“DEBUT” ENGAGING, BUT LACKS EXPERIENCE
The best way to describe San Jose native Gene Cajayon’s “The Debut” is crowd-pleasing. At the Hawaii film festival, it beat out competitors such as “George Washington” and “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” for the audience award. The coming-of-age tale of a boy and of an American minority culture has proven…
FREEMAN DRIVES “SPIDER” MYSTERY; THIS PREQUEL TO “KISS THE GIRLS” BREAKS OUT OF THE PEDESTRIAN MOLD, THANKS TO THE GIFTED ACTOR
Early on in the mystery “Along Came a Spider,” the bewildered mother of a kidnap victim asks Morgan Freeman reprising his role as famed profiler Alex Cross “Why are you here?” “I don’t know,” he answers simply, but everyone knows why. As detective Cross, who has shed light into the…
Yahoo Releases Most Popular Terms for 2001
Sunnyvale, CA — Dec. 27, 2001 — Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO – news), a global Internet communications, commerce and media company, today announced the annual release of its most popular search terms for the year 2001. The list is compiled using the Yahoo! Buzz Index http://buzz.yahoo.com), an interactive market research tool…
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Tom Hanks helps out his Oakland alma mater You can blink at greatness next time you sit under the lights at Oakland’s Skyline High School. Alumnus Tom Hanks donated $125,000 to help restore the 38-year-old auditorium where he once emoted on-stage. Assistant principal Kermit Collins said that the 1974 graduate’s…
‘DOS ON DISPLAY; EXHIBIT FEATURES AFRICAN-INSPIRED HAIRSTYLES
HILLARY YOUNGLOVE stops women in the streets to talk about hair. No, she’s not looking for a good hairdresser. It’s not her own locks she has in mind. A few years back, the San Francisco artist became entranced with elaborate displays of African-American hair braided, twisted, woven, piled high and…
STEP BY STEP; DIGITAL TRACKER KEEPS TABS ON YOUR EVERY MOVEMENT
ONE, TWO, BUCKLE my shoe. But how many steps does it take to get to the front door? Out to the car? Or at work, over to the water cooler? You’ll become aware of the power of every step with the new digital tracker called SportBrain. High technology comes to…
SEINFELD NEEDLES PARAMOUNT INTO LAUGHS
“Yes, I picked Oakland. Why shouldn’t I come to Oakland? I like Oakland.” With that declaration, Jerry Seinfeld endeared himself to a sell-out Thursday night crowd at the Paramount Theatre. Not that he had to kiss up; a standing ovation greeted him before he strode over to the microphone and…
THE HEAT SIMMERING IN COOL JAZZ; JAZZ, RACE POLITICS HEADLINE ROUND TABLE
When it comes to talking about music, harmony is the last thing SFJAZZ wants. For 18 years, the premiere jazz organization has largely let the music do the talking, whether through orchestral maneuvers or on-the-fly improvisations. Yet for a long time, it has really wanted to talk about jazz, in…
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Filmmaker knows the shortcuts to winning And the television goes to Oscar winner Michael Dudok de Wit. De Wit, who knows how to keep it short since he got his statuette for best animated short, will get a $2,500 high-definition set. Oscar producer Gil Cates had offered up the curiously…
“WINNERS” ARE LOSERS: TAKE BACK THEIR OSCARS
YOU CAN already feel the tension building. You know what we mean: the backlash, should “Gladiator” take home the top prize at tonight’s Oscar ceremony. If “Gladiator” does indeed win, it won’t go down in history as the only controversial Oscar-winner. Throughout the decades of Oscar, there have been jeers…