You sit down, look straight ahead and see an impressionistic meshing of red, green, yellow, blue and black oil paint covering the body of a similarly painted man. Your gaze shifts to your right to take in a masterfully drawn eye, as well as a sequence of action scenes put together by various artists in unison to portray the killing of an innocent bystander by a missile launched from a demon child.
"27 Dresses" isn't your average, run-of-the-mill love story. First off, those usually bore and depress me. However, Katherine Heigl made me laugh and even cry a little in this witty contemporary romance about a woman who constantly shares in the vows of love and yet can never take them herself.
In the Zolile High School Number One Classroom, learning is No. 1. The lessons of Athol Fugard's anti-apartheid-centered play My Children! My Africa! are hard, even tortuous. For its actors in East Tennessee State University's production which opens Thursday, Feb.
Jack Johnson really adores the sun, and who can blame the guy? Without it - let's face the chilly truth - he would have no sandy beaches, no Hawaiian muses, no career. So I guess it must have felt right to flaunt his 100 percent dedication to solar ener gy four different times in the packaging of his latest LP, Sleep Through the Static.