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Southern Californian transplant, this is the LA--can you forgive yourself if you miss the stunning Griffith Observatory sciences?--that is a sure cure for this cold and dreary season. With James Dean and Mr. Howell from Gilligan's Island...
...story line in this swamp of sensation, but here goes. Clarence (Christian Slater) works in a Detroit comic-book store. It's his birthday, and as a present his boss has bought him a surprise call girl, Alabama (Patricia Arquette). She may vaguely aspire to be Melanie Griffith, and if Clarence hopes to travel abroad, it is only because he "always wanted to see what TV in other countries looked like"; but this is true romance. The two must marry, run into some mortal trouble (Gary Oldman as a drug dealer, Christopher Walken as a Mafia don) and flee -- with...
...THOUGH NANCI GRIFFITH ever forsook her folk roots. She was just worried that others would forget, and that her younger fans might never know. So, with Other Voices, Other Rooms, she pays homage to her heroes, those folk stars who sang to her from her bedside radio when she was a Texas teenager. Some of her honorees even come to the party. Bob Dylan plays harmonica on his almost forgotten Boots of Spanish Leather. John Prine sings harmony on his Speed of the Sound of Loneliness. Arlo Guthrie sings on Tecumseh Valley, by Townes Van Zandt, though...
Bogle, the author of Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies and Bucks and other books, has provided an amazingly detailed introduction that traces images of African-Americans from D.W. Griffith's "Birth of a Nation" (1915) to the present. Bogle's introduction will definitely become required reading for many film history classes, as he takes the time to explain the many nuances and changes of the portrayal of Blacks in film and explains how these shifts came about...
Over the past several years, this small town located about five hours from Denver has become internationally famous. Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn have a ranch near here. Ivana and Donald Trump had their famous blowup over Marla Maples here. Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith breeze in and out of town...