Billy Elliot star Jamie Bell moves on as the urching Smike in "Nicholas Nickleby" (Los Angeles Times: 12.28.02 || Also Philadelphia Inquirer: 01.05.03 || also Denver Post: 01.06.03)
Jack is Back
In About Schmidt Jack Nicholson Generates Oscar Buzz as . . . an
Insurance Actuary? (San Francisco Chronicle: 12.15.02)
Evidence shows fascination with forensics
Lab gumshoes star in TV's top series (Denver Post: 12.12.02 || also Philadelphia
Inquirer: 01.02.03
Web Round-Up
Archive of Internet features and website reviews archived on Entertainment
Weekly
Visualizing
Adaptation
Cinematographer Lance Acord Teams with Spike Jonez in Daring Twin Tale
(American Cinematographer: December.02)
Bombs Away. . .
Live From Baghdad Recounts CNN's Intrepid Gulf War Reportage (San
Francisco Chronicle: 12.01.02 || also Philadelphia
Inquirer: 12.01.02 ||
Denver Post: 12.02.02 || Orlando Sentinel: 12.06.02)
Buddy Picture
George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh team up again for remake of somber
'Solaris' (San Francisco Chronicle: 11.24.02 || also Orlando Sentinel:
11.24.02)
Boomtown's Fractured Crime
Tales
In Adventurous NBC Series, Truth Depends On Who's Telling the Story (New
York Times: 11.17.02)
Berry: Strong and Sexy
As Jinx In new Bond movie Die Another Day Halle Berry Thrives (San
Francisco Chronicle: 11.17.02 || also Philadelphia
Inquirer: 11.17.02 || Denver Post: 11.17.02 || The South Carolina State:
11.17.02)
Assassin Stokes Conspiracy Fires
Conspiracy Movies Change with the Times (Denver Post: 11.17.02 || also
Boston Globe: 11.24.02}
This Kid's Cool On Stage
For Eddie Karr, 15, the key to staying focused in
'The Visible Horse' is a sort of game (Los Angeles Times:
11.12.02)
Dancing long-distance
A high-speed Internet 2 fiber-optic network, now
serving college campuses, holds great promise for collaboration in the arts.
(Los Angeles Times: 11.10.02)
Sean Hayes Clones Around As Jerry Lewis
CBS Docudrama Tracks Angst Behind Comedy Team
Martin and Lewis(San Francisco Chronicle: 11.10.02)
Holiday Villains
Evildoers in
Big Sequels (Los Angeles Times: 11.03.02) || also
Philadelphia Inquirer: 12.20.02)
Dime Store Star
Wars
Actors Cram 7-Hour Trilogy into Low-Budget Stage Romp (Los Angeles Times:
10.27.02)
Bond Girls Are Forever
TV Special Traces 007 Grrrrl Power From Pussy Galore to Jinx (San Francisco
Chronicle: 10.27.02)
Windows On Modernism
Frank Lloyd Wright's nature-inspired architectural style found its way to his
stained-glass making with its own set of abstracted forms (Los Angeles
Times: 10.20.02)
Eminem Crosses Over
Rapper Generates Oscar Buzz for Debut Film 8 Mile (Denver Post: 10.20.02 |
also Philadelphia
Inquirer: 11.06.02, Macon Journal, Kansas City Star, Beacon Journal, The
State, The Mercury News)
And Awaaay We Go: Garrett Does Gleason
Dark Bio-Pic Stars Everybody Loves Raymond Player Brad Garrett (San
Francisco Chronicle: 10.10.02
Also Denver Post: 10.10.02 and Boston Globe: 10.13.02)
One-Man Ensemble
In Nickel and Dimed Jason Cottle Plays 12 Working Class Characters
(Los Angeles Times: 10.09.02)
Screwball Sitcom From Bonnie Hunt
Life with Bonnie Comedienne Trades on Spontaneity (Philadelphia
Inquirer: 10.06.02) also
San Francisco Chronicle: 09.01.02)
Visions of a
Holocaust
Grey Zone Cinematographer Russell Lee Fine Gives Death Camps a Gritty
Look (American Cinematographer: October.02)
The Deep End
Auto Focus Director Paul Schrader Takes on Bob Crane (Los Angeles
Times: 09.29.02)
Dino-Mania
Paleontologists Go on a Quest in The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt on A&E
and
The Lost World remake. (San Francisco Chronicle: 09.29.02)
Getting Gritty
Miami Vice producer Michael Mann Looks At L.A.'s Wild Side With Tom
Sizemore on Robbery Homicide (San Francisco Chronicle:
09.22.02)
Shock
Treatment
Disturbing German Film Das Experiment Explores Human Potential For
Cruelty (Los Angeles Times: 09.18.02)
Imagine a Circus
From Fellini...
in Nomade Montreal's Cirque Eloise Offers Surreal Acrobatics (Los
Angeles Times
Ritter Redux
8 Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter Casts Sitcom Vet John Ritter as
Dad (New York Times: 09.15.02
Susan Sarandon, Super-Mom
The actress and mother of three follows a theme close to home in trio of
films` (San Francisco Chronicle: 09.15.02 | also Boston
Globe: 09.13.01
Jackie Can...
In The Tuxedo Jackie Chan Tries Special Effects - but will Hong Kong
Fans be disappointed? (Los Angeles Times: 09.08.02 -- photo
gallery)
Lauren
Ambrose Goes Swimming
The Six Feet Under star appears in the latest in a wave of thoughtful
films about teen angst (New York Daily News: 09.01.02)
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Fall Movie Preview
Hollywood gets serious Autumn is the season when the industry rolls out oddball
and prestige films (San Francisco Chronicle: 09.01.02)
Building Simone
Digital Actress or Flesh and Blood? Director Andrew Niccol Spills (Denver
Post: 08.18.02 | Also Orlando Sentinel: 08.18.02)
He-Man Returns
Cartoon Network revives popular '80s character (San Francisco Chronicle:
08.11.02 | Also Denver Post: 08.18.02 and Orlando Sentinel: 08.18.02)
Selling a Stage Brand
Designers Give Pasadena and Geffen theaters a signature look (Los Angeles
Times: 08.11.02 --
photo gallery)
A Repertory Company of One
Possession Director Neil LaBute Cast Aaron Eckhart in Four Films Because
'I like his work. So why not use him?' (Los Angeles Times: 08.11.02)
Vin Diesel Fuels Extreme Spy Flick
In XXX</> Ex-Bouncer Out-Does Bond (San Francisco Chronicle:
08.04.02 | also Denver Post: 08.04.02 n/a online)
GridIron Boot Camp
Reality-Based Hard Knocks Chronicles Dallas Cowboys' Blood, Sweat and
Beers (San Francisco Chronicle: 08.04.02)
Slide Show
Chic
In 'God Bless Americana,' Charles Phoenix Gives a Sentimental Journey to the
Fifties With Other People's Vacation Slides (Los Angeles Times:
08.04.02)
Beware the Manchild
A BBC Version of 'Sex and the City' For Men Stars Anthony Stewart Head (San
Francisco Chronicle: 07.28.02)
Breaking News Gets Second Chance
Cancelled TV News Drama Revived by Bravo (New York Times: 07.14.02 /
registration required)
Bale Takes On New Role: Dragon-Slayer
In Reign of Fire Christian
Bale Battles Poison Beetle Inspired Reality-Based Dragon (Boston Globe:
07.14.02
The Road To Acting Legends
Road to Perdition Director Sam Mendes Takes Charge of Paul Newman and
Tom Hanks (Denver Post: 07.07.02 | also Philadelphia
Inquirer: 07.07.02)
Buy This Detergent!
In TNT's Door To Door William H. Macy Plays Indefatigable Salesman With
Cerebral Palsy (San Francisco Chronicle: 07.07.02 | also
Chicago Tribune: 07.12.02 / registration required and
Denver Post: 07.14.02)
National
Geographic Channel is Bullish on the Brand
Small Cable Network Grows With A Little From Famous
Parent (Philadelphia Inquirer: 06.23.02 | also
San Francisco Chronicle: 06.30.02
Another Helping of Soul Food
Season Three for Showtime's Black Drama, Family Comes First For Producer
Felicia Henderson (San Francisco Chronicle: 06.23.02 | also Denver Post:
06.30.02)
Married In America
Michael Apted Launches a 10-Year Documentary Portrait of American Newlyweds
(San Francisco Chronicle: 06.16.02 | also Denver Post: 06.16.02)
Grand
Delusions
Online Fans Pay Homage to Minority Report's Paranoid Sci-Fi Author
Philip K. Dick (Entertainment Weekly: 06.14.02)
Millionaire Murders
Dominick Dunne's Court TV Series Chronicles Lifestyles of the Rich and Wicked
(San Francisco Chronicle: 06.09.02)
Callie Khouri Steers High-Powered Ya-Ya Cast
First Time Director Savors the Gig (Boston Globe: 06.02.02 | also
Philadelphia Inquirer:06.02.02)
Calls of the Wild
In Crank Yankers Puppets Act Out Naughty Prank Calls (San Francisco
Chronicle: 06.02.02 | Also Denver Post: 06.02.02 and Orlando
Sentinel: 05.30.02)
The Voice of Experience
In 'The Full Monty,' Carol Woods recalls hard times and seedy gigs, things she
knows all too well (Los Angeles Times: 05.27.02)
Rooms With a Mod View
Hotelier Andre Balazs Re-Makes Fifties Building into Hipster Hangout For
Downtown L.A. (Los Angeles Times: 05.26.02)
Frankenheimer Re-Creates Path To War
Director John Frankenheimer Trace's LBJ's Disasterous Vietnam Policy in HBO
Docudrama (San Francisco Chronicle: 05.12.02 | Also Denver
Post: 05.13.02)
The Legends Of
Summer
Paul Newman, Al Pacino and Ellen Burstyn Team With Young Directors For Three
Hot Summer Movies (Los Angeles Times: 05.05.02, link currently out of
order | also New York Daily News 05.20.02 n/a online)
Super-Hero Deserves "Hero Buildings"
Spider-Man Special Effects Wizards Create a Digital Version of Manhattan
(Denver Post: 05.05.02 n/a online | Also New York Daily News: 05.
14.02)
Kissing Spider-Man
Chemistry Clicked For Kirsten Dunst As Spider-Man's Girlfriend (San
Francisco Chronicle: 04.28.02)
Mira Sorvino: Stretching
Exercise
In Triumph of Love and The Grey Zone,Oscar-winning Actress Jumps
From French Farce to Holocaust Drama. (Los Angeles Times: 04.20.02, link
currently not working | also Denver Post: 05.05.02)
Squeezed
Single-Location Pictures Panic Room, Cat's Meow and Chelsea Walls
Find Dramatic Tension in Close Quarters. (Los Angeles Times: 04.14.02 | also San Francisco Chronicle: 05.05.02 and Boston Globe
05.02.02)
Dinner and Drinks, Showbiz Style
On TV's Dinner For Five Jon Favreau and Friends Talk Shop (San
Francisco Chronicle: 04.14.02)
Life After
Death
In The Exonerated, Two Actors Tell Tales From Death Row (Los Angeles
Times: 04.07.02)
Lauren Ambrose Channels
Teen Spirit
In Swimming, the Six Feet Under Star Puts Passive Spin on
Adolescent Angst (Boston Globe: 04.07.02)
No More Mr. Nice Guy
Robin Williams Gets Nasty in Three New Films Including Death To Smoochy
From Danny DeVito (San Francisco Chronicle: 03.24.02)
Five Men and a Camera
Oscar-nominated Cinematographers Talk About The Craft of Moving Images (Los
Angeles Times: 03.24.02)
Complete Oscar Package
Built For Body and Soul
Architect Jeff Kalban Uses Color and Form For Uplifting Structures. (Los
Angeles Times: 03.24.02)
What's New For Oscar?
Beefed up Security and Animation Award (San Francisco Chronicle:
03.21.02 | also Philadelphia Inquirer, Denver Post)
Richter Rules
For His New Sitcom Andy Richter Controls the Universe, Ex-Sidekick Calls
the Shots (New York Times: 03.17.02 / registration required)
Dark "Flowers" For Andie
MacDowell
For Grueling Harrison's Flowers, Former Fashion Model Survives Tanks,
Mud and Rape Scenes (Boston Globe: 03.17.02)
Bad Acting Worth a Good
Laugh
Groundling Performers Spoof Acting Showcase Ritual (Los Angeles Times:
03.17.02)
Oscar
Update
New Venue Sets Post-September 11 Tone for Oscar (Philadelphia Inquirer,
03.13.02)
Academy Awards Return To Historic Hollywood
Through the Decades, The Spots Where Oscar Hung His Hat (San Francisco
Chronicle: 03.13.02)
Time and Again...
Time Machine Proves It -- Like Westerns, Time-travel Movies Will Be
Around Forever. (San Francisco Chronicle: 03.10.02)
back-up version
A Little 'Knight' Music
Hit Songwriter Jeff Barry Teams With Sitcom Producers For Medieval Musical
Comedy (Los Angeles Times: 03.10.02)
Attack of
the Sequels
Studios Count on Bumper Crop of Movie Sequels For Repeat Business in 2002
(Denver Post | also New York Daily News, Orlando Sentinel,
Philadelphia Inquirer))
Architecture From the Ground
Up
New A+D Museum Reaches Out To Public (Los Angeles Times: 01.28.02)
George Lucas on Darth
Vader
Star WarsPrequel Will Detail How Good Kid Goes Bad (Los Angeles
Times: 01.20.02)
Murder,
She 'Screams'
'Scream!' Author Kevin Williamson Re-invents Whodunit TV for 20Somethings
(New York Times: 01.13.02 / registration required)
This Means
War
In Relentless Black Hawk DownRidley Scott Keeps Story "Ticking.'
(Boston Globe: 01.06.02 | also
Denver Post)
Grand Dame
In My Old Lady West End Legend Sian Phillips Tries Something New (Los
Angeles Times: 01.06.02)
Blockbuster Preview
Action, Fantasy and Sequels Likely To Rule At Box Office. (San Francisco
Chronicle: 01.06.02)