Beirut BEIRUT (2018) Starring Jon Hamm, Rosamund Pike, Dean Norris, Mark Pellegrino, Larry Pine, Shea Whigham, Douglas Hodge, Alon Moni Aboutboul, Idir Chender, Jonny Coyne, Kate Fleetwood, Leila Bekhti, Yoav Sadian Rosenberg, Ahmed Said Arif, Hicham Ouraqa, Sonia Okacha, Mohamed Zouaoui, Ben Affan and Ian Porter. Screenplay by Tony Gilroy. Directed by Brad Anderson. Distributed by Bleecker Street. 109 minutes. Rated R. The Middle East has been a political and military quagmi

Cobie Smulders at the New York Press Day for “Unexpected” at the Crosby Street Hotel, June 23, 2015. Photo copyright 2015 Jay S. Jacobs. Cobie Smulders Learns What to Expect from Unexpected by Jay S. Jacobs In the crazy, glitzy world of show business, it doesn’t take much for a little fame to go to someone’s head.  That’s why its always nice to meet a TV or movie star who is completely grounded, just a normal, nice person doing what they love. Take Cobie Smulders. Smulders sp

Barry Livingston Barry Livingston From Child Star to Man Amongst Jersey Boys by Ronald Sklar Character actor Barry Livington has a surprisingly fresh and impressive resume. Yep, he was Ernie Douglas, the prototype nerd on My Three Sons, back in the day. But it’s a new day, baby: you’ve been seeing him a lot lately, and not just in dusty reruns. The in-demand character actor has appeared most recently in Jersey Boys, but has also been featured in The Social Network, Argo, and

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Argo Argo http://www.popentertainment.com/argo.htm From the strange-but-true files comes this little nugget, a little known piece of recent history that is all the more trenchant due to recent events. With violence and political unrest swirling around in Iran and the Middle East in general, amongst the many attributes of Argo is simply the reminder that there has not been any political stability in that region in many decades. Argo is based around the last real catastrophic