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Awards

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 10, 2008

  "Was Roman Polanski a Pedophile"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 24, 2008

  "Waugh adn Remembrance"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 25, 2008

  "From Reverence to Rape"

• 2009 - National Entertainment Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published September 11, 2008

  "The Women: Ladies Night"

• 2009 - National Entertainment Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published December 11, 2008

  "Doubt Wags the Finger of Moral Relativism"

• 2009 - National Entertainment Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published July 10, 2008

  "Was Roman Polanski a Pedophile"

• 2009 - National Entertainment Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published July 24, 2008

  "Waugh and Remembrance"

• 2009 - National Entertainment Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published December 25, 2008

  "From Reverence to Rape"

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1998 Stories by Ella Taylor

• A Sad Man, A Bad Man, and Two Brawling Moms

  published December 31, 1998

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• Return to Sender

  published December 24, 1998

  Photo by Brian HamillIf Nora Ephron is the best we can do to restore the glory that once was Hollywood romantic comedy, then perhaps we need... More >>

• Psycho Killer

  published December 17, 1998

  Photo by Suzanne TennerRight before Marion Crane steps into the shower in Gus Van Sant’s dreary reconstruction of Psycho, the directo... More >>

• Exterminated Angel

  published November 19, 1998

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• The 5,000-Pound Maus

  published November 19, 1998

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• Lèse-Majesté

  published November 12, 1998

  Bollywood meets The Godfather in Elizabeth, a rollicking good time which Gramercy Pictures, in a valiant effort to snare moviegoers who wouldn't... More >>

• Fatuous Fascism

  published October 29, 1998

  In the mid-'80s, following a lecture by Irving Howe on the possibility of a valid art of the Holocaust, I enraged the famously testy lion of lefty... More >>

• Crying Freedom

  published October 22, 1998

  At 124 Bluestone Road, a lonely, ramshackle dwelling in post-Civil War rural Ohio where the runaway slave Sethe ekes out a meager existence with... More >>

• Boys to Man

  published October 15, 1998

  The Mighty, a boy's adventure story for everyone, opens with Cincinnati smokestacks, then sweeps us smartly into Arthurian legend. It's no... More >>

• Colonial Life

  published October 8, 1998

  Antz, the suave first collaboration between DreamWorks and the computer-animation outfit PDI, is a charmer, complete with cute critters voiced by... More >>

• Supermom

  published September 24, 1998

  Anyone who has watched a close relative die will likely weep buckets over Carl Franklin's new movie, One True Thing. I'm giving away nothing: We... More >>

• Not a Full House

  published September 17, 1998

  An air of sobriety hangs over Rounders, as if director John Dahl had resolved to kick his giggly neo-noir habit and go straight, but... More >>

• Dark Victory

  published July 30, 1998

  If Steven Spielberg's emotional intelligence matched his visual genius, his harrowing, passionately felt and honorably flawed new film might... More >>

• Anglo Pop

  published July 23, 1998

  Tuesday 3 January130 lbs. (terrifying slide into obesity - why? why?), alcohol units 6 (excellent), cigarettes 23 (v.g.), calories 2472 .... More >>

• I, Me, Mine

  published July 16, 1998

  BUFFALO ’66 Written and directed by VINCENT GALLO Produced by CHRIS HANLEY Starring GALLO CHRISTINA RICCI... More >>

• When She Was Bad

  published July 2, 1998

  Scarlett: Oh Ashleh, Ashleh, ah lerve you, truly ah do.Ashley: It's no use, Scarlett. You're strong and mighty and modern, while I, I am... More >>

• Disney's Asia Minor

  published June 25, 1998

  Without its fabulous animation, Mulan would add up to little more than a serviceable variant on the Disney drill: Wasp-waisted proto-feminist... More >>

• Mad as Hell

  published June 11, 1998

  A 1984 for the millennium, The Truman Show opens with a fat hint at the nature of the game it's about to play. Then it backs off and gulls us,... More >>

• Boogie Nights

  published June 4, 1998

  If ever an ensemble breathed new life into the term "haute bourgeois," it's the lost-soul WASPs who wander through Whit Stillman's films, looking... More >>

• Parallel Lives

  published April 30, 1998

  TWO GIRLS AND A GUY Written and directed by JAMES TOBACK Produced by EDWARD R. PRESSMAN and CHRIS HANLEY Starring NATASHA... More >>

• Death Becomes Them

  published April 16, 1998

  SONATINE Written and directed by TAKESHI KITANO Produced by MASAYUKI MORI HISAO NABESHIMA and TAKEO... More >>

• Erection Campaign

  published March 26, 1998

  In the nature of what sells studio movies, Primary Colors stands to gain more from the presence of John Travolta than from l'affaire... More >>

• Love Among the Ruins

  published March 12, 1998

  LOVE AND DEATH ON LONG ISLANDWritten and directed by RICHARD KWIETNIOWSKIAdapted from the novel byGILBERT ADAIRProduced bySTEVE CLARK-HALL... More >>

• Burn This

  published March 5, 1998

  If it were news that Hollywood is a playground for narcissistic power-trippers, An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn would still be a snore.... More >>

• London Kills Him

  published February 12, 1998

  No one could accuse Gary Oldman of going with the flow. While British working-class film trades in its hereditary... More >>