Apr 5-11, 2006
How Lobbyists are Doctoring the Health-Care Debate; At Vermont’s Ski Resorts, Mud Season Means Party Time; Who Should Pay for Hospitals’ Compassionate Care?
News Quirks 04.05.06
Curses, Foiled Again Two masked men with semiautomatic handguns burst into a credit union in Benicia, Calif., ordered employees to drop to the ground, and demanded money. The men left after being told that they had picked a “cashless credit union,” where there are no withdrawals and deposits immediately go into a vault that only…
Astrology 04.05.06
ARIES (March 21-April 19): If you live to be 90 years old, you will have spent a total of eight months sitting in your car stopped at red lights. In addition, you will have wasted 10 months standing in lines at stores, banks, and government agencies, and you will have lost almost two years killing…
Nothing About Grover, Remain
(Self-released, CD) Remain is the first release from Nothing About Grover, a quartet from the Mad River Valley by way of Connecticut. It’s an ambitious record; each of the 14 songs was written and recorded by the band with no outside help. That is, other than the contributions of some Fayston Elementary School students who…
MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA**1/2
Rob (Chicago) Marshall adapts Arthur Golden’s bestseller about a poor Japanese girl who transforms herself into a figure of skill and refinement. Ziyi Zhang, Michelle Yeoh and Ken Watanabe star. (145 min, PG-13) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/memoirsofageisha/
KING KONG***
Naomi Watts, Adrien Brody and Jack Black head the cast in Peter Jackson’s big-budget update of the 1933 classic. (PG-13) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/king_kong/hd/
GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN**1/2
Jim (In America) Sheridan and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson team up to bring us yet another tale of a street kid who becomes a successful rap artist. Costarring Viola Davis. (134 min, R) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/getrichordietryin/
CAPOTE****1/2
Philip Seymour Hoffman disappears into the role of writer-socialite Truman Capote in this biopic, which focuses on the years when the author wrote In Cold Blood. Catherine Keener costars. Bennett Miller directs. (98 min, R) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony/capote/
A SOUND OF THUNDER*1/2
In this futuristic thriller from director Peter (Timecop) Hyams, Ben Kingsley stars as the owner of a time-travel agency that sends wealthy clients on prehistoric hunting trips. Based on a story by Ray Bradbury. Costarring Edward Burns and Catherine McCormack. (103 min, PG-13) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/asoundofthunder/
