Have you ever stood in an art gallery, contemplating a vacuum, wondering if it’s art or if the maintenance staff just forgot to put it away? I love this feeling. To me, art is supposed to leave us re-evaluating everything we think we know about the world. But it does
Tag: Documentary
‘Freaknik’ Documentary Invites Viewers to Black College Spring Break
It’s an accepted spring break axiom that you can retake a class but you can’t relive a party. Until now, that’s been true of Freaknik, the annual bass-rattling spring break street party that drew hundreds of thousands of Black college students to Atlanta throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Traffic crawled.
Dan Schneider Responds to ‘Quiet on Set’ Documentary, ‘Regrets’ Some ‘Past Behaviors’
Dan Two days after Investigation Discovery’s Quiet on Set documentary series dropped, showrunner and former Nickelodeon writer Dan Schneider publicly responded to the allegations made both against him and the environment created on his sets. “Watching over the past two nights was very difficult, me facing my past behaviors, some
Inside Dan Schneider’s Net Worth Amid ‘Quiet on Set’ Bombshell Documentary Series
TV executive and showrunner Dan Schneider was once Nickelodeon’s golden boy, masterminding hit shows including Drake & Josh, iCarly, The Amanda Show and Zoey 101. He amassed an impressive net worth thanks to his days in adolescent television, but documentary series Quiet on Set is poised to show the dark
An Oscar-Winning Concert Documentary That Speaks Volumes About America
The best documentary award became part of the Oscars in 1942, and the list of winners is genuinely fascinating. In the category’s early years, the State Department and various branches of the U.S. military were routinely nominated, and even won. As time wore on, films critical of the government and
Wendy Williams Documentary Showed Former Talk Show Host’s House of Horrors: ‘Painful to Watch’
The scene was chilling. On the new Lifetime documentary Where Is Wendy Williams? the beloved former talk show host is lying in her rumpled bed inside her Manhattan apartment when her manager, Will Selby, confronts her with an empty vodka bottle. “Did you drink this all today?” he asks. Wendy,
What Did Brian Peck Do? Inside Abuse Allegations Detailed in ‘Quiet on Set’ Documentary
Several former child stars are coming forward about their experiences with Brian Peck in the Investigation Discovery series Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV. What did Peck do and which celebrities have made allegations against him? What Did Brian Peck Do? Peck was arrested in August 2003
Wendy Williams' guardianship is the subject of a new documentary. Here's how it works
Host Wendy Williams appears at the Soul Train Awards in Las Vegas on Nov. 7, 2014. Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP hide caption toggle caption Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP Host Wendy Williams appears at the Soul Train Awards in Las Vegas on Nov. 7, 2014. Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP The premiere of a controversial Lifetime docuseries about
‘Jodorowsky’s Dune’ Documentary Chronicles the Movie Adaptation That Never Happened
This week sees the release of “Dune: Part Two,” the second installment in Denis Villeneuve’s eye-popping adaptation of the 1965 Frank Herbert novel. “Dune” was also adapted in 1984, by David Lynch, who hated his version (or the cut that made it to theaters, anyhow) so much that he disavowed
‘Where Is Wendy Williams?’: 5 Takeaways From the Documentary
At one point during the documentary, her manager, Will Selby, came into her bedroom, held up an empty vodka bottle and asked, “Did you drink this all today?” Williams initially answered, “Yes,” but then quickly said “No.” At several points in the documentary, camera crews showed up to her house,