The Man Who Gave Us HAROLD AND MAUDE

from The Los Angeles Times   Hal Ashby, turbulent genius of the ’70s   AMPAS A special Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences salutes Oscar winning film editor and director Hal Ashby on Thursday, June 25, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater...

Rat Press Re-dressed

from Shelf-Awareness Rat Press: Hollywood Director Moonlights as Publisher By day Brett Ratner is a Hollywood producer, director and photographer. At night, he moonlights as the publisher of Rat Press. “It’s a one-man operation,” he said. “I do...

Top Hat of Couture

from the NY Observer The Sultan of Stains By Spencer Morgan John Mahdessian prefers not to be called a dry cleaner. “That’s a fuckin’ insult,” he said, between pulls off a Marlboro Light on a recently Sunday morning. “That’s like calling a world-renowned surgeon a...