Monday's Sports Transactions Nov 3, 2009
NHL_Suspended Anaheim D James Wisniewski for two games for delivering a forearm blow to the head of Phoenix F Shane Doan during an Oct. 31 game. ANAHEIM DUCKS_Assigned LW Matt Beleskey to San Antonio (AHL). (San Francisco Chronicle -- Business)
David Denby: “Ride the High Country,” at BAM. Oct 26, 2009
In the nineteen-fifties, Fred Zinnemann ( High Noon ) and George Stevens ( Shane ) tried to freeze the Western genre into a single archetypal film, while directors like Budd Boetticher and Anthony Mann were taking it in bitter new directions. Ride the High Country, Sam Peckinpah s elegiac work from 1962 screening at BAM on Oct. 28 in a New York Film Critics Circle series is a gracious attempt to resolve these tensions. (New Yorker)
New play celebrates pioneers' love for each other - and Alaska Oct 11, 2009
"The Courtship of Zack and Ada," by P. Shane Mitchell, which opened Friday, is one of 0000081A a series of historical dramas commissioned by Cyrano's in honor of the 50th year of Alaska Statehood. The play is billed as a romantic comedy mixed with issues and characters involved in the process that led to Alaska becoming a state. (Anchorage Daily News)
Stories from the storm Sep 23, 2009
8:12 p.m. Tuesday, September 22, 2009. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)
Little Burlap Guys Sep 11, 2009
Shane Acker's 9 (Focus Features) is a symptom of the trickledown of high-quality animation. A few years ago, 9's visual niftiness, its meticulous imagination of a past-turned-future dystopia, might have been enough to make the movie fresh and memorable. (Slate)
Indigo Girls Benefit Concert Coming to Macon Aug 16, 2009
She says the Indigo Girls will headline a show featuring the Randall Bramblett Band, Caroline Aiken, Oh Dorian and Molly Stevens who will be accompanied by Shane Bridges. West says 13WMAZ Chief Meteorologist Ben Jones has agreed to emcee the benefit. (13WMAZ.com, GA)
Police chief denounces 'cowardly' iPhone users monitoring speed traps... Jul 17, 2009
Police chief denounces 'cowardly' iPhone users monitoring speed traps. By: Examiner Staff July 7, 2009. (The Drudge Report)
NewCelebrity birthdays for the week of June 7-13 Jun 4, 2009
Actress Larisa Oleynik ("3rd Rock From The Sun," "Boy Meets World) is 28. Actor Michael Cera ("Juno," "Arrested Development") is 21. June 8: Comedian Jerry Stiller is 82. Comedian-talk show host Joan Rivers is 76. Actor James Darren is 73. Actor Bernie Casey is 70. Singer Nancy Sinatra is 69. Singer Chuck Negron (Three Dog Night) is 67. Singer Boz Scaggs is 65. Actor Don Grady ("My Three Sons") is 65. Guitarist Mick Box of Uriah Heep is 62. Actress Sonia Braga is 59. Actress Kathy Baker ("Picket... (Florida Times-Union)
Robot Parade May 21, 2009
Bale's signature intensity is starting to collapse on itself; his definitive performance may turn out to be the he pitched at this film's director of photography, Shane Hurlbut, during shooting. Bale's paranoia that Hurlbut was getting in his way was well-founded. (Slate)
Anthony Lane: A fresh “Star Trek.” May 9, 2009
Here comes J. J. Abrams, riding in like Shane to save the threatened franchise. Abrams made his reputation in television, conjuring up Alias and Lost another show that began in vigorous style and has shown increasingly little sign of knowing how to stop. (New Yorker)
James Dean in Giant Movie (1956) Apr 30, 2009
George Stevens (A Place in the Sun, Shane) directed. Dimitri Tiomkin created the original music score, with William C. Mellor as cinematographer. (Suite101.com)
