Rollins brings own 'Shock and Awe'
Recently Henry Rollins found out that he might qualify for a spot near the top of any list of hardest working men in show business. On a whim, he decided to compare his touring schedule over the past two decades to the one maintained by a rock group that has become notorious for its marathon tours and love for the concert stage -- Kiss.
Surprising fictions in 'Code'
Even if you lived under a rock, you could not avoid hearing about "The Da Vinci Code," Dan Brown's runaway best-seller of a novel. BY ALYSON WARD / Ft. Worth Star-Telegram »De-coding the 'Code'
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Singing duo debut at Acoustic Brew series Home base: Tennessee CDs: Include "Midnight Memories," 2003; "Patchwork Tales," 1996 (Tremont); "The Blue and Gray in Black and White," 1992 (Flying Fish); "Treasures and Tears," 1990 (Flying Fish); "Eventide: Songs of Celebration," 1990 (Tremont)
Even Wilson cannot keep 'The Big Bounce' bouncing
Owen Wilson usually makes any movie better, simply by showing up and being Owen Wilson. Take "Shanghai Noon," for example. His laid-back demeanor was the perfect counterpoint to Jackie Chan's hyperkinetic energy, and he added a layer of dry wit to Chan's charisma and choreography.
ACOUSTIC BREW SPRING SEASON OVERVIEW: A quintessential Acoustic Brew season is about to get under way. "We'll have a variety of folk genres, blues, bluegrass, traditional, contemporary, a cappella, storytelling, all presented by experienced, engaging entertainers, and at very reasonable prices," says Paul Rito, the Brew's publicity manager.
Star-studded movie doesn't capture true feel of novel
Like F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," Philip Roth's exceptional novel "The Human Stain" is about a writer so absorbed in observing a doomed love triangle that he does not act to avert the inevitable. Also like "Gatsby" with its new-money gangsters, old-money blue bloods and hot-blooded proles, "Stain" telescopes an era of American identity politics into the tragedy of a disgraced professor, an illiterate beauty and an unstable Vietnam vet. (
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'Perfect Score' reminiscent of 'Breakfast Club' scenario
"The Perfect Score" is what would have landed "The Breakfast Club" kids in detention. It involves six students instead of five, and they represent a more ethnically diverse cross-section of students. But their forced bonding -- and the inevitable catharsis and enlightenment that result -- are the same as in the 1985 John Hughes teen classic. (
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Kutcher forges own identity
Model-turned-movie-star Ashton Kutcher says he's come to live with the tabloid press coverage of his life, both on screen and off.
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'Show' and tell
If Lorrie Morgan played by country music's rules, she wouldn't be playing at all. By all accounts, she should have been done a long time ago. BY MALCOLM MAYHEW / Ft. Worth Star-Telegram »Go to Music
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