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The Wackness

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Monday: Three Sheets Because the only thing more fun than actually getting drunk at a bar is watching someone else do it from the comfort of your own couch, here comes Three Sheets. The series, now in its fourth season—the show moves from the defunct MOJO-HD to Fine Living Network starting tonight—finds host and “comedian” Read More

The Wackness is … Ack! Yes, Even with Sir Ben Kingsley

TheWacknessRunning time 110 minutes Written and directed by Jonathan Levine Starring Josh Peck, Ben Kingsley, Olivia Thirlby, Famke Janssen, Mary-Kate Olsen

Not the least of the problems facing people who write about movies on a weekly basis is the deadlines. You can’t say, “I think I’d rather go to the beach today.” The Read More

Hip-Hop Hooray

The Wackness Running time 110 minutesWritten and directed by Jonathan Levine Starring Josh Peck, Ben Kingsley, Olivia Thirlby, Famke Janssen

Jonathan Levine’s The Wackness, from his own screenplay, takes place in New York during the summer of 1994, when the newly inaugurated mayor, Rudy Giuliani, was beginning his now notorious crackdown on all sorts Read More

Jonathan Levine Finds Work After Wackness

Jonathan Levine, whose New York '90s dramedy The Wackness is being released this weekend, has just signed on to two new projects. He'll work on Positive, a "romantic thriller" that sounds like a slightly scarier version of Meet the Parents, and Echelon Vendetta, an adaptation of David Stone's thriller novel about a CIA agent who Read More

The Big Chill

A couple weeks back, Ice-T, whom you may know from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and who is also, it turns out, a famous rapper, fired a shot across the bow of the unlikeliest of enemies: gimmicky teen dance-rapper Soulja Boy.

Averring that Soulja Boy had "single-handedly killed hip-hop." Ice T continued, "We came all Read More


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