Michael Jackson
Spike Lee‘s much-anticipated Michael Jackson documentary Bad 25 debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival last week.
It’s a pretty thorough though slightly fan-ish look at Jacko’s Bad album.
Sarah saw it and wrote about the 11 lessons she learned from the film for Huffington Post Music Canada.
You can read about them by going here.
Filed under Films, Music, Shameless Promotion
Picture Day
One of the buzziest films of TIFF 2012 was the Canadian-made Picture Day thanks to the performance of emerging gal power actress Tatiana Maslany.
While she’s the star, the glue that holds the film together is the party rock band the ElastoCitizens and their real-life lead singer/actual movie actor in the film, Steven McCarthy.
Sarah talked to McCarthy about the film and his maybe reunited, maybe broken up, maybe on-hiatus band for Spinner.
You can read the story by clicking here.
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Iceberg Slim: Portrait Of A Pimp
Ice-T recently brought Iceberg Slim: Portrait Of A Pimp, the documentary about ghetto poet Iceberg Slim he directed and starred in, to the Toronto International Film Fest.
Sarah spoke to him for Huffington Post Music Canada about Iceberg’s influence on hip-hop and himself personally.
To read the full article go here.
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Macy Gray
Musician Macy Gray is one of the main stars in TIFF 2012-debuting film The Paperboy — a movie that’s getting a lot of attention in part because it features Nicole Kidman peeing on Zac Efron. (Good for them?)
When Sarah spoke to Gray for Huffington Post Music Canada they talked about that luridness as well as deeper stuff, including the improved roles in major films for black characters.
You can read the whole story by going here.
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Ice-T & Snoop Lion
Ice-T was in Toronto recently for TIFF 2012 to promote his film Iceberg Slim: Portrait Of A Pimp. The film features numerous contributions from rappers talking about the original pimp-poet, including a pre-Rasta conversion Snoop Dogg.
Sarah interviewed Ice-T about the film, and when she had some down time she also asked him about Snoop Lion and Snoop’s other TIFF film, Reincarnated.
Ice doesn’t think “Snoop Lion” is going to last.
To find out why, head over to Spinner by clicking here.
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I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
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