Entertainment
Alan Ball examines avoiding intimacy
AP   Wednesday, 07 February 2007
AP - Intimacy alert. Or rather, lack-of-intimacy alert.
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Loving the artist for moral reasons
AP   Wednesday, 07 February 2007
AP - "Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints" (Pantheon Books. 524 Pages. $30) — Joan Acocella: While culling essays for her new collection, "Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints," Joan Acocella discovered a loose theme: the hardships that come with creation, and how various artists dealt with these obstacles — or did not. The humbler virtues of perseverance, she came to see, are as important, and as laudable, as talent.
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Music Review: Jones' stunning CD
AP   Wednesday, 07 February 2007
AP - Rickie Lee Jones, "The Sermon on Exposition Boulevard" (New West Records):
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Music Review-Jason Michael Carroll
AP   Wednesday, 07 February 2007
AP - Jason Michael Carroll, "Waitin' in the Country" (Arista Nashville): A preacher's son from rural North Carolina, 28-year-old Jason Michael Carroll possesses an extraordinary tenor voice, as displayed on his country radio hit, "Alyssa Lies," a dramatic tear-jerker about an abused child.
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Music Review: Griffin CD is perfection
AP   Wednesday, 07 February 2007
AP - Patty Griffin, "Children Running Through" (ATO Records): If you're not a fan of alt-folk songstress Patty Griffin, her perfect new CD, "Children Running Through," should win you over.
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"Interview" a tense but familiar battle of sexes
Reuters   Tuesday, 06 February 2007

Cast members Steve Buscemi (L) and Sienna Miller pose during a photo-call for the movie 'Interview' during the 2007 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah January 21, 2007. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)Reuters - Part of a trilogy by slain Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh being remade by American directors, "Interview" is a two-hander pitting a world-weary war reporter against a B-movie actress.


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Ugandan kids triumph over tragedy in moving docu
Reuters   Tuesday, 06 February 2007
Reuters - The ongoing rebel conflict in northern Uganda forms the backdrop for Sundance Film Festival documentary directing award winner "War/Dance," a refreshingly upbeat film that finds its roots in some seriously sobering events.
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Gen Y screwball comedy is more dumb than funny
Reuters   Tuesday, 06 February 2007
Reuters - "Eagle vs. Shark," from Kiwi director Taika Waititi, is like the romantic version of "Napoleon Dynamite." Story of a misfit couple sort of getting together features goofy characters doing not very much in painfully oddball situations. Miramax picked up the film hoping a young audience will find this funny and original, but don't bank on it.
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"Game" skewers studio filmmaking in raucous sendup
Reuters   Tuesday, 06 February 2007
Reuters - "Better Luck Tomorrow" writer-director Justin Lin returns to independent filmmaking after back-to-back studio movies ("Annapolis," "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift") with "Finishing the Game," a raucous '70s period comedy.
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Fall Out Boy unveils new personality
Reuters   Monday, 05 February 2007
Reuters - Forget MySpace, viral nude pics, emo and eyeliner -- Fall Out Boy has grander ambitions.
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"Ruby" a grand mystery adventure
Reuters   Friday, 02 February 2007
Reuters - You don't find too many dogs on "Masterpiece Theater," and "The Ruby in the Smoke" certainly isn't one, either. It's a mystery yarn that fairly crackles in the greatest tradition of the franchise, unraveling its tangled web with unhurried brilliance in telling a story based on the 1985 novel by Philip Pullman that introduced teen sleuth Sally Lockhart to the world.
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