In some ways the Emmy Awards for excellence within the television industry bring up the rear among the four major awards shows. The Oscars, Grammys, and Tonys all have a glitz and performance appeal beyond the Emmys, which is essentially a TV show about TV. Nonetheless, this year’s show has …
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Review: Degrassi At Twenty-Five
Compare any of the Degrassi shows to the so-called reality T.V. of today and you'll begin to wonder which one is scripted and which one has the hidden cameras.
Read More »DVD Review: Oldboy
15 years of imprisonment... 5 days of vengeance
Read More »Akron Music Scene Documented in If You’re Not Dead, Play!!
The Akron-Summit County Public Library will host a premiere of Phil Hoffman’s new rockumentary If You’re Not Dead, Play!!, on Wednesday, Sept. 21, at 7 p.m. in the Main Library Auditorium in downtown Akron. Two of the bands featured prominently in the film, Akron’s Unit 5 and Chi-Pig, will prove …
Read More »Zellweger and Chesney Speak Out on Annulment
We reported yesterday that Oscar-winning actress Renee Zellweger (can’t believe she didn’t change her name when she got to Hollywood – Louis B. Mayer would have never stood for it!) was seeking an annulment of her four-month marriage (after a four-month courtship) to country singer Kenny Chesney, listing “fraud” in …
Read More »Review: G3 Live In Tokyo
If guitar music is your thing pick up this disc on October 25th. You won't be disappointed.
Read More »Suresh Joachim: This Story Irks Me
Get off your couch and help the suffering children!
Read More »Zellweger-Chesney Marriage: Just Kidding
The viability of the marriage of inflatable actress Renee Zellweger, 36, to country music star Kenny Chesney, 37, seemed somewhat improbable, with the couple tying the knot on a Virgin Islands beach in May, having met at the Concert of Hope tsunami relief benefit in January where Chesney — named …
Read More »Review: The Great Dictator
The Great Dictator – This movie is brillaint, moving and amazing. Charlie Chaplin plays two key characters – Hynkel (who is quite clearly a take-off on Hitler) and a Jewish barber. It’s mind-blowing to imagine the daring it took to make a movie making fun of Hitler at such a …
Read More »Dear Wendy Will Be Released On Sept. 23 + Giveaway
Huey was born unlucky. But there is nothing in this world that a young boy with crutches and .52 caliber can’t accomplish…
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