There was a slight air of Rocky Horror Picture Show on Broadway last week, only the show was Beetlejuice, a new musical based on the Tim Burton cult classic. Patrons, some with orange hair, some wearing all black, many more eager to buy Netherworld sweatshirts, came out to the Winter Garden Theatre to see one of their favorite movies brought to life on the stage. Sure enough, when Delia, played here by the exuberant Leslie Kritzer instead of Catherine O’Hara, interrupted a certain dinner party by way of possessed intervention to sing Harry Belafonte’s “Day-O (The Banana Boat Song),” hoots and hollers came from a crowd that begged to sing along. Read More...
Alex Ebert, the frontman of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, won a Golden Globe for his work composing the score to last year’s Robert Redford drama All Is Lost. This year, Ebert has once again partnered with director J.C. Chandor on A Most Violent Year, which takes them off the high seas and into the gritty, crime-ridden world of 1981 New York. The film tells the story of Abel Morales (Oscar Isaac), a man working to expand his fuel oil business. Read More...
UPDATED: Alex Jones released his “pre-interview” conversation with NBC’s Megyn Kelly on Friday. The conversation was seemingly secretly recorded and almost certainly considered off-the-record. The discussion has Kelly trying to woo a skeptical Jones to come on her show and assuring him their interview would not be “contentious.” The controversial Infowars host has also threatened to release their entire raw four-hour sit-down interview — which he also claims to have recorded — after NBC airs its edited version Sunday night. Read More...
