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Capital museum mounting show on Celia Cruz
Celia Cruz is debuting -- at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, where an exhibit on the late Queen of Salsa is expected to trigger a pilgrimage.
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BY LYDIA MARTIN,
lmartin@herald.com,
10/26/2004 03:01 AM EDT)
GEORGE SILK, 87
Life magazine war photographer
(AP) -- George Silk, a photographer who spent 30 years with Life magazine, earning fame for his coverage of World War II and later pioneering the use of a special camera for depicting athletes in motion, has died. He was 87.
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10/26/2004 03:01 AM EDT)
TELEVISION
Hit car show up for second ride
Pimp My Ride, 9 p.m. Sundays, MTV. Teens were captivated by the first season of MTV's Pimp My Ride. Kids who looked and lived just like them saw their busted-up cars transformed into chrome-laden chariots with enough gadgetry to make James Bond envious.
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BY ROB WATSON,
The Philadelphia Inquirer,
10/26/2004 03:01 AM EDT)
Brazilian, German win the Polar Music Prize
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, a master of opera and German art songs, and Brazilian 'Tropicalia' star Gilberto Gil won a coveted music prize.
Brazilian singer Gilberto Gil and opera singer Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau were named the 2005 winners of the Polar Music Prize on Monday for their contributions to music.
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BY MATT MOORE,
Associated Press,
10/26/2004 03:01 AM EDT)
Boom Boom pulls a new punch
Twenty years ago, boxer Ray ''Boom Boom'' Mancini was on top of the world. Now he's reinventing himself as a filmmaker in Miami.
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BY DANIEL CHANG,
dchang@herald.com,
10/25/2004 03:01 AM EDT)
MOVIES
49 nations vie for foreign-language Oscar
Some big film festival hits are among the entries for a foreign-language prize at this year's Academy Awards.
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Associated Press,
10/25/2004 03:01 AM EDT)
THEATER REVIEW
Amid grim setting of war, laughs abound in `Miklat'
A play set in Israel during wartime turns out to be a surprisingly laugh-filled look at a Jewish family's conflict.
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BY CHRISTINE DOLEN,
cdolen@herald.com,
10/25/2004 03:01 AM EDT)
LATIN MUSIC PROFILE
Baby girl makes singer change her tune
For Andrea Echeverri, the lead singer of Aterciopelados, miracles come in small sizes.
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By STEVEN DUDLEY,
sdudley@herald.com,
10/25/2004 03:01 AM EDT)
TROPICAL NIGHTS
Flamenco kicks off Voices of Children bash
An invitation to the home of Nestor Rodríguez, executive director of Voices for Children Foundation, is like an invitation to an 18th century salon where fascinating guests from around the world, exquisite music and lively conversation occur on many an evening.
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BY DAISY OLIVERA,
dolivera@herald.com,
10/25/2004 03:01 AM EDT)
Comic relief
After 20 years as America's favorite booger expert, Dave Barry gets serious - about relaxing.
As long as the world remains an unpredictable place where the truth would be frightening if it weren't so funny, Dave Barry will always find the punch line.
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BY DANIEL CHANG,
dchang@herald.com,
10/24/2004 03:01 AM EDT)
ART REVIEW
Exhibit explores works of two German legends
Almost any art would look good in the sharply renovated Miami Art Central building on Red Road. But fortunately for the young museum's latest offering, it's not just any art -- Ruth Vollmer and Gego: Thinking the Line is a significant show for Miami, the only stop for this exhibit in the United States. In a city so focused on ultra-contemporary art, it's important to be able to see the origins of such work, which is why Thinking the Line is a good fit.
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BY ANNE TSCHIDA,
Special to The Herald,
10/24/2004 03:01 AM EDT)
It isn't Halloween without a scary movie or two -- they're the modern-day...
It isn't Halloween without a scary movie or two -- they're the modern-day equivalent of spooky campfire tales -- which is why the new release section of your neighborhood DVD store has recently been crammed with horror pictures, both new and old. Here's a sampling of some recent scary DVD releases:
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BY RENE RODRIGUEZ,
rrodriguez@herald.com,
10/24/2004 03:01 AM EDT)
'Buffy' star faces fear as a mere mortal in `The Grudge'
Sarah Michelle Gellar says she felt a 'desire in her gut' to land the lead in this Japanese horror remake.
As in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and her Scooby-Doo movies, Sarah Michelle Gellar is back to battling the undead in The Grudge, a remake of a Japanese fright flick about a malevolent presence in a house where bloody misdeeds occurred.
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BY DAVID GERMAIN,
Associated Press,
10/24/2004 03:01 AM EDT)
ART
Boots expose toll of war in Iraq
In the months since the traveling Eyes Wide Open memorial exhibit debuted, its display of empty combat boots has become a repository for keepsakes left by family members and friends of U.S. soldiers killed in the Iraqi war.
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BY JINGLE DAVIS,
Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
10/24/2004 03:01 AM EDT)
VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS
Style, element of surprise rock Latin music awards
The MTV Latin American Video Music Awards celebrated pop energy and ironic style Thursday night in Miami Beach. Mexican alt-rocker Julieta Venegas won three awards.
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BY JORDAN LEVIN,
jlevin@herald.com,
10/22/2004 03:01 AM EDT)
Designers and models show their stuff for a good cause
Fashion brands Bebe, Fitelle and Phat Phree showed off some of their latest threads at a fashion show at Coconut Grove's Oxygen Lounge to raise money for the Non-Violence Project.
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BY VIVIANA BATISTA,
vbatista@herald.com,
10/22/2004 06:18 PM EDT)
LET'S GO
Think piece will take you up stairway to heavens
Performance artist Laurie Anderson offers a report from her NASA residency in new show.
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BY EVELYN McDONNELL,
emcdonnell@herald.com,
10/22/2004 03:01 AM EDT)
MUSIC
Versatile David Byrne changes direction
David Byrne has undergone a lot of changes. On 'Grown Backwards,' his new solo CD, the graying, Scottish-born Manhattanite makes what may be the strangest exploration of all: Western melody. He performs at the Gusman Center.
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BY EVELYN McDONNELL,
emcdonnell@herald.com,
10/22/2004 03:01 AM EDT)
WHAT THE #$*! DO WE KNOW!? (Unrated)*
Trying to grab hold of reality in a most irritating fashion
Where do we come from? Why are we here? And what are we supposed to be doing, anyway? What the #$*! Do We Know!?, a feature film-documentary hybrid as annoying as the double punctuation in its title, begins as a crash course in quantum physics, makes time for the fictional story of a divorced photographer in the midst of a life crisis, and winds up advocating a kind of cognitive psychology that argues reality is what you make it.
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BY RENE RODRIGUEZ,
rrodriguez@herald.com,
10/22/2004 03:01 AM EDT)
THE GRUDGE (PG-13)**½
These ghosts aren't friendly, but not too frightening either
On the horror movie front, zombies, serial killers and aliens still abound, but ghosts are the new black. Movies such as The Sixth Sense, The Others, The Eye and The Ring have made the hoary ghost story fashionable again, using the basic premise of a haunting as a springboard for narratives where pretty much anything can happen.
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BY RENE RODRIGUEZ,
rrodriguez@herald.com,
10/22/2004 03:01 AM EDT)
SURVIVING CHRISTMAS (PG-13)*
Ben there, done that; it's time Affleck selects better roles
You know you've become Hollywood's highest-profile punching bag when one of the marionettes in Team America: World Police breaks out into a love song with the lyric ''I need you / Like Ben Affleck needs acting lessons'' and the audience laughs on cue, no further explanation necessary.
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BY RENE RODRIGUEZ,
rrodriguez@herald.com,
10/22/2004 03:01 AM EDT)
THE CORPORATION (Unrated)***
Bottom-line psyche gets an uppercut
Just in time for Halloween, one of the scariest movies to be shown on a big screen comes to South Florida. It deals with a psychopath on the loose, one so pervasive that it dares to show a happy face while preying on the misinformed. One who, protected by laws and people in high places, moves without restraints.
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BY MARTA BARBER,
mbarber@herald.com,
10/22/2004 03:01 AM EDT)
DVD SCANS
Take another look at Lewis films
Quick, ask yourself, did Jerry Lewis ever do Broadway? (The answer is yes. He played the devil in the 1994-95 revival of Damn Yankees.) But Lewis, who in emulation of Jackie Gleason once conducted a series of orchestral records, almost always incorporated musical numbers into his films.
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BY TERRY LAWSON ,
Knight Ridder News Service,
10/22/2004 03:01 AM EDT)
Also coming Tuesday to DVD/Home Video
Control Room (Unrated) ½: This modest but fascinating documentary, filmed in the early days of the Iraq invasion, takes a behind-the-scenes look at Al Jazeera, the independently owned and operated Arab news channel that has been accused by the U.S. government of being a mouthpiece for Osama bin Laden and terrorist groups.
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10/22/2004 03:01 AM EDT)
AFTER DARK
Trixies puts on a real crackerjack ladies night
Boston, 1920: Harry Frazee, the owner of the Boston Red Sox, sells Babe Ruth's contract to the New York Yankees for $100,000. Fort Lauderdale, 2004: My night on the couch is spoiled because Game 3 of the American League Championship Series is rained out in Boston. It's not that I really care about baseball; I just was going to use it as an excuse to polish off an entire bag of barbecue flavored potato chips. The Curse of the Bambino lives on.
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By GABE BERMAN,
sieze18@aol.com,
10/22/2004 03:01 AM EDT)
Top 5 hits
STRAIT-UP NO. 1 George Strait's 50 Number Ones, with 343,000 copies sold, barely edges Usher's Confessions, which sold 336,000 units, on this week's Billboard 200 chart. It's also Strait's record 18th No. 1 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart.
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10/22/2004 03:01 AM EDT)
ALBUM REVIEWS
Long live the boys (and girl) of Liverpool
THE ZUTONS Who Killed . . . The Zutons? Deltasonic/Epic ½ Hopefully the cheeky title is a pun and no one will off this quirky Liverpool-based band before it has a chance to take root.
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BY HOWARD COHEN,
hcohen@herald.com,
10/22/2004 03:01 AM EDT)
New music
IN STORES TUESDAY Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus (Anti/Epitaph). Leonard Cohen, Dear Heather (Columbia).
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10/22/2004 03:01 AM EDT)
BACKSTAGE PASS
Ranchera king's tour will hit Miami
Ladies, get ready to swoon: Mexican heartthrob Alejandro Fernandez is headed your way. The ranchera king will break out the romance, with his mix of ballads, up-tempo tunes and traditional mariachi favorites.
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BY MICHAEL HAMERSLY,
mhamersly@herald.com,
10/22/2004 03:01 AM EDT)
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