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MOVIE PREVIEW: At 65, iconoclastic rocker Lemmy is anything but retiring
By MIKEL TOOMBS
Will it play in Peoria?
The question dates back to the show business of the 1920s: “If an act did well in Peoria,” according to Peoria.com (yes, I know), “vaudeville companies knew that it would work throughout the nation.”
In the 2010s, with a new movie featuring lovable rock iconoclast Lemmy Kilmister, 65, the answer [...]
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Singer Bobby Long rides the ‘Twilight’ wave to fame
Since nearly everything associated with the blockbuster vampire movie “Twilight” is insanely popular, British singer-songwriter Bobby Long is getting a rock-star welcome in the U.S. this fall.
Long’s “Let Me Sign” (written by Long and Marcus Foster) was featured in the original “Twilight” movie, even though Long’s friend, “Twilight” star Robert Pattinson, sang the tune. (Long [...]
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MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Pirate Radio’ awash in frat-boy humor
“Pirate Radio” is a lightweight comedy about a boatload of radio renegades broadcasting offshore in the North Sea of England in the mid-’60s — from Richard Curtis, the creator of “Notting Hill” and “Love Actually.”
They lift skirts — and skirt the law — during an era when government-sanctioned public radio refused to play rock ‘n’ [...]
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A newspaper thriller
Despite its unmemorable title, “State of Play” is a thoroughly engrossing newspaper thriller that explores new and old journalism in the context of a stop-the-presses political scandal.
Starring Russell Crowe, perfectly cast as a world-weary veteran investigative reporter for the Washington Globe, and Rachel McAdams, as the young blogger who learns the ropes from an old [...]
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