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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 …
THURSDAY, MARCH 30 2MEX and Life Rexall are $MARTYR and also a monster collaboration that knocks passenger-panel-rattling beats into mad-genius lyrics, a Shapeshifters/Visionaries team-up that's as deeply satisfying as MF Doom heading to war with Kool G Rap. New album out on Cornerstone R.A.S. on April 11 is already good, but these guys leave boiling …
R.I.P. to Long Beach musician Brett Cutts, who passed away about a week ago. You can listen to him here or here and read things about him here. Love and strength to his friends and family.
Something that really affected me was Forest Whitaker's performance. And it brought to my mind something that's occurred to me before while watching him in other projects: Why isn't this guy used more? When he plays a heavy, he scares the fuck out of you. When he plays a reluctant hero, you can't help but …
THURSDAY, MARCH 23 Sahara Hot Nights were the Runaways with Ikea finesse—easy to put together and (forced to admit) actually pretty well-designed—that Kim Fowley's Frankenstein paws and Dr. Frankenstein ego could never have let him create, and similarly Scandinavian band the Sounds do the same thing but for Blondie. It used to be only Britain …
Ask an intelligent, soft-spoken Southerner about the word sum-bitch sometime, and then stand back and watch as he gets all red in the face and starts hollering like Yosemite Sam. Sum-bitch is a word that turns up a lot in movies and TV shows about really stupid Southern folk (typically in dialogue like, “After ah …
we recommend L'ENFANT (THE CHILD) See Film feature. (Edwards South Coast Village, Santa Ana) INSIDE MAN See Film feature. (Countywide) AMERICAN GUN The first entry in the Crash subgenre sweepstakes, Newport Beach filmmaker Aric Avelino's ambitious dependie follows the Paul Haggis award magnet's business plan pretty slavishly: Take on a contemporary social crisis (here, gun control) …
There are few things lamer than Chicano yaktivists whining about negative coverage that shed light on sordid truths. It happened earlier this year when the Los Angeles Times published an epic four-part series on the once-proud United Farm Workers, an organization that went from the moral center of the post-King American civil rights movement into …
Last night, Anaheim was home to both The Happiest Place on Earth™ and a little corner of Mudville, where there is no joy, because last night in Anaheim, Team USA was eliminated from the World Baseball Classic. Mexico beat the major leaguers representing United States, 2-1. Only four teams now remain in the tournament: Japan, …
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WE RECOMMEND SHE'S THE MAN When Viola (Amanda Bynes) finds out that her high school girls' soccer team is being cut from the budget, she decides to do the only logical thing. She disguises herself (in the freakiest drag-show getup since It's Pat) as her slacker twin brother, Sebastian—who conveniently happens to be off …
THURSDAY, MARCH 16 Korn: D-E-V-O at the Long Beach Arena. FRIDAY Hey, good lookin': “Rhinestones and Twangin' Tones” opens in a flurry of sparkle and steel guitars at the Fullerton Museum Center, where collector Mac Yasuda opens his vaults full of Nudie suits—thee cowboy drag of choice; Botany 500 for the Texas playboy set—and famous …
Perhaps because it's in the Drinking Issue, Cornel Bonca's review of Paula L. Woods' new novel Strange Bedfellows (featured in Selected Reviews from the Weekly on the sidebar) reminded me both of my own experiences with bad novels and my favorite quote from one very good novel, Waguih Ghali's Beer in the Snooker Club: What …