By Charly SHELTON
Well, we made it. Oscar weekend. The big night is this Sunday, March 7. Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin co-host the Oscars on ABC, starting at 5 p.m. Some nominees may seem like obvious choices for who the winner may be, others are a complete toss-up.
For instance, Disney’s Animated “Up” would not be [...]
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For those of you who have been reading Charly’s Oscar Break Down in the Crescenta Valley Weekly newspaper and online at cvweekly.com, you have heard Charly’s Oscar predictions. Now we want to hear yours.
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By Charly SHELTON
We have just over one week left until Oscar weekend. The big night is Sunday, March 7. Some nominees appear to be a shoe-in to win, while others are a complete toss up. But in the days until red carpet time, we will continue to break down the Oscars and the nominee list [...]
By Shana LiVIGNI
It was the sound of music at the First Baptist Church of Glendale on Saturday night, Feb. 6 when “Ruslan Biryukov & Friends – Cello Ensembles” performed for a crowd of about 350. The chamber concert celebrated some of the finest music written for cellists. The two and a half hour concert included [...]
By Charly SHELTON
We have all seen the Oscars. The host comes out and makes a few jokes and then announces the category. Then another star comes out to read the nominees and then, after a dramatic pause and some trouble opening the envelope, the winner is read and applause fills the theatre. But many of [...]
For those of you looking for the Oscar Breakdown: Week 3 article that was featured as a News in Brief in the Leisure section of the paper on February 18th, 2010, it will be here. We are holding the full article pending further input from sources we have contacted for interviews. The article will be [...]
By Charly Shelton
We have all seen the Oscars. The host, or this year hosts, walks on stage and makes a few jokes and then announces the category. Then another star comes out to read the nominees and then, after a dramatic pause and some trouble opening the envelope, the winner is read and applause fills [...]
By Charly SHELTON
In 1941, Lon Chaney Jr. starred in a classic horror movie for Universal Studios – the studio that was famous for its monster movies. “The Wolf Man” was an instant classic about a man named Larry Talbot who came home to his father’s castle in Wales upon hearing his brother has died. While [...]
By Susan JAMES
“The Last Station,” written and directed by Michael Hoffman, is a pip of a movie about the power struggle between Russian writer Leo Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer), his wife of 48 years Sofiya (Helen Mirren) and the unctuous Vladimir Chertkov, played with convincing cunning by Paul Giametti. Channeling the 1968 classic, “The Lion in [...]
By Susan JAMES
Actor Dwayne Johnson explores his inner Tinkerbell in “Tooth Fairy,” the new movie from Twentieth Century Fox, directed by Michael Lembeck.The former Scorpion King grows wings instead of pincers on a family friendly journey to the Land of I Believe. Johnson, who has a strong cinematic presence and a light comic touch, plays [...]