Marc Hirsh
Marc Hirsh lives in the Boston area, where he indulges in the magic trinity of improv comedy, competitive adult four square and music journalism. He has won trophies for one of these, but refuses to say which.
He writes for the Boston Globe and has also been spotted on MSNBC and in the pages of Amplifier, the Nashville Scene, the Baltimore City Paper and Space City Rock, where he is the co-publisher and managing editor.
He once danced onstage with The Flaming Lips while dressed as a giant frog. It was very warm.
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NBC has renewed several of its critically-acclaimed but low-rated comedies, including 30 Rock, Community and Parks And Recreation, with shortened orders. Rather than spelling their demise, this could be exactly what saves them.
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Director James Cameron recently claimed that he was no longer interested in making movies unless they were based on his 2009 hit Avatar. Two others have fallen into similar traps, with problematic results.
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As we near the finale of the current season of American Idol, a look at some of the show's annoyances, great and small.
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On the passing of Maurice Sendak, a look at Really Rosie, his collaboration with Carole King and one of the greatest children's albums ever.
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Sacha Baron Cohen has been doing most of his promotion for his upcoming movie The Dictator not as himself but as Admiral General Aladeen. Maybe it's time to leave the character at home.
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While her band rages in "Transformer," Woodroofe faces the object of her devotion without blinking.
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Commentator Marc Hirsh says that while rebooting comic-book characters isn't anything new, it's another thing entirely to create prequels to a work that was initially as whole as Watchmen.
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In which Josh Groban reminds our writer that we should try to remember that performers are performers and audiences are audiences and maybe there's a line between the two
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Ricky Gervais' Golden Globes gig led us to pause for a moment to tally other intentional meltdowns throughout pop culture.
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We pause to remember Leslie Nielsen, an actor who knew very well that his job wasn't to say funny things or say things in a funny way -- but who managed to be riotously funny anyway.