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At last: superheroes to the rescue. Jon Favreau brings Marvel’s IRON MAN (May 2) to the screen, with Robert Downey Jr. as the industrialist in a suit of armor. Terrence Howard and Gwyneth Paltrow co-star. From ’60s Japanese TV by way of the Wachowski brothers comes SPEED RACER (April 9), in which a young driver seeks glory with the vehicle invented by his father; Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, and John Goodman star.
And so, on to the sequels. Adam Adamson returns to C.S. Lewis land in THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: PRINCE CASPIAN (May 15), in which Tilda Swinton’s White Witch wields her Oscar against Liam Neeson’s messianic lion. Perhaps taking a tip from the Rolling Stones, Harrison Ford dons the fedora one more time in Steven Spielberg’s INDIANA JONES AND THE CRYSTAL SKULL (May 25). It’s set in the ’50s, with visits from Cate Blanchett, Karen Allen, and maybe aliens.
Is spring break over so soon? Back to the old grind of SEX AND THE CITY (May 30), Michael Patrick King’s adaptation of that Manolo Blahnik of a TV series. And so on to another rerun of summer.
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The mainstream media has more or less treated the news that a group of British-based Islamist terrorists planned to blow up as many as ten airliners with colorless liquid explosives as the planes cruised over the Atlantic as a new development. It isn’t.
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Late last month, readers of the conservative web site NewsMax discovered this juicy tidbit in a column by Ronald Kessler: “In the past week, Karl Rove has been promising Republican insiders an ‘October surprise’ to help win the November congressional elections.”
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It’s four in the morning and raining. I’m 27 today, feeling old, listening to my records, and remembering that things were different a decade ago.
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The biggest stars of this year’s Berlin Film Festival were neither actors nor directors.
- The Stones
This article originally appeared in the August 26, 1994 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
- The JonBenet factor
Five summers ago, in the weeks before terrorists slammed fully loaded passenger planes into the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, national television was obsessed with what? The Taliban? Osama bin Laden? Nope. Sharks.
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I’d like to honor the best of the recently deceased political campaigns. Unfortunately, “best” turned out to be in short supply this year, but there was a surplus of worst. And I have just the prize for that.
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It’s a mysterious career. To Whitehead’s credit, it’s not a career in the normal sense at all.
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Milli-selling rapgoblin Lil Wayne probably didn’t worry too much about borrowing the Rolling Stones’ “Play with Fire” for the hook of his track “Playing with Fire.”
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