I find it somewhat hard to identify the achievements. That said, Bullock was actually quite good as Leigh Ann Tuohy (TOO-ee) in The Blind Side, the role for which she won the Oscar. But it was an easy, feel-good role. Tuohy is a sassy steel magnolia who, out of the...

Actor Corey Haim, who struggled with sobriety during much of his short-life, died at 38, it was reported today. The apparent cause: an accidental drug overdose. The unPC fact: for several years, it is extremely sad to say, he had “died at an early age” written all over him. Haim — a talented actor who like many former child actor found the roles and critical comments less than uplifting once...

Some Avatar fans are furious that their favorite movie didn’t win the Oscar. We have the reaction of one fan, but due to his language we will not post the actual video on TMV. Click HERE and you can watch it.

James Cameron was not king of the world this time as his former wife took custody of all the Oscars for an explosive low-budget howl of pain in this time of American rage. Symbolically, millions of metropolitan New Yorkers were blinded to it all by a clash between two Goliaths of greed, ABC and Cablevision, acting out for the night in their living rooms what Wall Street has been doing to them everywhere for...

If you have found yourself thinking, “My day has been nice thus far, but has been missing an excellent explanation of the foundations of imaginary number theory” then have I got something for you! This link. Also it has a fractal and those are always fun.

There’s this secret that most published writers know, but dont often tell: That it is far harder to complete a book than it may be to publish a book. Seriously. How many people do you know who have elevendy-gillion unfinished book starts languishing in metal file drawers somewhere. Or just one book, started elevendy jillion times, but then set aside after page fifteen or page fifty, as life and other...

Before I read this book, I did not know that there were free blacks in the antebellum South who themselves owned slaves. The number was not large, but they did exist.

If it were not for the battle between Disney/ABC and cable providers I might have gone until tomorrow night without remembering the Oscars were on (I presume at some point tomorrow evening I would have noticed the listing). Setting aside the debate on the Disney vs cable battle, how may of us really care about the show tomorrow ?

Tracy Chapman wrote this song, “Freedom Now,” for Nelson Mandela:

THE GORGON AUNTIE, A Lost Story She has a midget husband. They lived in a clone trailer. She notices things. Like, she thinks every person has a different color mouth, and her words come out accordingly. She acts like she is bestowing highnesses and knighthoods as she shuffles to and from every silver shovel event, to fourth-rate art show, in her very pointy high heels, with her penciled on clown brows, her...

Joni Mitchell never wrote a bad song, but “River” is one of my favorites:

There are too many 100-proof corn syrup versions of this song. The original (which I was lucky enough to watch and hear live, twice) is still the best:

Their new video, “This Too Shall Pass,” debuted Monday night at Ignite LA, the O’Reilly Media-founded lecture series celebrating passion and innovation. In the 2 days since, the video has taken the web by storm gathering an impressive 1,379,047 views. Watch in 1080p HD. Or here… Why the unconventional premiere? NewTeeVee: The reason is that Adam Sadowsky of Syyn Labs was there to show off...

MUST-WATCH VIDEO BELOW! The Olympics are over, and many of us Canadians are experiencing a serious post-Olympic hangover — it was such a high, after all, and it’s hard now to adjust back to “normalcy” — but there is no denying that the Vancouver Winter Games was a deeply meaningful event for this country. Whether there is a long-term effect remains to be seen, but I do think the...

You always watch OK Go’s videos:

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin made her highly-publicized appearance on The Tonight Show on Jay Leno’s second day back amid ratings indicating Leno was getting a whopping re-sampling from late night viewers. Meanwhile, David Letterman had on former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Leno’s audience received her warmly in the interview and her prepared jokes — and throughout her appearance her...

“I Want a Love That Will Last,” by Renee Olstead:

The Jewish Museum reopens at Albert Street in London on March 17. Writes David Aaronovitch in The Times of London: “The all-new Jewish Museum in North London has the sights and even the smells of an ancient British way of life. He recalls: “Five years ago I first went to an exhibition at the small Jewish Museum in North London. I suppose I saw it as a rather charming bijou museum, mostly about...

by Walter Brasch Up to two feet of snow hit the Mid-Atlantic and New England states last week, the second storm within two weeks. Wind gusts of up to 50 miles an hour and temperatures in the 20s created severe wind chill and extreme hazardous driving conditions. Pennsylvania ordered all commercial trucks off many of its major highways and Interstates. Schools and colleges throughout the Northeast cancelled...

When Roger Ebert appears on Oprah tomorrow (Tuesday) he’ll be using software to find the voice he lost to cancer. Ebert tells the tale on his blog: One day I was moseying around the Web and found the name of a company in Edinburgh named CereProc. They claimed they could build voices for specific customers. They had demos of the voices of George W. Bush and Arnold Schwarzenegger. … I had an idea....

Often when you are listening to the news they will use little fillers to take up the extra time in the segment. Earlier today I heard a couple I thought worth sharing. As some of you may know the government has imposed new standards for the airlines to comply with. Specifically if the airline leaves passengers on the runway for longer than 3 hours they will be fined for each passenger. The fines could total...

The closing ceremonies got off to a great start with the fourth arm going up — the one that didn’t work during the lighting at the opening ceremonies, the malfunction that got all the overhyped buzz and took on a life of its own in the media — and with Catriona Le May Doan finally getting to light it, and I enjoyed seeing the athletes come in, all the Canadians, with Joannie Rochette carrying...