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- Not The Front Lines Of Humor - The Bulletin
"I don't read scripts," Robert Downey, Jr. tells us late into "Tropic Thunder," the much-anticipated - and controversial - comedy directed by Ben Stiller, which opens today. "Scripts read me." Mr. Downey is Kirk Lazarus, "a dude playing a dude ...
- Dick Martin, half of "Laugh-in" comedy team, dies (The Pantagraph)
LOS ANGELES -- Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" took television by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such national catch-phrases as "Sock it to me!" has died. He was 86.
- Mandela’s 90th b’day celebrated - Hindustan Times
Anti-apartheid activist and former president of South Africa Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday was celebrated at Springdales, Dhaula Kuan, on Friday. The event, which concluded the school’s Africa Week celebrations, began with a speech by Principal ...
- Rob Walker's 'Buying In' (International Herald Tribune)
That Americans are consumed by consumerism will surprise few. But as Rob Walker points out in "Buying In," few will admit that they frequently succumb to salesmanship, and that marketing produces needs they never knew they had.
- Cinematic visions: Herzog's fab five flicks - Newsday
AGUIRRE, WRATH OF GOD (1972): The quintessential Herzog movie, with Klaus Kinski as a mad conquistador. STROZEK (1977): Slice-of-life drama starring Bruno S., a mentally unstable, nonprofessional actor. WERNER HERZOG EATS HIS SHOE (1980): Literally ...
- Art shock troops mock Russian establishment - Reuters
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Carrying bags of stolen groceries, Oleg Vorotnikov takes out the batteries of his mobile phone before entering the secret headquarters of his underground art collective on the outskirts of Moscow. "This is to prevent the cops from ...
- See Edwin McCain Sunday at People’s (Juice)
You probably know him best for late ’90s hits like "I’ll Be" and "I Could Not Ask for More," but Edwin McCain is asking his fans to turn their ears...
- San Francisco itineraries: One day, weekend or week - USA Today
While it's certainly true that San Francisco is a city best savored slowly and not slurped down in one big gulp, it's also true that no amount of time spent in the City by the Bay is wasted time. The following itineraries will help you make the most ...
- Forgotten treasure from Brazil - Telegraph.co.uk
Forgotten treasure from BrazilTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 15 minutes agoFor nearly 20 years, she immersed herself in Brazilian culture and eventually edited, and partly translated, an anthology of Brazilian poetry. ...
- An Outlaw's Odyssey, Remembered 'Gonzo' Style - NPR News
Journalist Hunter S. Thompson created colorful portraits of corrupt politicians and the Hell's Angels gang. Magnolia Pictures Thompson was a fan of "very fast cars with no tops," as he writes in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas . Magnolia Pictures NPR ...
- Natives of the Night - Variety
Natives of the NightVariety, CA - 1 hour agoThough good-looking throughout and featuring some evocative poetry by Dominican poet Pedro Mir, which gives the pic its title, this rarely probes beneath ...
- A Playlist by Camille Paglia - New York Times
New York TimesA Playlist by Camille PagliaNew York Times, United States - 12 hours agoBased on a 1951 song by an African-American musician, Tiny Bradshaw. 2) Ballad of a Thin Man, Bob Dylan (1965). Sinister atmospherics of the garish sexual ...
- Celebs, politicians, best-selling authors at National Book Festival - Cape Cod Times
Celebs, politicians, best-selling authors at National Book FestivalCape Cod Times, MA - 3 hours ago21 **British writer Philippa Gregory poses in Dallas during a stop on her US book tour Monday, Oct. 2, 2006. Gregory says that to write good historical ...
- Looking for something to do? Diversions listings for June 26 weekend (Evansville Courier & Press)
Diversions listings for June 26.
- The beauty and poetry of it (San Francisco Bay View)
For the past seven years, filmmakers Renaud Barret and Florent de La Tullaye have been filming Staff Benda Bilili, a revolutionary and politically active Congolese band made up of disabled musicians.
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