Ilene Raymond Rush

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BSR Contributor Since April 23, 2013

Ilene Raymond Rush’s fiction, nonfiction, and essays have appeared in a number of national publications, including Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Ladies’ Home Journal, Readers Digest and many others. Currently, she is a health and science reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Follow her on Twitter at @iraymondrush.

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“[esc]”: A blunt reminder of superhuman skills. (photo by Grant Halverson)

Pilobolus at the Annenberg Center

Defying boundaries

Dancing by the long-running Pilobolus troupe is about fighting the limitations of not only the body, but also the environment and the imagination.

Ilene Raymond Rush

May 12, 2015 Articles 2 minute read

The brotherly bond: Tatum and Ruffalo. (Photo by Scott Garfield - © Fair Hill, LLC.)

Bennett Miller's 'Foxcatcher'

Crooked silence

The relationship between the Schultz brothers is as intense as any seen on film. Their wrestling early in the movie is a fierce, wordless depiction of sibling rivalry and harmonic grace. It’s a grace that John du Pont — despite his money — lacks and sorely wants. And if he can’t have it, he can figure out ways to destroy it.

Ilene Raymond Rush

Jan 04, 2015 Articles 3 minute read

How heavy is that baggage? (Photo by Plate3Photography)

Fringe Festival: Pig Iron’s ‘99 Breakups’

Painful Breakups

None of the moments in 99 Breakups was connected with any other, and all lacked subtext, subtlety, or any larger meaning.

Ilene Raymond Rush

Sep 09, 2014 Articles 3 minute read

A fractured family: Lorelei Linklater, Ethan Hawke, and Ellar Coltrane in “Boyhood” (© 2014 - IFC Films)

Richard Linklater’s ‘Boyhood’

What we remember

Boyhood follows the flow of time and how these moments link to form a life. The artistry of the movie is in how Richard Linklater has curated those moments.

Ilene Raymond Rush

Aug 15, 2014 Articles 3 minute read

Those were the days, my friend. (Photo by Nathan Gibbs, via Creative Commons/Flickr)

I was the mother of a teenaged garage band

Ever since Noah was small, I’ve taught him that rock and roll is more than music; it is, as Bruce insinuates, a religion.

Ilene Raymond Rush

Aug 15, 2014 Articles 4 minute read

'Circle Mirror Transformation' at Theatre Horizon (2nd review)

The power of self-expression

What’s going on in the acting class on stage is the highest form of acting — naturalistic, believable, and true.

Ilene Raymond Rush

Mar 12, 2014 Articles 3 minute read

The Coen Brother's 'Inside Llewyn Davis'

A shaggy cat tale about a modern Ulysses

The Coen brothers didn’t set out to make a nostalgic movie about the bards of Bleecker Street, and they literally pull no punches in Inside Llewyn Davis.

Ilene Raymond Rush

Jan 07, 2014 Articles 4 minute read

De Cari: Hot personality in a cool environment.

Gioia de Cari’s ‘Truth Values’ at Annenberg

Pity the woman with brains

Women continue to battle stereotypes to break into science and math. Gioia de Cari claims male chauvinism drove her out of MIT. But her one-woman show suggests that perhaps she really preferred a career on the stage.

Ilene Raymond Rush

Oct 06, 2013 Articles 2 minute read

Gable, Leigh: Where are their aging parents?

Why ‘Gone With the Wind’ still works for me

My soul sister, Scarlett O'Hara

What I crave, and still get, from Gone With the Wind, is escape— the sort that often seems to elude me at age 58, when my critical facilities often trump my pleasure centers.

Ilene Raymond Rush

Sep 21, 2013 Articles 3 minute read

Michael B. Jordan as Oscar: Flip side ofthe Zimmerman trial.

Ryan Coogler's "Fruitvale Station'

If we love Tony Soprano, why not Oscar?

Ryan Coogler's Fruitvale Station, based on the true tragic story of a young black man gunned down by a rogue cop, pushes all the predictable emotional buttons. But its message is too easy to swallow.

Ilene Raymond Rush

Jul 30, 2013 Articles 3 minute read

Barnes, Glass, Bass: Charming and pointless.

Ira Glass's "One Radio Host, Two Dancers'

Pay no attention to that man in front of the curtain

Can a popular Public Radio host connect the dots between radio journalism and dance? More to the point: Why should he?

Ilene Raymond Rush

Apr 23, 2013 Articles 3 minute read