With Woody’s Cookie Caper, Some Careers Could Cool Off

Woody Allen’s Small Time Crooks may not be the least funny, most joyless and most mean-spirited movie the Woodman has ever made, but it comes very close. But that may be just me. Some people at the screening were giggling uncontrollably at the Ralph and Alice Kramden insults being hurled back and forth between Mr. Read More

Oscar’s Morning Line: Don’t Bet on Shakespeare

The Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences, founded more than 70

years ago by L.B. Mayer and his fellow movie moguls, was conceived as a

guild-busting company union with an award ceremony tacked on almost as an

afterthought.

Since then, the ceremony has been inflated into the globally televised

Super Bowl of movie Read More