LOS ANGELES — Artist Mike Kelley,age 57, described by colleagues as an “irresistible force” in contemporary art, has died.
Kelley was found at his home Tuesday and it appeared he had committed suicide, South Pasadena Police Sgt. Robert Bartl said, without providing further information on the artist’s death.
Kelley’s work in the 1980s was part of how [...]
The Underworld Awakening movie,stands fourth in the vampires-vs.-werewolves action-horror franchise,as creatures of the night arose with a vengeance, won the weekend box-office battle at North American theaters with $25.4 million, according to preliminary studio estimates. Red Tails, George Lucas’s tribute to the black Tuskegee Airmen in World War II, flew high with $19.1 million [...]
Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton star in an aggressively uplifting musical that will leave you either snarling or singing or maybe both in Joyful Noise movie.
In every movie, reviewer lurks two creatures: the critic and the fan. The critic analyzes and cauterizes, coolly judging a film’s manipulation of its audience. The fan sits there and [...]
JERSEY CITY — On the rough-edged streets of Harlem in the 1940s, the young Walter Dean Myers knew better than to carry his library books where other children could see them.
“I was teased if I brought my books home,” said Mr. Myers, now a prolific and award-winning children’s book author. “I would take a paper [...]
Savage Life 3 (Trill)
The Baton Rouge, La., rapper Webbie has the laziest sort of charm. He didn’t even take time to come up with a newish title for this, his third solo album, and he certainly doesn’t agonize over his lyrics.
Almost a decade ago he emerged in tandem with the far more fiery and intricate [...]
The producer of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol forced the star to perform some pretty hairy stunts. But since Tom Cruise is the producer (and star) of this fourth feature-film spinoff of the ’60s TV series, we can assume that he wanted to assert his limber muscularity as he approaches 50. So here he is, [...]
Mavis Gary (Charlize Theron) peaked early. At her rural Minnesota high school she was the prom queen and Superior Blond Being, and clever enough to think she might become a famous writer. All the girls wanted to be her; all the boys wanted to bed her. Back then, Mavis ran with that other species of [...]
THE ART OF FIELDING
By Chad Harbach. Little, Brown & Company, $25.99.
At a small college on the Wisconsin side of Lake Michigan, the baseball team sees its fortunes rise with the arrival of a supremely gifted shortstop. Harbach’s expansive, allusive first novel combines the pleasures of an old-fashioned baseball story with a stately, self-reflective meditation on [...]
If you love Wallace & Gromit, the series of shorts that established Aardman as the wittiest people to ever play with clay, then Arthur Christmas may seem a disconcertingly different animal.
A little girl writes to Santa and asks some age old Christmas questions, including the one about time management — how does Santa get to [...]
The Greek epic earned $32 million its first weekend, but Modern Warfare 3 did $400 million its first day—so who’s the champion of the young-male demographic?
Immortals, the Greco-roamin’ wrestling match starring Henry Cavill as Theseus and Mickey Rourke as Hyperion, king of the sadists, took the top spot at North American theaters with $32 million, [...]
