Reuters - As a
commando-turned-hairdresser with superheroic strength and a
supersized crotch, Adam Sandler gets the Israeli accent and the
disco swagger just right.
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.
