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Ex-Monty Python member and noted director Terry Gilliam has signed on to direct “Brothers Grimm”: Terry Gilliam is returning to the fantastical world of fairy tales and adventure that he explored in “Time Bandits” and “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen,” signing on to develop with an eye to direct “Brothers …
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“Forgotten” But Fearsome
Entertainment Weekly picks six “forgotten” scary movies available for general creepage: THE EXORCIST III (1990) ”The Exorcist” author William Peter Blatty wrote and directed this spookfest starring George C. Scott as a detective tracking a serial killer. Highlights include ominous old people scuttling across ceilings and the scariest beheading you’ll …
Read More »Sci-Fi Channel Backs Quest for Govt UFO Info
Who did you think would do it - Animal Planet?
Read More »From the Ridiculous to the Criminally Insane
Just yesterday we discussed the inane fount of media verbiage attending the sniper hunt in the DC area. Now they’re talking to serial killers for a little homicidal mania perspective on the case, which today took another life: When Fox News correspondent Rita Cosby decided to approach “Son of Sam” …
Read More »Samuel L. Jackson’s Greatest Hits
Hear the dude sound off.
Read More »Bigger Than Life
Baseball and IMAX
Read More »Darwinian Paparazzi
It’s a jungle out there in the West Village: THE big prize all the sharp-elbowed paparazzi want to collect – when it happens – is the first photo of Sarah Jessica Parker with her baby. The exclusive photo could be worth more than $200,000, so shutterbugs are already staking out …
Read More »PBS to Air History Through Gastronomic Lens
What We Eat series hosted by Burt Wolf starts this weekend: The True Story of Why We Put Sugar in Our Coffee and Ketchup on Our Fries A THIRTEEN-PART SERIES PRESENTED BY CONAGRA FOODS IS SCHEDULED TO BEGIN AIRING IN OCTOBER 2002 ON PUBLIC TELEVISION NEW YORK, May 2002 – …
Read More »“Frankly Larry, I Don’t Know a Damn Thing…”
Want to know why I haven’t said anything about the sniper yet? Well, other than the fact that my daughter, my sister and her family, and my wife’s sister and her family are all in the area and I live with a dull fear in the back of my skull …
Read More »American Dreams
NBC has started running back-to-back eps of its drama/nostalgiafest, American Dreams, so we were able to catch one of the early entries in this series Sunday. You probably already know the show’s premise even if you haven’t seen a single episode. Set around the time of JFK’s assassination (at one …
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