The first provocation of “Towelhead” is putting an ethnic slur in the title. From there, writer-director Alan Ball really lets fly. “Towelhead,” based on a novel of the same name by Alicia Erian, is ...
“American Beauty” scribe and “Six Feet Under” creator Alan Ball has used his own coin to option “Towelhead,” a provocative debut novel by Alicia Erian to be published in April by Simon & Schuster.
Alan Ball’s extraordinarily faithful adaptation of Alicia Erian’s semi-autobiographical 2005 novel, “Towelhead,” made lots of people uncomfortable when it was shown at the Seattle International Film ...
If director Todd Solondz were to bring a Judy Blume book to the screen, “Towelhead” would be the result. With equal parts dark comedy and even darker drama, this coming-of-age tale takes an ...
Islamic groups are protesting the ethnically charged name of Alan Ball’s film “Towelhead,” but that title is a deliberate statement of purpose: Everything about the film is aggressively provocative, ...
It is hardly news that teenage sexuality is a subject that drives many people crazy. But how crazy? In “Towelhead,” a provocative satire of a culture that is paradoxically hypersexual and puritanical, ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Towelhead has sparked controversy with its title, which is a derogatory term referring to Arabs that definitely needs to disappear from ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Towelhead has sparked controversy with its title, which is a derogatory term referring to Arabs that definitely needs to disappear from ...
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