Aspen is so cool and hip that it would be outrageously uncool and bodaciously unhip to admit that I really hate the X Games. To say so makes me feel like a traitor to my home base—and worse—because I find myself (again) in the position of insisting Aspen is not nearly so cool as it thinks.
Continue Reading 2 comments January 23rd, 2008
Is is December and you know what that means? Yes, snow, of course. Skiing and snowboarding, for sure and . . . the much celebrated and I think 17th annual Academy Screening put on by our own AspenFilm, local not-for-profit dedicated to bringing the latest in film, film technology, film education, fun, community and cause to gather at one or more of Aspen's renowned venues, The Historic Wheeler Opera House, Harris Hall or The Isis Theatre.
DrBill returns to bring you the skinny on what is happening December 21 - January 1 about film in Aspen. What's on the schedule you ask? Check it all out at aspenfilm.org. I am especially looking forward to Denzel Washington's directorial encore in, "The Great Debaters" about the early 20th Century Wiley College Debate Team. Also on my list is the latest from Ang Lee, "Lust, Caution", from Rob Reiner, "The Bucket List" starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, "Sleuth" from Kenneth Branagh starring Michael Caine and Jude Law, Sean Penn's adaptation of the best-selling book, "Into the Wild" and among others the screen adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's best-selling book, "The Kite Runner."
Continue Reading Add comment December 13th, 2007
WOODY CREEK, COLORADO (Post Time News)—In a revelatory interview with the Guardian of London in October 2005, the widow of the late Dr. Hunter S. Thompson drew the curtain back on Owl Creek Farm and the picture is not the roseate picture that predominated after the gonzo journalist’s suicide in 2005.
Anita Thompson said there was “dark side” to Thompson and she called him the “lord of the underworld.” Before his death, she had been recently staying with her mother because “things were so bad.” She also said that she succumbed to the drug culture that surrounded her husband, and that she and the writer had tried to have a child.
Continue Reading 2 comments October 28th, 2007
Al Gore--he of the overbearing environmental consciousness going back decades--arrives in Aspen today in full green regalia, the prophet no longer scorned. He's so cool now he's on the board of Apple and he owns a chunk of Current, the channel that relies on user-supplied videos for content. In the Live Earth concert just past, his mug (sans beard) and his ideas reached around the world.
We act now as if all of this were inevitable and none of it was. Al Gore was a loser once and the beard made him look worse. He got fat and unhappy. Now he's king of the world.
Continue Reading 12 comments July 18th, 2007
History works in strange ways. The very first performance of the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet under the Benedict Music Tent will be the final performance of prima ballerina Brooke Klinger with the company.
Continue Reading Add comment July 16th, 2007
ASPEN, COLORADO (Post Time News)—With Bill and Hillary Clinton safely out of Aspen, now the truth can be told about someone with real star power.
The Republican Presidential candidate Rudolph Guiliani, leading in all the polls, is coming to Aspen in August 2007 to shake the money tree in a fundraiser scheduled for a private home on hoity-toity Red Mountain.
Continue Reading Add comment July 8th, 2007
It all happened, more or less, within a year: Hancock went from the way-way-out tribal madness of "Mwandishi" to the blockbuster funkadelic success of "Headhunters." And here's the amazing thing: they were both out of sight, the monster at his most masterful, and my guess is tonight when he plays under the tent in Rio Grande Park at the Jazz Aspen Snowmass June hoedown that we will hear smidges of both.
Continue Reading Add comment June 21st, 2007
Were you watching? You could almost see/hear/feel the buzz of basketball fans huddled around the orb as LeBron James went into orbit last night. When it was done--with the sappy Cavs up 3-2 heading back to Clevenand for the clincheroo in the first-to-four against the Detroit Pistons, more than the history books had been re-written.
It was like a whole new world order for those of us born to roundball.
LeBron, you see, had put up 29 of the Cavs last 30 points in a double-overtime win over Motown--including 25 in a row to end the game.
Continue Reading 3 comments June 1st, 2007
ASPEN, COLORADO (Post Time News)--Despite its long and storied history here, the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival sponsored by HBO has inevitably lived from year-to-year waiting for the annual green light from HBO chairman and chief executive officer Chris Albrecht in order to live to see another year.
Now the future of the CEO and the storied HBO Comedy Fest in Aspen are in jeopardy long-term after Albrecht was forced to resign pending assualt charges against women that go back to 1991. Though the fest is all but certain to return in 2008, the fate of the festival is likely to be put in the hands of Jeff Bewkes, the man expected to assume command of the pay channel and its myriad operations.
Continue Reading 1 comment May 10th, 2007
ASPEN, COLORADO (Post Time News)—The noted director and resident Bob Rafelson was irate about the facelift planned for the Aspen Music Festival & School campus—until he found out the identity of the architect.
Continue Reading Add comment May 1st, 2007
