“Being in love is like being high,” says Roberta Haze, a California-based costume designer sporting purple hair and layers of hoop wearings. “That has to transform into love, because that stays. Like snorting coke, it’s not a state that you can live in all the time.” Roberta is neighbors with the filmmaker Tao Ruspoli, who turned a painful divorce from his wife of ten years into a fascinating and stylish new documentary, “Monogamish.”
The title comes from a term coined by beloved sex and relationships columnist Dan Savage, who appears in the film as a talking head, but also as a benevolent guide for Ruspoli’s infectious curiosity.
Through his “Savage Love” column and podcast, which he has been writing since 1991 in Seattle paper The Stranger, Savage has become the most vocal and visible proponent of non-monogamy and non-traditional relationships in the country. Savage, along with other interview subjects Esther Perel,...
The title comes from a term coined by beloved sex and relationships columnist Dan Savage, who appears in the film as a talking head, but also as a benevolent guide for Ruspoli’s infectious curiosity.
Through his “Savage Love” column and podcast, which he has been writing since 1991 in Seattle paper The Stranger, Savage has become the most vocal and visible proponent of non-monogamy and non-traditional relationships in the country. Savage, along with other interview subjects Esther Perel,...
- 10/14/2017
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
If 50 percent of all marriages end in divorce, why do we even try? That’s the question filmmaker Tao Ruspoli set out to explore following a painful divorce, interviewing relatives, advice columnists, psychologists, historians, anthropologists, artists, philosophers, sex workers, sex therapists, and ordinary couples about love, sex & monogamy. Featuring recognizable sex and relationship experts like Dan Savage and Esther Perel, as well as divorce lawyer Diana Adams and “Sex At Dawn” author Christopher Ryan, “Monogamish” taps into the zeitgeist in a very real way. This flashy new trailer is any indication, it might just cause you to question everything.
“Every new relationship is kind of an adventure, and then the adventure goes away. Then it’s just kind of where you live,” says Savage in the opening beats. Perel, host of the popular podcast “Where Should We Begin?,” adds: “On the one hand, we want security and stability. We also...
“Every new relationship is kind of an adventure, and then the adventure goes away. Then it’s just kind of where you live,” says Savage in the opening beats. Perel, host of the popular podcast “Where Should We Begin?,” adds: “On the one hand, we want security and stability. We also...
- 10/3/2017
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Regardless of how much Stephen King hated Stanely Kubrick's adaptation of The Shining, movie fans still love the film! There are several different between the book and the film and one of the biggest is how the story ends. In the book, the Overlook Hotel burns to the ground. In the film, Jack ends up freezing to death while chasing down Danny through the hedge maze.
As you'd imagine, the screenplay for the Kubrick's film went through several different drafts with a variation of different ways the story would play out and end. Diana Johnson was the co-writer and producer on the film and while talking to Entertainment Weekly, she said that they discussed and explored several endings for the film before they settled on Jack freezing to death and Wendy and Danny escaping in the snow cat.
The other variations of the ending included Wendy killing Jack, Jack killing Danny,...
As you'd imagine, the screenplay for the Kubrick's film went through several different drafts with a variation of different ways the story would play out and end. Diana Johnson was the co-writer and producer on the film and while talking to Entertainment Weekly, she said that they discussed and explored several endings for the film before they settled on Jack freezing to death and Wendy and Danny escaping in the snow cat.
The other variations of the ending included Wendy killing Jack, Jack killing Danny,...
- 4/4/2017
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
After combing through a 2-mile radius where Kyron Horman was last seen, authorities expanded the search for the missing 7-year-old boy, with more than 500 people on the ground, tracking dogs and help from several state and federal agencies. "We are going to put every effort into this operation," Multnomah County Sheriff Dan Staton told The Early Show Thursday, nearly a week after the second-grader disappeared from his Portland, Ore., elementary school. Still, officials have become frustrated by how much time has elapsed since the boy was last seen at a school science fair last Friday morning - and worry the...
- 6/10/2010
- PEOPLE.com
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