Entertainment

I’m with her

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The Irish have a saying: Is this a private fight, or can anybody join? For noted journalist and city activist Jane Jacobs, there was...

Myopic biopic

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Biopics are lies. Oh, don’t get me wrong, all storytelling is fundamentally fibbing. But it seems somehow more disingenuous to airbrush actual human histories, to select which warts to ignore and which redemptive moments to exaggerate. Documentaries exist for a ...

A boy’s best friend is his cow

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The 1925 Buster Keaton classic Go West opens, “Some people travel through life making friends wherever they go, while others — just travel through life...

Joe Eszterhas calls Mel Gibson’s behavior ‘heinous, vile, unforgivable’

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After getting the Anti-Defamation League on his side, Maccabees screenwriter Joe Eszterhas continued his campaign against Mel Gibson this morning on the Today...

Boulder Phil offers a variety of public events

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The Boulder Philharmonic and composer Missy Mazzoli will have a busy week Feb. 6-12. Mazzoli, who visits Boulder courtesy of a Music Alive Composer Residency,...

Mechanical failure

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The Mechanic is Arthur Bishop (Jason Statham), a crack assassin who can kill his targets without leaving a trace, and even — as we learn later — implicate third parties in the crime. Impressive. Except as we watch Bishop blunder his way through target after target, ...

Fisherman with a Beer

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Cannes 2011: Director Lars von Trier retracts Nazi comment, apologizes

CANNES, France — Danish director Lars von Trier, an...

Sequence of rakes

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Igor Stravinsky: mashup artist...

Fighters in the ring

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How best do we whittle ourselves into instruments for change? Is it by sharpening our tongues, hardening our fists or sweetening our songs? That’s the question at the heart of One Night in Miami..., which posits the conversations that might have unfolded while boxer ...

Paramount aims for franchises with ‘Jack Reacher,’ Jack Ryan

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The CEO of Viacom, parent company of Paramount film company, says its strategy will begin shifting by the end of this year toward strengthening franchises and developing its brand. The strategy will start, Philippe Dauman says, with its upcoming Tom Cruise action-...