Entertainment Articles
Lips' 'Embryonic' Wonderfully Mature
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Oklahoma's Flaming Lips are solid musical veterans with twenty years of touring and eleven albums to their credit. It comes as a complete surprise that the group would follow a lukewarm record like 2006's At War With The Mystics with something as strong and unapologetically difficult as Embryonic.
NJCU Gets Jazzed Up:
Saxophonist James Moody Visits NJCU for Charity Concert
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On October 19, famed jazz saxophonist, James Moody, performed at the Margaret Williams Theatre at NJCU. The concert was held in order to raise funds for NJCU scholarships. Born in Savannah, Georgia and raised in Newark, New Jersey, James Moody has been one of the most consistently expressive and enduring figures in Jazz history.
Jude Law Shines in Hamlet
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In the new production of Hamlet at the Broadhurst Theatre in New York, Jude Law dons the title role of Shakespeare's famous hero - a melancholy prince bent on avenging his father's murder. Directed by Michael Grandage, the production is a bleak, minimalist approach to the four hundred year-old play.
I Wouldn't Mind Vacationing 'Where the Wild Things Are'
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Our hero, a nine-year-old boy named Max, wearing a wolf costume, acts out in fits of savagery. We are introduced to him as he chases his dog with a metal fork. He growls and tackles the helpless prey as the title, Where the Wild Things Are, is plastered on the screen in a child's whimsical handwriting.
What Is 'Good Hair?'
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Men may finally have the answer to why women often say, "Don't touch my hair!" Chris Rock's hilarious documentary, Good Hair, explores the amount of money African American women spend on human hair. In Good Hair, Rock interviews actresses Nia Long, Raven-Symone as well as rapper Eve.
Foxx, Butler Tough to Abide in 'Citizen'
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Law Abiding Citizen, F. Gary Gray's thriller starring Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler, adds up to less than the sum of its parts. The film's mixture of elements from Seven, the Saw franchise, and Prison Break must have sounded good on paper, but don't quite work on celluloid.