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I recently had the pleasure of speaking with actress/writer and designer Tilda Del Toro who has appeared in The Lincoln Lawyer, Our Brand Is Crises and who audiences can currently see in the box-office hit Night School with Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish. Del Toro has many projects lined up including co-starring with Tom Hardy …
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For 33 years, David Letterman has been making audiences laugh with his irreverent sense of humor and lunacy. In May, 2015, after 6000 episodes, more than twice as many guests, several hundred cans of SPAM given away, 150 Regis appearances, some of the most memorable (and contentious) celebrity interviews (Madonna, Joaquin, Farrah) of our time …
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Here at 25YLSite, we handle a lot of heavy lifting. Analysis, interpretation, deep discussion, introspective interviews…you name it, we've got it. "Favorites" takes a lighter approach to the material we normally cover. Each week, we will take you through a list of favorites---whether it's moments, scenes, episodes, characters, lines of dialogue, whatever!---in bite-sized articles perfect …
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“Only the good die young” as the song goes. Over the years there have been a number of TV shows that have made an impact on us here at 25YL, which we have been sad to see struck down in their prime. A season or two that grabbed us, and…that’s it. Whether there is some …
La Dolce Vita and Satyricon are bookends to a decade where Fellini established himself as the leading author of Italian cinema in the 1960s.
In 1972's Roma, Federico Fellini shifted away from the grandiose fantasy which defined his films during the second half of the 1960s (Juliet of the Spirits, Toby Dammit, and Satyricon). Instead, he returned to a more grounded reflection into his past. In Roma, Fellini recalls arriving in late 1930s Rome from his small town of …
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The 1970s proved to be an interesting time for Federico Fellini and by extension, the other renegade filmmakers who were part of the bold and brazen European explosion happening to film during the 1960s. By the time the '70s rolled up, Hollywood had not only taken notice of what was happening outside the U.S., but …
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