Arts And Entertainment
Books: Max Brand: The Agatha Christie of the B Western
By Phil McArdle, Special to the Planet
Tuesday July 25, 2006
Max Brand was the pseudonym of Frederick Faust, a pulp writer who had ambitions as a serious poet. Or as he preferred, a serious poet whose day job was spinning cowboy yarns.
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Moving Pictures: Tributes to Gaynor, Borzage at PFA
By Justin DeFreitas
Friday July 21, 2006
Two retrospectives starting today (Friday) at Pacific Film Archive will illuminate the work of actress Janet Gaynor and director Frank Borzage, both sterling talents in their day but unjustly overlooked in ours.
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Moving Pictures: When Soccer Almost Conquered America
By Justin DeFreitas
Friday July 21, 2006
If you’re a soccer fan still looking for a way to get the poisonous image of Zinedine Zidane’s head-butt out of your mind, the solution may have arrived in the form of a new documentary. Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos tells the story of soccer’s arrival in the United States in the late 1970s, when media mogul Steve Ross set out to make the “the beautiful game” a national phenomenon.
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The Theater: ‘Human Paper Doll’ a Real Cut-Up at the Berkeley Rep
By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Friday July 21, 2006
The metamorphoses of Madonna, or Elton John changing fashions and overburdening specs ... Judy Garland as Dorothy, belting out “Over The Rainbow” while absent-mindedly petting a pinwheel-headed Toto ... and just how does a paraplegic Venus De Milo line-dance to Zorba The Greek ?
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