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Veteran Oscar reporter offers view from audience

By BOB THOMAS/Associated Press



LOS ANGELES — Talk about fantastic finishes. Just when Hollywood figured James Cameron would win the directing and motion picture awards for his super moneymaker “Avatar,” it didn’t happen that way.




Barbra Streisand announced Sunday night that the Oscar went to Kathryn Bigelow for her direction of the Iraq war drama “The Hurt Lock

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Posted by Deirdre Long on March 8, 2010 at 12:30pm

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Hello again to Jay Leno, back as ‘Tonight’ host

By FRAZIER MOORE/Associated Press

NEW YORK — Jay Leno was absent from the nation’s TV screens for little more than three weeks, but he’s returning tonight with renewed purpose.


Leno will be reclaiming his old job at NBC’s “Tonight Show” just nine months after giving it up to Conan O’Brien, and only 19 days after NBC pulled the plug on Leno’s own prime-time misadventure.


Now the late-night war resumes between Leno and his longtime CBS opponent David Letterman, who gai

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Posted by Deirdre Long on March 1, 2010 at 4:06pm

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WE'RE @ COYOTE MIKE'S BAR & GRILL...EVERY WEEKEND!!!!!!!

COYOTE MIKE'S...TWO BARZ, TWO DANCE FLOORZ, GREAT FOOD, GREAT ATMOSPHERE, GROWN AZZ FOLKZ!!! CELEBRATING?!?!...ANYTHING?!?!...WE'LL TREAT YA SO MANY WAYZ, YA BOUND TA LIKE ONE OF 'EM! OUR HOWLERZ ARE THE BEST!!!

Posted by PROWLERZ on February 18, 2010 at 7:26pm

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VALENTINE'S WEEKEND @ COYOTE MIKE'S!!

ENJOY THE SNOW, IT'S B-E-A-U-TIFUL! (GOD DOES GOOD WORK) DON'T FORGET TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR VALENTINE. COME PARTY WITH US @ COYOTE'S THIS WEEKEND...WE HAD A @$&%%@#& BLAST LAST WEEKEND!!! OUR HOWLERZ ARE THE BEST!! BE SAFE!

Posted by PROWLERZ on February 12, 2010 at 3:30pm

Entertainment news from The Anniston Star

And now for something completely different

You can dip your toe into the water or you can run screaming and do a cannonball. The Hangout Music Festival has undeniably chosen the latter.

Artists in Action: No shortage of events for children this week

To ignite a child’s curiosity and imagination, nothing replaces a good book in hand. And even with all of our electronic devices, there’s no substitute for the fascination and wonder a live musical theater brings to young audiences.

Hollingsworth brings unique sound to Peerless

Even Taylor Hollingsworth finds the words tough to come by when trying to pigeonhole his music.

'Lost Boys' actor Corey Haim dead in Burbank at 38

BURBANK, Calif. — The Los Angeles coroner's office says "The Lost Boys" actor Corey Haim is dead at 38.

List of winners at the 82nd annual Oscars

A full list of all of the winners

Drivin’ n’ Cryin’ back, ready to rock Brother’s

Loyal fans recognize Drivin’ n’ Cryin’s sound right away, from the unique, high-pitched voice of lead singer Kevn Kinney to the strong, true-to-rock guitar riffs.

Adkins to pick up his thumbpicking ways at Golden Saw

Jacksonville, as even the most loyal of residents would admit, is a far cry from places like Chicago, St. Louis and Washington, D.C.

Book of ref lections provides historical insight

As a child of the latest millennium who has been spoiled by cable television and its myriad syndicated sitcoms, it should come as no surprise that I have come to view 1950s America like a suburban kid views an ice cream truck through a bedroom window as it passes by on a hot summer day.

Speak to me: Local poets perform spoken-word shows

Think Lorenz Tate in the movie Love Jones or Michael Myers in So I Married an Ax Murderer. Think amateur poets on a nightclub stage reciting their own original poetry for an audience of patrons who snap their fingers or raise lit cigarette lighters in a show of approval.

Artists in Action: Chamber quartet to perform in Jacksonville Sunday

Ready for a soothing Sunday afternoon? The music by a chamber quartet, mixed with a few very stimulating pieces by famous European composers — at Jacksonville’s First Presbyterian Church at 3 p.m. — will be just that.

Book review: Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life

Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s literary reputation is immense and well deserved. Often credited with being the most important writer of the Latin American Boom of the 1960’s and ’70’s and author of several classics studied in colleges everywhere, his literary reputation is matched only by his political connections— the most famous (infamous?) being his close relationship with Fidel Castro.

‘Crazies’ taps into our fear of infection

Breck Eisner’s insane-in-the-membrane update of the George A. Romero cult horror movie The Crazies opens with a brief shot of fire, devastation and small-town apocalypse, followed by a title card that takes us back to the same Iowa farm community two days earlier.

Book review: The Disappeared

For his debut in the United States, M.R. Hall appears to be trying to introduce Jenny Cooper (the heroin of The Coroner, his first novel) to a whole new audience with his appropriately titled second novel, The Disappeared.

Book review: Noah’s Compass

Anne Tyler’s new novel is a delicate rumination on both memory and coming of age. How both can complicate and eventually clarify the most ordinary lives in the most unexpected ways is at the heart of Noah’s Compass, one of Tyler’s most heartfelt books in a long time.

Artists in Action: CAST to perform ‘The Music Man’ in spring

There may be trouble in River City, as the Broadway song goes, but there’s extra excitement coming from CAST this week as the community theater announced its spring musical will be The Music Man, with opening night scheduled for April 29.

Girl meets Beast: JSU’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’ sure to enchant audiences

It’s the age-old story of boy meets girl. That is, if said boy happens to be under an unfortunate spell that has turned him into a hideous beast.

Book review: No Shirt, No Shoes, No Sting Ray

No Shirt, No Shoes, No Sting Ray is a good time, rock-em-sock-em, wise-guy cop thriller by Anniston author Ron Miller, with cover art by local designer Ben Coleman.

Book review: The Decameron

The Decameron by Boccaccio is the kind of book you get for people who like to read, but who feel classics are essentially three things: long, dull, and dusty.

Sisters’ ‘Hospitality’ drives CAST’s latest farce

Fayro, Texas, is the scene. It’s a town sort of like ours — small, Southern, desperately in need of funds. To the rescue — of Fayro, not Anniston — are the Futrelle sisters, who have made it their duty to save the town by having, among other moneymaking ventures, a Civil War re-enactment to impress a rich prospector.

Book review: Too Much Happiness

There doesn’t appear to be all that much happiness in the new collection of 10 stories, Too much Happiness from Alice Munro, the winner of this year’s Man Booker International Prize.

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