by Jeffery Battersby | Feb 28, 2014 | Asides
Hard to believe that this show closed its doors a couple of months ago. Loved it, its music, and the familiarity of New Orleans it built in me. Following is David Simon’s NOLA | Times Picayune signoff for the program.
by Jeffery Battersby | Feb 25, 2014 | Asides
Manohla Dargis on Jennifer Lawrence: She’s done her time posing and preening, playing the girlie girl, the paper doll and wide-eyed ingénue, but she’s also muscled onto the big screen alongside multimillion-dollar men like Robert Downey Jr. The odds still are not in...
by Jeffery Battersby | Feb 12, 2014 | Asides
Derek Jeter announces his retirement… Bittersweet day.
by Jeffery Battersby | Feb 11, 2014 | Asides
Yup! Best show on TV.
by Jeffery Battersby | Feb 3, 2014 | Asides
More on Philip Seymour Hoffman from A.O. Scott’s excellent remembrance: [Hoffman’s] goal seemed to be not just the psychological truth that has long been the baseline criterion of post-Method acting, but a moral uncertainty that remains too fraught and...
by Jeffery Battersby | Feb 2, 2014 | Asides
Philip Seymour Hoffman: The Greatest Actor of His Generation | via The Atlantic For me, acting is torturous, and it’s torturous because you know it’s a beautiful thing. I was young once, and I said, “That’s beautiful and I want that.” Wanting it is easy, but trying to...
