This is a needed feature I'm starting for Saturdays: my round-up of what's new and hot in entertainment from Village Voice Media alternative newspapers across the country. Trust these alt-weeklies to know about the best or worst stuff first.
Every week, check out the links to movie, music, video game and TV-related articles and reviews in the VVM alt-weeklies located in Los Angeles, New York, Denver, Miami, Houston, Dallas, San Francisco, Oakland, Seattle, Cleveland, Minneapolis, Phoenix, Nashville, Kansas City, St. Louis, Orange County (CA) Broward/Palm Beach County (FL).
Also: : At Home With Penélope Cruz.
: The Interview. : Richard Linklater maps out his Fast Food Nation. : AFI remembers the past, neglects the present.
: Behind-The-Scenes of Shut Up Sing. : It's always Saturday night in A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints. : How Saw's Tobin Bell prepares to scare the crap out of you.
: Adam Beach enters the spotlight. : The modestly budgeted Boxers follows amateur women fighters into the ring. : The diamond cartel's campaign against Leo's upcoming movie gets dirty.
: Movie sex, dirty and clean, through the ages. : Helen Mirren takes on The Queen. : Jim firing his agent is juicier than Entourage.
TV: : The fight for a TV show about truth, justice and high school football. : It’s fall replacement time at the networks — send in the clones.
: It’s East Coast 30 Rock against the West Coast heavyweights of Studio 60. : Saturday Night Live in the post-Tina Fey/YouTube unknown. : Breaking Bonaduce – again.
: Networks throw mad money, but catch only two beauties. : Dexter, on Showtime. : Anne Heche finds Men in Trees who like real women.
: From freak shows to freak accidents to freakin’ mayhem.
MUSIC: : The Aggrolites play ska as Jah intended.
: Two New York rappers dreamed of stardom/MF Doom got it/MF Grimm didn't. : Wide release and a new label have Common Market poised to conquer new lands. : Indie dance-poppers — punker than Home Depot.
: Chris Carrabba offers his guide to soul-baring. : Coming to terms. : Hungry no longer, Duran Duran finds life appetizing again.
: After breaking with Rock Ridge, Love.45 is back to basics. : Joan Jett wants "a fair shot" for Sinner.
: Jolie Holland takes it to the river. : Charalambides comes home. : Paranoid Punk prose.
: Wall Of Sound. : The Clash and Carbon/Silicon guitarist talks about life after Joe. : Joanna Newsom is nobody's pixie, sprite, bear, fairy, or folk freak.
Posted by Nikki Finke on Saturday, November 11th, 2006 at 05:31PM
Mogul earns scorn, not envy, at Globes
Will the public get off? Or is it just studio masturbation?
Hollywood stuffs its stockings with Mel-odramas, shame, backstabbing and bloodbaths
Mel’s persecution complex, Russell’s bloody bling and Hollywood’s overpaid divas
Broad, Burkle, Geffen.
.. when it comes to the Times, whose briefcase is bigger?
Borat slumps, Dubya dies, Fields goes free and Lansing dishes?
Networks throw mad money, but catch only two beauties
Is Dean of Arc playing a dangerous game with the Times’ integrity?
Where was George Mitchell while Disney sold out 9/11?
From freak shows to freak accidents to freakin’ mayhem, Reality TV goes wild
Cruise And Redstone do battle – prepare for a true epic.
Not just Mel, but sanctimonious Hollywood, too
Jake Gyllenhaal s ride to nowhere?
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