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...perspective; the Dems even get the marginally bigger stars--Kevin Spacey, Denis Leary and Ed Begley Jr. to the Republicans' Laura Dern, Tom Wilkinson and Bob Balaban. When a Florida court decision holds out hope for Gore, stirring music swells. When Bush recount honcho James Baker III (Wilkinson) walks onscreen, the sound track all but plays Darth Vader's theme...
...made a habit of playing yard concerts for stoned Ivy Leaguers. Movies completely out of touch with mainstream American black culture (like “Collateral” and “Superbad”) use their tunes when they need a rap song to soundtrack an onscreen party. Hell, the Roots have even sampled Radiohead. On “Rising Down,” Roots MC Black Thought says “They can never take the pen away / I’m LeRoi Jones.” But if these guys are aiming to please Amiri Baraka, they?...
...remotely surprising.By “discovering” children, Iris Burton knowingly halted their natural development and sent them down a path that was almost guaranteed to lead them astray. Baby-blue eyes and cutesy, high-pitched jokes are almost inevitably replaced with pocked skin, awkward limbs, and bad onscreen chemistry. Children grow up, and their star power rarely lasts. But when the meat turns cold and heads for the B-list, Iris is still sitting at the high table, waiting for another helping of Kobe beef.The Times’ article quotes River Phoenix’s mother as saying...
...point is that we watch for pure entertainment—not because we can relate to jetting to France on a moment’s notice or seeing our ex at a masquerade ball. We, the viewers, know that our lives should not look like the ones we see onscreen...
...thousands of girls lined up in February and March to put on 3-D glasses for the movie version. And as they watched, Cyrus' concert-movie audience did something remarkable: they behaved as if it were a real show. Singing along, dancing, reaching for confetti that was falling only onscreen, the Hannah Montana fans were, yes, 8-year-olds on a sugar high. But they were also moviegoers in the vanguard of a new kind of theatrical experience, one in which tricked-out cinemas serve as digital-era concert venues...