Archive for May, 2009
The ASSME Files: ASSME Takes in a Show
by Jefe Von Stanley on May.24, 2009, under Theatre
Gavin Lawrence as Simon Cato in Pure Confidence
A favorite repost of mine from ASSME, now MediaElites.com.
A Theatre Review? Sure, Why Not.
Pure Confidence, now running at the sleek 59 E. 59 (with a great little bar upstairs), is part historical drama about slavery and part sitcom. How these two genres get successfully combined is a mystery. The alchemy’s not perfect but the amalgam holds for two hours and after that it doesn’t matter because you’re out the door on the way home anyway and having an animated discussion about it.
The subject is Simon Cato, a diminutive slave and star jockey in the deep south on the eve of the Civil War. He’s owned by two white children whose father, a lawyer, regularly hires him out to a horse-betting Colonel… continue here, http://mediaelites.com/2009/05/24/assme-takes-in-a-show/
The ASSME Files: Time Wounds All Heels
by Jefe Von Stanley on May.03, 2009, under TV
A favorite repost of mine from ASSME, now MediaElites.com.
“Does beating up girls make you feel like a big man?”? Ice-T menacingly asks a teenage suspect on the teaser currently running on NBC for Tuesday night’s SVU episode. He oughta know the answer to that already.
I saw this today and it made me flash back 18 years to Lollapalooza 1991, the festival’s inaugural year, Waterloo Village, NJ where I attended the show with my then-girlfriend.? When Ice-T & Body Count came onstage he said something like this to rev up the crowd… continued here, http://mediaelites.com/2009/05/03/time-wounds-all-heals/
