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 | LOACH SHAKES THINGS UP
At 70 years of age, Ken Loach shows no signs of slowing down. Although his last film released in the US, 2004’s A Fond Kiss, tackled many of his movies’ usual themes of working class strife, the picture felt as though a relatively m...
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 | SLASHINGTHE GENRE
The mockumentary has become passé. The pseudo-genre has been “reality-programmed” out of effectiveness. But can it morph into something more? Few would argue that the best place for this evolution is the subgenre ...
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 | ART FILM - MOUCHETTE
In Robert Bresson’s second Georges Bernanos adaptation (Diary of a Country Priest being the first), he again uses no professional actors and his signature stark realism in full force. He follows the young, troubled teenaged girl Mouchette...
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| TELEVISION |
 | YOU’RE FIRED!
There’s been a flurry of television shows shooting at Universal Studios Hollywood to the delight of visitors at the tour center. And “The Donald” himself has been seen recently hanging out with the “Universal monsters&rd...
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| DVD REVIEW |
 | DVD REVIEW - March 15th, 2007
Fusing the smarty-pants sleek of Charlie Chan and the sweatiness that only Peter Lorre could provide, Mr. Moto—on paper—is an endearingly entertaining detective. Inspired by the popular JP Marquand novels of the early 19...
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| MUSIC |
 | PUMP YOUR FIST IN THE AIR
I put this album in my car stereo for my first listen, turned up the bass, volume etc. for my first exposure to this band. Seconds into the first track, my immediate reaction was, “Fuck yeah!”. That’s right, it is that k...
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 | SON VOLT RETURNS
Son Volt is a late 20th century band trying to adapt to the early part of the 21st century, as they search for their place within the world of popular music. Volt is led by Jay Farrar, who is partly responsible for helping make Americana cool a...
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| THEATER |
 | IMPOSSIBLE TO LEARN TO PLOW…
Hollywood mini-mogul Bobby Gould has a good thing going with his promotion as head of production for a major film studio, able to greenlight any project under $40 million without answering to anybody over his typically perilous head. This is al...
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 | GETTING BLUE BALLS
I journeyed to Las Vegas with my dear friend and rising LA musical theatre star Peter Musante last week, right after his return from several months performing western songs at the Tokyo Disney and just before his migration to New York City next week ...
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 | MAN OF LA MANCHA
Audiences have been thrilled and delighted with the antics of Don Quixote and his buddy, Sancho Panza in Man of La Mancha since its opening in 1965. the same thrills, the same excitement, the same enjoyment can be yours, one more time, wh...
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| BOOK REVIEW |
 | SANDLER’S LISTS
Ellen Sandler could fairly be billed as the Dalai Lama of television writing. It is not clear if she wears orange robes when writing. (There is a swathe of orange on the book’s cover.) What is known and cannot be denied is tha...
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 | MAMA-PAPA COMING FOR YOU
In the vast reaches of the Internet, there is a sex-vixen-pinup space creature named Izabael who travels from comic convention to comic convention, seducing middle-aged comic lovers and prepubescents alike. Wearing little more than a smile, she...
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| SPORTS |
 | WEEKLY SPORTS WRAP-UP - Mar 15th, 2007
The NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament: 17 days of pure adrenaline and anxiety, a two-week plus national binge of basketball and back stories of perseverance and triumph over adversity. 17 days of upsets and emotions, of Cinderellas and las...
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| TRAVEL |
 | EVERYONE’S MOVING TO PORTLAND NOW
For a very long time, Los Angeles has been turning into a shithole. The people are rude and pretentious, parking in most places is a nightmare, and the cost of living is driving all of the cool artists, struggling actors, and aspiring models-cu...
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| OBITUARY |
 | OBITUARY - ANDY SIDARIS
Emmy-winning director Andy Sidaris died of throat cancer at age 76. Andy Sidaris succeeded in two genres. He was a pioneering TV sports director, directing episodes of ABCs Wide World of Sports for a quarter century. His direction of the ...
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