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Review: 'Innkeepers' offers lean, retro scares
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 AP - The trappings may look familiar, but "The Innkeepers" is a new twist on the good, old-fashioned ghost story: It's the bored-slacker horror movie.
Revival of 'Look Back in Anger' is visceral
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 AP - We Americans may have thought we created the Angry Young Man. You know, that volcanic, vital, articulate stud who howls a lot. We've got tons of them, from James Dean and Marlon Brando, to Sean Penn and Holden Caufield.
Rising star Angela Meade in Met Opera's `Ernani'
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 AP - In an era of overthinking directors, intricate stage movements and concept productions that transport operas through time and locale, there is an argument for Verdi the way it used to be.
Capsule reviews of new film releases
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 AP - "Big Miracle" — If a movie is cheesy and knows it's cheesy — if it embraces the soft, gooey texture and pungent aroma of its own fromage — does that make it any more palatable as a meal?
A family reunion turns sinister in 'Transport'
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 AP - Some families have trouble communicating. The immigrant family at the center of Erika Sheffer's "Russian Transport," the latest production from the talented director Scott Elliott at The New Group, is not one of them.
'Chronicle' takes found-footage idea to new level
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 AP - It owes a great debt to the found-footage concept behind "The Blair Witch Project," has some of the aesthetic and tonal touches of "Cloverfield" and probes the same sorts of philosophical notions about the burden of power that serve as the basis for the "X-Men" series.
Leonard Cohen has some new "Old Ideas"- Hallelujah!
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Reuters - Leonard Cohen sold off his song rights some years back, so he apparently doesn't collect royalties for the most hilariously over-covered song in "American Idol" history. That's bad for him, but good for us, since being cash-poor prompted the 70-something singer to come out of semi-retirement and return to the road in the late 2000s -- which, in turn, ultimately spurred the recording of "Old Ideas," his first studio album in eight years.
Review: Square gets 'Final Fantasy' back on track
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AP - The "Final Fantasy" franchise, now in its 25th year, has one of the most enthusiastic fan bases in all of video games. And those fans made their voices heard after the 2009 release of "Final Fantasy XIII," which jettisoned some of the series' long-standing features in exchange for a more streamlined, action-packed narrative.
Movie Scores: How the critics rated the new movies
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 AP - "Chronicle" is working its mind-bending powers on critics, earning some of the best reviews in a crowded weekend of new releases.
5 NFL stars who became movie stars
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 AP - Super Bowl Sunday is upon us, a special, heartwarming time to gather with friends, eat too much queso and make ridiculous side bets on how long the national anthem will last and who will be forced to punt first.
Review: 'Kill List' a bold mix of genres
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 AP - "Kill List" morphs subtly but devastatingly from an uncomfortable domestic drama to a brutally violent hit-man thriller to a what-the-hell-just-happened? exploration of a primal, paranoid nightmare.
Review: Cohen has spiritual vibe on 'Old Ideas'
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 AP - Throughout his 45-year career, Leonard Cohen has walked a fine line between love, sex, and religion, often embodying the trinity in the same song. Cohen doesn't abandon those themes on his latest album, "Old Ideas," his first studio recording in eight years and perhaps one of his best in decades.
At City Ballet, a choreographer's happy homecoming
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 AP - At the end of the all-Christopher Wheeldon evening at New York City Ballet this weekend, the choreographer came out alone for a curtain call. The crowd stood and cheered. It would have been a rare moment for any choreographer, let alone one who isn't yet 40.
Making a case for Elizabeth Taylor as a feminist
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 AP - "The Accidental Feminist" (Walker & Co.), by M.G.
Review: "Clear Heart" offers superior songwriting
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Reuters - Besides being one of America's greatest rock bands, the Hold Steady are the closest thing we have to a messy, rowdy, wordy, art-rock version of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.
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Capitalism, Unclothed: Art Provocateur Zefrey Throwell on Overthrowing Wall Street With His "Naked Army"
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ARTINFO - New Yorkers pride themselves on their blasé - nothing will phase a well-trained city pedestrian. But artist Zefrey Throwell's urban intervention turned even the most stoic of heads: those of Wall Street traders. Throwell's "Ocularpation: Wall Street" saw 50 performers strip down and mime different Wall Street-related professions (traders, yes, but also janitors, secretaries, and everything in between) in a critique of the financial industry, a piece inspired by the plight of the artist's mother, a 60 year old woman who lost her retirement savings in the economic crash, and was forced to come out of retirement to look for a job.
NY art dealer charged in $4M fraud
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AP - A New York art dealer has been charged in a $4 million fraud for selling works by Picasso, Matisse and others without informing the owner or giving him the proceeds.
Before the Paparazzi: See Celebrity Portraits by Hollywood's Original Photographers at the National Portrait Gallery
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ARTINFO - Beforetoday's Internet-induced era of celebrity overexposure, paparazzi abundance, and tabloid proliferation, there was a time when film studioscontrolled the public's perception of their actors and actresses through the use ofin-house portrait photographers. London's National Portrait Gallery pays tributeto that period with "Glamour of the Gods: Hollywood Portraits," an exhibition of 70 vintage photographsfrom 1920 to 1960, on view until October 23.
Barter system part of appeal for Brussels art show
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Reuters - In the history of currency, earplugs have, unsurprisingly, never been widely used or accepted. So when a man offered Belgian artist Delphine Boël 10,000 earplugs for her print "The Source of Identity" at the Truc Troc contemporary art exhibit in 2006, her reaction was, "God, he's crazy."
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Gaultier channels Winehouse, stars shop for Oscars
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 AP - The final day of Paris's spring-summer haute couture week saw Jean Paul Gaultier serve up a cigarettes-and-all homage to late singer Amy Winehouse and Valentino show off the dazzling couture work of seamstresses who toiled for thousands of hours to create a lavish white collection.
Dior shrugs off rumors at Paris Haute Couture show
(Reuters)
Reuters - Christian Dior shrugged off talk about who might succeed John Galliano as the fallen star designer's stand-in enjoyed a well-received Spring/Summer Haute Couture show on Monday and seen roaring sales in spite of the global economic malaise.
Look of old Hollywood glamour is a modern favorite
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AP - In the Hollywood landscape of new, new, new, what really stands out is that today's starlets still emulate the looks of classic screen beauties, including Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe and Rita Hayworth, who ruled the red carpet in the 1950s.
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