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As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales From the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes with Joe Layden (Simon & Schuster, $32)

  By Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up! “…The Princess Bride has aged remarkably well.  I think this is in part because of the quality of the writing, the directing, and the wonderful ensemble of actors I had the sheer pleasure of working with.” -Cary Elwes Not many people are aware that the motion pictures The […]

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Curtains Up! On The Expendables 3

By Andreas Kessaris   I was a child of the ‘70’s who came of age in then ‘80’s and bore witness to the rise of the muscle-bound cinematic heroes who spoke incoherently and carried bazookas.  The Reagan era was a time when action stars like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger were in their prime, worked […]