Gómez-Peña conveys sentiments through mixed-media
"How many of you consider yourselves pure-blooded whites? How many of you consider yourselves people of color?
"How many of you consider yourselves pure-blooded whites? How many of you consider yourselves people of color?
Terrorism. Drama. Suspense. No, you're not watching national news coverage. I'm referring to that new drama "24," which premieres tonight on Fox. Appropriately titled, "24" follows counterterrorist agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) as he tries to stop an assassination attempt on an African-American presidential candidate (Dennis Haysbert). All the while, Bauer searches desperately for his daughter and tries to maintain his sanity as the suspense builds and the clock ticks away. It's an original concept: The entire season covers one 24-hour day over the course of the season, with each one-hour episode filmed in real time.
Silent film legend Kevin Brownlow was honored by the College Friday night as he became the recipient of the Dartmouth Film Award.
Those clever "Survivor" producers tantalized TV Guide readers last week by telling them in the episode description that "a member of the Samburu tribe cracks under pressure." Who cracks? The obvious answer is Lindsey, who doesn't deal well with the psychological aftermath of Tribal Council.
"Welcome to the 53rd, 54th and 55th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards," joked host Ellen DeGeneres as she greeted those famous faces of the entertainment industry last night at the Shubert Theater in Los Angeles. After weeks of anticipation, the 53rd Annual Emmy Awards finally aired.
Silent Film is a media of expression that too often goes unnoticed as big-budget Hollywood productions continue to dominate the favor of the American viewing public. Kevin Brownlow, however, is trying to counteract this trend through his many documentaries and films about the Silent Film era.
Lenny Kravitz has made a career out of copying other musicians. Not that this is a bad thing.
Johnny Depp and Heather Graham deliver disappointingly flat performances in "From Hell," a thriller inspired by the Victorian serial killer Jack the Ripper. Depp plays Frederick Abberline, a moody, opium-addict investigator whose bouts of clairvoyance help him solve the murders of five prostitutes in late 19th-century London.
"OK, everyone turn to the person on your left or your right and give them a big hug yes, you two guys in front, we want to see some male bonding," Gyro (Rob Williams) instructed the crowd at last night's performance from The Flaming Idiots in Spaulding. Gyro was "the tiny, cute one" of the Flaming Idiots, along with Pyro (Jon O'Connor), a goofy version of Chandler (from "Friends") and Walter (Kevin Hunt), a guy with really, really big hair. The trio was welcomed to Hanover with a full house. In less than two seconds, we were all transported to the "Idiot Olympics," where Pyro was to show off his skill at coin catching, a sport that requires "pluck, determination, and a willingness to live in your parents' basement for the rest of your life." He amazed the crowd and the other two Idiots with his "profile," nicely apperent in his spandex wrestling suit, while catching up to six coins at a time as strains of the theme from "Chariots of Fire" played in the background. The Flaming Idiots had a great mix of jokes, acting, audience participation, and truly amazing feats, but the audience still was rather subdued.
On their fifth album, "Wake Up and Smell the Coffee," the Cranberries venture little and gain nothing. The group responsible for the 1994 hit album "No Need to Argue" had such a consistent sound on their first three albums that one had to wonder whether they were only capable of making the same record over and over again.
Sit back, start the cappuccino machine brewing, and blast Destiny's Child's Independent Woman. That's right, it's posh, it's sexy, it's female power.
Hailing from somewhere in outer space, sci-fi surf rockers Man or Astroman? will play Dartmouth College for the first time tonight. Band members Birdstuff, CoCo the Electric Monkey Wizard, Trace Reading and Blazar claim to be aliens whose intergalactic spacecraft crashed outside Auborn, Alabama in 1992.
Do not ever let anyone tell you that Wynton Marsalis is not the greatest musician in our galaxy. Wynton is a trumpet player and jazz composer from the Marsalis family (of Ellis and Branford), leader of a big band and jazz septet, artistic director of New York City's Jazz at Lincoln Center and father of three.
Four stands were placed in a random setup on the stage, when seemingly premature applause greeted cellist Dimitry Khrychev after intermission.
Fun facts: the Samburu and Boran tribes of Kenya adhere to monotheistic religions. While some Samburu have been converted to Christianity, and some Boran to Islam, others observe traditional beliefs -- which still place faith in one God. So where are Linda's "gods and goddesses" and "spirits" of Africa? The Harvard career counselor and member of Dartmouth's Class of 1978 keeps jabbering about the deep meaning of Africa.
Discovering the Titanic was not enough for deep sea explorer Robert Ballard. He plans on searching the ocean floor of the ice covered Weddell Sea in search of another vessel in "The Endurance," a ship with a story. "It's as good as the Iliad or the Odyssey," said filmmaker George Butler.
Experienced fans of the Dave Matthews Band know to expect a good show when they enter an arena to hear the group play.
"If you don't come up here and dance for this next one, we're not gonna play," Anglique Kidjo warned the audience near the end of her performance in Spaulding Auditorium last night. She hardly need have asked. Kidjo, a Beninese-born, Brooklyn-based world-pop singer of renown, had worked the crowd into a frenzy by then, taking a nearly full auditorium divided almost evenly between Dartmouth students and Upper Valley residents and bringing it to its feet.
Yes, Bobby Redford is at it again. In his new film, "The Last Castle," he is once more attacking the American prison system only this time, from the other side of the bars. In 1980's "Brubaker," his first philippic against the penal system, Redford played a young warden dead-set on reforming a corrupt Southern prison.
Drew Barrymore's character, Beverly, the focus of "Riding in Cars with Boys," struggles to come to terms with and accept her true identity. The film opens with a grown-up Barrymore riding alongside her son, Jason (Adam Garcia), in, surprise, a car.