Sunday, May 11, 2008
ENTERTAINMENT
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| Indiana Jones? Check. Batman? Yep. Will Smith? Him too. There will be no shortage of box-office draws during the 2008 summer movie season, which is so loaded with potential blockbusters that it may surpass last year’s record-setting summer grosses of $4.15 billion, the highest in Hollywood history. That is no guarantee the movies themselves will be good, of course: Just because they’ve made another Hulk picture doesn’t mean it will be any better. | |
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Romantic comedies are a tricky business. They can be too sweet or not funny enough. There can be no spark between the principal characters. And romantic comedies can easily be one-sided affairs, thus the derisive term, “chick flick.”
"Iron Man" has always had a flight problem in video games. Over the decades, the high-tech, high-flying Marvel superhero has peripherally appeared in several games, but he's never been able to truly soar.
The trouble with this quilt show is it generates inspiration. And from inspiration comes a messy sewing room — so messy that order may never return.
In 1996, newspaper columnist Rheta Grimsley Johnson wrangled an assignment from her editor in Atlanta. She was to cover a boar hunt in south Louisiana, but the story turned out to be a bit of a bust.
In the world of violent, high-speed racing, brothers Rex and Speed Racer become rivals as powerful racer Mondragan manipulates their careers in order to kill them both during the world championships
Local band Harlan began without a band. The group’s founder, John Harlan Norris, recorded everything that’s heard on The Still Beat, Harlan’s full-length CD debut, himself at the LSU School of Music studio.
This Baton Rouge rock band with Southern influences has spent the past six years building fan strongholds around the U.S., releasing four albums that capture their unique force.
Nottoway Plantation, on La. 1 at White Castle, is in the process of a major restoration. Owner Paul Ramsay of Sydney, Australia, announced last week that he is providing the resources to ensure that the restoration is conducted in a manner that will preserve Nottoway for many more years.
This one is Sandy Dokka’s favorite, the one showing the man in the choir robe playing the upright piano. The painting is small, but big enough to contain the large woman standing behind the pianist. She’s singing, it’s obvious.
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