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  • June 2008

    • Gunnin' Sure to Score With Hoop Fans

      Rotten Tomatoes  |  Jun 27, 08 5:25 PM CDT

      Gunnin' Sure to Score With Hoop Fans

      (Newser) - Gunnin’ for That #1 Spot, the second documentary from Beastie Boy Adam Yauch, is no Hoop Dreams , but critics predict a slam-dunk with roundball and hip-hop aficionados. The film follows eight high school phenoms through a high-profile Harlem pick-up game and “offers a snapshot of the kind of top players who one day hope to have a shoe named after them,” writes Variety’s Ronnie Scheib. More »

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      basketball  • movie review  • documentary  • documentary film  • Beastie Boys  • Adam Yauch

    • Campy Documentarians Focus on Fleiss

      W  |  Jun 25, 08 12:42 PM CDT

      Campy Documentarians Focus on Fleiss

      (Newser) - The makers of such revelatory documentaries as Inside Deep Throat and The Eyes of Tammy Faye have a new film in the works, about Heidi Fleiss’ bid to open an all-male brothel in the Nevada desert, W reports. Fleiss, who had a falling out with directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, said, “I was hoping it would be fun, but instead it was me getting mad.” More »

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      prostitution  • Nevada  • brothel  • reality television  • documentary film  • Heidi Fleiss  • madams

    • Documentaries: Box Office Wimps

      Los Angeles Times  |  Jun 20, 08 5:38 PM CDT

      Documentaries: Box Office Wimps

      (Newser) - Although big-name documentaries such as An Inconvenient Truth and Sicko have raised the genre's profile, recent ones just aren't pulling in audiences, the Los Angeles Times reports. The critically acclaimed steroid film Bigger, Stronger, Faster has grossed only $164,000 since its release three weeks ago, and the Oscar-winning Taxi to the Dark Side topped out at $275,000. More »

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      Hollywood  • movie industry  • documentary film  • steroid use

    • Ventriloquists Speak Up for Themselves

      Wall Street Journal  |  Jun 20, 08 3:03 PM CDT

      Ventriloquists Speak Up for Themselves

      (Newser) - Ventriloquism has been on the outs since the '70s, but its fortunes are starting to turn, the Wall Street Journal reports. Symbolizing the resurgence of the vaudeville favorite is Terry Fator, a winner of NBC’s America’s Got Talent competition, who recently picked up a yearlong headlining gig at the Las Vegas Hilton. More »

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      NBC  • Las Vegas  • comedy  • documentary  • documentary film  • puppet

    • Joy Division Rocks, But Enough Already

      Anthem  |  Jun 19, 08 8:01 PM CDT

      Joy Division Rocks, But Enough Already

      (Newser) - Joy Division, writes Nik Mercer for Anthem , “is one of those bands that gains significance exponentially as the years pass.” As testament to their place in pop music consciousness, recent years have seen three films on the band: 24 Hour Party People , focusing on their label and scene; Control , a Cobain-izing biopic of Ian Curtis; and now simply Joy Division:  A Documentary . More »

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      Great Britain  • music  • England  • documentary  • documentary film

    • Lake Fights Back on Home Childbirth

      Associated Press  |  Jun 18, 08 11:50 AM CDT

      Lake Fights Back on Home Childbirth

      (AP) - Ricki Lake is firing back at a recent American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists statement that reprimanded her for promoting at-home childbirth, saying that a hospital was the "safest setting" for having a baby. In The Business of Being Born , the former talk-show host documents the delivery of her second son in the bathtub of her Manhattan apartment. More »

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      celebrity  • celebrity pregnancy  • medical studies  • American Medical Association  • documentary film

  • May 2008

    • Critics Pumped for Steroids Doc

      Rotten Tomatoes  |  May 30, 08 5:45 PM CDT

      Critics Pumped for Steroids Doc

      (Newser) - The documentary Bigger, Stronger, Faster is drawing raves for its clear-eyed, nuanced look at the world of steroid users. Christopher Bell, a bodybuilder and onetime juicer, directs and narrates an "incisive and compulsively watchable look at America's love affair with steroids," Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly writes. More »

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      movie review  • steroids  • documentary  • documentary film  • steroid use

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