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Reel Critics: This 'Playing' is no keeper
"Playing for Keeps" employs every cliché in the PG-13 romantic comedy playbook. But the comedy is in short supply as the laughs prove to be few and far between. The end result is a big, steaming bowl of romantic mush with little connection to the...
Tags: Entertainment, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Abusive Behavior, Soccer, Racism
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On Theater: 'Art' for laughs' sake
Art, much like beauty, often is in the eye of the beholder. One man's masterpiece might easily be another man's rubbish. It's not, after all, like sports where there are clear-cut winners and losers. Yasmina Reza's caustic comedy "Art," however, is a...
Tags: Entertainment, Arts and Culture, Alfred Hitchcock
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From The Boathouse: More stories from the Last Frontier
Ahoy! I have returned after cruising for a week aboard the Princess Cruises' Star Princess on my radio station's Alaskan cruise this week. As I mentioned last week, CRN Digital Talk Radio, which syndicates my "Boathouse Radio Show," hosted a murder...
Tags: Murder, Entertainment, Landforms, Shipbuilding, Radio Industry
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Reel Critics: Robots are people too
"Robot and Frank" may be the first buddy movie between a robot and a senior citizen. Frank (Frank Langella) has increasing memory lapses, and his son (James Marsden) is worn out driving hundreds of miles each week to clean up after him. He buys his dad...
Tags: Entertainment, Kristen Bell, Richard Nixon, PG Rated Movies, The Imposter (movie)
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On Theater: Something old, something new at Vanguard
A pair of classics and a pair of world premieres highlight the upcoming 2012-13 theater season at Vanguard University. Currently, the Costa Mesa college is winding up its first of two summer professional shows under the American Coast Theater Co., "The...Tags: Schizophrenia, Entertainment, Entertainment Events, Education, Romance (genre)
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On Theater: Wedding jitters exacerbated with wonderfully witty bite
Think of striking oil in your own backyard and you'll have the perfect metaphor for "Enlightenment.com," the second and final offering of Vanguard University's professional arm, the American Coast Theater Company. The playwright, Warren Doody, has taught...Tags: Entertainment, A Streetcar Named Desire (movie), Arts and Culture
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Reel Critics: Heartfelt, fairy tale fun in 'Brave'
The Pixar studio is the gold standard for generation jumping animated films."Toy Story,""Finding Nemo" and"Wall-E" were ground breaking blockbusters. The win streak clearly continues with their rousing fairy tale adventure"Brave." This time they add a...
Tags: Nicolas Cage, Steve Carell, Wall-E (movie), Keira Knightley, Benjamin Walker
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Reel Critics: 'Ted' is not your cuddly teddy bear
Seth MacFarlane has 10 years of sarcastic culture comedy under his belt as the creator of the animated TV series "Family Guy." The raucous laughs on that show begin where"The Simpsons" level of humor ends. His new outrageous R-rated movie clearly...
Tags: Magic Mike (movie), Entertainment, The Hangover (movie), Channing Tatum, Seth MacFarlane
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UCI's drama department to present 'Shakespeare Under the Stars'
UC Irvine's drama department will soon realize a 40-year-old dream, when its inaugural season of "Shakespeare Under the Stars" opens next month at an open-air theater, which production staff and technical theater students built by hand. The festival will...
Tags: Entertainment, Celebrities, Students, Teaching and Learning, Entertainment Events
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On Theater: No usual suspects in SCR's lineup for 2012-13 season
When a theater company announces a new season, chances are it's dotted with plays that have been staged once or twice locally. Which is why South Coast Repertory's 2012-13 lineup is truly special. You won't find a familiar title among the nine...Tags: Entertainment, David Henry Hwang, Romance (genre), Arts and Culture
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Reel Critics: On 'The Dictator' and 'Battleship'
Sacha Baron Cohen is the king of bizarre, vulgar and shameless comedy. He loves to roast every aspect of human decency on a skewer of nasty sarcasm. He used his incendiary formula as the audacious "Borat" and won the Golden Globe for Best Comedy in 2007....
Tags: Battleship (movie), Movies, Entertainment, The Dictator (movie), Entertainment Events
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On Theater: Musical spoof plays well in Newport
The popularity of musical theater in the middle part of the past century brought with it a few gentle spoofs of the genre — "Little Mary Sunshine" and "Dames at Sea" among the most notable. The satirical art also flowered in England, where...
Tags: Satire (genre), Entertainment, Entertainment Events, Asha, Matt Williams
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