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Francis Ford Coppola dreamed of doing an accurate Pinocchio film, but legal battles took that away from him. Walt Disney's version is a classic, but omits a huge amount of...
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Four of the top 10 films I saw this past year don't actually open in the U.S. until 2003, but they played at various film festivals during the year. By listing them here I not...
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2002 was a good year for R&B and hip-hop – but only if you shunned commercial radio, corporate music magazines, MTV, BET and all other mainstream media hype-dolloping outlets...
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There were lots of good movies this year, but few great ones that left me thinking one couldn't have asked for more. I resolved to see as many as possible way back in January,...
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Like fellow punk forebears the Ramones last year, the Clash, which dissolved amid drug abuse and splintering musical agendas in the mid-1980s, found itself among the list of...
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It's never a good sign when somewhere in the vicinity of half of my most memorable moviegoing experiences in a given year come from reissues of films at least three decades...
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Chicago-born MC Common (a.k.a. Lonnie Lynn) has been a standard bearer for the Native Tongues' progressive style of hip-hop for years. During that time, he's been celebrated...
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The biggest event to happen to television this year took place at the multiplex last summer: My Big Fat Greek Wedding, a one-woman show that has blossomed into a one-woman...
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Once upon a time, way back in the early '90s, a clan called Wu-Tang formed, with GZA "at the head." Two years after its seminal 1993 debut, Enter the Wu-Tang, the Clan issued...
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At a time when officials were leaving faculty positions vacant, firing secretaries and talking about raising tuition as much as $1,000 per student, top executives at Arizona...
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Now that they've busted up, like pumpkins smashed on curbs the night after Halloween, it's time to admit that most everything post-Siamese Dream was overrated by the kids who...
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Save the ChildrenIrresponsible pool owners: I have been a reader of your newspaper for about eight years, and I would like to say that you are the only voice of reality in the...
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Cry, the fifth album by country singer Faith Hill, opens with loud drums, throbbing electric bass and a screeching guitar. The song is called "Free," and it's about liberating...
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Mook rock may now have its own Smash Mouth – a marginal band armed with buffalo-butt riffs and urban attitude that somehow outlives one-hit wonder and sticks to the roof o...