by Jack Brown | Jul 31, 2017 | Articles, Cinemadope, Columns, Newsletter
Summer Cinema Slam 2017 is taking place at the New England Youth Theater in Brattleboro this Saturday night. Featuring an all-Vermont slate of films and artists — the bill includes four shorts and one hour-long feature, with musical act Hungrytown providing ambiance...
by Jack Brown | Jul 24, 2017 | Articles, Arts, Cinemadope, Columns, Film, Newsletter
My first exposure to Egon Schiele came via Deane G. Keller, an artist and professor whose figure drawing classes remain one of my most lasting memories of art school. We had been working on some hand studies when he suggested I might enjoy the Austrian artist’s work,...
by Jack Brown | Jul 17, 2017 | Articles, Arts, Cinemadope, Columns, Film, Music, Newsletter
“Wimps and Wanna-Be’s need not apply!” That was the tagline of a print ad announcing an open audition for “FIERCE Male Dancers” who wanted to earn a spot on Madonna’s controversial, ground-breaking Blond Ambition Tour in 1990. It would have been a dream job for any...
by Jack Brown | Jul 10, 2017 | Articles, Cinemadope, Columns, Newsletter
At the risk of sounding impossibly out-of-touch, let me tell you something: I sure do miss Dialing for Dollars. That syndicated TV program — in which an afternoon movie was chopped into a few hundred pieces, allowing host George Allen to pick a number out of the area...
by Jack Brown | Jul 3, 2017 | Articles, Cinemadope, Columns, Film, Newsletter
In film, there have always been levels of stardom. There are those stars whose wattage is measured in tooth whiteness, and whose films are expected to earn many millions based more or less on their mere presence — your Pitts, your Cruises, your Lawrences. Then there...
