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DVD: Upcoming fall releases

When Dorothy opens that old wooden door in 1939's "The Wizard of Oz," stepping from her sepia Kansas world into a polychrome heaven of Hollywood production design, we get a glimpse of the way color might have looked before the fall of man: Maybe this ...

From CHARLES TAYLOR AND STEPHANIE ZACHAREK NEW YORK TIMES, The San Jose Mercury News,  23 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Cameron Crowe,  Joan Cusack,  Judy Garland,  Pauline Kael,  Victor Fleming

New Season | DVDs: Glittering Ghosts of Cinema Past

Stars who are the most fun to watch playing dissolute are the ones who seem so stable we know we don’t have to worry about them. When Charles Boyer attempts to wench and drink his heartache away in “Mayerling,” we know we’re seeing dissipation as a ...

From CHARLES TAYLOR AND STEPHANIE ZACHAREK, The New York Times,  12 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Charles Boyer,  Cameron Crowe,  Joan Cusack,  John Mahoney,  Franz Joseph

Holiday Movies: Holiday DVDs

A special section featuring Daniel Craig and Brad Pitt, clips of breakthrough performances, an interactive look at Frost/Nixon, a movie calendar and more. Maggie Cheung stars as herself in Olivier Assayas's movie 'Irma Vep.' Paul Winfield and Kevin ...

From CHARLES TAYLOR AND STEPHANIE ZACHAREK, The New York Times,  31 Oct 2008
Related Topics: Maggie Cheung,  Wong Kar-wai,  Olivier Assayas,  Kristy McNichol,  Kevin Hooks

Summer DVDs: For Air-Conditioned Living Rooms

A special section featuring the return of Indiana Jones, Sex and the City, Hancock, breakthrough performances, upcoming releases, trailers and more. In 1967 young audiences could see “The Graduate,” which encouraged them to sneer along with its callow ...

From CHARLES TAYLOR AND STEPHANIE ZACHAREK, The New York Times,  2 May 2008
Related Topics: Celeste Holm (musician),  Jean Renoir,  Charles Taylor,  Frank Sinatra,  Satyajit Ray

Sign Up for Global Youth Service Day

Civic-minded young Washingtonians have a chance to be a part of something bigger than just D.C., while at the same time helping their neighbors. Thousands of young people will give back this weekend as part of (each individual project is one day, but ...

From STEPHANIE TAYLOR, DCist,  24 Apr 2008

Servathon 2008: Team DCist is Full

It's a rare day in the non-profit world when you have to ask people to stop volunteering, but alas, Team DCist has no more room for additional members at our Servathon project site, Harriet Tubman Elementary School. We now have 50 volunteers, almost ...

From STEPHANIE TAYLOR, DCist,  22 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Harriet Tubman

Servathon 2008: We've Got a Site

Sincere thanks to all of you who have volunteered to join the DCist team for this year's Servathon. Forty-six of you will be rolling up your sleeves and getting dirty with us on May 3. The good news is Team DCist finally has a site -- Harriet Tubman ...

From STEPHANIE TAYLOR, DCist,  8 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Harriet Tubman

Find a New Home for Your Suits Tomorrow

There's motivator for your spring cleaning waiting for you in Capitol Hill on Wednesday. As part of Dress for Success' annual S.O.S. — Send One Suit — Week, Fed Ex Special Delivery will be collecting professional attire and accessories from 7 a.m. to 6 ...

From STEPHANIE TAYLOR, DCist,  1 Apr 2008

Stephanie Taylor: Ohio Nurses' Union Busted By California Nurses

The Service Employees International Union was brimming with confidence about unionizing 8,300 workers at nine Ohio hospitals through elections that were scheduled for this Wednesday and Friday. But then organizers from a rival union, the California ...

From STEPHANIE TAYLOR, Huffington Post,  25 Mar 2008

Servathon Update: Looking for a Few More Volunteers

There's good news: DCist is already one of the leading teams as far as recruiting volunteers and fundraising for this year's Servathon. But we need five more volunteers by Sunday, March 16, to get our team name printed on our shirts for free. (Don't ...

From STEPHANIE TAYLOR, DCist,  14 Mar 2008

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