Eric Molinsky

Four years after Buffy the Vampire Slayer ended, creator Joss Whedon has resurrected his cult hit TV series in a very surprising fashion: as a comic book. Produced by Eric Molinsky.

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The Woody Allen film Annie Hall was released 30 years ago today, on April 20th, 1977. Even though it was a romantic comedy, the depth and poignancy of the movie marked a departure for Woody Allen, who was known for making outright farces.

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David O. Selznick was a major Hollywood mogul, the producer of “Gone with the Wind” and “Spellbound.” He was also a workaholic micromanager who recited endless memos throughout the night. Selznick tried to dictate every detail – from the size of Rhett Butler’s collars to Alfred Hitchcock’s camera angles. ...

With his new ballet, English choreographer Matthew Bourne brings Tim Burton’s 1990 movie Edward Scissorhands to the stage. For him, it’s a classic story about the American suburbs. Produced by Eric Molinsky.

In the 1960s and 70s, Hollywood turned to the Western to depict the racial, moral, and military issues of the Vietnam War. Today, directors and screenwriters are again grappling with war indirectly, through genres like fantasy and science fiction. Critics Lisa Schwartzbaum and Laura Miller show ...

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The actor F. Murray Abraham is currently starring in two plays that are notorious for their depiction of Jews. William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, and Christopher Marlowe's The Jew of Malta. The plays run through March 11th at Theater for a New Audience. Eric ...

Andy Kaufman's blend of comedy and performance art involved making up strange, annoying characters and staying in character, even beyond the walls of the TV studio. His routines bewildered audiences in the '70s and '80s. But with performers like Sasha Baron Cohen, Stephen Colbert and Sarah Silverman, the world has ...

The Bush administration has boosted the careers of many liberal comics and commentators like Bill Maher, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. But a familiar voice of the old left has been unusually quiet during the last six years: Jules Feiffer. Studio 360's Eric Molinsky ...

The stateside arrival of My Name Is Rachel Corrie, which transfers from London to New York this week, is generating a lot of buzz, mostly because of the tricky politics attached to it. The play has a distinctly pro-Palestinian viewpoint, but it isn’t about Israelis and Palestinians. It’s the true ...

Big eyes are appealing on anything -- babies, puppies, cartoon characters, Jake Gyllenhaal. But our fondness for big eyes is the work of nature, not Disney. Studio 360's Eric Molinsky found out how evolutionary psychology butts into pop culture.

The movie Crash, by writer-director Paul Haggis, is one of the big contenders for Best Picture at this weekend's Academy Awards. Crash follows a diverse group of strangers in Los Angeles who literally and figuratively crash into one another, altering their lives forever. That premise will sound ...

Thirty years before MGM's film, author L. Frank Baum had already made his version for the screen. It was a spectacular flop. Baum failed at everything but writing the books that made him famous — the Wizard of Oz and its umpteen sequels. Studio 360's Eric Molinsky has the story ...

Studio 360's Eric Molinsky has been following Aimee Mann's career since he was a kid. He had a chance to speak with Mann when she visited our studio to perform songs from her new album, The Forgotten Arm.

A lot of us grew up with GI Joe and Princess Leia action figures. But today's selection of tiny plastic dolls isn’t limited to movie and comic book characters. Super heroes worked hard to make our democracy safe. So it naturally follows that we can now customize our ...

We love big eyes on anything — babies, puppies, cartoon characters, Christina Ricci. But our fondness for big eyes is the work of nature, not Disney. Studio 360's Eric Molinsky found out how evolutionary psychology butts into pop culture.

The popular imagination associates Compton, California with gang violence and gangsta rap, but a few years ago, a high school there staged a production of Our Town, Thornton Wilder's play set in a New England village in 1904. It's a drama-class chestnut that people tend to think of as wistful ...

Kids love cartoon wise-crackers like Bugs Bunny and Bart Simpson. But are they learning anything? Studio 360's Eric Molinsky used to work as a storyboard artist on Nickelodeon's Rocket Power, a show about four friends who do extreme sports and have a teachable moment each episode. Molinsky asks animators, parents, ...

David O. Selznick was a major Hollywood mogul, producing great films such as Gone with the Wind and Spellbound. But he was also a workaholic micromanager, obsessed with sending office memos. Through his memos, Selznick dictated every detail of production at his movie studio, from the size of Rhett Butler's ...

When Verdi’s opera La Traviata, or The Fallen Woman, premiered in 1853, audiences cried over the story of Violetta, the original hooker with a heart of gold. But as Eric Molinsky reports, in some ways it’s harder and harder for modern audiences to connect with the choices La Traviata’s heroine ...