Marlon Brando

Art Lovers Get the Fantods over Possible Detroit Museum Sale -- But Really, It's Only Money

Occasional correspondent Bill Marvel, who defends the high holiness of art, sent me the following headline this morning, "DIA's art collection could face sell-off to satisfy Detroit's creditors," along with a personal note: "I know this will warm your heart." The DIA is the Detroit Institute of Art ... More >>

Team Kerouac

Kristen Stewart and Garrett Hedlund chat about the film version of On the Road

Meet the Monsters

From Toronto, a glimpse of this year's most bracing films

2011 Music, Turned Up to 11

Crenshaw Manages to Bedevil Redistricting Commission Without Even Showing Up

Sounds like it's time for another episode of Community Affairs with Schutze and Sandra​We told you it was getting weird in there: At last night's meeting of the city's Redistricting Commission, the most important person in the room wasn't even in the room. That would be Sandra Crenshaw, cactus jui ... More >>

The Horror, The Horror Behind the Latest Trinity River Piece in Dallas's Only Daily

​Trinity River Project stories are The Dallas Morning News on mescaline. The city's only daily does so well with other coverage. But then they drop one of those Trinity River tabs, and the walls go to rubber. This morning The Dallas Morning News publishes a story saying the federal share of the Tr ... More >>

Uptown's Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Plays Naughty Con Games; PFamily Arts Theatre's I Do! I Do! Doesn't

What in the Wide World of Sports Does a HUD Secretary Know About Levee Safety?

HUD deputy secretary Ron Sims has quite the résumé, but what does any of it have to do with the Trinity River?​Unintentionally hilarious item in The Dallas Morning News today: "Council's Frustration Spills Over," by Rudy Bush on the Metro front, in which council member par excellence Ron Natinsk ... More >>

A Prophet

Winspear's August:Ossage County And Watertower's Laughter On The 23rd Floor Find Fun And Fury In Tempers Run Amok

Footie Film

Napalm In The Morning

No Bluff

Rebel Assault

So...Where has all the George Michael love gone?

Extra! Read All About It

The Other Wright Man (Doug, In This Case)

The Dean's List

Smells Like Victory

You Maysles Attend Class

Recycled Steel

You'll swear you've seen this Superman somewhere before

Mob Hit Misses

The Godfather game isn't personal. It's strictly business.

Duchamping at the Bit

Two shows say Dada and take wobbly baby steps into absurdist comedy

Trip to Bountiful

Oh, the talent given us at this year's remarkable Dallas Video Festival

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Focking Wonderful

Streisand and Hoffman save a family--and a movie, too

Dead Heat

Día De Los Muertos exhibit returns with the monarchs

Merry McCarthyism

Uptown Players take a comic romp through Hollywood's commie-fearing '50s

Rain Barrels of Laughs

Jovan is at it again

You, Spy

Why can't Americans make TV shows as good as Brit import MI-5?

Bottle the Spin

The "40 best artists making music right now?" Nah.

We Meet Again, Mr. Bond

Plus: Empty Pocket, Sensitivity Training, Parting Words

Half Bad

Steven Seagal fans won't even go for this lame hostage movie

Buttering Upscale

Are expensive butters really worth it?

Playing God

Francis Ford Coppola re-creates his Vietnam phantasmagoria

Giant Among Myths

Maybe the best thing to have ever happened to James Dean was his death

Southern Breezes

Even in death, Terry Southern remains larger than life

A Couple Yards Short

The gang's all here in this familiar-but-fresh tale of a bad guy scared straight

Southern Fried

Those wacky Southern women return--again--in the trite Impossible Marriage

Against the wall

John Frankenheimer could have disappeared, but he refused to go away

Night & Day

April 22-28, 1999

Dallas Video Festival, Part II

Long dead, The King

The wild--and mild--bunch

Warner Bros. celebrates its 75th birthday with a weeklong best-of fest

Sucked back in

Twenty-five years later, The Godfather's deal is still too good to refuse

Cold War curio

The Seven Year Itch unearths heterosexual paranoia from the '50s

Here be monsters

The Island of Dr. Moreau is a shambles, but too bizarre just to ignore

Rushes

Lover men

Three new films offer different takes on the myth of the romantic hero

Rushes

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