Brian Klonoski

Bio

Born in Krakow, Poland, Brian moved with his family to America when he was one year old and spent much of his childhood moving throughout the United States. He graduated from Colby College in Maine with a degree in English Literature and Government. After an especially brutal Maine winter, and compelled by a shocking deficiency of Vitamin D, Brian set off for the warm, sunny embrace of Los Angeles, where he currently lives.

Test How Fast You Can Read, Compared to the Rest of America

By Brian Klonoski

The award for the latest creative marketing campaign goes to Staples for their e-reader speed-reading test. The test shows a few paragraphs of texts from classic novels (War of the Worlds and Alice in Wonderland, for instance) and then gives you a…

'Vanity Fair' Features Black Actors on Its Cover — And It's About Damn Time

By Brian Klonoski

Everyone is freaking out because Vanity Fair finally put some black actors on the cover of its Hollywood issue. Think about that for a second. It's 2014, and people are celebrating that people of color appear on the cover of a magazine. This is…

Why Philip Seymour Hoffman Was an LGBT Hero

By Brian Klonoski

Everyone on the internet is talking about Philip Seymour Hoffman following his dramatic and untimely death on Sunday. They're talking about his prowess as an actor. They're talking about his battle with heroin addiction. They're talking about the…

What Philip Seymour Hoffman Was Working On When He Died

By Brian Klonoski

Philip Seymour Hoffman died Sunday afternoon reportedly of a drug overdose. He was one of the most revered and gifted actors of his generation. If the guy did a movie, it was guaranteed to be good — if not great. Still firmly in his prime, Hoffman…