Talk about sibling rivalry. True West is a play written by Sam Shepard about two brothers who are definitely at odds with each other. These two have had fraternal differences […]
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Pop! goes the new TV season
A month into the 2007-2008 TV season, there are few bright spots. Fall isn’t nearly as important as it used to be, as spring now brings major hits like 24 […]
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Film Festival: Brad Paisley, poop star
FOR A FIVE-MINUTE SHORT about finding a toilet, Numero Dos certainly boasts an interesting — and complicated — pedigree. The “plot” concerns the efforts of a roadie for country superstar […]
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Film Festival: New Urban Cowboy
KNOWN TO URBAN PLANNERS and designers the word over as the father of “New Pedestrianism,” Michael E. Arth decided to put his groundbreaking ideas about compact, walking-oriented, mixed-use neighborhoods to […]
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Film Festival: My First Guitar
NICK MEAD’S documentary My First Guitar is about exactly that: It’s a remarkably intimate collection of reminiscences with some of music’s biggest names about their very first six-string. It’s almost […]
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Film Festival: Ed Burns’ Purple Violets
WHAT DOES IT SAY about today’s movie biz that the producers of a film with established, respected stars like Ed Burns, Debra Messing and Selma Blair would rather avoid theatres […]
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Film Festival: Making horse racing cool again
WHEN FILMMAKING BROTHERS John and Brad Hennegan were following six horse racing teams to the Kentucky Derby for their documentary, little did they know that one of the horses would […]
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Film Festival: When music & politics collide
WHILE MOST AMERICANS probably can’t find Estonia on a map, the small Baltic country actually provided a stirring portrait of bravery during its occupation by the former Soviet Union. Filmmaker […]
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New releases: Things We Lost in the Fire, Jesse James, more
Things We Lost in the Fire *** Hot from helming last year’s After the Wedding (an Oscar nominee for Best Foreign-Language Film), Danish director Susanne Bier returns with her first […]
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Film Festival: Will Frears jumps from stage to screen
THOUGH PERHAPS more immediately known as the son of renowned film director Stephen Frears (The Queen, High Fidelity, My Beautiful Laundrette), Will Frears has made a name for himself in […]
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The hard sell@AASU
This play’s real name is Hospitality Suite. At least that’s the name playwright Roger Rueff gave it. But then a Hollywood big shot named Kevin Spacey came along and optioned […]
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Oh, Rocky, the Horror
It’s just a jump to the left — and then a step to the right. The folks at the Savannah Actors Theatre, bless their hearts, are ready to take us […]