Report: Bernie says no to Yanks’ spring training invite
Friday, February 9th, 2007Bernie Williams has rejected the New York Yankees’ offer to attend spring training on a minor-league deal, according to the New York Times.
Archive for February 9th, 2007
2/9 WWE Smackdown review: Parks’s detailed coverage of the show
Friday, February 9th, 2007Sorry for the lack of real time coverage tonight. I do play-by-play for our college basketball teams, and that draws me out on Friday nights. Luckily, there is only one week in the regular season left (and one last Friday night game), and depending on when the playoffs are, Iâll get back to the regular format of real-time updates.
-WWE open.
-We get Royal Rumble match highlights, seemingly the same package they used to open last week. But after that, they spliced in highlights of Taker making his selection from this past Monday.
Breaking and Entering / ** (R)
Friday, February 9th, 2007By Jim Emerson
Editor, RogerEbert.com
The title of Anthony Minghella’s dour “Breaking and Entering” is a metaphor. How do we know this? Well, for one thing, there’s a burglary right at the start.
Howard’s alley-oop dunk lifts Magic past Spurs
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Barnstorming softball star Feigner dies at 81
Friday, February 9th, 2007Eddie Feigner, the hard-throwing softball showman who barnstormed for more than 50 years with his “The King and His Court” four-man team, died Friday. He was 81.
Capone has a wild and crazy night with THE DEAD GIRL! Read all the grody details here!!!
Friday, February 9th, 2007Hey, all. Capone in Chicago here. Certainly the idea of telling multiple, loosely connected stories in an attempt to form one greater story is nothing new. If anything, the idea is on the verge of being played out. Movies like Babel prove that the device still has some juice left in it, and ones like The Dead Girl illustrate that some filmmakers know how to handle this method of storytelling with subtlety and grace.
Writer-director Karen Moncrieff (who made the troubling and essential Blue Car in 2002) tells five stories all having to do with the discovery of a young woman’s body in a field. It may take you some time to figure out what or if the stories have to do with the main theme, but all is made clear eventually and chillingly. Interestingly, although not surprisingly, Moncrieff chooses to focus each of the five tales on damaged women. Some have been damaged by a specific event, while others have been living with pain their entire lives.
James outduels Wade as Cavaliers blow past Heat
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A reviewer jumps on to GHOST RIDER’s chopper and enjoys the ride!!!
Friday, February 9th, 2007Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I’m a little conflicted. I want to believe this review. I want GHOST RIDER to be awesome, but the reviewer said they agreed with Massawyrm on something. Anybody who has ever agreed with Massawyrm on anything needs professional help… still, there’s a hope this will be good. Fingers crossed.
Hi Harry. Was going to write you about Music and Lyrics but then saw that Massawyrm beat me to it (bastard). For once, I agree with Massawyrm and enjoyed the movie a lot. But I’m writing to tell you about something else today — GHOST RIDER!
Capone tells us all about Annabelle Gurwitch’s comedic documentary FIRED!!!
Friday, February 9th, 2007Hey, everyone. Capone in Chicago with a review of a documentary that made me chuckle a few times, and is therefore worth mentioned in a quickie review. I’m sure in some cities, this film has already come and gone, but for those of you in Chicago and other cities, it’s slowly creeping its way to a theater near you, soon hopefully. In Chicago, it opens this weekend at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
Not all documentaries have to be about the end of the world or how shitty the government is. Sometimes they can be about something fun, like getting fired from a job. Whee! When actress Annabelle Gurwitch was fired by none other than Woody Allen from a play he was directing (if we believe her account of the events, he told her that she was playing her character as if she were retarded), she did what any self-respecting narcissist would do: she turned her tragedy into a series of artistic endeavors (a book, a theatre piece and this movie) that she uses to talk about the greater issues connected with job loss while still leaving plenty of room to inject humor and her own face into the work.
An early review of James Gray’s mafia flick WE OWN THE NIGHT, starring Wahlberg, Phoenix, Duvall and Mendes!!!
Friday, February 9th, 2007Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I really liked James Gray’s THE YARDS. A lot of movies go for that ’70s film look, but THE YARDS is one of the few that actually feel like a film of that time. I’m greatly looking forward to his follow-up and the review makes it sound awesome. One thing the reviewer got wrong, though, is that Universal is distributing the film… they just haven’t set the release date yet. Keep in mind the flick screened early and probably wasn’t finished. Enjoy!!!
Hey Harry,
Last night I got to catch a screening in Pasadena of a film called “We Own the Night.” I hadn’t heard one thing about the film until I got handed some passes last Wednesday. I thought it was strange that I’ve heard nothing because the movie not only has Joaquin Phoenix but Mark Wahlberg and Eva Mendes as well. I got to the screening pretty early and was met with a large line. They checked us in and warned people about bringing cell phones in but ended up not even checking them as you entered the theater.
Nets spoil Pierce’s return; Celtics lose 17th straight
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