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  • Sebastian Bach puts his glory days behind him

    Music trends come and go faster than you can say "swing music revival." Artists often find themselves a thing of the past before they even begin to reach their full potential.

  • Comedy explores love at any age

    Young people don't own a monopoly on love, said Susan Greenhill.

  • 'Dark Knight' nearly lives up to hype

    It's difficult to separate the movie from its mystique.

  • Banyan offers thought-provoking 'True West'

    When fiction imitates life, it often comes close to getting it right. Some plays actually hit the nail on the head. At least that's the impression given by cast members of Banyan Theater Company's latest dark comedy "True West."

  • In the theaters

    Brick Lane HHH ½ REVIEW ON 7E. Drama about a girl growing up in East London's Bangladeshi community in the 1980s in a loveless, arranged marriage, having left the rest of her beloved family behind in Bangladesh. (100 min.) Rated PG-13.

  • 'Hellboy' stokes box office with $34.5 million

    "Hellboy II: The Golden Army" caught box-office heat with a $34.5 million debut, while Eddie Murphy flopped as his comedy "Meet Dave" opened with just $5.3 million.

  • 'Mamma Mia!': A romp you can't refuse

    "M amma Mia!" is a pajama party of a musical, a stay-up-too-late, sing-in-front-of-the-mirror/hairbrush-as-micro- phone, giggle-with-your-girl- friends, worry about the mess afterward romp. It gets by on the featherweight golden oldies of ABBA and the treat of seeing and hearing some golden oldies of the cinema break character and belt out a song.

  • No more Mr. Bad Guy for Oldman?

    In some earlier parallel universe of Batman's Gotham City, it might have been Gary Oldman instead of Heath Ledger cackling and conniving as the maniacal Joker.

  • Murphy muddles through 'Meet Dave'

    "M eet Dave." Or don't. Eddie Murphy doesn't particularly seem to care one way or the other.

  • A story of forbidden love

    It sometimes seems that there is but one true erotic taboo left in a cinema obsessed with body parts and bodily fluids. And if the taboo of Islamic infidelity was ever going to fall, it would have to happen in a story set outside of the Middle East, in "Bangla City" on Brick Lane in London, for instance.