Voting in the 1996 Drive-In Academy Awards continues apace, except I don't really know what "apace" means. Anyhow, you still have time to vote. The only requirement is that you've seen at least 60 of the year's grade-B exploitation releases. The number is so high because we know you're gonna...
As a rule, I oppose giving away the endings of movies--not because of some vague notion of devotion to the film itself, but because it isn't necessary. If a movie is bad, it's usually bad all the way through, and divulging the climax is pointless. Rules were made to be...
Doug Hamilton, a 43-year-old Southwestern Bell manager, left work early on a wet, stormy October day in 1994 to attend a conference with his daughter's kindergarten teacher. When the meeting ended, Hamilton began driving his wife and three young children home to Mesquite, but decided, two blocks from the house,...
Officials of financially beleaguered Kimberly-Clark have some big problems to solve. But last month they proved they could deftly handle a small but embarrassing squabble over a $156,000 jobs-creation grant with Palm Beach County, Florida, and come out smelling like a paper rose. Never mind that the diaper giant had...
Big D spirit We realize this was not the Freedom Train, but did anyone else notice that the Cowboys' parade floats were--there's no polite way to put this--segregated? Coincidence you say? Amid quickly muzzled accusations of racism involving Troy Aikman and former defensive coordinator John Blake, Buzz found it mighty...
Three years ago this Sunday, Lewis was secured in a special cell reserved for those about to receive the deadly cocktail of muscle relaxants and surgical anaesthesia that will kill them. Lewis, who was sentenced to death on June 2, 1987, by a Dallas jury for killing a young man...
Lies, lies, lies This is in response to Laura Miller's article, "Politics makes strange enemies" [February 1]. One of the reasons so many people dislike politics is not only because of the negative campaigning, but also because of trash columns like that of Mrs. Laura Miller-Wolens. For those of you...
Belo family values The Dallas Morning News has waxed holier than thou yet again. It happened on Wednesday, February 7, when Dallas' Only Daily became one of just five papers in the country--out of 210 nationwide that run it daily--to censor an installment of the "Non Sequitur" comic strip. The...
If plays were judged by the number of literary allusions they contain, The Swan would rate high. This elliptical, enervating drama by Elizabeth Egloff is rife with references and parallels to works including Ovid's Metamorphoses, Yeat's poem, "Leda and the Swan," Grimm's fairy tales, and Kafka's Metamorphosis. Unfortunately, it takes...
Back in the old days--those being the days when rock and roll was still the bastard child of the blues, rhythm and blues was teaching white kids how to dance like the black kids, and country was for hillbillies and rednecks--when a bunch of musicians came through your town, it...
Queen of the country At a time when Nashville country music is plagued by a goose-stepping line dance for which country radio calls the tune, the women in the post-Garth hat-act-dominated Music City are making most of the music of substance. Rosanne Cash may have packed her bags and moved...
Seven years later, Alan Govenar still speaks of the specter of Alex Moore, how it still haunts everything Govenar does. Such is the price the historians and folklorists have to pay, watching as the men and women they pluck from obscurity inevitably drop back into the anonymity from which they...
When somebody pays attention to filmmaker Abel Ferrara, it's usually for something naughty he did--shooting Harvey Keitel on a date with Rosy Palm and her five sisters in Bad Lieutenant, or orchestrating the gang rape of a doe-eyed mute woman, only to have her launch a revenge killing spree in...
Many actors--hell, maybe even all actors--can easily outdistance Christian Slater for on-screen magnetism. He's gotten away with that bargain-basement Nicholson ripoff since Heathers, but he's never been able to equal Nicholson's evil energy--the devilish charm that makes Nicholson captivating in almost any part. When the story doesn't demand of him...
thursday february 15 Molka Alexandrova and Sasha Botcharova: Third Planet Theatre is a Dallas-based performing-arts company that specializes in importing Russian and other international talent as part of a post-communist, good-faith project. Its latest care package to the arts-loving Dallas population is a pair of singer-actor-dancer-comics who promise to deliver...
On a recent Thursday night, we enjoyed a glass of wine, a cup of soup, and a delicious goat cheese, avocado, and vegetable sandwich on herbed wheat bread while we listened to the Arthur Riddles Jazz Quartet playing oh-so-cool jazz against the gorgeous backdrop of incredible glass flowers created by...
It's a chilly winter night at the half-abandoned Executive Inn near Love Field, and the frigid north wind is knocking the temperatures down even further on the skin. The place is dark and seemingly deserted, except for the noise emanating from several of the rooms. What used to be a...
Cafe Highland Park and Addison Cafe are siblings, but it's another kind of cafe society out in Addison whose cafe is subtitled "Le French Bistro." If Highland Park society has delusions of old New England, Addison is strictly New World in its aspirations, at least as far as you can...
"I'll tell you something," Bob Musgrave whispers while standing in Goff's Hamburgers, a curiously highbrow dive off the Tollway. "Back in the '70s, the owner, Harvey Goff, used to keep this side door to the restaurant open, and every once in a while, he'd shoot a .38 slug into a...
Here we are again. It's time for the 1996 Drive-In Academy Award nominees. I know you're thrilled. The coveted Hubbie will be awarded in early April, and once again there are no duplications between the Hubbies and those other Academy Awards that they give out at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion...
Anthony has spent the last few weeks in a mental hospital. Dignan, Anthony's best friend, wants to get him out, and has planned an elaborate escape: Anthony ties his bed sheets together, shimmies out the window to his pal waiting below, and together they make a daring, daylight break for...
thursday february 8 Dance Consortium: If you check out a performance by the Richardson-based contemporary dance ensemble Dance Consortium and dance is not a form of entertainment with which you are familiar, here is a word of warning: Arrive early and read the program from cover to cover. Otherwise, you...
