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Deedle, Deedle Dumb

Adam Sandler and I had this thing going on in high school. He'd make the funny movies, and I'd always have a movie to put on when people came over. We all loved him, Billy and Happy.


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AFI: Summer Love and Brando's Nuts

On June 11 the countdown-happy American Film Institute presented its list of the 100 greatest romances of 20th-century film. The stuffed shirts at the AFI called their self-promotionathon 100 Years...


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Potent Quotables

s heinous of an individual as Mike Tyson truly is, all aspects of his checkered career in the limelight--the rape charge, the abominable misogyny, Evander Holyfield's gnawed ear--make him...


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Timeless Taylor

When members of the Paul Taylor Dance Company took the stage June 6 to open the 25th season of the American Dance Festival in Durham, they carried with them the history of a choreographer whose...


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Not Another WWII Movie

Windtalkers crosses a thin red line in an attempt to expose the audience to the underappreciated efforts of American soldiers and the harrows of wartime.


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The Doves: Not Radiohead

After the brilliantly orchestrated chaos of OK Computer redefined what it meant to make a great album amidst the millennial haze, every band with three prerequisites--a guitar, a hint of droopiness...


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Don't Bother Packing Your Bags

Cal (Billy Crudup) is the kind of guy you don't want to marry. You don't want your best friend to marry him either. In fact, you don't even want your husband to be friends with this guy.


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Nothing to Fear

He's a nice guy, an average guy, a guy just like you. But better. He's Jack Ryan, perennial do-gooder and unintentional American hero extraordinaire, preserving your right to freedom.


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Super Pumped and Strung Out

After ten years in the biz and four full-length albums (including one mixed by Ozzy Osbourne), So-Cal punk band Strung Out will thrash its way into the Cat's Cradle on June 2.


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The Real Slim Shoddy

adies and gentlemen, welcome to The Eminem Show. Please refrain from throwing rotten fruit and other projectiles until the angry white man has exited the stage.