Cameron Diaz

Yeah, But How Was the Music?

Being Spike Jonze

The acclaimed rock-video director has made one of the year's oddest, funniest films. So why is he scared of his own shadow?

Jagged little pills

Two poisoners' tales revisit Arsenic and Old Lace with differing results

Catch her in the rye

In the thoughtful, delightful Chasing Amy, there's more to sex than love

Petty woman

Wedding smothers the romantic comedy--by embracing it hard

Cliche-spotting

Boyle and company riff romantic conventions--but they don't really care enough about them

Brian Wilson, reconstructed

For his first solo album in a decade, the Beach Boy recovers himself and his music...sort of

Weekend gross

The Farrelly Brothers make their mother very proud

1998 Best of Dallas

Sports

Baby, it's them

Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach are not such unlikely partners

As bad as it gets

Peter Berg's sour Very Bad Things earns a one-way ticket to filmic Palookaville

The Crit and Shap Poll

You've had the best; now, the year's most overrated records

Local boys make good (video)

You've had the best; now, the year's most overrated records

Cattle call

You've had the best; now, the year's most overrated records

Gregory wise-ass

You've had the best; now, the year's most overrated records

The Mind of Malkovich

Go ahead, step behind his filing cabinet

T-i-i-i-im-ber!

Justin's love interests just keep taking a fall

She's Gotta Serve It

Dallas dining is largely controlled by men. Seven women are trying to change that.

Out of bounds

Stone fumbles the rock in Any Given Sunday

Woman's Glib

The awful truth about Nancy Meyers

Goy Gevalt

In Her Shoes is pretty but useless, a Prada with a broken heel

Just One Hitch

Will Smith helps others find love, though probably not with this movie

Jonathan Richman

May 28

Nice Pussy

A killer cat steals a wonderful movie from a kindly ogre

Fallen Angels

Charlie's high-flying heroines kick ass, but not the sequel syndrome

Far From Happy

The year's best featured plenty of Sad White Guys

Not So Sweet

Diaz, Applegate star in the dumbest thing this side of a lobotomy

Eyes Half Open

Cameron Crowe takes Jerry Maguire on a dizzy trip through dreamland

Under Ogre

Shrek offers an amusing, if empty, fractured fairy tale

Finding Faith

A young girl traverses Europe to reclaim the sister she lost to The Invisible Circus

Eye of the Beholder

Sandra Bullock is transformed into a pageant beauty in the suitably amiable Miss Congeniality

Farrah to Poor

With clipped wings, Charlie's Angels fly way too low to the ground

A Fan's Notes

After Jerry Maguire, Cameron Crowe comes of age...finally

Jonathan Richman

After Jerry Maguire, Cameron Crowe comes of age...finally

Pull the strings

The power of puppetry propels the brilliant Being John Malkovich

The Box

The power of puppetry propels the brilliant Being John Malkovich

The Box: My Top 10 Questions.

Sorry, guess again.​What better way to beat Walking Pneumonia than by chilling at the movies, hopped up on Zithromax, Mucinex and Milk Duds? And, dare I say, checking out Cameron Diaz' box. I love "Would you accept $5 million in exchange for once a day, every day, going into a complete ... More >>

Knight and Day: Tom Cruise, Please Stop Talking.

Sorry, guess again.​What better way to beat Walking Pneumonia than by chilling at the movies, hopped up on Zithromax, Mucinex and Milk Duds? And, dare I say, checking out Cameron Diaz' box. I love "Would you accept $5 million in exchange for once a day, every day, going into a complete ... More >>

Whitt's End: 10.22.10

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End:*Roger Staubach to Tony Hill to beat the Redskins in '79. Alvin Harper running free against the 49ers to clinch the NFC Championship Game in '92. Dirk Nowitzki's long 3-pointer to secure Game 2 of ... More >>

The Green Hornet: Seth Rogen Schlubs It Up as a Masked Hero.

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End:*Roger Staubach to Tony Hill to beat the Redskins in '79. Alvin Harper running free against the 49ers to clinch the NFC Championship Game in '92. Dirk Nowitzki's long 3-pointer to secure Game 2 of ... More >>

So, Matthew Morrison, Tony Romo and Erin Andrews Walk Into a Dinner Party ...

WireImage​No doubt you were too busy to attend last night's Super Bowl shindigs. So once more into the breach -- or WireImage, which has invites to all the best parties. Like, once more, the private Audi Forum dinner party at the Rachofsky House, where Glee's Matthew Morrison found himself amongst ... More >>

Bad Teacher and the Downside of Equal Rights in Hollywood

WireImage​No doubt you were too busy to attend last night's Super Bowl shindigs. So once more into the breach -- or WireImage, which has invites to all the best parties. Like, once more, the private Audi Forum dinner party at the Rachofsky House, where Glee's Matthew Morrison found himself amongst ... More >>