LIMA (AFP) — Most of “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” takes place in Peru, but many Peruvians are suffering heartburn after seeing the movie’s many clumsy — and often insulting — mistakes about their country.Viewers here cringed when the world’s most famous fictional archaeologist arrives in Peru and announces that he […]
Mayor Ed Hagnauer wants to shake “the stigma.”“Dirty little steel town,” said the life-long resident. “That’s the kind of stigma we’ve always lived with, and nobody has really aggressively gone out and tried to change that. I think that’s kind of what we’re doing.”Since his election to office three years ago, the former Granite City […]
By JOE BEL brUNO – 3 days agoNEW YORK (AP) — Stock futures were little changed Friday ahead of a government report expected to show the nation’s payrolls shrank again in April.The Labor Department’s report will be closely watched by economists to determine if the U.S. is inching closer to recession. […]
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With the imminent release of yet another live-action film based on a super-hero comic book, here is the in-between effort – an animated movie.It is part of a series of movies updating the origins of your favourite heroes.This time, millionaire playboy Tony Stark (Worden) has flown to China after one of his plans has gone […]
Ben Hollingsworth played hockey for 16 years. But for his newest TV movie he had to learn to skate all over again - as a figure skater.“I had to learn to figure skate,” said Hollingsworth, in a telephone interview. “Sixteen years of playing hockey thrown out for a toe pick.”Hollingsworth co-stars in Cutting Edge 3: […]
“THE BANK JOB” (C): This is a solid, no-nonsense heist thriller, yet one that ultimately fails to distinguish itself from the many others of the genre. Jason Statham, star of the “Transporter” movies, plays the vividly named Terry Leather, a used-car dealer with a criminal past. He and some of his amateur thug pals get […]
Casting has been announced for the San Francisco engagement of Disney’s High School Musical playing the Orpheum Theatre April 15-27, 2008. This phenomenally popular stage production is based on the 2006 Emmy Award-winning Disney Channel Original Movie. High School Musical will be a special engagement of the 2007-2008 Citibank Best of Broadway […]
You know what’s a really bad idea? Not sleeping the night before sparking four endless, indistinct loops of open bars and wannabe rock stars at South By Southwest. The reason being the catatonic state I’m now in after enduring Day One. (Note to self: Don’t ever attempt brewing hotel room coffee again. This stuff’s watery […]
NOT even wars or assassination attempts have prevented the Oscars from playing their sparkling role in the world. However for thirteen weeks the future of this year’s Eightieth Academy Awards was dramatically suspended as a US writers strike crippled the production of many a new film or television series, writes Marina Soteriou.But there is […]