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Caitlin Colford
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Tribeca Film Festival Questionnaire: We Ask, They Answer. #3: The Space Between
WE ASK THE ACTORS TO ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS…AND DRAW Flight Attendant Montine McLeod (Academy Awarded nominated Melissa Leo) finds herself the unlikely guardian of Omar (Anthony Keyvan), a Pakistani boy who has left his New York home to attend boarding…
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Tribeca Film Festival Questionnaire: We Ask, They Answer. #2: Beware the Gonzo
WE ASK THE ACTORS TO ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS…AND DRAW Zoe Kravitz, it seems, has it easy. With musician Lenny Kravitz (Remember his “Flowers for Zoe”?) and actress Lisa Bonet for parents audiences may assume that the actress hasn’t had to…
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Tribeca Film Festival Questionnaire: We Ask, They Answer. #1: Meskada
WE ASK THE ACTORS TO ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS… AND DRAW Meskada, a murder mystery set in a rural town reeling from depression, premiered Thursday night on day two of the Tribeca Film Festival. The film follows a detective who returns…
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Naked Androgyny
After nearly a decade of being a defining and defying figure in the art world, Ryan McGinley’s legitimacy is still being questioned. Last month McGinley unveiled his latest exhibit at SoHo’s Team Gallery entitled Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, inspired…
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Zoe Kazan: Girl Exploding
After The Exploding Girl’s premiere at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival Zoe Kazan’s career has skyrocketed. The public unveiling of The Exploding Girl is well underway, perhaps to coincide with Kazan’s latest Broadway venture, A Behanding in Spokane, a Martin…
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Resident Bohemians: The Firestarter, Edie Sedgwick
With today’s opening of the Armory Show in New York, and with the various art fairs concurrently being presented such as the Whitney Biennial and Armory Arts Week, the city is paying homage in all its corners to persons who…
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Literary Fashionables: The Showman and The Muse
Two further reasons to drop your day job and write full time rather than watch all this literary glamor ringside are Jonathan Ames and Sophie Dahl. Unless, of course, you don’t have a hit show on HBO, Dave Letterman calling…
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Literary Fashionables: The Junky and The New Journalist
Today’s two Literary Fashionables traveled in distinct social settings at the time of their rise to literary fame. One moved with exiles, hustlers and runaways in Paris, Mexico and Tangier and wrote experimental fiction. The other moved to Vogue out…
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Literary Fashionables: The Cultural Theorist and The Sportsman
Two hallowed New York intellectuals are The Rumpus’s next set of Literary Fashionables. Susan Sontag and George Plimpton both circled the upper tiers of Manhattan’s literary society. And while exhibiting seemingly opposing aesthetics, both Sontag and Plimpton promulgated revolutionary ideas…
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Dash Snow. Creative Master. Baiter.
Artist Dash Snow’s life was cut short at twenty-seven years when he overdosed last summer in his hometown of New York City in a destructive solo hotel stint. Snow created art similarly to how he lived life; he did whatever…