Over the years, moviegoers who double as sports fans have had ample opportunity to pick and choose their favorite miracle — Shoeless Joe Jackson emerging from the tall corn, Rudy suiting up for Notre Dame, Rocky going the distance with Apollo Creed, the U.S. hockey team taking down the Russkies…
Over the centuries, the legend of Tristram and Iseult has fueled the derring-do of King Arthur, aroused Richard Wagner’s operatic thunder, driven poets as diverse as Shakespeare, Tennyson, and Edwin Arlington Robinson to the heights of passion , and helped stock the back streets of Manhattan with companies of leaping…
When a movie promises that a character played by Queen Latifah may well die during the course of the action, one might hope that the movie in question is Hostel, so that she could be beaten a few times and then dismembered, ideally by someone who sat through The Cookout,…
Yes, the title’s a problem. Three of Hearts was a 1993 romantic comedy starring Kelly Lynch, Sherilyn Fenn, and William Baldwin, a distasteful clunker that traded on male titillation with lesbians and bisexual women. Worse, the poster for the new Three of Hearts is achingly similar to that of its…
Sam Peckinpah’s Legendary Westerns Collection (Warner Bros.) At a mere $42 through most websites, this four-film boxed set ranks among the best ever compiled; not only does it contain the restored version of one of the greatest movies of all time (The Wild Bunch), but also three other brilliant westerns…
Publisher: Square Enix
Platform: PlayStation 2
Price: $49.99
ESRB Rating: T (for Teen)
Score: 9 (out of 10)
We popcorn-chomping hitchhikers never know who will pick us up on the roadside. In Flirting With Disaster, it was a neurotic Manhattan adoptee on a nationwide search for his biological parents. The desert-parched heroines of Thelma & Louise brought us along as they raised hell en route to their doom…
Thank God. A new play about Catholic priests that mentions neither pope nor pedophilia. It is about miracles, though, which might raise eyebrows. But the stage — as a stand-in for pulpit and courtroom — is a wise neutral forum for debating the meaning of things like miracles. In Hand…
Old School Square, in the heart of trendy downtown Delray Beach, is a refurbished 1913 schoolhouse that is now an arts center. Amid the Crest Theater, the Vintage Gymnasium, and the Entertainment Pavilion sits the underrated Cornell Museum of Art and History. The small-yet-hearty museum is currently offering two worthwhile…
Why did the chicken cross the road? “Well, that is an excellent question,” says Jack Reda, a man who wears a chicken suit for a living. “I don’t know if I can answer it now. It would ruin it for anyone who is going to come to the show” –…
For the poor souls we call insomniacs, not even Ben Stein reading computer code will call in the Sandman. So why even try? Dave Attell sure doesn’t, and for that, Comedy Central awarded him with a TV show, Insomniac with Dave Attell. While most people are in bed, safely counting…
Before Saturday Night Live made political lampooning a national pastime and before Whose Line Is It Anyway? threw the script out the window, the live sketch comedy of the Second City improv troupe took form in 1959, at the height of the Cold War. And while the red scare is…
About three years ago, Heeb, the magazine for young, Jewish hipsters, hired Susannah Perlman to coordinate the entertainment for one of its events in New York City. She rounded up a bunch of what she calls “really great acts that just happened to be Jewish,” from spoken-word performers to comedians…
Ballet – so graceful, so beautiful … yet so ripe for parody. When left in the hands of a suitably oafish comic a lá Will Ferrell, a ballet performance might later haunt audience members in their sleep. The men of Les Ballets Trockadero De Monte Carlo – better known as…
Some holidays are easy to remember. After all, on Christmas, we get lavished with gifts. On New Year’s, we get showered in champagne, and on Valentine’s Day we get an overwhelming urge to wear black and curse in tongues at happy, loving couples… or we get chocolate. But then there…
The Florida Panthers have struggled with scoring this year, ranking near the bottom of the league in goals. But it could be worse – they could be the Columbus Blue Jackets. The Jackets are dead last in goals, and haven’t been able to keep opposing teams out. The teams meet…
Once upon a time, anyone who wanted to make a career in music got his start by busking on the streets, or by strong-arming his way onto a concert lineup, or by camping outside of a record company’s door. These days, however, you can go to the School of Higher…
A New York City photographer and a British art dealer discuss the contours of the deco-style furniture piece on display. The maker of the piece, a Parisian, bargains with a gallery owner from Massachusetts, eager to purchase one of his glass sculptures. But they’re not at some high-brow cocktail party…
Kathy Griffin has a vicious mean streak. God help the celebrity who finds himself or herself on the receiving end of one of her barbed zingers. But her sharp tongue is what makes her so funny, and truth be told, many of her targets probably deserve the abuse. You can’t…
By day, John Morrissey is a Palm Beach lawyer who deals with probate cases, guardianships, that type of thing. Zzzzzzz. But by night (and weekends), he morphs into an uber-cool supercollector of contemporary artwork. As Morrissey will humbly admit, he was featured in both ARTnews and Details magazines as one…
Who says there’s no sense of fashion left at casinos? While the sweatpants-clad, chain-smoking, slot-addicted regulars plug away in the gaming area of Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, revelers attending the fashion show at the Hard Rock’s fabulous interconnected clubs Pangaea and Gryphon will be sequestered in a dream…
Whoever said that writing a musical comedy was difficult never tried to write a musical comedy about national politics while President Bush was in office. Why, the team behind the touring production Capitol Steps is downright prolific. Under this administration, the jokes almost write themselves. For example, on its website…
