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A kiss from a rose indeed: Seal, 41, and supermodel Heidi Klum, 31, are engaged according to her website: Heidi & Seal We affianced on a glacier in Whistler (Canada). We reached this beautiful place by helicoter one day before Christmas Eve. It was a unique experience. Yes – I …

The celebs are falling all over themselves to give money, stage benefits, and the like for tsunami disaster relief — I assume no motives other than good will are in play: Steven Spielberg is donating $1.5m to be split between charities Save the Children, Care, and Oxfam. Spielberg indicated that …

Our 5 year-old daughter is now totally into monster and superhero movies, and so we were watching The Return of the Mummy the other night. The scene where the reconstituted mummy, who has powers and shit, raises up the waters of the Nile into a monstrous wave with his open-mouthed …

Directed and Screenplay by Michael Radford Based on the play by William Shakespeare. For those of you who didn’t read the Cliffs Notes in school, here’s a brief synopsis: Bassanio needs to raise some money in his efforts to woo Portia of Belmont. His good friend, Antonio, is short of …

Directed by Fritz Lang Screenplay by Fritz Lang & Thea von Harbou The Criterion Collection Criterion has re-released and restored Lang’s marvelous film M(1931). Peter Lorre plays Hans Beckert, a serial killer of children on the loose in Post WWI Germany. The film isn’t a mystery because early on we …

Though I love Harry I am somewhat leery of J.K. Rowling (there’s something unseemly about her tarting up on the way to becoming a billionaire) and certainly don’t have the time or interest in solving some damn riddles on her website in order to get the fresh poop on the …

Arthur "Bo" Agee Sr., 52, who was featured in the documentary "Hoop Dreams" was murdered in a Chicago suburb

Custard pies and barking balloon animals. . .

Last night we watched a jewel of the TV Christmas show crown, 1965’s A Charlie Brown Christmas, with its search for the meaning of Christmas amidst commercialized children (some gleefully, some reluctantly so) and innocence lost, most pointedly symbolized by a garish Christmas tree lot filled with neon-colored aluminum trees, …

HBO Films' adaptation of The Life and Death of Peter Sellers