Mindy Newell: The Sound Of Breaking Glass?
Will the Amazonian be the woman who finally breaks the Hollywood glass ceiling?
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Mindy Newell: Mothers Dearest
We all have mothers. I had a mother of a cold last week, and since Sunday was Mom’s day, I thought I would take a moment to honor all those women who have taken on the absolutely hardest job in the multi-verse… even though I’m a bit late. I think the best-known mother in the…
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Mindy Newell – Dread
As I mentioned last week, the adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale is now available on Hulu. The streaming site offered the first three episodes at once, and is now releasing the rest of the 10-part series on a weekly basis every Wednesday. I decided to binge on all four episodes when I got…
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Mindy Newell: All Come, Look For America!
ÃÂàSo exhausted last night. And aggravated. Got stuck in a major traffic jam on the New Jersey Turnpike that was so bad I finally said fuck this, made an illegal u-turn, backtracked and got off the turnpike, and drove through side streets in Newark and Jersey City until I finally got home 3ÃÂý hours…
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Mindy Newell: Summertime Movietime — Already?
This week’s Entertainment Weekly (a “double issue” dated April 29/May 5, 2017) is its big “Summer Movie Preview” release, one that I usually really look forward to reading over my breakfast tea. But after doing that this very morning – which was yesterday by now – I realized that, in all honesty, there’s very little…
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Mindy Newell: Jumping In On Doctor Who
The Doctor: âTime is a structure relative to ourselves. Time is the space made by our lives, where we stand together forever. Time and relative dimension in space. It means life⦠This is the gateway to everything that ever was and ever can be. Bill: …Can I use the toilet? âThe Pilot,â Doctor Who, Second…
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Mindy Newell: This Is My Country
“This is my country, Land of my birth, This is my country, Grandest on Earth “This is my country, Land of my choice, This is my country, Hear my proud voice. “I pledge thee my allegiance, America the bold, For this is my country, To have and to hold” This Is My Country (1940), Dan…
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Mindy Newell: It Was Twenty Years Ago Today…
âBuffy the Vampire Slayer showed the whole world, and an entire sprawling industry, that writing monsters and demons and end-of-the world is not hack-work, it can challenge the best. Joss Whedon raised the bar for every writer â not just genre/niche writers, but every single one of us.â â Russell T. Davies, producer, writer, showrunner,…
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Mindy Newell: “Flash” Dance
I grew up on Broadway musicals. Once upon a time when going to see a show on Broadway didn’t cost you your mortgage plus the life of your first-born, my mom and dad were avid theatergoers. They saw the original production of South Pacific with Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza, the original production of Camelot…
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Mindy Newell: What Is Human?
Death has been everywhere lately this March of 2017. Actor Bill Paxton. Rock and Roll pioneer Chuck Berry. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Jimmy Breslin. The great artist Bernie Wrightson. Underground comics’ Jay Lynch and Skip Williamson. ComicMix’s Tweeks Maddy and Anya Ernst’s grandmother. Fellow columnist Marc Alan Fishman’s college friend. My dad. As Martha…
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Mindy Newell: Not An Imaginary Story
It used to be that the death of a superhero was an “Imaginary Story” or a What If…? tale. Then, with the death of Superman in 1992, it became all about the publicity, the sales boost, the net dollars. But a funny thing happened on the way to the accountants. The impermanence, the easy reversibility…
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Mindy Newell: Maybe You Haven’t Been Keeping Up, But…”
Bill Maher may be claiming that he’s responsible for kicking Milo Yiannopoulos off of Breitbart and out of the CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) convention – or whatever the hell their annual party is called – but the truth is I did it. Yep, those words I “uttered” last week did it. Di pen shist…
