Ed Rampell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Ed Rampell
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Breakfast at Truman’s: Unanswered questions in ‘The Capote Tapes’ film
August 25, 2021This excellent, entertaining, informative documentary chronicling the life and career of one of America’s literary and gay icons is a cautionary tale.
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No socialism, please! CNN gives AOC the corporate media treatment
August 13, 2021Remarkably, Fox News is more honest about the left-wing congresswoman's politics than CNN.
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Wilder’s classic Our Town gets 21st century treatment—Race, class, and all
August 3, 2021In 'The Last, Best Small Town', playwright John Guerra has adapted Thornton Wilder’s 1938 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, resetting the turn-of-the-last-century Grover’s Corner, New Hampshire at turn-of-the-21st-century Fillmore, California.
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On the Topanga Trail of the Assassins: ‘Caesar’ on stage in L.A.
July 14, 2021After an extended intermission suffering under the twin tyrannies and plagues of Trumpism and COVID, the return of Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum marks a major milestone on our road back to fully living. For what is life...
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A man’s man: Tinseltown’s gay star lives again in ‘Taming the Lion’
July 13, 2021William Haines loved to act and make motion pictures. He also adored having sex with other men.
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‘An Octoroon’: Intellectual rollercoaster ride of a play about race in America
June 22, 2021In that “the show must go on” spirit, live theater is returning to Los Angeles stages.
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‘Altitude Not Attitude’: A freewheeling, wheelchair bound-for-glory story on film
June 11, 2021For the first time since the COVID lockdown began, after about 15 months of streaming cinema online, your peripatetic film critic finally attended his first screening in person.
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Masterpiece cinema: BFI Player Classics streams 200-plus British movies
May 17, 2021The British Film Institute has launched a subscription video on-demand collection of more than 200 of the top U.K. movies for buffs across the pond in the colonies.
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