Jim Rugg Saturday, Feb. 6, 5-9 p.m. Chapel Hill Comics The ’70s are back: Those who missed the blaxploitation pastiche Black Dynamite have a second shot at some quality retro action when writer-artist Jim Rugg visits Chapel Hill Comics this week to promote his new graphic novel Afrodisiac. The 96-page hardcover was recently released by […]
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Celebrating the brief era of headbands, leg warmers, short-shorts and roller disco in Xanadu
XANADU Raleigh Memorial Auditorium Jan. 28-31 For a film famously reviewed as “Xana-Don’t,” the ill-fated 1980 Olivia Newton-John/ Gene Kelly musical Xanadu lingers in the mind. True, it helped kill the movie musical, along with the careers of most people involved, but the color, spectacle and sheer wrongness of the whole venture gave it a […]
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Jennifer Coolidge: More than just a MILF
It took one simple acronym to put Jennifer Coolidge in the public eye: “MILF.” Since her appearance as the teen-deflowering Stifler’s mom in 1999’s American Pie, the actress says she’s been inundated with scripts for “horny mother and trophy wife” roles. But she looks back on the part with fondness: “It’s gotten me a lot […]
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Tommy Lee Edwards is everywhere, from comics to Denzel Washington and George Lucas movies
The room is in a small building just behind a white house with a garage, located off a private road in Pittsboro that looks like the proverbial Norman Rockwell paintingbig front lawns, scenic views and the occasional pond that might attract migrating ducks in winter. You’d never guess its inhabitant was plotting an alien invasion […]
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A decade of wonder and tumult
On its opening weekend, I managed to snag a last-minute ticket to a sold-out IMAX screening of James Cameron’s Avatar. Like many moviegoers, I was overwhelmed by the visuals and underwhelmed by the story. The experience also left me with nausea, migraines and a temporary loss of peripheral vision, but in a way I was […]
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Mike Judge talks about his work and today’s DVD release of Extract
Mike Judge’s comedies have always been a unique mix of the subtle and outrageous, combing cartoonish characters (in both a literal and figurative sense), with an easygoing pace that puts as much emphasis on awkward silences and uncomfortable reactions as slapstick and punch lines. Judge has experienced tremendous success in the realm of animation, first […]
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Man for all media: A conversation with Anthony Horowitz, television writer and children’s author par excellence
Anthony Horowitz is considered one of the top television dramatists in the UK, as the mind behind such shows as Foyle’s War, Midsomer Murders, numerous adaptations of Agatha Christie’s Inspector Poirot tales and, most recently, Collision, currently airing on PBS’ Masterpiece Contemporary (the miniseries concludes at 9 p.m. on Nov. 22; Part One encores at […]
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A conversation with Anthony Horowitz, television writer and children’s author par excellence
Anthony Horowitz is considered one of the top television dramatists in the UK, as the mind behind such shows as Foyle’s War, Midsomer Murders, numerous adaptations of Agatha Christie’s Inspector Poirot tales and, most recently, Collision, currently airing on PBS’ Masterpiece Contemporary (the miniseries concludes at 9 p.m. on Nov. 22; Part One encores at […]
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Pizza, Mountain Dew and the CIA
“Do you want to be a part of history?” asked the flyer in N.C. State’s Caldwell Lounge. Below that question were the words, “Come learn about life as a CIA analyst.” Below that was, “Drop by and chat with officers from the CIA’s Directorate of Intelligence.” And below that, in capital letters: “FREE PIZZA.” This […]
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A conversation with Edgar Sawtelle author David Wroblewski
David Wroblewski didn’t think his first novel, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, would even sell to a publisher: “It’s kind of an old-fashioned story, and I don’t think we’re into old-fashioned stories right now,” he said recently by phone, taking time out from his tour to promote the paperback release of his novel. Instead, The […]
