MOVIE TOO MILD? SAY IT ISN’T SO
The Farrelly brothers have finally gone and done it. They’ve become soft. That’s right, soft as in tame and mild-mannered. The same guys who made every man and woman in America cross their legs during the excruciating zipper scene in “There’s Something About Mary” have bogged down in their own…
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Film studio didn’t lie to Coppola in regard to “Pinocchio” Warner Bros. still owes Francis Ford Coppola millions of dollars for “Pinocchio,” but a judge ruled this week that at least the studio didn’t lie about its involvement with the film project technically speaking and dismissed a $60 million ruling…
FIND FUNNIES IN CYBERSPACE
The Wizard of Id disappears, coughing and choking, in a puff of acrid smoke. Cathy enters a dressing room with an unflattering bathing suit never to be seen again. Actually, it doesn’t have to be that way. Although some comic characters, like Marmaduke, will no longer be gracing the Times’…
REVIEW: “SERIES 7” CHILLINGLY SPOOFS REALITY TV
It’s the seventh season of “The Contenders,” the highly-rated series that conscripts six strangers (drawing their name at random in a lottery), equips them with an arsenal and sends them out to kill one another. Reigning champion Dawn Lagarta (Brooke Smith), with “10 kills in two tours,” can win her…
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Perry to be back on “Friends” for finale Drugs may handicap your career, but they won’t threaten your television romance, apparently. According to an anonymous NBC executive, Matthew Perry will return from rehab for the hour-long season finale of “Friends,” which is also the episode in which his character, Chandler,…
LET DEAD CELEBRITIES LIE, NOT GO INTO SALES; THE UPCOMING AUCTION OF MARILYN MONROE’S FAMOUS “RED VELVET” PHOTOS RAISES THE ALARM: WHAT WILL HER POSTHUMOUS FATE BE?
WEAREABOUT to raise the dead yet again. On March 22, Ventura photographer Tom Kelley Jr. will put up for eBay/Butterfields auction the “Red Velvet” series the famous photographs depicting a young nude Marilyn Monroe. His father, Tom Kelley Sr., took the original shots in 1949 (one made it as the…
WHEN DID MOVIE HUNKS TURN INTO YOUNG PUPS?
THE INDISCRIMINATE passions of youth don’t worry about age. When you’re 8 years old, you don’t have to worry about it unless you have a strange preoccupation with the Charmin baby. I had no qualms admiring someone 10, 20, 50 years my senior, since film preserved the gentlemanly earnestness of…
REVIEW: “15 MINUTES” IS A WASTE OF TIME; FILM SKEWERING MEDIA IS RIDDLED WITH INCONSISTENCIES, WEAK DETAILS AND BAD PACING, DESPITE ITS ALL-STAR CAST
You’d have to be an awful shot to miss an obvious target like the media. There’s so much from which to choose. There’s the rush to judgment (otherwise known as news analysis and commentary). One could harp on the obsession with images: If a tree falls in the forest and…
A GENRE IS BORN; OPENING AND CLOSING MOVIES FOR FILM FESTIVAL SHOW STIRRINGS OF FILIPINO-AMERICAN CINEMA MOVEMENT
At age 30, Rod Pulido has already accomplished some firsts. His freshman film, “The Flip Side,” debuted at Sundance this year the first time a Filipino-American film has made it to the festival. Tonight, his feature launches 10 days of American and world theater at the AMC Kabuki 8 Theatres…
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Metallica members treading on one another Too bad the heavy-metal infighting documented in the April issue of Playboy didn’t happen earlier that whole Napster hullabaloo might never have happened. Wall of Sound, which apparently had a sneak preview of the magazine, reports that members of the Bay Area metal band…