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Calexico, Sea Wolf, Dinosaur Jr, Baby Goat   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, October 29, 2012 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE XX play "Chained" for Fallon.

CALEXICO stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

SEA WOLF stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

DINOSAUR JR stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

DEEP SEA DIVER played a set for Oregon Public Broadcasting at Music Fest.

PETER HOLSAPPLE & CHRIS STAMEY of the dB's perform Gene Clark's "Here Without You" at Off Broadway in St. Louis, Missouri.

DIVINE FITS: Britt Daniel talks to the Chicago Tribune about what it's like to maintain two bands, to share the spotlight with another songwriter and to write in different cities.

THE WHO: Robert Christgau reviews Pete Townshend's memoir in a New York Times podcast.

PAUL McCARTNEY clears Yoko Ono in the case of the Beatles' breakup.

GARY GLITTER is the first person to be arrested in connection with the Met's Jimmy Savile abuse inquiry.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Argo ascends to the top of the chart with 12.4 million. Despite a 25 percent drop, Argo has taken in 60.7 million domestic aginst a 44.5 million budget.  Hotel Transylvania shows with 9.5 million on family traffic during the week preceeding Halloween.  Cloud Atlas shows with a 9.4 million debut, which is almost certain disaster given a budget reportedly north of 100 million.  It also suffered from perhaps the worst release timing since Girl With the Dragon Tattoo or High School Musical 3, and might have done better with a later platform release.  Paranormal Activity 4 takes the fourth slot with 8.7 million, plummeting 70 percent from its debut -- but it still takes 42 million domestic against a 5 million budget.  Silent Hill: Revelation 3D rounds out the Top 5 with a 8 million debut against a 20 million budget.  Below the fold, Fun Size had a 10th place, 4 million debut, while Chasing Mavericks opened in 13th place with 2.2 million.  Overall box office was down about 20 percent from last weekend.

CLOUD ATLAS, written and directed by the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer, is every bit as philosophical a fim as the original Matrix, albeit with much less martial arts action.  It is a film about the human condition, primarily our struggles for love, liberty, truth and beauty in the face of our myriad vices.  As such, it is perhaps unsurpsising that the film is an interesting mess.  Its screenplay (which is reportedly even more convoluted in structure than the novel from which it is adapted) and editing gather power and coherence over the films nearly 3-hour length, risking that less patient viewers will mentally check out earlier.  Points played for comedy in one storyline emerge as horror in another.  The eleborate makeup on a cast playing multiple roles over multiple centuries occasionally succeeds brilliantly, but occasionally fails distractingly, which is a shame, because the marketing focus on Tom Hanks, Halle Berry and Jim Broadbent may tend to overshadow wonderful performances from Ben Winshaw (The Hour) and Hugh Grant in supporting roles.  Should you decide to ss Cloud Atlas, the best approach may be to simply let it wash over you in first viewing, and save the analysis for later.

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE apologized for a "wedding video" that ostensibly mocked the homeless.

LINDSAY LOHAN's publicist quits after Li-Lo's most recent public spat with her father.

ROBERT PATTINSON & KRISTEN STEWART still have trust issues. Well, yeah.

SOFIA VERGARA: “Personal” photos of the stunning actress have been put up for sale after being allegedly stolen from her fiancé Nick Loeb's BlackBerry.

SEAN PENN: Still hot for Madonna?

COURTNEY LOVE is allegedly planning a musical based on her relationship with Kurt Cobain, according to Britney Spears' ex-manager, Sam Lufti.

SAUDI ARABIA: King Abdullah urged the UN to draft a law which makes it illegal for any country or group to insult divine religions and prophets.

ISRAEL: The new tone coming out of Egypt - punctuated by President Mohammed Morsi mouthing "Amen" to an Imam's call for the destruction of Israel - is rattling residents of the Jewish state.

SYRIA: Despite a truce agreement, heavy bombardment and gun battles were reported in several major cities. A rebel commander called the truce a failure.

PAKISTAN: The Taliban killed two members of a pro-government peace committee in separate attacks in Swat.

A BABY GOAT, adopted by dogs...Mass hysteria!

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: Meet the sabre-toothed squirrel.

SNAKE ON A PLANE arrives in Glasgow from Mexico.

AN ENGLISH BULLDOG PUPPY nabbed at gunpoint, dog-napped to a different state and held in a zipped-up suitcase during a three-hour standoff with police, was reunited with his new owners in Oregon.

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