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Hundreds of fans overflowed the pink plush fold-down seats of Science Center C Tuesday to get a look into the mind that created Mystic River, the acclaimed novel of crime and retribution that was made into a star-studded, much-applauded film...
...broad, dazzling grin. “35 shows in 40 days.” The audience of young white men is rowdy and cheering as he leaves the stage to Shock G. Murs is a little hazy when asked about his future. There is talk of a 3MG (3 Mystic Gypsies, one of Murs original West Coast crews) album in the summer. But Murs, like Andre 3000 or Jay Z, says he is, “Moving on. I’m retiring from hip-hop. I’m ready for school. You think I’m kidding...
...moderate audience’s sympathies don’t always stay with the vengeance seeker but Scott wants us to care. His actors play their melodramatic roles with a grace that gives what is essentially a well-written straight-to-HBO Rutger Hauer flick a core that Mystic River never achieved. The kidnapping plot is incoherent, but in the end, certain flaws are inherent in every entry in the B-revenge genre. Tony Scott’s latest effort may have as many gaps as The CIA’s last intelligence report, but the man who brought...
...swept the Yanks last weekend. Boston-based Mystic River won Sean Penn an Academy Award. The Independent Film Festival of Boston is entering its second year. Slowly but surely, Boston is emerging from New York’s shadow...
...True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths." Some years ago Bruce Nauman spelled out those words in a now famous electric wall piece. An exalted statement in burger-bar neon. Did he mean it? To this day we don't know. But if there is something about contemporary art that you find baffling or unnerving or belligerent, chances are Nauman is somewhere behind it. Years before Damien Hirst submerged a sliced shark in formaldehyde, Nauman made his own comment on flesh and death called Carousel: four metal arms swing in a circle like a ceiling fan, with...