AP - "Master of the Delta" (Harcourt, 367 pages, $24), by Thomas H. Cook: "A man doesn't need to know everything," the genteel old Southerner tells his grown son.
AP - Giacomo Puccini, "La Boheme" (Deutsche Grammophon): With at least a dozen recordings of Puccini's "La Boheme" readily available from Amazon.com, why another?
Reuters - Fans of such Guiseppe
Tornatore films as "Cinema Paradiso" and "Malena" are apt to be
left chagrined by "The Unknown Woman," a stylish but ludicrous
thriller in the Hitchcock vein. -- read full article
Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:40:47 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews
AP - I don't envy video game designers who have to work on movie tie-ins. Artists have to duplicate the look of a film with a much smaller budget. Writers have to stick pretty closely to someone else's script, even as they stretch a two-hour story into an eight-hour game. There's not much room for creativity. -- read full article
Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:08:50 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews
AP - "Dear American Airlines" (Houghton Mifflin, 192 pages. $22), by Jonathan Miles: There could never be a debut novel more perfectly timed to enter the world than Jonathan Miles' "Dear American Airlines." -- read full article
Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:33:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews
Reuters - The argument that less
is more is successfully made in "Million Dollar Password,"
which returned to CBS on Sunday after incarnations on ABC and
NBC. -- read full article
Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:57:36 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews
AP - "The Fidelity Files" (St. Martin's, 422 pages, $13.95), by Jessica Brody: At first, this debut novel reads like a feel-good story for women who think men are scum.
Reuters - Sundance Channel's "On
the Road in America," which debuts Wednesday on the cable
channel, is being promoted as something of a travelogue
involving four young adults of Arab heritage and a luxury RV. -- read full article
Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:46:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews
Reuters - When they start
switching partners on "Swingtown," which premieres Thursday on
CBS, they're not square dancing. Instead, they're testing the
limits of open marriage or wife swapping, if you will (or if
you won't). -- read full article
Tue, 03 Jun 2008 05:00:41 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews
Reuters - The argument that less
is more is successfully made in "Million Dollar Password,"
which returned to CBS on Sunday after incarnations on ABC and -- read full article
Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:12:21 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews
