ULTIMATELY, SUPERNATURAL” SOULS” LOSES ITS WAY
What do you do when Rosemary’s baby has grown up? That is the question that faces Winona Ryder and ultimately Ben Chaplin as Satan’s vessel in the supernatural thriller “Lost Souls.” Ryder plays Maya Larkin, whose own possession and resulting Catholic faith has landed her a job as a Catholic…
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Surprises, controversy surround book award nominations Business Wire Bouillon? Wyler is swimming in it. The employees’ idea of celebrating the Ohio-based soup company’s 70th anniversary is mixing up the world’s largest bowl of soup: 662 gallons of beef vegetable. The National Book Awards’ nominee list announced Wednesday looks like a…
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Rap star’s getaway driver files a lawsuit Sean “Puffy” Combs’ former driver has filed a $3 million lawsuit claiming he was forced to commit a traffic violation after a December nightclub shooting. Wardel Fenderson, 40, says in court papers filed earlier this week that he picked up Combs, Jennifer Lopez,…
MOVIE THEATER OUTRAGES AT AN ALL-TIME HIGH, ER, LOW
CELL PHONES RINGING. Running commentary or full-on social discourse totally irrelevant to what’s on the screen. Exit doors opening and staying open way before the credits. And this is just during the 9:15 p.m. showing. Truly, though, one of the signs of the Apocalypse must be when a mother brings…
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Human-size tater called racist, gets the boot Time to kill your childhood dreams Mr. Potato Head has been branded a racist. At least, that’s the fate of a 6-foot-tall Mr. Potato Head statue in Warwick, R.I., erected as part of a tourist campaign and meant to honor its native company,…
SCALPERS SCALPED BUYING STREISAND TICKETS
Scalpers scalped buying Streisand tickets Barbra Streisand has, albeit unwittingly, scalped the scalpers. Brokers who scarfed tickets for the singer’s farewell concerts at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday and tonight have had to sell tickets for less than face value sometimes as much as half-off. Officially, the concerts sold out…
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Petty won’t back down on song use Tom Petty is an official George W. Bush heartbreaker. The presidential candidate was forced to remove Petty’s 1989 hit “I Won’t Back Down” from his campaign set list, after Bush received an angry letter from the singer, Rolling Stone reports. After noticing that…
MONSTER MOVIE HAS LOTS OF OLD-FASHIONED HORROR
“Jeepers, creepers, where’d ya get them peepers? Jeepers, creepers, where’d ya get those eyes?” In our slasher-saturated age of moviemaking, “Jeepers Creepers” seems like the corniest title that ever cried out box-office suicide. Bopping little ditty as it may have been in its 33 rpm days, the song wouldn’t spur…
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Renfro boat escapade lands him in the brig Brad Renfro better hope he tests positive for drugs, because stupidity isn’t a defense. The young actor, first discovered as a fifth-grader and cast in the 1994 John Grisham movie “The Client,” was arrested and charged with grand theft after allegedly trying…