Summer Bishil and Aaron Eckhart in Towelhead
My hatred of Towelhead set in early and I never shook it. I think it was the scene at the airport where Maria Bello’s Bad Mother character is shipping poor confused daughter Jasira (Summer Bishil) off to live with her Lebanese father in Houston after the Creepy Live-In Boyfriend [...]
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Summer Bishil in Alan Ball’s Towelhead
The worst box office weekend in 7 years, got off to a shaky start here at LiC. Though things rallied on Saturday, let’s start off this week’s Watercooler with the bad news: an early screening of screenwriter Alan (American Beauty, HBO’s Six Feet Under) Ball’s directorial debut.
Take a moldy dog turd [...]
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Following an Islamic civil rights group’s call for a name change of Alan Ball’s upcoming Towelhead, Warner Bros.’ initial response could be paraphrased as something like “ummm…no.”
Yesterday, Alicia Erian, the Arab-American author of the source novel defended the title.
“As an Arab-American woman, I am of course aware that the title of my book is an [...]
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George Clooney and Frances McDormand in Burn After Reading
You can almost hear the air being let out of the summer movie season. Overall it was a pretty decent four months of movies, but I for one am glad to see it coming to an end. Now it’s time to look forward to the last third [...]
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