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Tuesday, 16 August 2011 by IrwanKch

8/16/11


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			Director John Sayles on His War Movie Amigo, American Imperialism, and Struggling to Fund Films "To get a movie onto a big screen, that’s harder than it’s been since the eighites."



			Disney Executive Claims Story Doesn’t Matter "When you're making tentpole films, bullshit."



			Treme’s Wendell Pierce Takes On The Help "This passive segregation lite was hurtful."



			TV Is Bad for You, Say Buzz-kill Scientists Correlation is not causation. But yes, TV is correlated to dying early.



			Tom Hanks Gave Two Larry Crowne Haters Their Money Back What a mensch.


ADVERTISEMENT Swan Lake returns to New York City Ballet this fall for one week only following two sold-out engagements. Don't miss your chance to see the ballet The New York Times has called "the talk of the town" before it takes a break from the stage. nycballet.com for tickets.


			Vulture Premieres Deer Tick’s New Song, ‘Miss K’ "Talk dirty, baby."



			Joel McHale on Spy Kids 4, Community, and Being Compared to Ryan Seacrest "I'm one of the tallest men in show business and he's one of the shortest."



			Hear the Game’s New Tracks With Drake, Tyler the Creator, and Lil Wayne Hear "Martians vs. Goblins" and "Bad Girls Gone Bad."



			Watch a Blooper Reel From Gossip Girl Season Four Penn Badgley does a leprechaun accent.



			Jay-Z Will Blaspheme for Beyoncé That's love.



			Are L.A. Guns More Famous Than Stephen Malkmus? It's 'Cocked & Loaded' vs. 'Slanted and Enchanted.'



			Glee Singers Give Us Their Musical Wish Lists for Next Season Heather Morris is all about SNAP's "Rhythm Is a Dancer."



			This Weekend’s Concerts, From Kool Keith to Sonic Youth Plus: Nicki Minaj, Iron and Wine, MF Doom, Wild Flag, Janelle Monae, Kanye West, and more, in our weekly concert roundup.



			Faces in the Crowd Trailer: Face Blindness Hits the Big Time Milla Jovovich can't tell who anyone is.



			See Scarlett Johansson, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sean Connery, and More in a ‘Before They Were Famous’ Reel Gosling wins again.



			One Day Author David Nicholls on Turning His Book Into a Movie, Anne Hathaway’s British Accent, and Lone Scherfig’s Veto Power "To me, the nineties is all about Blur and Oasis, but they didn't actually make it in."



			Watch the Bored to Death Cast Run Amok at Coney Island Wisely, they keep off the Cyclone.

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	Rent Rent is so wonderfully, hormonally full of itself, I just can't stay mad at it—it soars over its own intrinsic absurdities. Revived and resized at the Off Broadway multiplex New World Stages, Jonathan Larson's infectious rock masterpiece—La Bohème on the LES in the early nineties—feels less dated today than when it opened on Broadway in 1996. (Now it's cutting-edge eighties nostalgia.) A new young cast, working hard to make it fresh, is more tender, more diffident, and, in some solos, more vocally reticent than the original crew. The show now belongs to Maureen (Annaleigh Ashford), Joanne (Corbin Reid), and Angel (MJ Rodriguez, who's updated the magical-drag-pixie role for the Age of Gaga). MORE TODAY: reading Wayne Koestenbaum kids Performing Arts College Fair theater Olive and the Bitter Herbs