GET READY, SET, PLAN FOR FALL ARTS EXPLOSION
HERE’S A BIT of advice. Before reading any further, find that social planner. You’re certainly going to need it as you browse through this special edition of Sunday A&E, our annual preview of the Bay Area arts and entertainment scene. Although fall doesn’t officially start until later this month, the…
WELSH FESTIVAL COMES TO BAY AREA
* What: Festival of Wales 2001 * WHEN: Today through Sunday. Events include: TODAY: Celtic Musical Evening, 7 p.m. Villa Montalvo, 15400 Montalvo Road, Saratoga THURSDAY: Opening ceremony, grand ballroom, San Jose Fairmont hotel, 170 S. Market St., San Jose FRIDAY: Grand banquet, San Jose Fairmont Hotel SATURDAY: Llanelli Male…
“JAY AND SILENT BOB” GOES A LITTLE TOO INSIDE FOR THE AVERAGE VIEWER
“Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back” is the final episode in director Kevin Smith’s quintology (“Clerks,” “Mallrats,” “Chasing Amy” and “Dogma”). The former video store clerk who parlayed the angst of a generation into low-budget box-office success and irked the Catholic League with his last film has now entered, as…
JOHN CARPENTER’S “MARS” HAS GHOST OF A CHANCE OF ACTUALLY ENTERTAINING
About 40 minutes into “John Carpenter’s Ghosts of Mars,” my watch read 8:16 p.m. The next time I looked at my watch, it read 8:19 p.m. It was just as well I didn’t know I had another hour to feel the life bleeding out of me. Instead, I cursed the…
“BOY’S” BUBBLE SHOULD DEFINITELY BE POPPED
A comedy about immune deficiency is bound to have its protesters, and IMD activists have already waged their war 21st-century style by hiring a public relations maestro to smear Disney’s good name. The activists could save their money in one of two ways. They could quietly wait for “Bubble Boy”…
TO MAKE EFFECTS SPECIAL, PRACTICE RESTRAINT; TODAY’S TECH-SAVVY HOLLYWOOD MAY BE LOSING SIGHT OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ELEMENT OF FILMMAKING; THE STORY
IF THE BEGINNING of the millennium were to be judged by its cinematic output, future anthropologists might as well leave the 2001 reels to molder in the time capsule. Yes, there have been moments of theatrical innovation, thought and levity: “Memento” is among the handful of films that I eagerly…
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MTV host snuffs his controversial reality show The horsemen of the Apocalypse are going back to the ranch. That’s right, defenders of decency and the American way will be swilling from their teacups to celebrate the end of “Jackass.” Was it the second Brad Pitt sighting that pushed the much-maligned…
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Carey now recovering at home after breakdown Singer Mariah Carey has checked out of the clinic where she has been recovering from a nervous breakdown, the New York Daily News reported Tuesday. “MC is feeling better,” Carey’s rep Cindi Berger told the newspaper. “She’s resting under a doctor’s care at…
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It’s a safe bet that condoms won’t be part of “Pie” promo It is now official: The Motion Picture Association of America is staffed with dolts. On Monday, Universal Pictures, apparently wanting to keeping up with the Dolts, axed part of a marketing agreement with the maker of LifeStyles condoms…
WHAT THEY’RE READING; CULTURE FOR FREE
What They’re reading Sam Donaldson, ABCnews.com “WELL, I’VE just taken up with (David) McCullough’s John Adams.’ Truth in advertising I first bought it for my wife. I’m on Chapter One I just finished the galleys for The Wild Blue.’ I’m a Stephen Ambrose fan. He’s just written a book on…