Alice Cooper – Welcome 2 My Nightmare Alice Cooper – Welcome 2 My Nightmare (Universal Music Enterprises) It has been over 35 years since Alice Cooper released his legendary first solo album Welcome To My Nightmare.  (Though, technically, lots of people didn’t know it was a solo debut since his longtime band, which had recorded seven albums, was also named Alice Cooper.)  It was a multi-platinum album and considered one of the great works of early hard rock. But has anyone re

Mena Suvari and Freddie Prinze, Jr. in “Brooklyn Rules.” Freddie Prinze, Jr. & Mena Suvari Living By Brooklyn Rules by Jay S. Jacobs Brooklyn Rules has been a long time coming. The script is a labor of love by Terrence Winter, one of the main writers on The Sopranos. The story was based on his own youth, where he and his best friends grow up in the New York boroughs in the middle of the mob wars. Unlike most films about gangsters, Brooklyn Rules does not glamorize the lifesty

Caffeine CAFFEINE (2007) Starring Mena Suvari, Marsha Thomason, Breckin Meyer, Katherine Heigl, Mike Vogel, Callum Blue, Andrew Ableson, Daz Crawford, Neil Dickson, Mark Dymond, Jules Leyser, Jennifer Sciole, Orlando Seale, Sonya Walger and Roz Witt. Screenplay by Dean Craig. Directed by John Cosgrove. Distributed by First Look Entertainment.  88 minutes.  Rated R. Caffeine is a story of a London coffee shop which is trying desperately to be hip and quirky.  The movie, not th

Joshua Malina in “The West Wing.” Joshua Malina Hail to the Chief by Jay S. Jacobs There are lots of ways that people go about trying to get their first big break in acting.  Some people kill themselves working a minimum wage job while floating from audition to audition.  Some try other arts, like music or modeling, as an entrance. Some people sit on a stool in a Hollywood soda fountain and wait to get discovered.  Some eat something gross on national television. Joshua Malin