"Down To You" doesn't want to be hated. It tries hard to capture our hearts with its winsome twosome and its cutesy original secondary subplots. But there is something very rotten in the state of the college romantic comedy, and while one of the characters' Macbeth portrayal attempts to commandeer the plot, it would have been more appropriate had he been playing the Danish prince instead.
The 2000 awards season is officially off and running with the presentation of the 57th annual Golden Globe Awards last night in Los Angeles. Lacking the host and shtick, length and (some would say) street cred of the Academy Awards, the Golden Globes must be content with the knowledge that they have been and forever will be little more than a precursor to the big show otherwise known as the Oscars.
Who can say they've shared a liplock with handsome hotty Ryan Phillipe, the goofy, cute Freddie Prinze, Jr. and the
heartstopping Jared Leto? None other than 1995 University graduate Selma Blair. And she's not complaining.
The Detroit concert was originally scheduled for November 10th, but members of the band came down with serious illnesses, sidelining the tour for several months. The new, revised itinerary began with the Detroit concert, which marked the first of 18 make-up shows in as many cities.
"When perception replaces reality, high school can be brutal," claims the teaser for the WB's latest foray into teen life, "Brutally
Normal".
When perception replaces reality? Isn't that universal truth the very premise of high school? The first episode of "Brutally
Normal" introduces three best friends, Anna, Robert and Russell, all searching for their places at Normal High School.
Russia's storied national past has included cataclysmic events: Revolutions, assassinations and spy intrigues. Russia's artistic and cultural history, though, is rich with the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, in addition to the music of Tchaikovsky and many other composers.
