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Robert Mitchum stars as Harry Powell, a preacher whose down-home manners and lazy charm mask a perverse, truly malignant soul. When he comes to a small Southern town populated by yokels who all seem to have stumbled out of a Norman Rockwell canvas, he imagines there's no one to stop him from claiming the fortune …
A title like Fuck: A Fuckumentary should fill plenty of Edwards Island seats for its April 23 screening as part of the 2006 Newport Beach Film Festival. When enough people discover it's a film with such talking heads as Steven Bochco, Pat Boone, Ben Bradlee, Drew Carey, Chuck D., Billy Connolly, Sam Donaldson, Janeane Garofalo, …
Pulp Fiction hit American pop culture like an A-bomb in 1994, and for about five years afterward just about every young director working wanted to be Quentin Tarantino. If you were going to indie movies with any regularity during this period, you saw a whole lot of crime thrillers about morally ambiguous but crazy-cool hoods …
The King is a certifiable Orange County storefront phenomenon, staged at more venues, and seen by more people, than any other locally generated play this side of SCR's A Christmas Carol. This fourth incarnation of Brian Newell's musical homage to Elvis Presley is the shortest, leanest and most compact production to date, with unnecessary subplots …
This is the one you've been waiting for: results from Monday's 10th annual OC WeeklyTheater Awards—13 radiant winners and 41 dejected losers, except—our lawyers insist—for the fact that, really, they're all winners. Well, kind of. These awards are entirely subjective, and from day one, their choosing—by Weekly theater staffers and a panel of local theater …
This isn't about bashing SciFi Channel; I'll be the first to cheer them for turning a remake of a beloved but lightweight genre classic into a relevant, powerful political drama. So cheers for their successes—it still doesn't excuse them for such a gaffe as taking nearly a year to pick up the BBC's new series …
THURSDAY, MARCH 9 Demonstrating on some levels of machination that no one is getting, Electric Six sounds like Culture Club or Men Without Hats on grim purpose, further proof that band discoverer Jack White has insanity and perception hundreds of orders beyond normal humans. “If money talks, then I'm a mime”? “The future is in …
recent experiments in listening to the same songs over and over and over (and over) again have proven that the following songs have pay little (to no) heed to the law of diminishing returns (which i actually know nothing about, having slept through an entire semester of a.p. economics in high school): destroyer's “painter in …
Over the years, CHP officer Stephen Robert Deck lectured countless Southern Californian motorists. But on Feb. 18, Deck wasn’t even thinking about anyone old enough to drive. According to District Attorney Tony Rackauckas, the 51-year-old cop was lost in a sexual fantasy involving a 13-year-old Laguna Beach girl he’d befriended in an Internet chat room. …
Political transvestism and puma killing are in the news today, and both were implicit in posts on The Blotter yesterday. Coincidence or clairvoyance? Yesterday's first Blotter post dealt with the investigation by State Senator Joe Dunn (D-Garden Grove) into the California National Guard's spying on political activists and ended with a reference to the man …
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A year and a half ago, as word quickly circulated via radio and the Internet that Dave Chappelle was putting together a concert in Brooklyn, and that it would feature alternative-neo-indie Negro artists like the Roots, Erykah Badu, Dead Prez, Jill Scott, Common, Mos Def, Kanye West—and maybe Lauryn Hill—fan excitement grew to slightly hysterical …
State Senator Joe Dunn's (D-Garden Grove) investigation into the California National Guard's spying on political activists was featured on the KGO evening news yesterday. Whether the story on San Francisco's ABC affiliate will help raise the profile of the investigation remains to be seen, but this does answer the question of how long it takes …