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SOME MOVIES ABOUT GOOD/BAD MEDIA
Items of Interest for Movie Fans


CITIZEN KANE, 1941

ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN, 1976

NETWORK, 1976

ABSENCE OF MALICE, 1981

THE KILLING FIELDS, 1984

BROADCAST NEWS, 1987
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How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox.

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Noises Off at Davidson Community Players July 22-August 1.     Fast Trip to Omaha at the Warehouse Theatre July 22-August 1.    Read our interview with Dexter Darden, look under Latest News.    Cormac McCarthy's The Sunset LTD, August 5-8 at the Duke Energy Theatre.    Look under Latest News for information on some of the best, most interesting local arts events.
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SALT      Angelina Jolie is the only actress who could pull off this role, so she saves it from being another standard action spy thriller. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t have problems. The action sequences are well done, if not believable, and too often plot twists are telegraphed in advance. Evelyn Salt (Ms. Jolie) works for the CIA. As the movie opens she is a prisoner in Korea being tortured. Salt’s colleague Ted Winter (Liev Schreiber) walks her out of the prison telling her that her husband Mike Krause (August Diehl) .....more
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THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL      They’re trashy, they’re sassy, they’re incorrigibly tacky, but the folks at Armadillo Acres are loads of fun. Actor’s Theatre brings back The Great American Trailer Park Musical, and in the midst of this heat wave, it’s a welcome distraction. Betty (Taffy Allen), Pickles (Cassandra Howley Wood), and Linoleum (Carmen Schultz), begin our adventure in trailer park land by introducing this story of, what else, love gone bad in the sleepy little Florida town. .....more
   Items of Interest
Weekend Box Office Estimates
July 25, 2010


1.    Inception    $43.5M
2.    Salt    $36.5M
3.    Despicable Me   $24.1M
4.    The Sorcerer's Apprentice   $9.6M
5.   Toy Story 3   $9M
6.   Ramona and Beezus    $8M
7.   Grown Ups    $7.6M
8.   Eclipse: The Twilight Saga   $7M
9.    The Last Airbender   $4.1M
10.    Predators   $2.8M

Inception may be confounding audiences, but they are still coming to see it, some twice or more. Salt wasn't able to break through to #1, yet $36.5M isn't bad either for an action movie with little logic. After all, it does have Angelina Jolie. The other new release, Ramona and Beezus came in a weak #6 with $8M.

New York Times - July 23, 2010
Top 10 Hardcover Fiction Books


1   THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET'S NEST by Stieg Larsson. (Knopf)
2   FLY AWAY HOME by Jennifer Weiner. (Atria)
3    THE SEARCH by Nora Roberts. (Putnam)
4   THE HELP by Kathryn Stockett. (Amy Einhorn/Putnam)
5   PRIVATE by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. (Little, Brown)
6   THE GLASS RAINBOW by James Lee Burke. (Simon & Schuster)
7   SIZZLING SIXTEEN by Janet Evanovich. (St. Martin's)
8   FAITHFUL PLACE by Tania French. (Viking)
9   THE OVERTON WINDOW by Glenn Beck. (Threshold Editions/Mercury Radio Arts)
10   LIVE TO TELL by Lisa Gardner. (Bantam)

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