James Franco’s New Project

[First published in Cliché Magazine on 6.18.2011] James Franco’s latest artistic foray turns the concept of art on its head. Or at least offers a valiant attempt; ironically named the Museum of Non-Visible Art (MONA), it is a conceptual project by Franco and (presumably) his friends that dances around the perimeter of the very term it […]

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Beyoncé’s 4: A Review

[First published in Cliché Magazine on 6.16.2011] If you’re in midst of a heartbreak, you’re in luck. Leaked weeks before its scheduled June 28 release, Beyoncé’s latest album, 4, is chock-full of ballads devoted to soulful passion that chronicles the pining, sentimental vacillation, and romantic anguish of a breakup.

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Excerpt: The Making of “Alice In Wonderland” (Film)

[This is from a paper written for an entertainment class, and for which I interviewed Alice screenwriter, Ms. Linda Woolverton.]  From Conception to Development The process from conception to development for Alice was remarkably glitch-free and star-aligned in their favor. At its nascence, the idea of an Alice in Wonderland extension was merely a musings of […]

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