Archive for the ‘ENTERTAINMENT’ Category
Holiday dance held in Lyndhurst
LYNDHURST (Dec. 16, 2010) — More than 100 seniors attended a Holiday Tea Dance at the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission’s Meadowlands Environment Center Sunday, Dec. 5. The free event featured the music of the TR Touch Orchestra.
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Spacey revisits Abramoff scandal
FILM REVIEW OF ‘CASINO JACK’ By Kam Williams / Critic (Dec. 13, 2010) — Jack Abramoff (Kevin Spacey) was a veteran Washington, D.C. lobbyist whose outrageous exploits made even members of his own shady profession blush. In the 1990s, the services of the shameless attorney, along with those of his equally-unscrupulous business partner, Michael Scanlon [...]
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It’s time for some ‘Pop Culture Shock Therapy’
By Andrew Segedin / Reporter (Dec. 2, 2010) — There’s an inebriated Jiminy Cricket, Aquaman being given a Viking’s funeral in a toilet bowl, and Hobbes of Calvin and Hobbes depicted as a throw rug under an adult Calvin’s feet. These are three examples of the unique, off-beat, and, yes, sometimes crude humor of cartoonist [...]
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Mark de Mos to premiere in Lyndhurst
LYNDHURST (Dec. 2, 2010) — The New Jersey Meadowlands Commission’s flyway gallery will host an exhibit of watercolors and pastels by local artist Mark de Mos and his students during December and January. The show, “Mark de Mos and Friends,” runs Tuesday, Dec. 7 to Jan. 28. A reception for the artists is scheduled for [...]
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Denzel Washington in familiar role as hero who saves the day
By Kam Williams / Critic (Nov. 15, 2010) — Frank Barnes (Denzel Washington) is winding down a 28-year career riding the rails with the Allegheny and West Virginia Railroad (AWVR). Despite the lack of a blemish on his sterling record, the veteran engineer’s being forced by the company to take an early retirement in a [...]
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Clint Eastwood’s latest film is a little dopey
FILM REVIEW OF ‘HEREAFTER’ By Kam Williams / Critic (Nov. 12, 2010) — I thought that the American obsession with psychics had pretty much ended once Miss Cleo was exposed as a fraud from Los Angeles as opposed to the shaman from Jamaica she posed as on the Psychic Friends Network infomercial. Even though nobody [...]
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Is ‘Due Date’ worth the price of admission?
By Kam Williams / Critic (Nov. 11, 2010) — Although Peter Highman (Robert Downey, Jr.) has been away in Atlanta on business, he’s assured his nine-months pregnant wife, Sarah (Michelle Monaghan), that he’ll be back in L.A. on time to witness the imminent birth of their baby. Just before checking out of his hotel, he [...]
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Kam Williams reviews Soledad O’Brien’s newest book
By Kam Williams / Critic (Nov. 11, 2010) — “I began life as the child of a mixed-race marriage growing up in a white suburb, treated sometimes as a creature of bad circumstance. … Bad things happen until good people get in the way. “I learned this life lesson growing up in Smithtown, Long Island, [...]
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Stuntmen serve up jaw-dropping, 3D sequel
By Kam Williams / Critic (Oct. 28, 2010) — No movies have made me squirm in my seat and shout out loud more than those in the “Jackass” franchise, and this 3D version is no exception. Yes, Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Steve-O and the rest of their merry band of intrepid stuntmen have returned for [...]
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Mike Daisey’s latest monologue is hauntingly captivating
By John Soltes / Editor in Chief NEW YORK (Oct. 28, 2010) — “Barring the Unforeseen,” the latest monologue from downtown denizen Mike Daisey, is a haunting portrait of the inherent power of ghost stories. Why do we choose to remember? Why are we pulled back? Can true reconciliation with the past ever be achieved? [...]
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