Box office guru Paul Dergarabedian is incredibly knowledgable about film, of course, but also a variety of other topics as you’ll hear in our wide-ranging Breakfast All Day A La Carte interview. Paul discusses growing up on the Palos Verdes Peninsula with an early love of music, fast cars and...
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Breakfast All Day Podcast: A La Carte With Jamielyn Lippman
Filmmaker and fellow mom Jamielyn Lippman is my Breakfast All Day A La Carte guest this week — and she’s the rare friend of mine outside the critic world who sees as much as I do. Jamielyn talks about growing up in a big, close family in suburban Santa Clarita...
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Breakfast All Day Podcast: A La Carte With Daniel Waters
“Heathers” screenwriter Daniel Waters joins me for my latest A La Carte episode, and I’m thrilled to finally have him here. He’s a sweet, lovely guy and he’s been a friend for a few years now, but I’ve never had the opportunity to pick his brain like this. And since...
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5 Great Snow Movies
Greetings from Banff, Alberta, where I’ve been skiing all week with my family in the stunning Canadian Rockies. My L.A. kid had never even seen snow in person, much less skied on it, prior to this trip. He’s having a blast — we all are — but naturally, the dramatic...
Read more15 Films That Have Stayed With Me
There’s a fun challenge that’s been going around Facebook lately: Choose 15 films that have stayed with you throughout your life. One of the dads at school who’s become a friend of mine posed the challenge to me. Impossible, I thought at first. I write about movies for a living...
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