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http://kentucker.net/kenblog Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:25:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Adam and Miranda Lambert Revolution For Your Entertainment (bootleg/streaming on adamandmiranda.com)4 stars The husband-and-wife team has had quite a year. Having topped the country and pop charts with their respective solo albums (Miranda’s Revolution and Adam’s For Your Entertainment), they’ve rush-released a website stream, for the close of what the drawling ... http://kentucker.net/kenblog/?p=82 For the immediate future, all blogging will be done, guaranteed almost daily, from Ken Tucker's Watching TV http://watching-tv.ew.com/ Also, for more Tucker writing on different subjects, go to my Best American Poetry blog : http://thebestamericanpoetry.typepad.com/the_best_american_poetry/ken_tucker/ And my Facebook page for links to my music reviews for NPR's "Fresh Air with Terry Gross." Thank you. Ken http://kentucker.net/kenblog/?p=81 The biggest laugh Watchmen got at the sold-out, 9 A.M., IMAX suburban-theater show I went to on Saturday occurred when the Lee Iacocca-businessman-figure said, "Free is just another word for socialist." It was the happily derisive laugh of a crowd that was totally into the movie, and which also seemed ... http://kentucker.net/kenblog/?p=80 I radio-review Beyonce, David Archuleta, and Pink here. http://kentucker.net/kenblog/?p=78 Smoking Gun says this is the "best Scarface tribute ever." I wouldn't go that far, but the perp sure has a good handle... http://kentucker.net/kenblog/?p=77 You think with a review like this, it'd rate more of a bottom-line summation of "Skim it." But hey, I'm not complaining... http://kentucker.net/kenblog/?p=76 Today a book of mine is published: Scarface Nation, which my publisher has subtitled "The Ultimate Gangster Movie and How It Changed America." You can buy it here. Yes, it's primarily about the 1983 Al Pacino-Brian De Palma film (publication coincides with its 25th anniversary), but it's also about Howard ... http://kentucker.net/kenblog/?p=75 John Leonard, who died Nov. 5 at age 69, was a dizzyingly inspirational critic. Lots of people are going to write appreciations of his extraordinary body of literary criticism, and although I am here to speak for his television criticism, I will inevitably include some of Leonard's observations about books, ... http://kentucker.net/kenblog/?p=73 You can hear me radio-review Dylan's latest official-bootleg release here. http://kentucker.net/kenblog/?p=72 From the fine De Palma A La Mod blog comes this information: Snoop Dog is currently on tour, and the screens behind the stage are showing clips from "Scarface" edited with Snoop-reenacted versions of them. Does Brian De Palma know about this? Does Universal? I say, more power to Snoop Dogg... http://kentucker.net/kenblog/?p=71