The actor whole-heartedly falls under fiction's spell.
IN the opening sequence of the remake of the 1957 Western "3:10 to Yuma," which opens Friday, Christian Bale limps toward a burning barn with the desperation of a man who has nothing left to lose. While the flames dance behind his shaggy head and sun-scarred face, it's difficult to find any part of the real-life Bale, even around the edges of Dan Evans, the character he plays. The 33-year-old, Welsh-born actor has so slipped inside Evans' skin that it's difficult to believe he is anyone but a Civil War vet who is trying to scratch out a living as an Arizona rancher, struggling with bankruptcy, starvation and the loss of his family's respect.
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Film details the Apollo crews' untold stories.
Looking up at it from down here, the moon seems all mystery -- a vast, nebulous, glowing ball illuminating the dark sky to ease the fears of mankind below. But for the 12 men -- only nine of whom are still living -- who have walked upon the moon's surface, the planetary body has come to represent far more than a night light.
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The performance artist's short film visualizes the creative process inside the mind.
The lights in the planetarium dim and the theater seats automatically recline so viewers are almost supine, looking up at the domed ceiling. But instead of watching a canvas of the heavens, the audience is taken on a mysterious journey into inner space, led by the experimental performance artist from East L.A. known only as Gronk.
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The 1928 silent film will be screened with live accompaniment Sept. 14.
KEN WINOKUR, Terry Donahue and Roger Miller -- better known as the Alloy Orchestra -- have been making beautiful music for silent films for the last 18 years.
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The singer is electric in concert yet reined in by the show's post-feminist theme. Why not just let it be about her musical prowess?
"THE Beyoncé Experience," the show 25-year-old dynamo Beyoncé Knowles is due to bring to Staples Center tonight near the end of her summer-long world tour, is one of those modern superstar spectacles that casts the artist's reality onto the level of myth.
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Dwight Yoakam says his new album is 'a way for me to say I loved him.'
DWIGHT YOAKAM is not driving the tractor, he's just sitting on it, hunkered all alone under a bright blue sky tinged with a hint of encroaching twilight. Wearing faded overalls and a red Shell trucker cap, he gazes pensively at a sprawling modern ranch house off to his right. Beyond him are fields crosshatched by white picket fences, dotted with oak trees and ringed by shadowy mountains.
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A new album is due in November.
NEW YORK (AP) -- It seems like forever since Britney Spears had six-pack abs and a hit song on the charts. But the fallen pop princess -- tarnished by a tumultuous divorce, late-night partying and erratic behavior -- is trying to get her music career back on track.
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The world music wizard is re-imagined as a broadcaster with his own little radio station.
Manu Chao
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Unthinkable a few years ago, Public Enemy and Nine Inch Nails will headline a concert in Beijing.
BEIJING -- As a group that entered the music world urging a generation of alienated youths to "fight the powers that be," Public Enemy would seem to be the last band a government still shadowed by the student crackdown in Tiananmen Square would want performing in the heart of Beijing.
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Filmmaker Ken Burns defends his work as heavily orchestrated, manipulated truth -- just don't call him "enthusiastic."
WHEN Ken Burns was working on his first professional documentary, in 1979, he pestered playwright Arthur Miller for an interview on its subject, the Brooklyn Bridge. Miller had written "A View From the Bridge," so Burns figured he would have wisdom to share about the stately span. But when the fledgling filmmaker traveled to Miller's farm in Connecticut, "I arrived with heart pounding, he's 6-foot-5 and leans in, 'I don't know a god-damned thing about the Brooklyn Bridge!' " Burns recalls. "I just must have looked so mortified."
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Media-savvy presidential hopefuls go hunting for votes in the late-night wilderness.
"My first guest tonight is a candidate for president of the United States . . . " is a refrain already echoing across the late-night talk show battlefield.
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Press mirrors popular opinion.
OF all the myths propagated about the American news media, none is more laughable than the notion that it is an adversarial institution, that journalists today compose a kind of cultural fifth column.
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ALLY WALKER doesn't have a nude sex scene in the first episode of HBO's "Tell Me You Love Me," the explicit new series that premieres Sept. 9. She starred in "Profiler" and "Moon Over Miami" and has also appeared on "L.A. Law," "The Shield" and "E.R."
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Though bound by a confidentiality pact, parents tell advocacy groups of concerns that children were fed lines.
Amid the media firestorm and scrutiny by public officials, a group of "Kid Nation" parents has expressed concerns to two Los Angeles-based advocacy groups that monitor child labor in the entertainment industry about the way producers handled aspects of the production in New Mexico this past spring.
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After a record summer, studios try to spell success
The fall movie season has a way of supplanting the cash crop known as the summer picture, allowing more exotic and diverse vegetation to thrive in time for awards season and year-end best lists.
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Let's get this straight: Roger Ebert and the late Gene Siskel trademarked their thumbs, so Disney-ABC Domestic Television, which owns "At the Movies With Ebert & Roeper," must ban the thumbs-up/thumbs-down ratings until it works out its impasse over Ebert's expired contract?
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'Kamp Katrina' -- 3 1/2 stars (out of 4)
'Kamp Katrina' 3 1/2 stars (out of 4)
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'Ladron Que Roba a Ladron' -- 3 stars (out 4)
The jaunty heist picture "Ladron Que Roba a Ladron" ("A Thief Who Steals From a Thief") almost makes up for the season's previous attempt at a jaunty heist picture, "Ocean's Thirteen," which you may have liked but which I found smug. Some movies leave you feeling like a mugging victim; after that one I felt smugged.
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'Delirious' -- 3 stars (out of 4)
Writer-director Tom DiCillo takes the same approach to his films as he has to his career: There's a general theme, but the execution is all over the place. A former cinematographer for Jim Jarmusch (on "Permanent Vacation" and "Stranger Than Paradise"), DiCillo spent eight years trying to make it as an actor, then started writing and directing funny, sometimes scathing, but always scattershot films that channeled his experiences, such as "The Real Blonde" and "Living In Oblivion." His new "Delirious" is similarly focused on the entertainment industry, and similarly wandering: It's a comedy about friendship, a satire about fame, a tragedy, a romance and even, briefly, a thriller. Inevitably, in trying to do everything at once, DiCillo overreaches, but in spite of the off-tone moments and thematic distractions, "Delirious" is engaging, intelligent and enjoyable.
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Herbie Hancock came to play -- and not just the piano.
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Can a bargain-priced DVD boost one of the tube's best shows to better ratings? That's what NBC hopes while shooting a second TV season of "Friday Night Lights." This resonant family drama about teens, their parents, their tight-knit Texas community and, yes, high school football, plays even better on DVD, episode after involving episode. Extras include a 23-minute backgrounder, intimately shot on-location, which explains the show beautifully; plus an hour of deleted scenes (some of them superb). [ NEWSDAY ]
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It seems like forever since Britney Spears had six-pack abs and a hit song on the charts. But the fallen pop princess -- tarnished by a tumultuous divorce, late-night partying and erratic behavior -- is trying to get her music career back on track.
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Henry Mancini's score for "Wait Until Dark," the thriller in which Audrey Hepburn stars as a blind woman terrorized by a trio of murderous thugs, is finally being released 40 years after the movie's release. What took so long?
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Tune into most radio stations, and you'd be hard-pressed to find Snoop Dogg's "Gin and Juice" spun back-to-back with The Shins' "New Slang," despite each song's rabid popularity. But set your MP3 player to shuffle, and anything is possible.
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Stevie Wonder has released only three albums in 20 years, hasn't toured in more than a decade, and last had a No. 1 hit 22 years ago.
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Kanye West was sipping a mixed drink through a straw, and his loose tongue was even friskier than usual. The occasion was a listening party a few days ago at a Chicago recording studio for his third album, "Graduation" (Good Music), due out Sept. 11.
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High expectations make his former post hard to fill
How soon we forget the great ones who were walking among us, it seems, only the other day.
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Iranian Americans protested a story line in the script. A later revise given to the group gets its approval.
The May 14 letter to writer-director-producer Wayne Kramer began on an upbeat note: "Congratulations on commencing the production of your upcoming film, 'Crossing Over.' From the details I have gathered thus far, the story line is compelling."
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Hollywood's big names and the day's big issues -- Iraq and security -- find their way north to Canada's big movie fest.
TORONTO -- A glance at the program at the Toronto International Film Festival reveals two prevailing themes at this year's event: The A-list is getting longer, and the films are getting more political.
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Rob Zombie's reinvention of the 1978 horror film breaks a holiday-weekend record.
Hollywood slashed away at another box-office record as a new version of "Halloween" scared up a Labor Day weekend haul of $26.5 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales through Sunday, distributor MGM said.
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The young R & B singer, whose 'Beautiful Girls' is a radio hit, channels his inspirations at the Key Club.
You're the teen prince of the summer's signature song, the kind that has reigned over iTunes, ring tones and MySpace alike, an innocent but cunning confection that's seeped into nearly everyone's consciousness in Doppler form from so many cars blasting it out of souped-up speakers. How do you fill 50 minutes of concert time at the Key Club? How do you satisfy the expectations of your hip-shaking lady fans, who arrive in clingy cotton dresses for the start of a steamy-hot holiday weekend?
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T-Pain sets the example at Gibson Amphitheatre, singing snippets of the songs that have made his name and moving on.
During the genial R&B singer T-Pain's set at Screamfest '07 on Saturday at Gibson Amphitheatre, he recapped his recent guest verses on other artists' hit singles. First was his turn on R. Kelly's charming bachelor anthem "I'm a Flirt," then Huey's club staple "Pop Lock & Drop It," then the remix of Unk's "Two Step" and finally Chris Brown's "Kiss Kiss."
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Will this summer s reality bombs inspire more scripted fare?
AT a certain point this summer, it may have looked as if your TV had been kidnapped by cruddy reality shows.
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He's still magnificent.
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