Tag: Leonard
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‘Flipside’ Review — Chris Wilcha Looks at the Shaggy Directions Life Takes Us
“Every life is a trip,” says the legendary photographer Herman Leonard at the beginning of Chris Wilcha’s documentary Flipside. “You are the captain of your boat.” In these opening moments, Flipside seems like it’s going to explore the life of Leonard, yet Wilcha—who helped adapt This American Life for television—zooms out even further, focusing on…
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‘Flipside’ Review: Chris Wilcha’s Mesmerizing Collage of Aborted Documentary Projects Is a Tribute to Perseverance
“Flipside,” an endearing, dizzying documentary about the crushing convergence between art and commerce, begins with a common cold open. What we presume to be our enigmatic subject, the late legendary jazz photographer Herman Leonard, offers us a few pearls of wisdom that have led to his success. An array of close-ups of the singular, black…
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This Was ‘Suits’ Most Devastating Moment
Aaron Korsh’s Suits is a legal drama series that gets your emotions oscillating at both ends of the pendulum: love or hate, happiness or sadness, pain or pleasure. There are no in-betweens. You love it when Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht) closes the most defiant of clients or wins the most challenging of battles. You feel…
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10 ‘Young Sheldon’ and ‘Big Bang Theory’ Connections You May Have Missed
Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady took sitcoms on a wild ride in 2007 with the successful release of hit-series, The Big Bang Theory. Sheldon (Jim Parsons), Leonard (Johnny Galecki), Penny (Kaley Cuoco), Raj (Kunal Nayyar), Howard (Simon Helberg), and later Amy (Mayim Bialik) and Bernadette (Melissa Rauch) brought humor and heartfelt moments across an impressive…