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Phil Bacharach
Without overt manipulation, the film reveals Rivers' complexity with a subtlety that is lacking in Rivers herself.

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Phil Bacharach

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Phil Bacharach

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Phil Bacharach
When it comes to movies, three is not typically a magic number. And so a bit of trepidation was natural when approaching "Toy Story 3." The previous two entries in the franchise are in the rarified ai...

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Phil Bacharach
There's no escaping the 1980s. Multiplexes recently saw a reboot of "A Nightmare on Elm Street" and soon will make room for a theatrical version of TV's "The A-Team." Even massive oil spills and Gary Coleman are back in the news. So perhaps a reworking of "The Karate Kid," that beloved underdog-makes-good yarn from 1984, was only inevitable.

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Phil Bacharach
Letters to Juliet opens with shots of kisses taken from classical paintings and vintage photos, a montage proudly proclaiming its chick-flick romantic-comedy bona fides. It also serves notice not to...

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Phil Bacharach
A bona fide diva and five-time Grammy winner Dionne Warwick takes the stage at Norman's Riverwind Casino on Friday. In the  1960s, her sophisticated but heartfelt vocal stylings made her a favor...

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Phil Bacharach
There is no mistaking The Walkmen for another band. With ragged melodies, vintage musical instruments, rattle-and-hiss production and caterwauling of lead singer Hamilton Leithauser, the quintet...

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Phil Bacharach
Nancy Wilson clearly remembers the first time she heard her band, Heart, on the radio. It was 1976 in Vancouver, British Columbia. She and her older sister, Ann, had just picked up some grocerie...

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Phil Bacharach
The documentary "Food, Inc." begins, appropriately enough, in a grocery store, its brightly lit and vaguely antiseptic aisles stocked with name-brand cereals, soups and salad dressings. The expa...

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Phil Bacharach
It is nearly impossible to imagine alternative rock without Sonic Youth. Since its founding in the early '80s, the New York-based band has been as uncompromising as it is influential, with its c...

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Phil Bacharach
The rap on Lucinda Williams has long been that she's a gifted songwriter " perhaps the finest of her generation " but also a maddening perfectionist and control freak. NO APOLOG...

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Phil Bacharach
At first blush, "Everlasting Moments" might sound like a litany of art-house film clichés. Set in Sweden in the early 20th century, its saga of a quiet, strong-willed woman and her lout of a hus...

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Phil Bacharach
When The B-52s began work on their first studio album in more than 15 years, the bandmates expected to whip up their singular brand of vibrant, dance-happy kitsch. What they didn't anticipat...