Columns
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Drugs, Sex, Girls: Being Directed by Peckinpah on His ‘Killer Elite’
Make-up — black grease — was put under all the other actresses’ eyes — I looked at him and thought, “You do that to me, and I’m walking,”
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Carole Mallory -
Wanted: An American Hero; Found: ‘Dancing’s’ J.R. Martinez
This guy has embraced the gift of life and celebrates it daily … as we all should.
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Charts: Freshman Rapper J. Cole Routs Blink-182’s Comeback
Jay-Z’s protégé bowed with an impressive 218,000, well ahead of debuting rockers Blink-182 and Wilco
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The College Years: When TV’s High-School Characters Graduate
The teens on CW’s “90210” are about to make the higher education leap — will audiences follow?
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Review: Feist Counts Down to Heartache in Gorgeous ‘Metals’
The Canuck who broke through with an iTunes spot doesn’t have anything half as peppy as ‘1234’ this time around. But that’s no detriment to the year’s most haunting album
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Review: Bob Dylan, Jack White, Sheryl Crow Hook Up With Hank Williams’ Ghost
The Dylan-shepherded “Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams” lets a well-chosen cast of contemporary rockers and country stars rifle through the legend’s unused lyric scraps. It’s great — but hope you like steel guitar and suicidal waltzes
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Review: ‘Idol’ Scotty McCreery Aims for the Mushy Middle
But once he lays off the treacly ballads, the deep-voiced Season 10 winner sounds more like a more wholesome Dierks Bentley doppelganger than a Josh Turner mini-me. But that still doesn’t solve this country kid’s distinctiveness problem
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Andy Rooney Was a Class Act … Conan O’Brien, Not So Much
I tried to protect Rooney’s feelings when a dual interview, failed … now I’m telling it as it really was
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Union-Busting 101 for First-Time Filmmakers
Hollyblog: Film financier Jeff Steele’s tips for negotiating with SAG, WGA, DGA, IATSE and the Teamsters. Teaser: Get to know Eastern Europe!
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LaVyrle Spencer Hits Gold and Pays Back
Even in Hollywood, one good turn can lead to another
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Airsickness to Addiction: I Was a Real-Life Pan Am Stewardess
Flying the skies as a stewardess in the ’60s wasn’t anything like they show it on TV
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Charts: Tony Bennett Becomes First Eightysomething to Top Billboard Chart
The octogenarian’s “Duets II” album sold 179,000. On the other end of the age spectrum, teens Demi Lovato, Mindless Behavior, and Cody Simpson all made strong album-chart impressions
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A ‘Whale’ of a Tale — but Should It Be About the Story, or Advocacy?
Which technique is actually more powerful to change minds and affect lives?
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Review: Wilco’s ‘Whole Love’ Has Beatles’ ‘White Album’ Unpredictability
The critically beloved band splits the difference between its experimental and acoustic leanings
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Review: Blink-182 Grows Up a Little Too Much on ‘Neighborhoods’
Having jettisoned the jokiness for good, the band has a harder time making adult angst memorable on its first album since 2003