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Look out world – she’s here, and she’s adorable.

Actress Amber Tamblyn and her husband, Arrested Development alum David Cross, shared the first full, front-facing photo of their daughter Marlow Alice.

“My daughter is growing her payos out nicely. Good morning, world! Marlow loves you,” wrote Tamblyn, 33, referencing the little curls surrounding the newborn’s face.

In his own Instagram post with the photo, Cross wrote, “Somehow my wife gave birth to a 55-year-old furrier from Crown Heights . I’m investigating.”

The couple – who wed in 2012 – announced Marlow’s birth late last month.

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Amber Tamblyn‘s daughter already has friends in high places.

In February, the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants alum announced that she and husband David Cross welcomed their first child, and on Monday Tamblyn, 33, officially revealed her baby girl’s birth name — Marlow Alice Cross — in a letter written by former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to the newborn.

“Dear Marlow: Happy Birthday!” the note, dated Feb. 15, reads. “Your birth has been a source of great joy for your parents, Amber and David, and your vast community of admirers and champions. I send my best wishes to you for a lifetime of amazing accomplishments and adventures,...

A Ghost StoryDear Lawrence,Almost every major festival has a hidden holy grail, the one film that will justify trudging through thick snow, the one film that will sustain us through less than ideal conditions, and the one film that will remain in our memory long after the festival is over. But because of how Sundance is programmed, marketed and covered, finding that film is impossible without trial and error, as you probably know all too well by now. Almost everything is positioned as the next something-or-other: the next all-timer, the next Best Picture winner, or the next Juno, Little Miss Sunshine or what have you. Have you been checking Twitter, reading the press releases, keeping up with all the “takes”? When I was here last year, there was the big hoopla over Birth of a Nation, which garnered universal acclaim and was the most expensive acquisition of the festival’s history.

Something Wild

Blu-ray

The Criterion Collection 850

1961 / B&W / 1:66 widescreen 1:37 flat Academy / 113 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date January 17, 2017 / 39.95

Starring: Carroll Baker, Ralph Meeker, Mildred Dunnock, Jean Stapleton, Martin Kosleck, Charles Watts, Clifton James, Doris Roberts, Anita Cooper, Tanya Lopert.

Cinematography: Eugen Schüfftan

Film Editor: Carl Lerner

Original Music: Aaron Copland

Written by Jack Garfein and Alex Karmel from his novel Mary Ann

Produced by George Justin

Directed by Jack Garfein

After writing up an earlier Mod disc release of the 1961 movie Something Wild, I received a brief but welcome email note from its director:

“Dear Glenn Erickson,

Thank you for your profound appreciation of Something Wild.

If possible, I would appreciate if you could send

me a copy of your review by email.

Sincerely yours, Jack Garfein”

Somewhere back East (or in London), the Actors Studio legend Jack Garfein had found favor with the review. Although...

The Busan International Film Festival (Biff) continues to receive support from various film personalities and Film Festivals around the world.

Last week (Feb. 14th) at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) there was a special event held called “#ISupportBIff in Berlin”. There 150 cineastes show their support to the Biff. The gathering included people from the major film festivals such as Jeonju International Film Festival, Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival, Seoul International Women’s Film Festival and Busan International Film Festival, which inform the audience about the current state of the Biff.

The event also gather different film personalities such as

Alberto Barbera (Director of the Venice International Film Festival) Jérôme Paillard (Executive Director of Marché du Film, Cannes) Charles Tesson (Artistic Director of International Critics’ Week, Cannes) Edouard Waintrop (Artistic Director of The Directors’ Fortnight , Cannes) Thomas Hailer (Curator of the Berlin International Film Festival) Piers Handling (Director and...

Our letters page returns! This time around, it's comments, the return of Orphan Black, and a bit of Ant-Man...

And it's back! Our horribly out-of-date, barely interactive letters page is now into its second year, and bizarrely, is still going strong. If you want to get involved, the details for getting in touch are at the bottom. But for now, this is what we found in our mailbag this month...

Ad Block & Disqus

I was just starting to feel accepted and part of this community, but now that my adblock has started hiding the Disqus comments (two or three weeks ago) at the bottom of the articles, I find I am coming here less often, and that makes me very sad. These ads are a massive annoyance and very distracting, I do not watch them on TV at home because they are so annoying, and I should be able to...

Fueled By Ramen/Atlantic recording group Oh Honey has announced the release of their anticipated new Ep, “Wish You Were Here,” which arrives on March 24th and marks the third of four EPs dubbed “The Postcard Series.” Highlighted by the instantly ebullient new single, “Sugar, You,” “Wish You Were Here” sees the Brooklyn-based duo continuing to perfect their special brand of fun-emotionally uplifting music, strikingly hooky songcraft, and distinctive harmonies. The new Ep follows 2013’s “With Love” and last year’s “Sincerely Yours,” with the fourth and final installment – entitled “Until Next Time” – slated for release later this year. Oh Honey has quickly established themselves as an irresistibly engaging live act, winning over new fans over the course of the last year with a seemingly...

Not gonna lie, this is something we'd like to see.

In case you didn't hear, newly 21-year-old Justin Bieber is getting roasted soon, and apparently he really, really, really wants Seth Rogen to be there.

The frequently shirtless singer has been sending Rogen tweets basically begging him to be there.

News: Here's everything Comedy Central Should Roast Justin Bieber About

He's tried calling:

@Sethrogen come on man. Check your voicemail. I took it like a man as u blasted a nervous kid fan of yours (me). Now I'm a man. Roast me!

— Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) March 2, 2015

Laying on a little guilt:

Where are you now when I need you @Sethrogen. #WhereAreÜNow https://t.co/zjT9f8I3oj

— Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) March 2, 2015

Starting a hashtag campaign:

#WeWantSeth #BieberRoast

— Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) March 2, 2015

Bieber even tried throwing some jokes at Rogen's highly-controversial movie, The Interview, to try and get him to reply:

@Sethrogen I'm still your biggest fan. Even...

Disney’s Diamond Edition releases have been brilliant additions to your collection, and the 101 Dalmatians Diamond Edition is no different.

A film that not only stands up, and is one of the most treasured Disney films, but one that provided a serious boost to Disney when it needed it most, 101 Dalmatians is a must own.

The film needs no introduction, nor does its love-to-hate villain, but it must be noted that this is one of the earliest Disney films that kids today still really fall in love with. I’m using my own, small focus group there, but whereas there is some appreciation for pre-1960 Disney films, they aren’t generally titles that are the subject of the, “Can we! Can we!” dance. Not so with 101 Dalmatians, which still pulls kids of a wide range of ages in.

The real question here is the bonus content of a new release,...

101 Dalmatians was one of my favorites films as a child. I generally found that Disney cartoons involving animals, like it and Jungle Book were a lot funnier and less sentimental than all those boring girly fairy-tales like Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs and Sleeping Beauty. I also liked the fact that the action took place not in some fantastic never-never land but in the real England. 101 Dalmatians of course deals with the theft of a litter of Dalmatian puppies by a woman named Cruella De Vil who wants to skin them and turn them into fur coats. The human authorities are baffled, so it falls to the kidnapped puppies’ parents, Pongo and Perdita, to track them down and rescue them- along with a lot more Dalmatian pups acquired by Cruella for the same nefarious purpose.

101 Dalmatians is rather different in look from a lot of earlier Disney cartoons, which were characterized by bright colors.

These days, it’s all about the Disney princesses, but Perdita is merely a dog without high pedigree. As a result, she and her mate Pongo, are often overlooked. They’re certainly overshadowed by their antagonist, the Dalmatian loving Cruella De Vil, about the chew every scene in Once Upon a Time. Thank goodness, then, that Walt Disney reminds us about the utter charm contained within their 1961 release 101 Dalmatians. Out Tuesday in a handsome Diamond Combo Pack, their 17th film holds up remarkably well.

The film arrived at a precarious time for the studio as rising costs made their animated fare very expensive. Tastes were changing and they were now competing with television for the younger eyeballs so a different approach was called for. From a technological standpoint, the arrival of Xerography allowed them to streamline the filmmaking process, reducing costs. Ub Iwerks, one of the grand animators in Walt Disney’s employ,...

By Bill Duelly

The Warner Archive Collection has finally released the elusive Liberace feature ‘Sincerely Yours’. Originally released to theaters in 1955, this film is a curio of the times, the studio system and most importantly a snapshot, (in color no less; more on that later) of the early stages of the musician’s career.

To be fair to the movie, we need to turn our mental clocks back to the mid- 50s (so lines such as ‘They’ll love him in San Francisco’ wouldn’t bring immediate chuckles). That upstart- television- had been keeping audiences away from theaters in droves. Various new processes were employed to give audiences an experience they couldn’t get at home, such as Cinemascope and 3-D. So what was one of Warner Brother’s great ideas ? To make a movie with the TV’s first idol, the charming pianist from Wisconsin, Wladziu Valentino Liberace or as he was known professionally,...

Michael Douglas and Matt Damon will play, respectively, Liberace and lover Scott Thorson in the HBO production Behind the Candelabra. With Academy Award winner Steven Soderbergh at the helm of the Liberace movie, filming should begin in the summer of 2012. Richard Lagravenese, whose latest credit was the Reese Witherspoon-Robert Pattinson effort Water for Elephants, is the project's screenwriter. The Wisconsin-born Liberace — a walking, talking, singing, piano-playing gay stereotype if ever there was one — died from AIDS complications at the age of 67 in Palm Springs in 1987. Though Liberace's sexual orientation was no secret to anyone but his most wilfully blind female fans — 1950s Confidential magazine once suggested that his official song should be "Mad About the Boy" — the entertainer kept mum about it until the very end. In fact, as per the New York Times obit, Liberace died after suffering "cardiac arrest due to congestive heart failure brought on by subacute encephalopathy.

Dear Editors;

Regarding Lee Pfeiffer's piece on Heather Mills from November 22, 2007: Does Mr. Pfeiffer actually believe the words "the wretched refuse of your teeming shore" were written by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, the designer of the Statue of Liberty? Bartholdi was a sculptor, not a poet. Those famous words, of course, come from the poem "The New Colossus" which is inscribed on the tablet at the base of the statue, and which was penned by Emma Lazarus. A man with Pfeiffer's credentials really ought to know better -- especially if he's a New Jerseyite!

- Scot Penslar

Retro Replies: Good job, Scott...naturally I knew the information was incorrect all along and was merely hoping to find someone intelligent enough to see through the misinformation....And if you believe that, you probably thought Liberace was well cast as that devilish lady's man in Sincerely Yours! I'm afraid this is...