AltWeeklies Wire
What's Wrong With Wes Anderson?new

A decade after Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums, Generation Y's anointed auteur tries for a comeback with Fantastic Mr. Fox.
L.A. Weekly |
Joe Donnelly |
11-20-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Fantastic Mr. Fox, Wes Anderson
What We Talk About When We Talk About Socialismnew
There's something worth examining in the McCain campaign's desire to boil the archetypal Joe the Plumber and the prosecutorial Joe McCarthy up into a strange brew they hope will get an anxious electorate drunk enough to put the Arizona senator in the White House.
L.A. Weekly |
Joe Donnelly |
10-31-2008 |
Commentary
Sean Penn, With His Own Two Eyesnew

Penn on anger, humility and the power of seeing things for yourself and his new movie, Into the Wild.
L.A. Weekly |
Joe Donnelly |
09-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Into the Wild, Sean Penn
Lauren Weedman's Search for Homenew
Lauren Weedman's not a big star; she may be someday, or she may not, but when she's onstage I'd advise that you duck -- painful truths go whizzing by like bullets, send-ups rain down like bombs, and uncensored id explodes like shrapnel out of some internal minefield.
L.A. Weekly |
Joe Donnelly |
04-27-2007 |
Performance
Tags: performance
Citizen Becknew
Coming to terms with our native son now is like coming to terms with Los Angeles now -- some of my wide-eyed wonder is gone, but L.A. is home now more than ever.
L.A. Weekly |
Joe Donnelly |
09-28-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Beck