Ed Rampell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Ed Rampell
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The Revolution is coming to a theater near you: 1969 in review
October 20, 2014One of the great things about the theater is that it can dramatize history, and the people who make it and shake it.
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Review: Smiling through the Apocalypse, Esquire in the 60s
October 7, 2014Esquire editor Harold Hayes was arguably to magazines what famous literary editor Maxwell Perkins (editor for Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe) was to novels.
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“The Trip To Bountiful” in review
September 29, 2014The entire house rose at the premiere to give Cicely Tyson and the cast a well-deserved standing ovation.
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A playwright named “Shagspeare” in Bill Cain’s “Equivocation”
September 24, 2014"Shag" for short receives a royal commission to write about Guy Fawkes and England's 1605 Gunpowder Plot.
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“Persians” theater review: War is Hades
September 22, 2014"Outrage, once ripened, yields a bumper crop of retribution."
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The Los Angeles Swiss Film Festival in review
September 17, 2014Swiss cinema and television has a rich heritage. This motion picture plenitude was on full display at Hollywood's Harmony Gold Theater on Sept. 7.
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Harvey “No Nukes” Wasserman warns about nuclear nightmares
September 12, 2014"The thyroid cancer death rate for children in the Fukushima area is 40 times higher than normal; tuna caught near California have signs of cesium traceable to Fukushima."
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For Whom the Whistle Blows: “The Kill Team”
August 14, 2014This documentary's real target market are those young impressionable people who have bought into the madness of Washington's endless imperial misadventures.
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