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A Look At the Most Memorable Music DJs in Film

A Look At the Most Memorable Music DJs in Film

Stacy Davies

April 5, 2018 4 Comments

In the roughly 112 years that Hollywood has been churning out feature-length films, radio disc jockeys have made for some interesting, if not iconic, cinematic characters. Record spinners really started appearing onscreen in the 1970s—back when DJs were still able to pick their own music—and here are some of the best. Stevie Wayne, The Fog […]

Filed Under: Film, Film and TV, Newsletter - Arts Tagged With: Adrian Cronauer, Adrienne Barbeau, Alan Freed, American Graffiti, American Hot Wax, Christian Slater, Clint Eastwood, Dave Garver, DJ, Do the Right Thing, Good Morning Vietnam, Hard Harry, Lynne Thigpen, Mister Señor Love Daddy, Play Misty for Me, Pump Up the Volume, Robin Williams, Samuel L. Jackson, Stevie Wayne, The Fog, The Warriors, The Wolfman, Tim McIntire, Wolfman Jack

Robin Williams Could Always Find the Raw Seriousness in His Comedy

Stephanie Zacharek

August 12, 2014 Leave a Comment

Even those of us who loved Robin Williams as a performer would have to say that sometimes he was too much—too wired, too pleading, too on. There were times when I'd see him nattering away on a late-night talk show, or suffer through a performance such as the one he gave as a wacky, healin'-'em-with-laughs […]

Filed Under: Film Tagged With: Maria Conchita Alonso, Patch Adams, Robin Williams, Terry Gilliam

La Cage Aux Folles

La Cage Aux Folles

Erin DeWitt

March 6, 2014 Leave a Comment

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Filed Under: Calendar Tagged With: Maverick Theater, Nathan Lane, Robin Williams, The Birdcage

Suggestivism

Suggestivism

Albert Ching

February 10, 2011 Leave a Comment

In art, there’s a time to be bold—like, say, immersing a crucifix in a jar of your own urine—and a time to be subtle. The latter is the focus of “Suggestivism,” the latest exhibit at the Grand Central Art Center. Everything in this show is a bit elliptical, surreal and generally nonliteral, such as Ornamented […]

Filed Under: Calendar Tagged With: Claude Monet, Grand Central Art Center, Robin Williams

Suggestivism Opening Reception

Suggestivism Opening Reception

Albert Ching

February 3, 2011 Leave a Comment

In art, there’s a time to be bold—like, say, immersing a crucifix in a jar of your own urine—and a time to be subtle. The latter is the focus of “Suggestivism,” the latest exhibit at the Grand Central Art Center. Everything in this show is a bit elliptical, surreal and generally nonliteral, such as Ornamented […]

Filed Under: Calendar Tagged With: Claude Monet, Grand Central Art Center, Robin Williams

Dead Poets Society

Dead Poets Society

Nate Jackson

July 1, 2010 Leave a Comment

How does a boarding school poetry teacher get a bunch of pubescent, tight-ass yuppies to give a damn about Walt Whitman? If you’ve ever seen the 1989 film Dead Poets Society, you know that first you have to rip up their text books. Then, try holding your lectures anywhere but the class room. A dark […]

Filed Under: Calendar Tagged With: Dead Poets Society, John Keating, Robin Williams, Walt Whitman

New Reviews

STAFF

July 5, 2007 Leave a Comment

TRANSFORMERS See “Rock 'Em, Sock 'Em.” (Countywide) ALSO SHOWING: LICENSE TO WED A blitzed-looking man stumbling out of a screening of this dreadful excuse for unromantic comedy volunteered that the best part of the movie was when Robin Williams got socked in the jaw. Couldn't agree more, but if you like your Williams spewing rat-a-tat […]

Filed Under: Film Tagged With: Ella Taylor, John Krasinski, Mandy Moore, Robin Williams

Again With the Serious Face

Scott Foundas

March 22, 2007 Leave a Comment

As Charlie Fineman, a New York dentist who lost his wife and three young daughters in one of the September 11 plane crashes, Adam Sandler sports a mass of bedraggled locks and walks with his head hung low, the sounds of the city drowned out by The Who or Bruce Springsteen blaring from his ever-present […]

Filed Under: Film Tagged With: Adam Sandler, Charlie Fineman, Mike Binder, Robin Williams

Voter Fraud

Voter Fraud

Robert Wilonsky

October 12, 2006 Leave a Comment

Barry Levinson hasn't made a movie of note in almost a decade—since 1997's Wag the Dog, to be precise, and even that was less a work of substantial relevance than a bit of lucky timing based on someone else's better novel. Granted, it had its moments—at last, it seemed, Levinson had found his range as […]

Filed Under: Film Tagged With: Barry Levinson, Laura Linney, Robin Williams, Tom Dobbs

Pause N Effect

Pause N Effect

Luke Y. Thompson

June 22, 2006 Leave a Comment

Click may be the first Adam Sandler movie in which the high concept isn't dependent upon the star. Sandler comedies tend to take his standard character of the petulant man-child with anger-management issues, and place him in different wacky situations: elementary school (Billy Madison), the golf course (Happy Gilmore), the '80s (The Wedding Singer), and hell […]

Filed Under: Film Tagged With: Adam Sandler, Christopher Walken, Mark O'Keefe, Robin Williams

Special Screenings

Special Screenings

Greg Stacy

June 15, 2006 Leave a Comment

Aladdin. This Disney animated musical comedy certainly was a charmer when it was originally released, although sadly it aged faster than an open carton of milk. We all seemed to completely max out on Robin Williams around 1998 or so, and this movie doesn't exactly make us miss the furry funnyman. If you take your […]

Filed Under: Film Tagged With: Orange County Museum of Art, Poor Herbie, Robin Williams, Stephen Baldwin

New Reviews

New Reviews

STAFF

April 27, 2006 Leave a Comment

we recommend AKEELAH AND THE BEE See Film feature. (Countywide) UNITED 93 See Film feature. (Countywide) also opening HARD CANDY See Film feature. (Countywide) LOOK BOTH WAYS An unassuming, unadventurous, but likable dramedy about dying and grief, Sarah Watt's debut feature has been something of an audience-pleasing award repository, in Australia and abroad. It's not […]

Filed Under: Film Tagged With: Andy Garcia, Robin Williams, Sarah Watt, William McInnes

Pop Your Go Pills, Then Read

Matt Coker

January 23, 2003 Leave a Comment

REGISTER GOES GAY! This pub loves, loves, loves to kick Irvine-based Freedom Communications and its flagship daily newspaper The Orange County Register of Santa Ana around the block for assorted foolishness. We really do. It's kinda sick, really. But since we so zealously tee off on, oh, metro columnist Gordon Dillow's loony rants, opinioneer Steven […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Gordon Dillow, Irvine, Robin Williams, Santa Ana

Eyes Wide Open

JOHN POWERS

May 23, 2002 Leave a Comment

While Japan is renowned for taking other countries' products and making them smaller and cheaper, America—especially Hollywood—is famous for just the opposite. Our movie studios routinely snap up the rights to elegant little foreign films, then stuff the remakes so full of money that they lumber across the screen like gazelles force-fed to the size […]

Filed Under: Film Tagged With: Al Pacino, Christopher Nolan, Robin Williams, Will Dormer

Rhino, Interrupted

Steve Lowery

April 11, 2002 Leave a Comment

Patient: Death to Smoochy Profile: Very funny film about the sleazy world of children's TV in which hero Smoochy, a fuchsia rhinoceros, is set upon by everyone from drug-addled children's performers to Nazis to, yes, Harvey Fierstein. Funny, but the pacing in the second half gets so pumped-up, with one misadventure following another in such […]

Filed Under: Unknown Tagged With: Barney the Dinosaur, Harvey Fierstein, Robin Williams, Ty Beanie Babies

The Longest Story Ever Told

Steve Lowery

January 10, 2002 Leave a Comment

Patient: The Majestic Profile:Interminable film about guy mistaken for war hero though he can't remember who he is, which is fortunate for him since he's starring in what my colleague Manohla Dargis says “may just be the most boring movie ever made.” Think Sullivan's Travels meets The Longest Day meets The Frank Capra Catalog meets […]

Filed Under: Unknown Tagged With: Jim Carrey, Jimmy Stewart, Manohla Dargis, Robin Williams

Two Anal Probes!

Steve Lowery

June 14, 2001 Leave a Comment

Profile: Stop me if you've heard this one—burnt-out college profs chase otherworldly beings in an action-comedy that is curiously lacking in action and is not the least bit funny. Think Ghostbusters grinding its gears meets Men in Black meets Ghostbusters doing 25 mph in a 65 mph zone meets Tremors meets Ghostbusters dropping its tranny. […]

Filed Under: Unknown Tagged With: Dan Aykroyd, Harry Lime, Ivan Reitman, Robin Williams

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