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USA TODAY BEST-SELLERS
Key: F-Fiction; NF-Nonfiction; H-Hardcover; P-Paperback 1. "Going Rogue: An American Life" by Sarah Palin (HarperCollins) (NF-H) 2. "New Moon" by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) (F-P) 3. "Eclipse" by Stephenie Meyer (Little,
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Steinbeck Center to celebrate John's birthday throughout February
The National Steinbeck Center, 1 Main St., Salinas, will be celebrating John Steinbeck's birthday during the month of February.
His 108th birthday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Feb. 27 will feature a 'pay what you can' day for Monterey County residents and
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Film: Homes Are Where You Find Them
WHEN times are hard, people go to the movies to escape. Like most truisms, this sturdy kernel of Hollywood ideology turns out, on closer examination, not to be entirely true. The urge to escape is powerful, but it also has a way of subverting itself.
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Councillor recalls attack at wheel opening
TWO youths have pleaded guilty to threatening violence in a case involving a Royal Borough councillor who was attacked during the opening ceremony of the Windsor Wheel.
Conservative councillor Liam Maxwell was kicked in the head when he intervened
in
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Family Fun: A free wild rumpus, trains and more
Off: Prep for a trip to Mars at the Lawrence Hall of Science's new exhibit, "Facing Mars: Would You Survive the Journey?" Open daily, closed Christmas Day; $6-$12; www.lhs.berkeley.edu.
Five ideas for weekend family fun:
Wild rumpus: Wild things abound
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Capsule reviews of films playing the week of Dec. 23
THE BLIND SIDE Precious is different in that it allows an African-American character to tell her own story, never ceding the camera to anyone else and remaining the focal point throughout. The Blind Side is more typical of the sort of racially aware
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Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel s A movie that offers exactly two big laughs for its kiddo audience — one involving passing gas, the other a shot to the crotch. That leaves plenty of time to ponder whether chipmunks, particularly world-famous
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USA TODAY BEST-SELLERS
Key: F-Fiction; NF-Nonfiction; H-Hardcover; P-Paperback 1. "Going Rogue: An American Life" by Sarah Palin (HarperCollins) (NF-H) 2. "The Lost Symbol" by Dan Brown (Doubleday) (F-H) 3. "New Moon" by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
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Movies: Tarantino's 'Inglourious Basterds' tops 2009 films
Films
Looking back at the movies of 2009, the first thing that strikes you is variety. From big-budget summer blockbusters to hand-drawn animated films, the best movies of the year had something to offer every taste.
With that in mind, here
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'Up' tops list of 10 best movies of 2009
I'd like to extend my compliments to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for its bold decision to revisit old customs of its Oscar ceremony by creating 10 Best Picture nominees this year instead of the usual five.
My only complaint is that
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Top Ten Movies of 2009—and Five More
1. Hunger
Harrowing and brilliant, the English video artist Steve McQueen’s feature-film debut uses the lens of Bobby Sands’ historic IRA hunger strike in a notoriously abusive British prison to show you everything you’ll ever need to know about the
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Dave Eggers interview: the heartbreak kid
Dave Eggers with his wife, Vendela Vida, at a screening of 'Away We Go', the film they co-wrote
Photo: Stephen Lovekin/Getty
Dave Eggers co-wrote the screenplay for 'Where The Wild Things Are' with Spike Jonze
He turns out to be a chunky,
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(Sony) Roland Emmerich's latest end-of-the-world spectacle concerns the confluence of disasters that some folks figure accompany the expiration date on the ancient Mayan calendar.
(Fox) More tunes and sight gags from those rockin', rappin' rodents,
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USA TODAY BEST-SELLERS
Key: F-Fiction; NF-Nonfiction; H-Hardcover; P-Paperback 1. "The Lost Symbol" by Dan Brown (Doubleday) (F-H) 2.
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Top 10 movies of the decade
This decade proved a great one for genre films.
If anything, it could be remembered as the decade that fantasy/sci-fi/action films really grew up. Of course, Peter Jackson created the critically and commercially successful "Lord of the Rings" trilogy,
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CR Holiday Interview #12 -- Noah Berlatsky On The Elephant And Piggie Series
Noah Berlatsky is the prolific critic behind the team blog Hooded Utilitarian, which was folded into the TCJ.com family in early December. One of his choices was the Elephant and Piggie series, from the illustrator and occasional cartoonist Mo
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Fun with the Fox
Renowned for offbeat indie comedies, including Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums, Wes Anderson doesn't seem like a natural choice to helm the children's film Fantastic Mr Fox.
But just as the equally eccentric Spike Jonze adapted Maurice Sendak's Where
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167. In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
In the Night Kitchen (1970) won the Caldecott medal and was Sendak's follow-up to the success of Where the Wild Things Are. It had its origin in a childhood resentment against bakeries that worked at night. ‘When I was a child,’ Sendak said in an
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What do young children know about managing fear?
The recent film adaptation of Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things are prompted much debate about whether it's appropriate to subject children to material which they could find frightening. It's rather topical then that a new research paper has
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'Wild Things,' 'Everybody's Fine'
come to Fredonia film series
The 1891 Fredonia Opera House, 9 Church St., Fredonia, N.Y., has expanded its Cinema Series in January with four special "One Night Only" screenings on Friday nights in addition to its regular schedule of Saturday-Tuesday night films.
The expanded
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Film Series and Movie Listings
CHARLOTTE FOREVER (Tuesday) This series of eight films starring Charlotte Gainsbourg, the gifted French actress who recently starred in Lars von Trier’s hot-button “Antichrist,” begins with Michel Gondry’s 2006 movie, “The Science of Sleep.” Ms.
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The Oscars: Boy and Beasts, Human and Not
MOST of the action in “Where the Wild Things Are” takes place on an island of monsters, who roar their terrible roars and gnash their terrible teeth and, above all, try to work out their terrible emotional issues in the presence of a young boy named
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Late-breaking events this week
MONDAY 11
At The Bell House in Gowanus, Brooklyn, David Byrne will present a short audiovideo lecture called “Creation in Reverse,” (8pm, free) speaking to the ways that venue and context shape artistic creation, followed by a Q&A. Seats are first come,
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'Where The Wild Things Are' Blu-ray Announced
The live-action big screen adaptation of Maurice Sendak's beloved children's book is headed for high-definition in March.
Warner brothers is preparing Spike Jonze's '' for a Blu-ray release on March 2.
The Blu-ray will feature 1080p video, a DTS-HD
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Where the Wild Things Are – A movie on creatures
After the overwhelming success of the James Cameron directed Avatar, Warner Bros Pictures India is all geared up with it's next release Where the Wild Things Are starring Max Records, Pepita Emmerichs, Max Pfeifer, Madeleine Greaves, Joshua Jay and
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Michael Greif to Direct ANGELS IN AMERICA Revival for Signature Theatre Co., Fall 2010
Signature Theatre Company announced today that ANGELS IN AMERICA: A GAY FANTASIA ON NATIONAL THEMES, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning epic work by Tony Kushner, will begin performances on Tuesday, September 14, 2010, launching the theatre's
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Broken Embraces ssss Reviewed today on Page D4. 128 minutes. In Spanish and English with English subtitles. Bijou.
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel s A movie that offers exactly two big laughs for its kiddo audience — one involving passing gas,
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North Central Massachusetts Community Calendar
The Second Annual Salsa for Salsa Food Drive will be held in Leominster from 6-9 p.m., at the Four Points by Sheraton. This year, the event will benefit the dwindling food pantry at the Spanish American Center. Once again, Salsa for Salsa is being run
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10 Best Films of 2009
Putting together a top anything list is no easy task. Things are inevitably going to get left behind, and people will unquestionably get pissed. Debate will likely ensue. In the case of last year’s best films, great productions like Fantastic Mr. Fox,
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Legion (NR) When God loses faith in mankind, he sends his legion of angels to bring on the apocalypse. Humanity’s only hope lies in a group of strangers trapped in a desert diner — and with the Archangel Michael. With Paul Bettany and Dennis Quaid, R
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Opening and Now Playing
“Extraordinary Measures”
University of Notre Dame alumnus John Crowley starts a research company with a scientist in the hopes of developing a cure for the fatal disease two of his children have. Stars Harrison Ford, Brendan Fraser, Keri Russell,
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Dave Eggers' staggering decade
There was a time when Dave Eggers didn't do interviews. Or rather, he would only do them by email. This was after a row with a New York Times journalist that ended with Eggers calling him a "bitter little bastard." All of which makes me feel rather
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Weekend Question Thread
There were kid's books that my mother swears I was reading at twenty months, but, my first honest-to-goodness novel was Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. The movie came out when I was about six and a half, so I said I wanted the book. My mother
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Caldecott, Newbery and Printz Book Awards Announced
The rampant success of the recent film adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are proves that you don’t have to be young to enjoy or learn from children’s literature. For decades, the American Library Association’s Association for Library
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When in Rome s½ Reviewed today on this page. 88 minutes. Regal 15, Cinemark 17.
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel s A movie that offers exactly two big laughs for its kiddo audience — one involving passing gas, the other a shot to the crotch.
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Movie guide
PG-13 for some violence
An epic adventure about a global cataclysm and its remaining survivors.
The chipmunks decide to return to school and are recruited to save the school's music program.
PG-13 for sequences of intense violence
An armored truck
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Tony Soprano As A Wild Thing (VIDEO)
It's safe to say that when audiences heard James Gandolfini voicing a character in "Where The Wild Things Are," a common response was, "Seriously? Tony Soprano? Wouldn't it be funny if he only said lines from "The Sopranos?" Well it is, and this video
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Review | 'Wild Child': Feral vs. tamed
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Although there are technically a couple of weeks of summer left, the films of fall are upon us. Now is when movies get serious, when Hollywood starts thinking about Oscar. You'll still find plenty of zombies and ninjas at the
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A Walk with Mr. Barbera, Milano
Mr. Barbera (some men just seem to command the title Mr., anyway) is one of the most elegant gentlemen I know. Of course he always looks great but it's his manners and his manner that really set him apart.
Manners and grace are soooo important to
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News Corp. Spikes On Strong Q4; No Conan Just Yet
The company posted revenue of $8.7 billion, up 10% from a year ago, and ahead of the Street at $8.23 billion. Adjusted EPS of 25 cents beat the Street consensus of 20 cents by a nickel.
The company reported year-over-year improvement in most of its
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2012 and Wild Things Bring Havoc in March
Never before has a date in history been so significant to so many cultures, so many religions, scientists, and governments.
2012 is an epic adventure about a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the
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Geoff McFetridge book: Where The Wild Things Are
We just received a copy of this small but beautifully formed book (published by Nieves right at the end of last year) which collects some of Geoff McFetridge's drawings created whilst working with Spike Jonze on the titles, type treatments and
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Trend Report: Turning a trendy page
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Where the Wild Things Are
For a film about gigantic, weird and wonderful creatures hidden within a child's overactive imagination, the soundtrack to 'Where the Wild Things Are' is equally as innovative and, let's be honest; just as bizarre.
Spike Jonze is famous for cult
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Oscilloscope Labs to Release Maurice Sendak Doc on DVD
Oscilloscope Laboratories will release Lance Bangs' and Spike Jonze’s documentary "Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak" on DVD on March 2 in North America. HBO previously acquired U.S. broadcast rights.
The DVD release of the
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Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel s A movie that offers exactly two big laughs for its kiddo audience — one involving passing gas, the other a shot to the crotch. That leaves plenty of time to ponder whether chipmunks, particularly world-famous
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Movie Guide
PG-13 for some violence
An epic adventure about a global cataclysm and its remaining survivors.
The chipmunks decide to return to school and are recruited to save the school's music program.
PG-13 for sequences of intense violence
An armored truck
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Book writers are book lovers, too
From top left, clockwise: John Bemrose, Lisa Gabriele, Graeme Gibson, Tish Cohen, Ray Robertson and Dionne Brand at the Book Lovers Ball.
Celebrity authors and other literary lights gathered Thursday night at the Royal York Hotel for the Book Lovers
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Who's afraid of the big, bad remake?
NEXT month, as you sit in the dark to watch the next enthralling instalment from Tim Burton, Alice in Wonderland, spare a thought for those who should be able to see it but probably won't. Tim Burton's work is wacky and spectacular, but it is too scary
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The Art of Maurice Sendak by Selma G. Lanes
by Selma G. Lanes is a treasure chest of illustrations and sketches by the author/illustrator of Where the Wild Things Are, which started out as Where the Wild Horses Are. This book is a must for any Sendak fan, as it contains a plethora of drawings
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National Film Board announces new short based on Maurice Sendak kids book
TORONTO - A new short from the National Film Board features the voices of Meryl Streep and Forest Whitaker.
"Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life" is based on a story by Maurice Sendak and will be included on the Blu-ray release of
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Photos and Video From the Spike Jonze-Produced Short Film Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life
Spike Jonze has produced a new live-action/animated adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life. The film, a collaboration between the National Film Board of Canada and Warner Home Video, will be included on the
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You Are The Shadow; You are the Colossus
[Evan Narcisse]Like Adam, I'm going to squeeze in some more posts before Our Lord and Master Ta-Nehisi returns to his kingdom.Has anyone else noticed that if there's an emphasis on blood-n-guts action, lots of 'splosions or some other supposedly
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Photos: Jack Burton vs. David Lo Pan and Raw Radar War
Photos: Arisia 2010
The 21st annual installment of sci-fi convention Arisia
Punk wreck
Guitar punk rock has a long and, frankly, dull history.
Photos: Ra Ra Riot at Paradise Rock Club
Ra Ra Riot on tour to promote their new album, The Rhumb
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Manitowoc library announces programs
"Public Enemies," starring Johnny Depp, Christian Bale and Marion Cotillard, will be shown free of charge at 6 p.m. March 4. Films in this series may not be appropriate for all audiences.
MANITOWOC The Manitowoc Public Library, 707 Quay St., will
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Author-Illustrator Eric Rohmann - a Biography
Eric Rohmann is obsessed with books, which is probably why he chose to pursue a career as a children's author and illustrator. In a Random House interview, Eric Rohmann admitted that despite what some may think, he does
not actually spend every waking
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Spike Jonze’s Maurice Sendak Doc: Tell Them Anything You Want
With his Maurice Sendak opus Where the Wild Things Are set for DVD release on Tuesday, Spike Jonze took an evening to promote its splendid companion piece, Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait Of Maurice Sendak, due out the same day courtesy of
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Will Smith, Maurice Sendak on 'Harold and the Purple Crayon'
Adaptation of childrens classic will feature computerized animation
Sony Animated is giving Will Smith, James Lassiter and Maurice Sendak some Crayolas and turning them loose on the classic children’s book "Harold and the Purple Crayon".
The source
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AICN & Twitch Present International Eye Candy: JEZ JERZY, JUEGA CONMIGO, HIGGLETY PIGGLETY POP, PERRIER’S BOUNTY, And More!!
The international film world may not have ground to a halt last week but the arrival of the massive Berlin Film Festival certainly slowed things to a crawl as everybody cast their eyes on Germany to see what the big titles would be. But less material
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For love of 'Where the Wild Things Are,' director Spike Jonze goes long
Spike Jonze's adaptation of "Where the Wild Things Are" turns the slimmest of books -- 10 sentences, 18 pictures -- into a feature-length film. This feat of expansion is perhaps all the more surprising when you consider the director's track record --
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Blu-ray Review: Where the Wild Things Are
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"He's small for a king."
Who could have imagined that an adaptation of Maurice Sendak's 'Where the Wild Things Are' would be one of the most controversial and divisive films of 2009?
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Whose Birthday is it Today?
I'll tell you this much: it involves a cat, Christmas, and the color green.
DR.SEUSS! He would have turned 106 today.
WASHINGTON — First lady Michelle Obama celebrated Dr. Seuss' birthday Tuesday by reading "The Cat in the Hat" to a group of
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Spike Jonze on His Maurice Sendak Documentary: ‘It’s Hard to See Your Friend Depressed’
Spike Jonze’s long-gestating adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are finally hit theaters last year, a product of his close relationship with original author Maurice Sendak, whom Jonze met fifteen years ago. The filmmaker’s chemistry with the
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Capone chats with Spike Jonze and Lance Bangs about their Maurice Sendak doc TELL THEM ANYTHING YOU WANT, just out on DVD!!!
As a guy who grew up not only watching music videos in the '80s and '90s, I also tried to find out everything I could about the men and women who directed them. That's why I love Palm's "The Work of Director" series that sadly stopped being made almost
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Creativity & imagination abound in Max & the Magic Marker
Think back to your childhood. Try to remember the things that brought you joy; I’ll bet they were simple pleasures, like getting an extra scoop of ice cream or being pushed higher than ever before on a playground swing. Now think of the stories that
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Out & About, 3/6/10
On the road again
Space art is a blast
Want to see art that's out of this world? Head to Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center to see "NASA | ART: 50 Years of Exploration." NASA's art program, founded in 1962, culled from talented artists such as of Norman
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The Oscars: Our look at Hollywood's big night
“Locker” has swept most of the awards ceremonies this winter, slowly taking the lead in the Best Picture prediction race as cinephiles push for the film with the better story to win over the one with the bigger turnout. It's a battle of substance
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Where the Wild Things Are
Sometimes, when Hollywood cranks out a film version of a book you loved as a kid, the instinct is to hide, hide, hide. Every time I hear about a film version of Ender’s Game, my stomache shudders with fear and all the ways this fantastic book could be
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For New York City Opera Season, Bernstein, Strauss and New Works
The struggling New York City Opera, operating with a slender financial cushion, announced plans on Tuesday for another stripped down, five-production season but said it would add a series of concert performances.
The latest on the arts, coverage of
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Blu-ray Review: Where the Wild Things Are
Though I couldn’t explicitly remember the story of , the striking illustrations of Maurice Sendak’s classic story always stuck with me. From the very first images released I knew that director Spike Jonze had nailed the visual style, but how would the
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Tim Burton at Moma: not quite a wonderland | Ben Walters
I did that … Tim Burton with some of his works included in Moma's retrospective to his art. Photograph: Jemal Countess/Getty Images
"That's the big deer from Edward Scissorhands," a woman in the sculpture garden of New York's Museum of Modern Art tells
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Let's watch: New films on DVD
Lionsgate films
Mo'Nique delivers an Academy Award winning performance as an abusive mother in "Precious".
(★★★1/2 out of ★★★★) Poverty is ugly. Every now and then we need to be reminded of that. "Precious," the brutal and unflinching film based on the
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The Daily Dose
Today in Techland: Free download: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls, chapter l. Mark Millar interview, part ll. The Techland Show, Episode ??? Who knows?
Valuable nerdiness: The list of the Top 10 Most Valuable Books includes
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'Backing Into Forward: A Memoir' by Jules Feiffer
Backing Into Forward
A Memoir
Jules Feiffer
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday: 450 pp., $30
Whether newspapers live or die, the prognosis for the comic strip doesn't look promising. The extinction of the form not much more than a century after its birth would
