Jan 5 2012 - 6:24pm
Run -- don't walk -- to the nearest book vendor and get your hands on a copy of Peter L.
Winkler's "Dennis Hopper: The Wild Ride of a Hollywood Rebel" (Barricade Books, Fort Lee, NJ. 432 pages, photographs, filmography, index, $24.95).
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Jan 4 2012 - 10:22pm
Let me apologize for the skimpy basics the last two weeks. I’ve been battling an insidious virus which kept me drained. We’ll now begin catch up. As the nominees for major awards continue to be announced, two of those “select cities” have broadened and announced “wider” release dates. Whether your city’s Cineplex has a print of one or more of these serious, artsy, and provocative depends on screen totals.
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Jan 4 2012 - 3:26pm
HUNTINGTON, W.Va.– Lindsey Goodman, principal flutist of the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, will be on Marshall University’s Huntington campus as guest artist for the Department of Music’s annual FluteWorks from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 21, in the Jomie Jazz Center.
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Jan 3 2012 - 7:44pm
HOLLYWOOD (HNN) - The Producer's Guild has announced their nominations for 2011. Last year their nominees served as a 90% predictor of the eventual Academy Award nominations. The Guild awards will be presented Jan. 21. Here is the full list of nominations:
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Jan 3 2012 - 6:09pm
Chapmanville, WV (HNN) -- A story by William Meikle has received international attention. It has been named among the 2011 Bram Stoker Award Reading List. Announced this week by the Horror Writers Association (HWA), the fictional tale is entitled, "The Young Lochinvar,"and was one of the standout submissions in the new book, "The Mothman Files." The anthology that focuses on the Mothman legend is edited by Bram Stoker Award-winning editor Michael Knost and is published by Woodland Press, LLC, an independent book publishing firm located in Chapmanville. Meikle's story is listed in the HWA's short fiction category.
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Jan 2 2012 - 11:20pm
Editor's note: Look for the review of this book later this month on www.huntingtonnews.net
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Jan 2 2012 - 11:14pm
Anger management: It's not for men only, as Kris Radish shows with humor and compassion in "Tuesday Night Miracles" (Bantam Books Trade Paperback, 496 pages, $15.00) a novel about four women facing anger management issues with psychologist Dr. Olivia Bayer. Reader alert: This is the kind of book you'd better commit to read if you start it, because you probably won't be able to put it down.
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Jan 2 2012 - 11:57am
Why has “Darkest Hour” been trashed by critics and relegated outside even moderately favorable buzz? By “alien” comparisons to big f/x and tent-pole favorites like “Independence Day,” the re-make of “War of the Worlds” or the clever “Cloverfield.”
Instead of nonstop blasting and battling, “Darkest Hour” has a better fit in a forgotten sub-genre of what were the after atomic doomsday survival (“On the Beach,” “World , the Flesh and the Devil,” “Omega Man”) 50s and 60s reflection of apocalyptic culture. Scratch the shock and awe effects mode. Insert small groups of young adult survivors trapped in Moscow when aliens land to depopulate the planet. Those fascinated by apocalyptic plots will accept "Darkest Hour" as a satisfactory entry , even with the requisite cast sacrifices to the star bursting villains. Read more
Jan 1 2012 - 10:28pm
It's time for New Year's resolutions for many people, time to finally straighten up and fly right in 2012. Not for this guy, a firm believer in the old adage "Man plans, God laughs." I make my resolutions as I go along.
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Jan 1 2012 - 3:46pm
The life of legendary screen sex siren Marilyn Monroe has been portrayed numerous times; however, "My Week with Marilyn" imparts a soul and heart into the actress. Set during a period of filming a comedy in England (“Prince and the Showgirl”) , Michelle Williams portrays her as a fragile, vulnerable, insecure woman jetted into the Hollywood culture which both makes her an attention getting star but adds responsibilities of which she has not the capability of assuming.
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Dec 31 2011 - 6:05pm
Seattle, WA (Special to HNN) -- In his book, “Injustice” (Regnery Publishing, Inc., Washington, D.C., $27.95, 289 pages) J. Christian Adams writes what he believes to be the U.S. Department of Justice’s corruption, egregious behavior and ideological hiring and promotion practices. For more than five years he was a DOJ attorney in the Voting Rights Section of the Civil Rights Division.
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Dec 31 2011 - 4:47am
During the holiday break, nearly all theatres will have weekday matinees through Jan. 2.
AND FOR YOU ART FANS, Marquee Pullman, Marquee Galleria, Marquee Highlands has joined Park Place Stadium with "My Week with Marilyn." And, "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" has been slated for a wide release January 6. Check cinema skeds.
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Dec 30 2011 - 6:11pm
With the centennial of his birth on the horizon, Woodrow Wilson (Woody) Guthrie (1912-1967) is undergoing a revival, with his songs being performed by his son Arlo, his friend and colleague Pete Seeger and others at the Occupy Wall Street site and other Occupy locales and a foundation controlled by one of Oklahoma's richest men, George Kaiser of Tulsa and San Francisco, planning a permanent Woody Guthrie museum in Tulsa. Guthrie is finally getting a measure of respect from at least some people in his native state, although Oklahomans have long ago turned their collective backs on the radical socialism that characterized early 20th Century Oklahoma.
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Dec 29 2011 - 5:45am
[Editor's Note: Jeff Beck is based in Richmond, Va., where he has been able to view many of the platform releases that have not yet arrived in West Virginia.]
2011 is the weakest year of film in recent memory. That’s not to say there weren’t some pretty good films out there, but it is the first year in which I can recall not having seen a movie that has earned a four-star rating. Read more
Dec 26 2011 - 8:13pm
Leave it to the great Steven Spielberg to be able to inject a great deal of heart into a story about a boy and his horse. He’s a master at being able to make the audience care about the most unusual of main characters, even when they’re not human, such as an alien in “E.T.” or a robotic boy in “Artificial Intelligence.” Now he applies that same mastery to a horse to bring us “War Horse,” a beautifully made epic that takes place before and during World War I. Read more
Dec 26 2011 - 8:12pm
Leave it to the great Steven Spielberg to be able to inject a great deal of heart into a story about a boy and his horse. He’s a master at being able to make the audience care about the most unusual of main characters, even when they’re not human, such as an alien in “E.T.” or a robotic boy in “Artificial Intelligence.” Now he applies that same mastery to a horse to bring us “War Horse,” a beautifully made epic that takes place before and during World War I. Read more
Dec 26 2011 - 7:19pm
It's hardly a secret that with the publication of Stieg Larsson's "Dragon Tattoo" novels and subsequent Swedish movies -- and now the David Fincher directed "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" movie -- writers the world over have been scrambling to come up with a protagonist with the popularity of Larsson's Lisbeth Salander.
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Dec 26 2011 - 7:14pm
I'm suffering from "Compassion Deficit Disorder" -- one of the snappy phrases in Ange-Marie Hancock's "Solidarity Politics for Millennials: A Guide to Ending the Oppression Olympics" (Palgrave Macmillan, 224 pages, $85.00, discounted on Amazon.com).
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Dec 25 2011 - 5:17am
Huntington News.net wishes everyone a blessed Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Dec 23 2011 - 7:25pm
Ransom Stoddard: You're not going to use the story, Mr. Scott?
Maxwell Scott: No, sir. This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. -- "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" 1962
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Dec 23 2011 - 12:44am
She knew it was a bad break, but the seriousness resonated when a prognosis came that she could lose her right foot. Despite the crushed heel, Mary Ellen Wolfe-Nielsen offer the Wolfe family optimism: “I was pretty lucky; it’s a pretty dangerous job.” Dangerous? That comes from the daughter of a retired Huntington police officer and former Cabell County Sheriff. As most readers know, he’s now Mayor of Huntington. Perhaps, her passion for boots come from her father’s affinity for horses. Read more
Dec 22 2011 - 10:05am
What's it like to be known as the "family daredevil" in the Wolfe family? Considering that Huntington Mayor Kim Wolfe's wife, Deborah, competed and won national pageants and often directs performing arts, Mary Ellen Wolfe is one of several members of the family who have ventured into acting and related show-business professions. Read more
Dec 20 2011 - 11:20pm
David Fincher returns to the gritty kind of material that made him a household name as a director with an American adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” the first book in the “Millennium Trilogy.” You may recall that the same novel was made into an excellent Swedish film merely two years ago and released into the States just last year. With the original’s success, it was only a matter of time before it was re-adapted for an English-speaking audience, and with many people seeing this story for the first time, it will be fresh and suspenseful, but for those who saw the Swedish film last year, there could be a slightly different reaction. Read more
Dec 20 2011 - 11:06pm
In the first of his two films coming out this month, Steven Spielberg brings us his first animated feature, an adaptation of the beloved Belgian comics “The Adventures of Tintin” by Georges Rémi, aka Hergé. It has been said that Hergé believed that Spielberg was the only one who would be able to do justice to his work, and after having spent over 25 years trying to get the film made, Spielberg has finally delivered a result that is quite extraordinary. Read more
Dec 20 2011 - 6:15pm
It's difficult to find a good book that explores the tensions in the nation's heartland fueled by both legal and illegal immigration, but I think Craig McDonald has aced it in "El Gavilan" (Tyrus Books, a division of F+W Crime, 432 pages, $24.95), a novel that the author has said was inspired by true events,
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Dec 20 2011 - 1:33pm
Katie Moore, an Official Zumba® Jammer from Hawaii and a much sought after Zumba® expert and hot, hot choreographer, will be presenting a Zumba® Master Class – a "Luau Party" ! Friday January 13, 2012 from 6:30-8:30 PM at the Veterans Memorial Field House in Huntin
gton, WV sponsored by St. Mary's Medical Center. Read more
Dec 19 2011 - 5:24pm
"It's friendship, friendship Just a perfect blendship When other friendships have been forgot Ours will still be hot" -- Words and music by Cole Porter
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Dec 19 2011 - 3:53pm
The “Mission: Impossible” franchise has been running strong since 1996 with the sole purpose of providing exciting adventures and thrilling action sequences as we follow the various team members of the Impossible Missions Force (IMF). Now comes the fourth entry in the series, “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol,” which takes the series to a whole new level of non-stop action, so much so that it’ll take your breath away as it relentlessly hurtles you through the IMF’s latest mission. Read more
Dec 19 2011 - 5:31am
I wish life were a Garry Marshall ensemble movie, where better, worse or status quo everyone deals successfully with their circumstances. Read more
Dec 18 2011 - 6:20pm
The old saying "don't get mad, get even" is the foundation for DC Brod's new novel "Getting Lucky" (Tyrus Books, an imprint of F+W Crime, 336 pages, $24.95) her sequel to 2010's "Getting Sassy."
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Dec 17 2011 - 5:42pm
Only the Dead Know Brooklyn -- Title of a short story by Thomas
Wolfe (1900-1938)
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Dec 13 2011 - 1:55am
(Huntington, WV) – (December 12, 2011) --Recently, the producer of RIVERDANCE, Moya Doherty, announced that the United States touring production of the internationally-acclaimed worldwide phenomenon will close in June, 2012. RIVERDANCE will play ONE Farewell Performance at the Keith-Albee Performing Arts Center on May 29, 2012. Tickets for RIVERDANCE will go on sale Friday, December 16th at Noon. Read more
Dec 12 2011 - 6:20pm
The all-too common question around this time of the year "Is there a war on Christmas?" can be answered in the affirmative if the information in "Bowing to Beijing" (Regnery Publishing, 256 pages, notes, appendixes, index, $27.95) is correct -- as I think it is.
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Dec 12 2011 - 5:33am
by Marilyn Howells
If you missed the Greater Huntington Symphonic Band and Brass Band of the TriState concert last week at the lovely Riffee Center all is not lost. There will be a free concert 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 12, at the OU Southern Riffe Center Mains Rotunda, which promises to be equally rewarding.
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Dec 11 2011 - 4:05am
HUNTINGTON, WV- Due to a severe bout with laryngitis, organizers have postponed Glen Campbell’s concert originally scheduled for tomorrow, December 11th at 3 p.m. to Thursday, January 5th at 7:30 p.m. at the Keith-Albee Performing Arts Center. All tickets for the December 11th date will be honored at the concert on January 5th. Read more
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