Email Author Melissa Levine

2006 Stories by Melissa Levine

• Take This Woman

  published January 25, 2006

  It happens so often these days. A comedy opens with clever jokes, endearing characters, and an enjoyably brisk pace, all of which put you at ease.... More >>

• Valley of the Dolls

  published January 25, 2006

  The big news about Bubble, the new film by director Steven Soderbergh (Erin Brockovich, Traffic), is the way it's being... More >>

• Now Dirtier Than Ever

  published January 25, 2006

  The Aristocrats (Lions Gate) The single joke around which Paul Provenza's documentary revolves has a standard beginning and... More >>

• Suspended Sentence

  published January 18, 2006

  As scientific advances have made forensic DNA matching a reality, a new field has emerged in criminal justice: exoneration. In cases where... More >>

• Sean of the Deadheads

  published January 11, 2006

  In 1969, Ralph Arlyck made a short film about a young boy. Arlyck was living in San Francisco, at Haight and Cole, one of the epicenters of '60s... More >>

• Free for All

  published January 11, 2006

  If you plan to see The Libertine, an artful and brooding period piece about a scandalously debauched earl of the English Restoration, a few... More >>

• Shafted

  published January 4, 2006

  First, the statistics: Between 1979 and 2000, the number of American workers living below the poverty line increased by 50 percent; today, one of... More >>