After Oscar Win, Julianne Moore Texts Minn. Woman With Alzheimer's
When the Oscar for Best Actress was presented Sunday night, Alzheimer's Disease was also cast into the spotlight.
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When the Oscar for Best Actress was presented Sunday night, Alzheimer's Disease was also cast into the spotlight.
The Oscars are over. And while we're still applauding Patricia Arquette's acceptance speech and wondering what John Travolta was doing with Idina Menzel's chin, it's refreshing to look ahead and consider what movies to watch without all the awards hype in the background.
The Minnesota Opera has announced it will present five operas in its next season including the world premiere of "The Shining." Based on the Stephen King novel, "The Shining" features music by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Paul Moravec making his Minnesota Opera debut.
A Sartell-based Beatles tribute band is making its Twin Cities debut this weekend with "The Beatles #1Hits" show at Pepito's Parkway Theater.
An Oscar pool is an Oscar pool, and it's not usually the big, headlining categories that count so much as the little, technical, specialty, "Birdman isn't nominated here" categories. Those are the categories where making uneducated guesses will throw a big, gold-plated wrench into your plans to win that $7 prize at your Academy Awards party of choice.
If "50 Shades Of Grey"looks impossibly boring to you, this might be the antidote. Peter Strickland's "The Duke of Burgundy" is an avant-garde experience of the sensual and the psychological. While it's gorgeous and kinky, it's also a smart study of a complicated relationship, one that both flourishes and withers inside the walls of an elegant, sun-ripened European home.
The actor who played Samuel "Screech" Powers on the early 90s show "Saved by the Bell" pleaded not guilty to stabbing a man. Dustin Diamond appeared in court Thursday in Wisconsin.
The Tony Award-winning musical "Pippin" is now playing at the Orpheum Theatre in downtown Minneapolis. The circus-inspired show won four Tonys in 2013, including Best Musical Revival. The original 1972 Broadway production was directed and choreographed by the legendary Bob Fosse.
More Oscar stuff this week, as you might have expected. And among the offerings are some fresh nominee screenings. One of the most exciting is that of Timbuktu, which is nominated for a best foreign film Oscar.
The Twin Cities theatre community is mourning the death of a beloved member and icon this week. Don Stolz died Saturday at the age of 97. He was best known as the guiding force behind the Old Log Theatre, which he bought in 1946.
A Minnesota woman hopes her coaching pays off for Julianne Moore, who is nominated for an Oscar for her performance in the film "Still Alice." In the movie, Moore plays the role of a woman with early onset Alzheimer's disease. Moore reached out to Sandy Oltz, of Stearns County. Oltz also suffers from the disease.
New York Times media columnist David Carr died of complications from metastatic lung cancer, according to autopsy results released Saturday. Julie Bolcer, a spokeswoman for the New York City medical examiner's office, said the autopsy shows heart disease also contributed to his death.
Minnesota filmmakers are being invited to submit entries to a new shorts program at this year's ReelAbilities Film Festival Minneapolis-St. Paul. The festival is looking for films by or about people with disabilities that explore and celebrate diversity. Minnesota filmmakers of all abilities are welcome.
Apparently, Minnesota's up all night to get lucky ... and listen to "Get Lucky." A lot. As reported by our sister station 104.1 JACK-FM, Minnesota's favorite musical act during the last year was none other than the French house duo Daft Punk.
To call Beloved Sisters a romantic, historical epic about a threesome with a German poet is wrong. While the scenes are set gorgeously, with meticulously detailed costumes and props, and the story centers on the possible love life of the monumental Friedrich Schiller, there lacks a certain something when the characters' passions flare and fists meet the table. The silverware rattles, but not much else.
