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I saw Angels in America far from New York and Broadway -- in Atlanta, with a cast made up of local actors (if very fine local actors), several years after it had bowled over the Great White Way and even more years removed from the time the play was set.

Just what is Thomas Cahill trying to do?

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

Many actors struggle their entire careers to land the lead role in a big budget blockbuster movie, but not Aaron Eckhart.

Lucas Black may not be someone moviegoers remember at first glance, but his distinctive Southern accent is bound to ring a bell.

On one side of the world, there was a massacre. On the other side of the world, there was a riot.

It's hard to believe that with several number ones on his resume, and millions of albums sold worldwide, Justin Timberlake has never rocked Paris.

For Larry Kane, the Beatles movie A Hard Day's Night wasn't just a film. It was real life.

With the television as the center of just about every American living room, it may be natural to think about holiday entertainment as Claymation Christmas specials and holiday cartoons.

The Christmas sales have been going on since Halloween. The actual holiday isn't due for another two weeks. But as far as I'm concerned, this weekend really kicks off the Christmas season.

Improvised cacophony for a film about a girlfriend run over by a car: That was the origin of Talking Heads.

They came dressed in sweatpants, pajamas, hobbit cloaks and even chain mail, each proudly bearing a precious treasure – a ticket to the all-day Lord of the Rings marathon, a back-to-back-to-back viewing of all three films, including the third and final installment, The Return of the King.

A feast of Crow -- and Crows. A flight of Eagles. A set to Bragg about, No Doubt.

No matter where you look, even in some of the remotest parts of the planet, you can't avoid Monty Python.

Forget about The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. Forget about the fourth season of The Sopranos. You can even forget about Indiana Jones, although that may not be wise given that hero's ability to overcome all odds.

A judge will rule Friday whether to temporarily lift a ban on screener videos as the motion picture industry's awards season moves into high gear.

Gov. George Pataki has pardoned the late stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce for a 1964 obscenity conviction.

Embattled radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh is asking a Palm Beach County, Florida, court to keep his medical records sealed from prosecutors investigating whether he illegally purchased prescription painkillers.

Criminal investigators are searching doctors' offices for evidence that conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh was doctor shopping for controlled substances, according to search warrants filed in the clerk's office of the Palm Beach County, Florida, State Attorney's office.

Novelist Raymond Chandler must be big at NBC, where the motto seems to be the long goodbye.

After a bitter exit by Mary Tyler Moore from Neil Simon's new off-Broadway play Rose's Dilemma, Simon spoke Friday about the circumstances surrounding her replacement.

Just back from a trip to South Africa to visit needy children, television talk show queen Oprah Winfrey said she's changed her mind about adopting and, instead, plans to spread the word about the AIDS crisis threatening Africa's future.

In the tradition of The Full Monty, about British steel workers who bare all, comes Calendar Girls, based on a true story about late middle-aged British women who do everything BUT the so-called Full Monty.

The film adaptation of Cold Mountain is an epic love story that conveys the horrors of war in an up-close and personal way often attempted in movies but rarely achieved.

Love Don't Cost a Thing shares its title with the name of a Jennifer Lopez song -- which is not part of the soundtrack. In fact, Lopez is nowhere to be found here, but her ex-boyfriend, Sean Combs, is, in various manifestations.

Blindly following society's edicts and becoming a housewife is bad. Thinking for yourself and following your own path is good.

Everyone earns their wages on Paycheck, a solid, entertaining thriller with a bounty of silly but fun gunplay, hand-to-hand brawls and car chases.

House of Sand and Fog is like a human chemistry experiment, a drama that documents the explosive mixture of pride and desperation.

Sharp, witty, and deep-down funny, Something's Gotta Give is one of the best adult romantic comedies of the year -- or the last few years, for that matter.

As the Lionel Richie song of the same name suggests, Stuck on You shows that the Farrelly brothers have a feeling down deep in their souls that they just can't lose.

Like a Seinfeld episode, Robert Altman's ballet film The Company seems to be about nothing, yet it's oddly mesmerizing.

If you know a comic book fan, your gift shopping is done. Simply put a bow on Mythology: The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross and you will earn squeals of delight and undying appreciation.

It's here.

Among the glut of Christmas CDs released for the 2003 holiday season are a pair of distinctly different discs from two of classic rock's most enduring acts -- Chicago and Jethro Tull.

Tom Cruise is Hollywood's Golden Boy, in more than one sense: a bankable movie star who can guarantee a blockbuster hit even when the project is less than stellar.

This year proved to be an interesting one for moviegoers, with its mixture of large-scale studio films full of top stars and a wealth of smaller gems.

On film, Angels In America asserts itself much as it did on stage, where it first thrilled audiences a decade ago.

Years ago, I worked at a newspaper with a restaurant critic who was not content just to review the food he was served; he felt compelled to improve on it.

Romance is a term we slight in modern parlance. We use it most frequently to refer to love affairs and the airport-bookstore novels that sensationalize them.

Journalists usually think they have a corner on the wry fantasy of just making it all up. Maybe it's time we slid over and allowed a few medicos to take a seat.

Cheaper by the Dozen might be more appropriately titled Cheesier by the Dozen.

With Monster, Charlize Theron becomes queen of the self-effacing starlets, eclipsing Nicole Kidman in last year's The Hours, in which she concealed herself behind a prosthetic schnoz to simulate plain-Jane author Virginia Woolf.

Headlines: Michael Jackson. Phil Spector. Rush Limbaugh.

Some books are like Christmas stockings -- filled with treats that can be savored a little at a time. Here are three that fit the bill.

For this review of Honey, I seriously considered just trotting out my review of Glitter from two years ago.

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, how didst thou come to be at all?

Too often, once musicians sign the dotted line, their music is usually sent down a production line to be tweaked, remixed and injected with additives and preservatives, and packed and delivered. Once it arrives in stores, its lifeblood has been sucked dry, to the point it somehow sounds like everything else, even though MTV loudly proclaims it's Spanking New.

The picture on the cover of Steven Watson's Factory Made: Warhol and the Sixties (Pantheon) shows a group of people, some bored, some amused, some sternly hiding behind sunglasses, some too thin or too plastered with makeup for their own good, all impossibly cool and distant and of a different world.

Coffee-table books are beautiful.