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What would you do if the little town you lived in — and loved — was slowly dying, with no jobs and little hope?
In the new film Joyful Noise, a small-town Georgia church faces hard times with hallelujahs when a national competition offers their financially strapped choir its only chance at survival.
Dolly Parton, who plays the quick-witted G.G. Spar
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Now his observations and theories have become a book: “From Timbuktu to the Mississippi Delta” (Cognella, $44.95) traces the West African roots of the blues and jazz. It was among the most compelling books about music published in 2011. Its supporting arguments are academic as well as deeply personal, and Thiam — who is 49 and lives in Sunnyvale — enjoys boiling them down in conversation. As when he says that jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie (his hero, with whom he performed years ago) and saxophonist John Coltrane played music that was “fundamentally African. You hear the depth of the emotion, the root,” he says. Read full article…
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BowWow’s got a secret that he’s finally ready to share — he’s a dad! The 24-year-old kid rapper turned actor turned ‘Dancing with the Stars’ favorite revealed on his website that he is the father to a little girl.
“For the past three years [I've] been battling life,” BowWow wrote on his website . “I felt as if I had no purpose to live until God gave me the illest gift of my life … nothing amounts to my lil girl.”
The rapper who rose to fame when he was just 13 years old explained that he kept his daughter a secret because he didn’t know how his fans would react to the news.
“I was nervous on how yall would look at me.
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At first it looked like this year’s movie awards season might be filled with monkey business, but now it looks like it may be going to the dogs.
Ever since the release of “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” in August, there has been not-so-idle speculation over whether Andy Serkis, the human actor who provided the movements and expressions for the computer-generated lead ape, might earn a best supporting actor Oscar nomination, even though his actual face never appears on screen.
Now more fur is flying. There’s a push — seriously — to get an Oscar nomination, or even a special Oscar, for a dog.
The dog’s name is Uggie, and he’s a terrifyingly adorable Jack Russell terrier that nearly steals the black-and-white silent film “The Artist,” which opens Dec. 23
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The abiding image in David Cronenberg’s new film A Dangerous Method is of Keira Knightley, her jaw thrust out alarmingly as she howls out the dark secrets of a confused childhood to her psychiatrist: Her father spanked her, she cries, and “it excited me.” It’s an alarming performance, both for its raw power and for the painful grimaces.
It’s shocking, just as Knightley wanted it to be.
“I stood in front of my mirror for a couple of days and went, ‘Hmmm, what is this, how can I f— this face up?’” Knightley recalled.
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