In Rod Lurie’s first political potboiler, Deterrence, a U.S. president audaciously entered a nuclear confrontation with a newly aggressive (and surprisingly well-armed) Saddam Hussein. While hardly an original concept in…
John C. Hughes
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Eight children, four each from different families, puréed Brady Bunch style in a $250-a-month, four-bedroom apartment in mid-’70s Elyria, Ohio. Inflation squeezed the wallets and coin purses dry, forcing both…
Scott Malchus
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On Sunday mornings, I’d drag my ass out of bed and wander over to the cafeteria to replenish my fluids and put some food in my stomach. After that, maybe…
Tom Werman
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Epic Records was located on the 13th floor of the imposing Eero Saarinen-designed CBS Building, dubbed “Black Rock” due to its black granite exterior. The interior was furnished with fine…
Tony Redman
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Tiny Tim (born Herbert Khaury) was a staple of late ’60s TV, appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Tonight Show and Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In. With his unusual appearance,…
Ben Wiser
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No test this week, folks, as I am going out to California to visit friends and family and show off the newest member of our tribe. I’ll be back soon…
Ken Shane
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It certainly wouldn’t be accurate to say that Buddy and Julie Miller have bad luck. After all, each of them has had wonderful career as songwriter and performer. They’ve each…
David Medsker
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Welcome to my brand-new column Pop Goes the World, which aims to serve as an antidote of sorts to the sad, sad, sad world of Mope Like Me. (That scream…
Dave Steed
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We finish up the ninth letter of the alphabet today as we look at the last half of the letter I and chat about all those glorious songs that charted…
Zack Dennis
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Conceptually, counting cards is incredibly simple.Á‚ Take a deck of cards.Á‚ With a full deck, the count is zero.Á‚ Deal the cards out one by one.Á‚ Each time you see…
Ann Logue
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Rick Santelli of CNBC has called for a Chicago Tea Party, a revolt by taxpayers against a government stimulus package that may reward some irresponsible folks for their behavior. Jon…
John C. Hughes
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Big things were planned for Boston’s Face To Face in 1984. Signed to Epic, the New Wave group was pushed heavily by the label as the next big music sensation. …
Rob Smith
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For someone who doesn’t know a lot about hip-hop (as we surmised from his memo to the late Tupac Shakur), Uncle Donnie does seem to be well acquainted with certain…
Ted Asregadoo
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE Okay…I admit to being a UK popophile (Hey now!). What can I say? The ’80s was the decade of my youth, so naturally I’m going…
Scott Malchus
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I’ve Loved You So Long (2009, Sony) purchase this movie from Amazon: DVD | Blu-ray Philippe Claudel’s French film, I’ve Loved You So Long, opens at an airport where a…
Lance Berry
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Wonder Woman (2009, Warner Home Video) purchase this movie from Amazon: DVD | Blu-ray I’ve always been wary of many of the direct-to-DVD animated superhero films, from both Marvel and…
Will Harris
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Given that the Osbourne family became the toast of MTV in 2002, thanks to their then-groundbreaking reality series, “The Osbournes,” it came as no real surprise when it was announced…
Arend Anton
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The Internet has spawned an explosion of opinion and independent thought. Movies I once thought were untouchable I now find have their own critics. While the Web has also coined…
David Medsker
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Q: Why aren’t there any jokes about Guyana? A: The punch line’s too long. Thanks, I’m here all week. Below are magnified fragments of album covers. Most of them are…
Jon Cummings
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Last week Marti Jones was back in Washington, DC — the city where she and I had our greatest moments together during her career in pop music. (Actually, she was…
Scott Malchus
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Usually, anytime a musical artist performs on a talk show, that marks the end of the program: Letterman, Leno or Conan stroll out to shake hands with the band, and…
Jon Cummings
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He may have called for “a kinder, gentler nation,” but the first year of George H.W. Bush’s presidency, 1989, turned out to be Ground Zero for the Culture Wars. It…
Matchup Monkey
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Say Hi (fronted by Eric Ellbogen) is certainly punching above their/his weight here, but they/he just released their/his sixth album Ooh’s and Aah’s last week and is currently on tour…
Molly Marinik
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Preston Martin and Nicolas Greco in Kaspar Hauser BOTTOM LINE: A new musical theatre piece that’s as endearing as it is weird. Off-off-Broadway can be a tricky class of theatre…
Jeff Giles
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I miss buying an album and lying on the floor for three days and going over it with a magnifying glass. I still go to the record store and spend…
Robert Cass
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I don’t know much about this Bob Marley character, but if his performance on the “Welcome to New York” bootleg is any indication, he was a real hack: a quarter…
Jack Feerick
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I’m a big believer in simplicity where simplicity is called for. As cosmopolitan adult audiences, we’re supposed to sneer at simple stories in favor of works that are more conceptually…
Lance Berry
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Thanks to last year’s Iron Man and Dark Knight, the age of the superhero as a legitimate and viable tale in the realm of cinema is now in full effect….
Bob Cashill
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On Tuesday, I read that I’m about to be extinct. I got the word from a chart published on Movie City News, which showed that there were 122 working film…