Don't mind the visage, the eyes behind hold it all. RIP George Carlin. We are now deeply entrenched in that most wonderful time of year, between Thanksgiving and Christmas, when we are thankful for so much of our past, and eagerly awaiting the ...
Read moreA 29 year old man in Philadelphia shot a guy at a movie theater on Christmas Day for talking during the movie, police there said. He was apparently miffed that a family was conversing during "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." Throwing popcorn at ...
Read moreI don't watch a lot of food-related shows, even though I almost never regret the occasions when I sit down for an episode of "Top Chef," or "No Reservations" or "Feasting on Asphalt." I guess my love of fictional narrative TV overwhelms my love of ...
Read moreAmazon said today that the 2008 holiday shopping season was its “best ever,” even though a report released on Christmas Day called the season one of the worst in decades. Amazon says very little about its success, choosing instead to release only ...
Read moreBill Reynolds: Brady’s recovery is story of Patriots’ offseason 01:00 AM EST on Saturday, January 3, 2009 FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH: •Is Tom Brady’s recovery behind schedule, as former Journal colleague Tom E. Curran has reported on NBC.com? Who ...
Read morePound for pound, 2008 was a whopper. We witnessed a tumultuous, nearly yearlong election cycle, and saw our economy in crisis. In high art and popular culture, there were as many opportunities for escape as there were for worldly contemplation; the ...
Read moreToby Keith spent the '90s as a solid, workmanlike country star who met with considerable chart success, yet never quite broke free of the eo-traditionalist pack to become a household name like Garth Brooks or Alan Jackson. That all changed in 2002 ...
Read moreIf you've been reading me in The Star-Ledger long enough, you may know of my deep affection for Summer Burn-Off Theatre, that increasingly rare practice wherein networks run unaired episodes of canceled shows in the summer to help recoup their costs ...
Read moreFull Category List Arts & Culture Breaking News Chinese East Asia Entertainment Gender Japan Taiwan (ROC) Weblog Excerpt For many men in Taiwan, this Christmas Eve was a day of regret and disappointment. It is not because that at this eve some of us ...
Read moreIf it's true that Clint Eastwood is hanging up his acting shoes with "Gran Torino," he couldn't have offered us a nicer swan song. Directing himself, Eastwood plays Walt Kowalski, a crusty retired assembly plant worker who, recently widowed, seems ...
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