Mission: Impossible III: Special Edition (Paramount) On the commentary track, director J.J. Abrams and star Tom Cruise sound like they’ve fallen in love; you might say they complete each other’s sentences, except that’s just Cruise interrupting the Alias creator, who rescued a franchise by streamlining it, lightening it, brightening it,…
Few phenomena are as hugely popular and bitterly mocked as the Dance Dance Revolution series. That’s probably because humanity falls into two camps: fleet-footed whiz kids and rhythm-impaired klutzes. This reviewer falls into the latter category, despite having seen Riverdance an unhealthy number of times. For a game that’s mainly…
Baywatch: Season 1 (First Look) The Benny Hill Collection (Music Video Dist.) CSI: Miami — The Complete Fourth Season (Paramount) Down to the Bone (Hart Sharp) Future-Kill: Limited Collector’s Edition (Subversive) Ghost in the Shell SAC: Complete Collection (Manga) The Ghost Whisperer: The Complete First Season (Paramount) Hardcastle and McCormick:…
Previewing what promises to be a raucous and competitive Dallas Mavericks home opener against the San Antonio Spurs is so easy a caveman could do it. With that in mind, we turned over the assignment to Boro, a Neanderthal we found outside a bar on Lower Greenville. Here’s what he…
Moms have needs and desires, hopes and dreams. Some moms dream of running off with the pool boy. Some moms dream of their children growing up to become doctors, lawyers or pool boys. Still other mothers have that same unhealthy desire for attention and constant validation that draws so many…
I wondered once if I could be a comedian. I was doing the whole theater thing, and a couple of people said I was funny, so I began to ponder. After coming up with one joke in the course of a week, I gave up. This probably had something to…
Before seeing Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues, it was hard to imagine that a show about sexual oppression and brutality could be funny. But it is, and no matter how many times you see it, the tears and laughter don’t seem to lessen. Who knows how that bodes for the content…
OUT TAKES Dallas has come a long way from showing episodes of the original British Queer As Folk eight years ago to the savvy showcase of gay- and lesbian-themed films that you may otherwise never get a chance to see. With lots of features for guys and lots of features…
Here’s a random piece of city trivia: The Dallas FrontRunners, the gay social running group, was inspired by the book The Front Runner by Patricia Nell Warren. I wonder if she’ll join them on her visit to Dallas. Warren signs her new book, Lavender Locker Rooms: 3,000 Years of Great…
Part of what makes Looney Tunes characters live and breathe is their symphonic accompaniment. It’s the muted trumpet that accompanies Daffy Duck’s bewilderment after having his beak blown to the other side of his head or the staccato violins that accent Elmer Fudd’s footsteps as he tiptoes up to a…
For a time in the late ’70s, Forrest Gump just ran. Why? Because he felt like RUNNING. I, myself have a similar philosophy about eating… However, for many children around the world, this isn’t an option–which is why thousands of runners the world over are joining Kenyan world record holder…
Artist Michael Mentler is an instructor at the Society for the Figurative Arts. Sounds like a place where you’d learn the finer points of doing really good-looking long division, right? It’s not. It’s all about learning to draw figures—something the artist does remarkably well. That’s reflected in his recent exhibit,…
Bust out the absinthe and hide your guns, everybody: Vincent Van Gogh is in the house. From now until January 7, the Dallas Museum of Art (or, as I like to call it, Not The Kimbell) is hosting Van Gogh’s Sheaves of Wheat,, the largest collection of Van Gogh works…
If you have ever wondered what it’s like to walk in the company of dinosaurs, you can find out now at the Heard Natural Science Museum. Because of recent advances in science and technology, there will be real, live dinosaurs at the museum’s Dinosaurs Alive! exhibit. Featured dinosaurs include T-Rex,…
Everything I know about NASCAR I learned from Days of Thunder and my mother. Despite repeated viewings of the trials and tribulations of Cole Trickle (as portrayed by Tom Cruise), the sport just never caught my interest once I grew too old to play with toy cars (although I still…
If Monty Python had been around in William Shakespeare’s day, Will’s play The Comedy of Errors would have gotten him a gig on Saturday Night Live at the Avon. The shortest of Shakespeare’s plays, the comedy was first performed in 1594 and is a hilarious, fast-paced tale of coincidence, sharp…
I couldn’t make this stuff up. Scissors that talk across the room, feathers that cough, colors that teeter…But some people have better imaginations than I do. The difference between writers and other artists is the latter’s ability to turn boring three-dimensional media (or otherwise useful kitchen objects) into an experiential…
William Inge’s classic play Bus Stop was a hit even before Marilyn Monroe starred as Cherieâ€â€a world-weary “chanteuse”â€â€in the 1956 movie version. Even without Monroe’s glamour, it’s still easy to see why audiences found Bus Stop so charming. Four passengers and the bus driver are stranded at a remote diner…
Are you already nostalgic for the “wine me, dine me” days of the Green Room? The next best thing has emerged in the form of the fourth annual WineFest 2006. More than just an excuse to get drunk, this is a chance to experience a huge selection of fine wines…
If you are intrigued by the concept of a one-night stand but aren’t brave enough to engage in one, Chelsea Handler is your go-to girl. She’s done enough horizontal living for a hundred of you, and she has a book to prove it. In My Horizontal Life, Handler waxes comedic…
I have to disclose something here in the interest of complete and total honesty…and on the off chance that someone in the near future would like to buy me a drink. Keep the mixers simple; I abhor Red Bull. My nostrils recoil at the sharp, sweet smell of the thick,…
Thanks to Stephen King (with subsequent onscreen, if less graphic, help from Kathy Bates and James Caan), everyone ignorant to the ways of maiming learned what hobbling was all about. Neat, huh?! Grapevine’s Runway Theatre, 215 N. Dooley St., is staging a production of the classic psychological tale about an…
