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Lieser column: Book offers tip: Don't putt too hard Thursday, July 22, 2010 @ 12:38AMGary Player is the most traveled golfer ever to play this 600-year-old game. He has jetted more than 15 million miles from his ranch in South Africa to compete in global golf events and is the consummate international golfer of all time, winning 164 tournaments worldwide over five decades.
TUNED IN to DAVID NAIL Saturday, July 17, 2010 @ 8:43PMOur featured Tuned In artist this week is David Nail.
EUR Film Review: Cyrus Tuesday, July 13, 2010 @ 5:15AM*John (John C. Reilly) is a sad sack who has been hoping to reconcile with his wife ever since she dumped him a half-dozen years ago. But Jamie’s (Catherine Keener) announcement that she’s about to marry Tim (Matt Walsh) sends the socially-awkward loser into a tailspin that leaves him as lonely and depressed as ever. [...]
‘I Dream’ – The Musical Drama Inspired by ‘A Preacher From Atlanta’ Tuesday, July 13, 2010 @ 3:45AM*”I Dream” is a musical celebration and journey through the life and work of a man whose prophetic and historical significance has become legend. The story of the late Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is now a self-proclaimed rhythm-and-blues opera now playing in Atlanta.Presented by Musical-Dramatic Arts and directed by acclaimed actress Jasmine Guy, [...]
Full 2010 Comic-Con Schedule – Saturday, July 24th! Tuesday, July 13, 2010 @ 1:05AMWe brought you the full Thursday and Friday schedule for the first two day sof San Diego Comic-Con and below (sorry we’re a bit slow) we have the full schedule for Saturday July 24th complete with Universal’s big presentation of Cowboys and Aliens and Paul; Warner Brothers will be there with Green Lantern, Sucker Punch, [...]
Baker's Misfocused Family of Secrets Sunday, July 11, 2010 @ 8:01AMRuss Baker's Family of Secrets has a rather deceptive title. In two ways. First, although it says it will be about the Bush family, strictly speaking, it really is not. There are only a few pages about Prescott Bush, father of George H. W. Bush, the man who really started off the whole regime.
A Very Raunchy Ranch Tuesday, July 6, 2010 @ 8:25PMHelen Mirren is no stranger to slumming (does anyone remember a pornographic historical abortion called Caligula ?), but after winning an Academy Award for playing the Queen of England, she does her loyal subjects no favors stooping to the lurid role of a salty Nevada madam with Dolly Parton's hair in the cheesy Love Ranch . Equally lamentable is the way it wastes the skills of her husband ...
Nadine Cohodas: Crafting the Narrative Tuesday, July 6, 2010 @ 1:17PMNadine Cohodas is the author of several books about race, politics and music. Among her books are: And the Band Played Dixie ; Strom Thurmond & The Politics of Southern Change ; Spinning Blues Into Gold: The Chess Brothers and the Legendary Chess Records ; Queen: The Life and Music of Dinah Washington . Her most recent book is Princess Noire: The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone . She spoke with ...
Flick Nation: June 30, 2010 Thursday, July 1, 2010 @ 8:02AMFlick Nation: June 30, 2010
Word of Mouth: 'Love Ranch,' starring Helen Mirren, survives rocky relationship Wednesday, June 30, 2010 @ 6:17PME1 Entertainment is distributing the film after original backer, Capitol Films, runs into money trouble. Two more Capitol films, with Jake Gyllenhaal and Laurence Fishburne, have no release date. E1 Entertainment is distributing the film after original backer, Capitol Films, runs into money trouble.
Ultimate Guitar Introduces Slash Arcade Rocker Online & Mobile App Music Game Tuesday, June 29, 2010 @ 7:13AMInnovative App Lets Fans Rock Out to Guitar Legend's Songs & Access Exclusive Web Content
Ultimate Guitar Introduces Slash Arcade Rocker Online & Mobile App Music Game Tuesday, June 29, 2010 @ 7:00AMSAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - 06/29/10) - Ultimate-Guitar.com , the world's leading online community of guitar enthusiasts, today launched Slash Arcade Rocker , a groundbreaking music/rhythm online and mobile app game featuring the songs of the legendary guitar icon. The newest offering from Ultimate Guitar's Mobile Development Division, Slash Arcade Rocker allows the guitar legend's die hard ...
IN THE NOH: Theater World’s Talented Newbies Sunday, June 27, 2010 @ 4:59PMIn these tough economic times, it’s great that the Theatre World Awards, given each year to actors making their New York stage debuts, are still around, with the 66th annual presentation taking place on June 8 at New World Stages.
Early, late summer reading list Thursday, June 24, 2010 @ 9:07PMSeven days is but a fraction of your year. Specifically, it’s 1/52 of the life you’ll have in 2010. It’s just a week for most of us, but you call it vacation and you’re already marking the time until you go on it.
Son Reveals Ray Charles Never Recovered From Brother's Death Thursday, June 17, 2010 @ 3:41AMIn a new biography called 'You Don't Know Me', Ray Charles Robinson Jr. says his piano great father always hid the pain of failing to save his brother from drowning.
RAY CHARLES NEVER RECOVERED FROM BROTHER'S DEATH Thursday, June 17, 2010 @ 12:08AMLegendary soul man RAY CHARLES hid the pain of failing to save his brother from drowning for much of his life, according to the piano great's son RAY CHARLES ROBINSON, JR.
Michael Cera stars in sweet teen sex comedy 'Youth in Revolt' Saturday, June 12, 2010 @ 11:11PMNobody plays self-conscious teens better than Michael Cera these days, as he proves once again as a nervous 16-year-old ready for love and trying to rebel, in "Youth in Revolt," new on DVD.
Get the scoop on summer books Monday, June 7, 2010 @ 9:41AMSeven days is but a fraction of your year. Specifically, it’s 1/52 of the life you’ll have in 2010. It’s just a week for most of us, but you call it vacation and you’re already marking the time until you go on it.
What the papers say Tuesday, May 25, 2010 @ 2:43AMA look at what's making the headline in Tuesday's morning newspapers.
Vacation books Wednesday, May 19, 2010 @ 12:00AMSeven days is but a fraction of your year. Specifically, it’s1/52 of the life you’ll have in 2010. It’s just a week for most ofus, but you call it vacation and you’re already marking the timeuntil you go on it.
Cosmic Log: The leading light for lasers Friday, May 14, 2010 @ 7:30PMScience editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: Nobel-winning physicist Charles Townes, the man who set the stage for the laser revolution a half-century ago, looks back (and looks forward) at the age of 94.
Tonight's TV Hot List: Friday, May 14, 2010 Friday, May 14, 2010 @ 4:44AMGhost Whisperer8/7c CBS Melinda has always been the mediator and helper, but, as the season nears its end, it's clear that Melinda is becoming the one in need of rescuing from forces beyond this world. In this episode, she comes to the aid of a ghost ...
By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Bookworm Thursday, May 13, 2010 @ 11:54PMSeven days is but a fraction of your year. Specifically, it's 1/52 of the life you'll have in 2010. It's just a week for most of us, but you call it vacation and you're already marking the time until you go on it.
20th Century-Fox Studio Classics - An Affair to Remember / Leave Her to Heaven / A Letter to Three Wives / Peyton Place Thursday, May 13, 2010 @ 7:22AMHighly Recommended The gradual decline of DVD - more a self-fulfilling prophecy on the part of the studios, if you ask me - has had at least one notable benefit for consumers. Catalog titles once fairly expensive are being reissued and repackaged as bargain-priced multi-packs, and good deals abound. Warner Home Video has been doing this with their TCM Greatest Classic Films line, such as their ...
Books find loving homes at Saturday’s BCL Friends Big Spring Book Sale Wednesday, May 12, 2010 @ 4:52PMBooks found loving homes at Saturday’s Friends of Blanchard Community Library’s Big Spring Book Sale, where thousands of books and other assorted mind stimuli is sure to keep buyers busy for months to come.
No links at the moment, please try again later. Saturday, May 8, 2010 @ 10:39AMMoody, David DOG BLOOD May 1, 2010 - The war between the Haters and the Unchanged rages on in the follow-up to Moody’s taut horror/suspense debut Hater (2009). When readers last saw Danny McCoyne, he and a bunch of his fellow Haters had just escaped certain death in ...
Upfronts 2010: A&E Plans Unscripted Projects With Danza, Hasselhoff and Saget Wednesday, May 5, 2010 @ 1:19PMComing off record ratings quarter, new originals to compliment 12 renewed...
Mayor-elect Mitch Landrieu finds he is a beacon of hope for many New Orleanians Sunday, May 2, 2010 @ 5:04AMThe consummate politician, he's also a family man, a man of faith ... and a frustrated actor
Setting the record straight slow process in stolen-valor cases Sunday, April 11, 2010 @ 1:10AMEL PASO -- Charles Ferguson Herring's online biography at the Texas State Cemetery in Austin still casts him as a war hero, despite evidence that the late state senator falsified large parts of his military record. Herring served 17 years as an Austin Democrat, died in 2004 at age 89.
'Titans' takes lead overseas Sunday, April 4, 2010 @ 2:53PMThe year's second quarter dawned on the foreign theatrical circuit with a new boxoffice champ in place as Warner Bros.' "Clash of the Titans" grossed an estimated $44.2 million.
Last writes Saturday, March 27, 2010 @ 11:15AMIn this age where we tweet, text, email and blog, communicating more but saying less, Anson Cameron laments the loss of the letter.
Birth of a Notion Wednesday, March 17, 2010 @ 3:09PMSerling was a lot of things—gregarious cop, occasional actor, boxing promoter—but dyed-in-the-wool movie buff is his ultimate legacy. As dedicated Cinephiler John Weber recalled in his essay printed in Moving Pictures and Classic Images: Memories of 40 Years in the Vintage Film Hobby , compiled by Society for Cinephiles founder Samuel K. Rubin (McFarland, 2004), “The origins of the Syracuse ...
Joyce Carol Oates goes home again Sunday, March 14, 2010 @ 5:50AMEditor's note: Prize-winning authorJoyce Carol Oates recently reflected on her growing up in rural Erie and Niagara counties. This article originally appeared in Smithsonian, March 2010.
News Digest Could Iron Man Star Play an Iron-Man Baseball Pitcher? TVPredictions.com Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 8:15AMIron Man star Robert Downey Jr. The hero of the book, Old Hoss Radbourn, the Hall of Fame pitcher who won more games in one year (59) than anyone in major-league history, was haunted by alcoholism and other demons, including a deadly sexual disease that may have been given to him by his own wife.
Nick Robinson Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 6:58AMPM tries to be seen as modern-day Churchill
News Digest Did Baseball's Best All-Time Pitcher Die Of Syphilis? Special to TVPredictions.com Tuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 8:30AMWashington, D.C. (March 9, 2010) -- Charles “Old Hoss” Radbourn, the Hall of Fame pitcher who had the greatest season in major-league history, died of a sexually transmitted disease, according to the new book, Fifty-nine in ’84.
Film Shorts Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 9:15AMAlice in Wonderland (PG) Tim Burton’s reworking of Lewis Carroll’s fairy tale stars Mia Wasikowska as a 19-year-old Alice who returns to the enchanted land of her previous adventures to do battle with the Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter). Also with Johnny Depp and Anne Hathaway.
Michael Foot: Labour Party leader Wednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 9:13AMMichael Foot was a party leader who never became Prime Minister, but this failure could not eclipse the array of talents he brought to British public life.
Book review: Ron Charles reviews "The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson" by Jerome Charyn Tuesday, February 23, 2010 @ 11:00PMTHE SECRET LIFE OF EMILY DICKINSON By Jerome Charyn Norton. 348 pp. $24.95 If all you know about dear Emily Dickinson comes from a few sparkling nature poems and "The Belle of Amherst," cover your eyes. Your carriage is about to cross into Amherst's red-light district. Jerome Charyn's new novel a...
Film Shorts Wednesday, February 10, 2010 @ 11:14AMThe Wolfman (R) Benicio del Toro stars as an American man who becomes a werewolf during a visit to Victorian England to find his missing brother. Also with Emily Blunt, Anthony Hopkins, Hugo Weaving, Art Malik, Geraldine Chaplin, and Antony Sher. (Opens Friday)
Wilmington on DVD: Amelia, The Wolf Man, Love Happens, New York, I Love You Wednesday, February 3, 2010 @ 10:05AMAmelia is an old-fashioned, overly romantic movie, but likably so. It's true that director Mira Nair and writers Ron Bass and Anna Hamilton Phelan don't spring many surprises while telling us the story of the famed trailblazing aviatrix Amelia Earhart -- an iconic American figure of the '20s and '30s who vanished over the Pacific while on a record-breaking, gender-smashing, 'round-the-world ...
Info sought on soldiers who lost their lives in Vietnam Monday, February 1, 2010 @ 11:03PMTALLADEGA COUNTY — The Talladega County Hall of Heroes Committee is reaching out to the families of those who gave their lives for their country in Vietnam.
Guitar Center Presents Your Next Record With Slash: A Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity for Unsigned Artists to Write ... Monday, February 1, 2010 @ 2:16PMContinuing its support of aspiring artists, Guitar Center , the world's largest musical instrument retailer, today announced Guitar Center Presents Your Next Record with Slash, a first-of-its-kind, unsigned band competition that provides emerging artists the chance to win the ultimate career-altering opportunity: record a 3-song EP with legendary producer, Mike Clink and have Slash write, record ...
Cosmic Log: Is fusion success in sight? Thursday, January 28, 2010 @ 7:18PMScience editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: Experiments at the National Ignition Facility have given researchers confidence that they'll achieve a milestone in nuclear fusion this year.
New on DVD: 'Surrogates,' 'Whip It' and 'The Boys are Back' Sunday, January 24, 2010 @ 5:14AMTake an eerie peek into our possible future with robot doubles and Bruce Willis in the science-fiction thriller "Surrogates" or jump onto a roller derby track with Ellen Page in "Whip It," both new on DVD on Jan. 26.
New on DVD: 'Surrogates,' 'Whip It' and "The Boys are Back' Sunday, January 24, 2010 @ 5:12AMTake an eerie peek into our possible future with robot doubles and Bruce Willis in the science-fiction thriller "Surrogates" or jump onto a roller derby track with Ellen Page in "Whip It," both new on DVD on Jan. 26.
Greenhouse Bananas: Non-Science Smear Campaigns Friday, January 22, 2010 @ 7:03AMHere’s my conclusion: the only strong evidence we have that Oklahoma Senator James M. Inhofe isn’t a clown is that his car isn’t small enough. As I write in early December, the Copenhagen climate change conference has just begun. And Inhofe, that gleeful anarchist, says he is going to Copenhagen to try to sabotage the affair. Inhofe has famously called climate change “the greatest hoax ever ...
Youth recite speech at MLK event Monday, January 18, 2010 @ 10:39PMMuch study, preparation and memorization culminated Monday in six fourth through sixth graders and two seventh and eighth graders reciting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s. “I Have a Dream” speech at the Navarro County Branch of NAACP’s oratory contest.
Book Review: "‘Jacobs Beach: The Mob, the Garden and the Golden Era of Boxing" Sunday, January 17, 2010 @ 10:23AMBy Adeyinka Makinde - The sport of baseball has traditionally been referred to as the national sport of the American nation. Its handsome uniforms, consisting of embroidered caps, buttoned tops and knickerbockers, suggested the spirit of civilized competitiveness.
TV review: 'Sam Cooke: Crossing Over' Saturday, January 9, 2010 @ 2:27AMMill Valley filmmaker John Antonelli originally planned to watch the nationwide broadcast of his documentary, "Sam Cooke: Crossing Over," at Chicago's Regal Theater, where Cooke himself reigned over hometown crowds in ecstatic performances more than 45 years...