Hosting the U.S. premiere of Crash turned out to be a coup for the 2005 Newport Beach Film Festival, whose organizers noticed a marked increase in interest from Hollywood for this year's April 20-30 run. Last year, director Paul Haggis led a small Crash contingent (sadly missing promised attendee actor/producer Don Cheadle, who was stuck somewhere else) to a makeshift stage next to a free vodka line in a Fashion Island courtyard to thank everyone for coming. I know because I was the last person
Earlier this year, I got to meet former WWE champion Stone Cold Steve Austin for an exclusive OC Weekly interview. Many of my fellow wrestling fans were jealous.
But now, they too can meet him. As can you. He's coming to Anaheim to herald the DVD release of his movie THE CONDEMNED, which comes out on DVD tomorrow. Buy the disc, and he'll sign it. It's unfortunate the movie wasn't a bit more solid, but at least on disc you can skip the horrendously preachy ending and skip straight to Austin's wh
The last of the String Cheese Incident's famous "Hulaween" concerts, pregnant with epic jams and cover songs, ended in 2004. It was right around the time they started scaling back tours and going on a series of hiatuses. But here it should be noted that although this world renowned ensemble of hippie jam artists aren't making new albums or gigging very much (if at all), they've given fans enough material to last a lifetime. No where is that more evident than the nine-disc monst
Dodge College of Film and Media Arts at Chapman University in Orange.No one will think twice about South Korean filmmakers, dignitaries and hangers-on traipsing across a red carpet Friday evening for the opening of the Chapman Pusan West film festival in Orange.But have this be a South Vietnamese film festival with any hint of red on the carpet, posters or frames of film and cries, shouts, kicks, punches and overall bad mojo will fly from Little Saigon wheezers convinced it's some kind of Com
