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Redford has always offered a study in contrasts. He is the California all-American kid who was born (in 1937) into a section of Santa Monica where most of his neighbors spoke Spanish. He had the looks of a matinee idol and the brains of a subversive mogul. Like his Sundance Film Festival--where each January in Park City, Utah, makers of low-budget films mix with cell phone-addicted agents and studio executives--Redford is a fiercely independent entity with an inescapable aura of Hollywood glamour...
...Iraqi dictator sends conciliatory e-mail to U.S. programmer, then gets embroiled in 'N Sync-rules, Backstreet-sucks chat-room debate Losers Elton John Pianist disparages the Dalai Lama's Afghanistan peace pleas. He goes on to disparage Galliano for abandoning the strapless, male ball gown JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE Teen idol's planned novel dropped by publisher. He's, like, gonna work way, way hard on his cursive writing for the next book MATT DAMON AND BEN AFFLECK ABC pulls the plug on the duo's reality show after Sept. 11. The two mournfully return to a life of constant parties...
...Radio and he created an original comix-style opera, "The Carbon Copy Building." But more relevant to "Comics Decode" are his slide shows. Never a straight reading, he frames his presentations in a loose lecture format with titles like, "Halftone Printing in the Yiddish Press and Other Objects of Idol Worship." But the lectures consist of the kind of vaguely-plausible-but-absurd nonsense that make up the majority of Katchor's work. He essentially becomes a character in a one-man-show that features the reading of comix...
...Fatone’s new comedy On the Line, I thought to myself, “Hey, you know this really isn’t so bad.” To be honest, I was expecting far worse from a movie that can be placed in the same teen idol category as Vanilla Ice’s 1991 masterpiece, Cool as Ice. (Oh yeah—for those of you who didn’t pick it up from my clever title, Bass and Fatone are two-fifths of the boy band N’Sync.) However, as I exited...
...amusing experiences as a teen idol...