Aspen Film's Academy Screenings are off and running with a wide range of stars--everyone from Kate Winslet and Leonardo diCaprio in "Revolutionary Road" to Daniel Craig, AKA the new James Bond, in "Defiance." According to AspenGlenwood.com: "Based on an extraordinary true story, this epic WWII tale of family, honor, vengeance, and salvation unfolds in the Belarussian woods where three Polish Jews (Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, and Jamie Bell) take refuge from the Nazis.
What begins as a primitive struggle to survive becomes something far more consequential - a way for them to avenge the deaths of their loved ones by saving thousands of others. "
Aspen Film announces its lineup for the 18th annual “Academy Screenings,” celebrating films that have garnered Oscar buzz.
Grand Buffet along with The Klutch Beat Bootique will be rapping the night away at the Belly Up in Aspen on Saturday. Doors open at 8PM and the show stars at 10PM
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SAN FRANCISCO--I take this idea of booing a sports god with more seriousness than usual here by the Bay because of what my Daddy’s mommy told my Daddy a long time ago: “Never put it in writing, son. They’ll only hold it against you.”
Amen, Grandma, may you rest, but you never stopped my Daddy from writing and writing and writing some more. In all, in a life with millions of words, Frank Conniff wrote exactly one sentence that survived him: “What a town. They cheer Khrushchev and boo Willie Mays.”
Continue Reading April 24th, 2007
ASPEN, COLORADO (Post Time News)--Olympic snowboarder Chris Klug is considered nothing less than the embodiement of all that's good about America--and Aspen. His ride to a bronze medal at the Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City, Utah, after a kidney transplant still has to be considered one of the great sports stories of the aborning 21st Century.
Klug's wild ride will be commemorated and celebrated Tuesday night at the Paramount Theater in Denver in the "Ride of Your Life," a documentary that tells the amazing story of what happened after Klug contracted Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis in 1993, a rare live disease.
Continue Reading April 15th, 2007
Few things have me as outraged as the discussion about "race" as when someone can't experience what it mean simply because they don't live it.
First: "Race" is nothing more than a social construct, according to anthropologists. There are no distinct phylogenetic demographics, yet there are genetic markers seen and unseen. The problem with these markers are that there are so many; choosing hair and skin as the only ones of relevance out of millions is statistical idiocy.
Continue Reading April 11th, 2007
ASPEN, COLORADO (Post Time News)—A combo platter of five leading nonprofits here have cooked up a celebration of the art of Africa in Aspen in summer 2007.
Aspen explores Africa during the last week of June in stories, music, ideas, and film via the Aspen Writers’ Foundation, Aspen Music Festival and School, Aspen Institute, Jazz Aspen Snowmass, and Aspen Film.
Continue Reading March 29th, 2007
I have serious reservations when I watch Hillary Clinton perform in front of an identified political base whose support she needs. She is smart and knowledgeable, but she never quite defines who she really is. In fact, her mother was reputed to have said, “My daughter never lets her slip show.” Hillary’s fierce desire for power is palpable, and I wonder, when I observe her behavior, if others pick up her lack of straight- forwardness that seems so obvious and apparent. It pains me to observe the extreme effort she exerts in her attempts to convince us that she is different from who she really is. Who is she really?
Continue Reading March 12th, 2007
Belly Up Aspen adds a second show for folk singer Judy Collins March 24, 2007.
Continue Reading March 12th, 2007
ASPEN, COLORADO (Post Time News)–The Aspen Celebrity Downhill™, presented by John & Selene Devaney and United Capital Asset Management, arrives again this weekend in Aspen as a benefit for Aspen Youth Experience, the 11th Annual Aspen Celebrity Downhill™ weekend.
This year’s attendees include actors Rob Morrow of NUMB3RS, Scott Patterson of Gilmore Girls, CSI’s Hill Harper, Chad Lowe, Ed Quinn, Fisher Stevens, Willie Garson, actor and comedian David Alan Grier, comedian Cheri Oteri, musicians John Oates and Allan Harris, TV personalities Judge Joe Brown, Fox News Network’s Bill McCuddy and Sal Masekela of ESPN’s X-games and E! Entertainment Television, and skiing legends Billy Kidd, Bob Beattie and Klaus Obermeyer.
Continue Reading March 9th, 2007
ASPEN, COLORADO― The debut of opera super star Kathleen Battle at the Aspen Music Festival and School (AMFS) here this summer will no doubt be indescribably delicious to patrons of the boffo summer festival. But her inclusion in the all-Gershwin Season Benefit “Rhapsody in Blue” July 14, 2007, at the Benedict Music Tent, is sure to be the icing on the cake.
Battle will be performing most of the Gershwin tunes for the first time in her distinguished career as part of a Music Fest focus this summer on jazz. The Aspen Chamber Symphony, under the baton of AMFS Music Director David Zinman, will accompany the famed soprano along with Macedonian pianist Simon Trpčeski playing Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. The Aspen Music Festival and School is America ’s premier music festival, presenting more than 350 musical events during its nine-week summer season in Aspen. The 2007 Summer Season, themed Blue Notes, runs June 21 through August 19.
Continue Reading March 8th, 2007
ASPEN, COLORADO (Post Time News)—Lost in the shuffle of live entertainment at The U.S. Comedy Arts Festival (USCAF) here in Aspen is the plethora of movies that make this one of the premier venues for comics breaking through on screen.
As befitting a fest sponsored by HBO, the lineup for the 2007 Film Program sponsored by HBO Films, and showing February 28-March 4, 2007, showcases 30 features, three world premieres, two North American premieres, and 20 shorts culled from entries around the world.
Continue Reading February 28th, 2007
After revenge comes forgiveness. Or so one can hope.
I begin an Aspen Institute seminar this morning with the title of “Forgiveness or Revenge,” with me and a baker’s dozen set to mind-wrassle “The Tempest” and “The Count of Monte Cristo” under the tutelage of Ken and Carol Adelman—and the monk Father William Meninger.
But my thoughts go to Petyton Manning on the first day of the rest of his life. My guess is his head never hit the pillow last night after his Indianapolis Colts beat the Chicago Bears in Super Bowl fortysomething. The sweet champagne of redemption was way too sweet. The naysayers were sent neighing like so many young colts.
Continue Reading February 5th, 2007
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