Saturday, April 3, 2010
"Dynasty" actor John Forsythe dies, 92
LOS ANGELES - "Dynasty" star John Forsythe, whose acting career spanned seven decades on stage, film and television, has died at age 92 after a year-long battle with cancer, his family said on Friday. Forsythe died on Thursday in Santa Ynez, California, northwest of Los Angeles, near Santa Barbara, after contracting pneumonia.
Janet Jackson calls film role "intense," "cathartic"
LOS ANGELES - Playing a grieving mother in a movie even as, in real life, your brother's death stirred the world would be hard for anyone, and for Janet Jackson the experience proved "intense" and "cathartic," she said. Her new movie, "Why Did I Get Married, Too?" debuts in U.S. theaters on Friday, and has Jackson playing a self-help psychologist who suffers a family tragedy and then sees her marriage fall apart.
"Titans" shows muscle but can't slay "Dragon"
LOS ANGELES - Warner Bros.' 3D action fantasy "Clash of the Titans" fetched an estimated $4.2 million from Thursday evening and midnight performances in about 3,000 domestic theaters. The solid but unspectacular start gave it only a share of second place in the daily box-office rankings. DreamWorks Animation's "How to Train Your Dragon" registered more than $5 million on Thursday to top the daily box-office pecking order and push the Paramount-distributed animated film's cumulative gross to $63 million through its first seven days.
Terrence McNally ready for a break after long year
WASHINGTON - Terrence McNally slowly shakes his head, clasps his hands together, and admits -- with a trace of apology -- that he's ready to take a breather. It's not because the playwright is 71 years-old, has writer's block, or needs to take a break because he's been battling lung cancer for nearly a decade.
Report: Charlie Sheen wants to exit "Men"
LOS ANGELES - A report that Charlie Sheen wants to leave CBS' "Two and a Half Men" has raised uncertainty about the future of one of TV's top-rated comedies. People magazine reported Thursday that Sheen is leaving "Men" after the current seventh season, saying the actor has rejected a contract-renewal offer and wants to exit the show.
"Don McKay" falls short of dark comic intentions
LOS ANGELES - "Don McKay" is meant to be an odd film, but it's odd for the wrong reasons. Actors inhabit the film's spaces awkwardly, as if these were not the sets they rehearsed in. Scenes play in a half-halting manner with too much dead space surrounding the actors. Then their characters keep doing strange things, which one assumes will be explained later. When those explanations arrive, their actions make even less sense. The film's neophyte writer-director, Jake Goldberger, no doubt was aiming for a darkly comic film noir such as Danny Boyle's "Shallow Grave" or, his own suggestion, the Coen brothers' "Blood Simple." But he mistakes deadness for deadpan and mere oddness for that touch of genius that allows a first-rate filmmaker to get laughs out of the contrast between gruesome acts and mundane social concerns.
Courtney Love is back with a vengeance
NEW YORK , she will do the following: show off all her clothes; explain her new style, which she calls "kook"; display financial documents on her battered laptop which, she says, prove she's a victim of embezzlement; Google her new crush's ex-girlfriend; learn two Big Star songs; and yell at various people about various things. She will talk. She will smoke. On two occasions, she will smoke, talk and pee with the bathroom door open, all at once.
"Red" a superb rendering of modern art history
NEW YORK asks in the opening line of John Logan's new drama, "Red." It indeed is the central question, as this fascinating theatrical depiction of this complex figure at work should easily make audiences re-evaluate their notions about the artistic process. Newly arrived on Broadway for a limited engagement after a recent hit run at London's Donmar Warehouse, the play should prove similarly successful here and stands to figure prominently this awards season.
Billboard singles reviews: Stone Temple Pilots, Macy Gray
NEW YORK , he sounds far more convincing here than he ever did as the lead singer of Velvet Revolver. "Between the Lines" might not have the surefire hit potential of STP's older singles, but it's still an excellent welcome-back gift from one of rock's biggest names. ARTIST: MACY GRAY
"Married Too" a familiar blend of laughs, melodrama
NEW YORK - As usual, Tyler Perry didn't screen his latest opus in advance for the media and, as usual, he didn't have to. As the title suggests, "Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Too?" -- which Lionsgate released Friday -- is a sequel to his popular film of several years ago, continuing the story of four couples coping with various marital crises. Displaying his usual mixture of broad, sitcom-style humor and soapy melodramatics, it's an entertaining, if hokey, effort that his target audience will eat up.
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