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2003 Stories by Robert Wilonsky

• Your New Friends?

  published January 30, 2003

  Last October, Sue Vertue found herself in a Los Angeles soundstage watching the filming of a pilot for a would-be NBC sitcom. The storyline of... More >>

• Blowin' Smoke

  published January 30, 2003

  First off, make no mistake: Biker Boyz is not, and has no intentions of being, The Fast and the Furious on two wheels, which... More >>

• Various Artists

  published January 30, 2003

  Fans already have their faves--the 1975 original Broadway recording with Gwen Verdon and Chita Rivera, the 1996 Broadway revival starring Bebe... More >>

• England's Dreaming

  published January 23, 2003

  Two months and 2 ounces (just kiddin', Mom) later, Grand Theft Auto Vice City's starting to feel a bit played out; only so many times I can... More >>

• Blood Money

  published January 23, 2003

  Just as writer-director Menno Meyjes' Max was premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival, Overlook Press was shipping to... More >>

• D4 / The Datsuns

  published January 23, 2003

  They're always lumped together (well, by Entertainment Weekly, anyway), and with good reason: They be Kiwi, got suck in the '70s like... More >>

• Poe Lou

  published January 23, 2003

  To a certain fan of a certain subgenre of rock and roll, and certainly to any rock critic, there are few things in life more agreeable than the... More >>

• A Swinger and Four Drunks

  published January 16, 2003

  Things learned from the season premiere of Dinner for Five, the Jon Favreau-hosted Independent Film Channel production in which the... More >>

• Toss It Outback

  published January 16, 2003

  These are the dog days of January, the poor put-upon month used by studios as a dumping ground for product considered too lethally toxic for... More >>

• Erasure

  published January 16, 2003

  James Taylor's stab at "Everyday" was just underwhelmingly twee; Andy Bell makes the Buddy Holly tune full-blown gay, which is precisely the... More >>

• Sighs, Not Silent

  published January 9, 2003

  This is how it works in the modern age: A man writes a book, two other men make a movie based on the book, another man writes a soundtrack to the... More >>

• Vanity Fare

  published January 9, 2003

  As far as he can remember, he always wanted to be an actor. To him, being an actor was better than being president of the United States. Even... More >>

• Ground Zero Hour

  published January 9, 2003

  Spike Lee's adaptation of David Benioff's 2001 novel The 25th Hour hews closely to the original tale, which the author has adapted in... More >>

• Paul Weller

  published January 9, 2003

  Well, well, Weller--another album hailed as "comeback" in the U.K., where it's been available in slightly altered form since September, and... More >>

• Cover Me

  published January 9, 2003

  They've arrived like Cubans on the Miami Beach shoreline, those cover-cum-tribute bands that clog the local concert calendar each weekend and push... More >>

• Far From Happy

  published January 2, 2003

  In all, a far better year than any in recent memory, so much so it feels impolite and irresponsible to choose a mere 10 best among the annum's... More >>

• Scavenger Hunt

  published January 2, 2003

  You'll love anything you got for free, and if you don't think that's true, you've never seen a free-pass preview audience applaud a Rob Schneider... More >>