Let’s see, there’s Sidney Poitier in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. Wesley Snipes in Jungle Fever. Ashton Kutcher in last year’s Guess Who and now Sanaa Lathan in Something New. Then there are those who’ve done it in real life: Robert DeNiro, George Clooney, David Bowie, Tyra Banks, Whoopi Goldberg–just…
Bonnie Raitt popped up on the music radar of the general public in 1990 when her album Nick of Time got her crowned Queen of the Grammys, and she began her nausea-inducing stream of tepid ballads on adult contemporary radio. But die-hard Raitt fans love her for the nine albums…
With world-renowned dancers and brand-new programs, The Texas Ballet Theater is set to impress with this weekend’s Stars and Premieres performance. While the stars are Cuba’s Carlos Acosta and China’s Zhang Jian, the premieres come straight out of Texas, including “Image,” a tribute to Marilyn Monroe choreographed by TBT artistic…
In his 1961 farewell address, President Eisenhower warned Americans that an insidious new force was taking hold in the country. He called it the “military-industrial complex.” Born of necessity during World War II, this once-valuable conjunction of the military, the federal government and the armaments industry was suddenly taking on…
It is often written of Harrison Ford that he’s the most profitable movie star in history, to the tune of some $3.8 billion in box-office receipts worldwide. Of course, once one subtracts from that total the first three Star Wars movies, the Indiana Jones trilogy and two outings as CIA…
This is not George Lazenby making his doomed run at James Bond, or even Mel Gibson presuming to play Hamlet. This is serious heresy, combined with a touch of felonious assault. It has evidently not occurred to Steve Martin that, just as there is only one Eiffel Tower, there is…
Let’s get right to the point: If you are the type of person who enjoys seeing attractive naked girls meet a hideously graphic demise, there’s a scene in Final Destination 3 that will wear out the pause and rewind buttons on your DVD remote a few months from now. Mega-stereotype…
That Curious George existed at all–much less as a franchise, an icon enduring some 65 years–was a result of “happy circumstance,” wrote Houghton Mifflin publisher Anita Silvey with some understatement in 1991, upon the 50th anniversary publication of The Complete Adventures of Curious George. Silvey and critic Leonard Marcus recall…
Somebody at the Richardson Theatre Centre has been watching late-night Cinemax. Director Regan Adair’s production of Christopher Hampton’s Dangerous Liaisons throbs with passion, a three-hour make-out marathon replete with pretty babes in clingy lingerie, a courtesan who lets her lady lump double as a writing desk and a virgin who…
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (DreamWorks) Not since Finding Nemo has there been a movie so easy to recommend for all ages and tastes. But despite having crafted a near-perfect film, directors Nick Park and Steve Box second-guess themselves constantly on their audio commentary, as well as…
Maybe it’s because we’re hung up on our past more than ever — riding a wave of giddy, nonstop nostalgia and absorbing anything that will help recapture the bliss of the good ol’ days — but Capcom’s Mega Man X Collection feels more fun than ever. The follow-up to last…
Bambi II (Disney) The Batman: The Complete First Season (Warner Bros.) The Best of the Electric Company (Shout!) The Best of Youth (Miramax) The Cary Grant Box Set (Sony) Cote D’Azur (Strand) Daltry Calhoun (Miramax) Doom: Unrated Extended Edition (Universal) Elizabethtown (Paramount) Eros (Warner Bros.) Grounded for Life: Season 1…
Before Amy Fisher or Vili Fualaau, there was Lolita. Stanley Kubrick’s 1962 film captures the essence of one of the most influential and oft-alluded-to works of literature. Based on the Vladimir Nabokov novel of the same name, Lolita tells the story of a middle-aged scholar plagued by his lust for…
I know this whole Vagina Monologues thing has really taken off in recent years, but I’m just not sure I fall for it. As someone who has close–one might say, intimate–knowledge of this particular aspect of femininity, I have a hard time believing that a monologue is the best the…
There is no shame in avoiding the crowds munching in the name of love on Valentine’s Day. In fact, the best, most romantic Valentine-y celebrations I’ve personally been privy to have taken place before the “holiday”…thanks to scheduling issues and subsequent massive groveling. So Aqua Italian Bistro and Bar wins…
Emerge from your dark living room, turn off your TiVo-ed marathon of Law & Order and loosen your grip on those tubs of Häagen-Dazs, folks. Valentine’s Day is now officially over, which means you can show your lonely face in public once more. Yeah, it’s a bum holiday, but it’s…
Many artists gather their inspiration from trips to new places. Sean Scully’s Wall of Light, for instance, was inspired by a trip to Mexico. On display at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 3200 Darnell St., Wall of Light is based on what Scully recalls from this trip–especially the…
Some people have a mind for physics. Others have the stomach for the study of human anatomy and all the blood and unpleasantness that entails. I, however, have a heart for history, which is why the Dallas Historical Society’s Have a Heart for History Day sounds right up my alley…
With a title like Dances at a Gathering, Daydreaming in Dallas, one might assume that the Chamberlain Ballet’s latest production would actually take place in its namesake city. However, you would be wrong—although you have to admit one might daydream of Dallas while sitting in the chilly confines of a…
The latest member show at 500X Gallery is a test of perception and an exploration of rarely seen images by Diane Sikes, Shannon Sullivan and Brad Wehring. Sikes fashions objects out of submerged memories that render a fuzzy déjà vu-like lack of clarity for the viewer. Sullivan’s pieces are more…
Don’t expect to find some old retired boxers when you meet 92-year-old “Pinetop” Perkins or 90-year-old David “Honeyboy” Edwards because, one, they’re not boxers and, two, they’re not even close to retirement. And neither are their colleagues, 96-year-old Henry James Townsend and 90-year-old Robert Lockwood Jr. These men are living…
Love is a four-letter word. Probably the most used subject in all of the arts, people just can’t get enough of it. There’s even a holiday for those people who just love everything there is about love. For those of us who would rather poke love in the eye with…
