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AMERICAN ULTRA
If I Were A Sleeper Agent AMERICAN ULTRA By Tinsel & Tine Editor, Le Anne Lindsay If I were a sleeper agent, God forbid they station me in some podunk town working in a mini-mart, until I’m possibly activated. I’d need to be enjoying a glam existence of chic couture, world travel, good food and a semi-high profile cover, like a celebrated artist or clothing designer. When activated, kicking ass as a killing machine, would never do, I’d like to become a master manipulator, gaining access to people in places of power and bending their will to mine. In AMERICAN ULTRA, Mike Howell (Jesse Eisenberg) has no such luck, he’s…
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Recap: NAACP Convention in Philly – Act-So Culinary Competition, President Obama and more…
Philly Welcomed the NAACP Convention This year the NAACP Convention (106th Annual) lead by NAACP President/CEO Cornell William Brooks and NAACP Chairman Rosalyn M. Brock was held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center (1101 Arch St, Philadelphia, PA) July 11-15, 2015, with a theme of “Pursuing Liberty In the Face of Injustice.” In the wake of the social and economic unrest across the country, the NAACP set an agenda to focus on voting rights, criminal justice reform, health equity, economic opportunity and education equality ahead of the 2016 presidential election. As you all know, Tinsel & Tine is hardly a political or socio-economic blog, but it does celebrate Philadelphia, and having…
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At Home with Tinsel & Tine: A SINGLE MAN
I’ve never had anything called lemon something that wasn’t good, but have you had Turkey Hill’s Southern Lemon Pie ice cream? It’s really DELISH!!! Light, soft, creamy lemon texture with just the right size pieces of shortbread cookie and a hint of marshmallow. I understand it’s a seasonal ice cream, another reason to hate saying goodbye to summer. Anyway, this is what I enjoyed while finally watching Tom Ford’s 2009 critically acclaimed A SINGLE MAN starring Colin Firth as a gay professor in the early 60’s who realizes after a year of mourning his lover’s death, he can’t take the pain anymore and plans his day around his suicide. It…
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An Outside Look at : F. Gary Gray’s N.W.A Biopic STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON
By Tinsel &Tine Editor, Le Anne Lindsay If you’re thinking, I don’t wanna see STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON cause I’ve never been a fan of “Gangsta Rap” or “Reality Rap” as N.W.A referred to it in the late 80’s early 90’s, think again, cause you don’t have to know anything about any of the players to appreciate the fact that an American story, defining a time period in the now accepted mainstream culture of hip hop, has been well documented. F. Gary Gray’s movie is a feast for hip-hop connoisseurs and novices alike as it charts the West Coast rap superstars’ meteoric rise, fractious in-fighting and discovery that the music…
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Contributor Diane Roka: THE END OF THE TOUR
The End of the Tour: More of an Essay than a Review By Tinsel & Tine Contributor and Illustrator Diane Roka When I was a kid in the 70’s, I would sit on the carpeted floor of our tiny local library (housed in a suburban mini-mall), wearing a tube top, denim gauchos, clogs and a feathered hairdo, and pore over a box of the latest Rolling Stone magazines. The giant plastic comb in my back pocket would be uncomfortable to sit on after a while, but I didn’t care. Journalists like Ben Fong-Torres and Cameron Crowe and photojournalists like Annie Leibowitz would travel and sometimes live “embedded” with the musicians…
