AOL – the Noah’s Ark story is one of the lowest this summer, a lucrative season when the studios tend to roll out sequels and movies role in the first one, long before he found fame with the TV series “The Office” and the 2005 hit comedy “The 40-Year-Old

Fulfilling the need for speed
Anchorage Daily News – Beneath that hood is the same turbo charged engine used to power Subaru’s popular Impreza STi, a car associated with the import street-racing scene made famous in movies like “Fast and Furious.” Keegan, a 24-year-old flight-line worker on Elmendorf

Cast of Villains ‘Reel Bad Arabs’ Takes on Hollywood Stereotyping
Washington Post – In his tireless quest for evidence — any evidence — of Arab stereotyping, Shaheen has viewed (and reviewed in his books) thousands of movies and TV shows. What he has found, the 71-year-old academic says, are the most maligned people on the silver

‘Citizen Kane’ remains No. 1 among AFI’s greatest movies
The Shreveport Times – LOS ANGELES The years have been kind to “Citizen Kane,” including the last decade. The 1941 Orson Welles classic the story of a wealthy young idealist transformed by scandal and vice into a regretful old recluse was again rated the best

Mighty Big Movies
Slate – Mighty Big Movies The critical buzz on A Mighty Heart and Evan Almighty. By Juliet Lapidos, Doree Shafrir, and Blake Wilson But the festival was not without tragedy; 77-year-old jazz great Ornette Coleman collapsed from the heat and had to be taken

” >Movies: Actress Lucy Liu speaks out
MSNBC – Find Movies or Tickets Nationwide The 38-year-old actress, who has a bachelor’s degree in Asian studies from the University of Michigan, has been quietly

Families flock to Flamingo
Baltimore Sun – Today Live! A&E Today Modern Life Travel Movies/Video Restaurants/Food TV/Media Lottery More Arts/Life OPINION Talk Letters to Editor OCEAN CITY // Old black-and-white photos show the place back when Rose and George Brous bought it in 1963. The Flamingo

Naked ambition of hikers on the Appalachian
Baltimore Sun – Today Live! A&E Today Modern Life Travel Movies/Video Restaurants/Food TV/Media Lottery More Arts/Life OPINION Talk Letters to Editor But this particular morning, the 25-year-old hiker had an important decision to make: Namely, would he get dressed today?

MEET JOHN MCCLANE, THE EVERYMAN HERO
New York Post – June 24, 2007 — THROUGH THREE MOVIES, the Die Hard franchise has set a new standard for action films, raking in the There s that old Malcolm X line We didn t land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock landed on us. Something always

‘Big Sky’ callin’
Chicago Sun-Times – My first images of Montana came from the grainy, Super 8 home movies shot by my Uncle Chuck Cheff and shown with enthusiasm one Christmas when I was just 2 years old. Like most memories, the flickering images are fragmented. Sky. Mountain. Horse

Carell lords it over box with $32M Almighty debut
Newsday – The movies I grew up on were like ‘The Exorcist,’ ‘The Omen,’ ‘Poltergeist.’ Those were a combination of the supernatural and they kept the audience involved in the characters. That was the old-school, basic scary movie. This one is more in that vein

TheStar.com – entertainment – The spirit of old-fashioned jazz
Toronto Star – Tuesday, lots of solid evidence of jazz piano’s greatest days will have its day in court in the hands of the 80-year-old There was a piano for silent movies. The piano was a part of every radio broadcast. There wasn’t a saloon out west that didn’t

No copping out allowed
San Francisco Gate – Willis, who still watches old Lee Marvin and Steve McQueen movies, says he was encouraged by Wiseman and his co-stars — most of whom are in their late 20s and 30s — to make “Live Free or Die Hard” with the same tone as the original. His

Herman Stein
Guardian Unlimited – A youthful prodigy, Stein learned to play the piano at three years old, was giving public performances in his native However, as William Darby and Jack Du Bois put it in American Film Music, scores for the studio’s B-movies were often pieced

Charter middle school has spectacular scores
Baltimore Sun – Today Live! A&E Today Modern Life Travel Movies/Video Restaurants/Food TV/Media Lottery More Arts/Life OPINION Talk Letters to Editor A two-year-old KIPP school in Anne Arundel County announced last week that it is closing after struggling to find a big

Sexy, Scary and Often Naked: That s Acting!
New York Times – Movies All NYT In Catherine Breillat s Old Mistress, playing a Spanish courtesan entangled with a pretty-boy aristocrat in 1830s

STREET FIGHTING MAN
New York Post – Sports Blogs Fashion Movies Real Estate Travel Tempo TV Video Games Health: IVF Weight Loss Wiseman and 20th Century Fox are betting that, even in an era when computerized spectacles have become de rigeur, an old

Post-Jail Paris: Quiet Philanthropist?
MSN – movies The 26-year-old heiress is expected to be released from a Los Angeles County women’s jail early this week, and she

Guess who’s coming to lunch?
MetroMix – Bird takes imagery and settings that are old and classic (a ’50s space robot in 1999’s traditionally animated “The Iron Giant,” James Bond-style movies in 2004’s “The Incredibles,” gourmet French restaurants here) and gives them a contemporary zing

US Patriotism Is Important In A Democracy
Post Chronicle – This week, many TV channels will show many old war movies. Because of the Iraq war, many autos have been displaying the yellow ribbon sticker with the slogan,”Support the troops” for many months, but they become more convincing on July 4. However

Cops: Man is killed robbing neighbor
Orlando Sentinel – Lakeland – A Polk County man shot and killed a neighbor who broke into his Lakeland home Friday night, police reported. Police took 39-year-old Elvin Tolliver into custody Saturday night. Police say he was involved in the apparent burglary and faces

Last man standing
New York Daily News – Also see: Photo Gallery The action-thriller genre has always needed to keep moving forward or risk looking like an old mechanical shark. And so you can see the line, however scuffed over, from the crop duster in 1959’s “North by Northwest” to a scene

Series gives old theater new energy
Boston Globe – Out in Shelburne Falls near the Vermont border, you can still see movies the old-fashioned way: in a 420-seat former opera house above town hall. “One of the true pleasures of living in a small rural community is that places like Memorial Hall give

Martial arts touted as a learning tool for kids: Some local programs
Texarkana Gazette – Staff photo by Evan Lewis Seven-year-old Mariah Epps of Texarkana practices her high kick during Karate for Kids class Thursday at Legends Gym. There is more to martial arts than the quick moves seen in movies like The Karate Kid or the latest

Starring Tucson
Arizona Daily Star – Bob Shelton did a fantastic job with whatever he was doing,” said Shelli Hall, Tucson Film Office director. “He had the movies coming in. When he ran Old Tucson, they were shooting there all the time.

Cars.com auto news
Chicago Tribune – Tech News Education Entertainment Television Movies Music Theater Dining Horoscope average fuel economy of cars, SUVs and pickups to 35 mpg by the year 2020. Currently, automakers are held to a 28-year-old

The new Rat Pack
Newsday – Movies Parisian cobblestones, or the image of a hundred rats preparing your souffle – is intended to appeal to the 6-year-old

‘Evan Almighty’ fails to float at box office
USA Today – I think it’s old-school psychological horror,” says studio co-founder Bob Weinstein. “Hollywood had gotten into a rut with Hostel and Saw and movies like that. Stephen King doesn’t do that kind of story, which is why he’s the man.” Fantastic Four

9 rides shut down after 13-year-old’s feet cut off
Baltimore Sun – Today Live! A&E Today Modern Life Travel Movies/Video Restaurants/Food TV/Media Lottery More Arts/Life OPINION Talk Letters to Editor It was unclear at what point during the ride the 13-year-old was injured Thursday, said Wendy Goldberg, a Six Flags

Maddest movies in the world
Financial Times – I ask Maddin himself, having cornered the 51-year-old Winnepegger for an interview after years of worship from afar. I meet him briefly in Berlin, then follow up with a long transoceanic phone call. Silent movies are better at melodrama and reverie

Clooney joins protest over Italy project
Boston Globe – Almost every member of the town signed it,” the 46-year-old actor said in an e-mail to The Associated Press on Friday. “My Printer friendly E-mail to a friend Movies RSS feed Available RSS feeds Most e-mailed Share on Digg Share on Facebook Save this

Twisted tale of abuse led to house of horrors
Orlando Sentinel – PORTAGE, Wis. – Three weeks ago, Michael Sisk asked his landlord whether his girlfriend, Candace, could plant a flower garden in the backyard of the old brick house they were renting. Days later, the request changed to a concrete patio. Both were

Pasta chango!
MetroMix – Home | Restaurants | Bars & Clubs | Events | Movies | Music | ‘Burbs | Theater | Critics’ reviews | Reader Reviews For a restaurant that’s not quite a year old and endured a major shakeup only a few week ago–new owners, mostly new staff

‘Kane’ still tops the list of best movies
journalnews.com – The years have been kind to “Citizen Kane,” including the last decade. The 1941 Orson Welles classic – the story of a wealthy young idealist transformed by scandal and vice into a regretful old recluse – was again rated the best movie ever last week

Sky’s the limit for good animated movies, Pixar leader says
Columbus Dispatch – Pixar has a perfect track record: seven movies, seven hits. Do you get night sweats worrying that your movie will be the one The ironic thing for us is most of the values that are at the core of Pixar’s success are old Disney values. Everybody

At the Movies With Stephen Hunter
Washington Post – Annapolis, Md.: “Classic movies” — the kind they show on AMC and Turner those old black-and-white noir flicks OK, there is a question here Of all the noir genre, is there a movie you would describe as the definitive noir movie? I’ve

50 Cent in Child Support Court Battle
WTOP Radio – CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) – The $25,000 a month in child support and household expenses that rapper 50 Cent pays to the mother of his 10-year-old son is not enough, says the boy’s mother, Shaniqua Tompkins. The rapper is “worth tens and tens of

Cairo for Kids
Egypt Today – section, mirrors demonstrate both scientific concepts and some tricks and visual effects. A concave mirror allows the kids to shake their own hand, and a plain mirror demonstrates how it was possible to achieve the illusion of floating in old movies

‘1408’ an old-fashioned nail biter
Jam! Showbiz – Movies Actors A-Z Movie Reviews US Box Office Movie Listings Movie Trailers Television Video Theatre Books It’s also refreshingly old-fashioned — director Mikael Hafstrom opts for suspense rather than splatter — compared to the

A movie that only an 8-year-old Christian environmentalist could love.
Slate – movies columns Evan Almighty A movie that only an 8-year-old Christian environmentalist could love. Dana Stevens posted June 22, 2007 A (Mostly) Mighty Heart The Mariane Pearl movie can’t escape the shadow of Angelina Jolie. Dana Stevens posted June 21, 2007

The EW 100: Movies
Entertainment Weekly Online – WHY HIM This year alone, the 21-year-old LaBeouf has starring roles in no fewer than three big Hollywood pictures (showing his range by playing a voyeur, a penguin, and a robot-battling kid). And then there’s that role Steven Spielberg just tossed

Top 5 current movies
St. Petersburg Times – Current movies recommended by the Times: 1 Surf’s Up – First they marched, then they danced, now penguins go surfing in a 5 Nancy Drew – Mysteries and excitement follow the old-fashioned teen detective when she moves to Los Angeles. Upcoming

Never say ‘Die’
New York Daily News – If you think a 52-year-old Bruce Willis is too old to be falling out of planes, hanging from an SUV driven into an Movies Update E-mail Sign up to receive daily newsletters

Castro: if Youth Fail, Everything Will
Forbes – New generations of Cubans, unlike the 80-year-old Castro and his gray-haired contemporaries, have no direct connection to But these days, many young Cubans are more interested in access to the Internet, music, television and movies than upholding

On Media
American Reporter – Here is a typical plot from one of the old 1920s era movies we saw at Cinecon: A young man, the son of a wealthy merchant, has been through college and now is languishing. Dad, a prototypical self-made man, challenges the young man to prove

Bank-issued gift cards flexible, sort of
Kane County Chronicle – Hope you need some old movies. Enter the bank-issued gift card cards generated by banks, bearing logos such as Visa or MasterCard, and accepted almost anywhere logos such as those are accepted. Sound better? Well, sounds deceive. Yes, bank-issued

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Orange County Register – The bigger thing for me as ‘Old Towne Al’ is that it creates awareness of Old Towne.” Many of Ricci’s properties have been used as backdrops for movies, including a church at Palm Avenue and Cleveland Street, and more notably, the house used for “Big

Justice capsized?
Baltimore Sun – Today Live! A&E Today Modern Life Travel Movies/Video Restaurants/Food TV/Media Lottery More Arts/Life OPINION Talk Letters to Editor Even now, with his license restored, the 50-year-old captain says some employers won’t hire him, because after a long court

Faggot vs. queer
Chicago Sun-Times – Movies :: printer friendly email article It retains some of its old transgressive quality, and it can still be a derogatory epithet. Kids yelling queer!’ out of

‘Evan Almighty’ cursed at box office
Reuters – the Noah’s Ark story is one of the lowest this summer, a lucrative season when the studios tend to roll out sequels and movies role in the first one, long before he found fame with the TV series “The Office” and the 2005 hit comedy “The 40-Year-Old

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