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Jon Stewart: Too Smart for His Own Good?new

Some half-dozen years after assuming the anchor desk at The Daily Show and transforming what had been a celebrity-driven yukfest into biting political satire, the 42-year-old Stewart and his fellow performers and writers have reached the top of the heap. But being taken seriously — and, for that matter, expecting to be taken seriously — is the death of such humor.

Boston Phoenix | Dan Kennedy | 03-09-2005 | TV

Tags: TV

Home Alonenew

Hirokazu Kore-eda's latest movie is doubly unpredictable, not just in the way that its focus on survival--rather than the shuffling sound of death outside the door--marks a major about-face from his earlier films' pervasive probings of mortality and memory.

City Pages (Twin Cities) | Chuck Stephens | 03-09-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Hirokazu Kore-eda, Nobody Knows

Seeking the Elusive Johnny Deppnew

A musician is making a documentary about his attempt to present film star Johnny Depp with a special guitar created by a reformed robber along with a screenplay about the guitar-maker's life.

Westword | Adam Cayton-Holland | 03-09-2005 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Academy Awards, cannon, Do It for Johnny, Haylar Garcia, Hunter S. Thompson cremation, Scott Baxendale

A Rap on Warnew

Gunner Palace, a new documentary, beholds U.S. soldiers in Iraq. It's TV's M*A*S*H. It's also Apocalypse Now.

Seattle Weekly | Tim Appelo | 03-09-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker, Gunner Palace

Reality Shownew

How Gunner Palace co-director Michael Tucker, a former Army reservist, lived among the troops in Uday Hussein's old digs while they played video games, strummed guitars, improvised raps, and otherwise tried to blow off steam between dangerous patrols through Baghdad.

Seattle Weekly | Brian Miller | 03-09-2005 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker, Gunner Palace

Control Room's Flack Is Backnew

Out of uniform, military spokesperson Josh Rushing has plenty to say, with even more candor, about how the Iraq war is being reported.

Seattle Weekly | Brian Miller | 03-09-2005 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Control Room, Jehane Noujaim

Who the #$*! Are They?new

How I was suckered by a 35,000-year-old entity.

Seattle Weekly | Knute Berger | 03-09-2005 | Movies

Tags: William Arntz, Betsy Chasse and Mark Vicente, What the #$*! Do We Know?

Shock Treatmentnew

Adrien Brody tries to uncover the mystery of his impending death in this high-concept film.

Phoenix New Times | Luke Y. Thompson | 03-08-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Keira Knightley, John Maybury, The Jacket, Adrien Brody, Kris Kristofferson and Kelly Lynch, Massy Tadjedin, Tom Bleecker and Marc Rocco

'New Hollywood' Down for the Count

If the re-election of George W. Bush proved once and for all that the 1960s are dead, look no further than last Sunday night's Academy Awards for the polished nails in the coffin.

Boulder Weekly | Thomas Delapa | 03-08-2005 | Movies

Tags: The Oscars in Review