‘Arts’ Archives
Take Me Home Tonight
Take Me Home Tonight * Theiopolis Cinema * “Take Me Home Tonight”(2010) Comedy. Cast: Topher Grace (Matt frank), Dan Fogler (Barry Nathan), Teiesa Palmer (Tori Frederking), Anna Faris (Wendy Franklin). (R)95 minutes.Director: Michael Dowse. Actor-co producer Topher Grace and actor Dan Fogler showed up for questions and answers after their movie “Take Me Home Tonight” was over. I wasn”'t really interested in staying around for a movie I didn”'t care about. I”'m happy these young men are enjoying some success but their movie, to be blunt, is so generic so as to be ad nauseam. Nothing in Michael Dowse”'s comedy distinguishes itself from umpteen comedies about white teens and twentysomethings partying, drinking beer and looking for that girl with whom he missed a chance to have sex. To Dowse”'s credit, most of the scurrilous language and gross behavior is missing from this comedy set in the 1980s--Ronald Reagan, [...]
Movie Coffin
By Howard McQuitter II Jane Russell, 1921-2011 Actress Jane Russell, 89, died the day after the 83rd Academy Awards--February 28--one of the most popular beauties of the silver screen in the 1940s in San Maria,California. She got her first role in the film “Outlaw” (1943) by director Howard Hughes, a movie the censors criticized for its provocative scenes of Russell”'s low-cut blouse. The movie barely got by the censors two years later in limited showings. “Outlaw” wasn”'t a particularly good movie, but the stunning beauty attracted male moviegoers by the millions. Jane starred in other movies “Young Widow”(1946),”Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” (1953), “Gentlemen Marry Brunettes” (1955) “His Kind of Woman”(1951), “The Las Vegas Story” (1951), “Mamie Stoyer” (1956) and “The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown”(1957), a big flop. Her roles past “Nightgown” [...]
“Bridging Minneapolis” Wins FEAST FUNDING
”˜Bridging Minneapolis,”' the community-arts”' project on both ends of the 24th Street Pedestrian Bridge recently won the public vote at FEAST, a city-wide arts funding competition. The $1,000 proceeds are being used to move the project forward. Watch The Alley as it unfolds! (Contact Dallas Johnson for information and to share your ideas: dallicious@gmail.com).”
