Dane Cook: Vicious Circle
2006 There probably aren’t many who would cop to liking Dane Cook’s intelligent meathead brand of stand-up; after all, this is a guy whose filmography is iffy at best (“Waiting …” and “Employee of the Month,” anyone?) and whose contributions to serial television (the thuddingly dull “Tourgasm”) are barely worth surfing past. Still, Cook exudes…
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ” Unrated and Uncut!
2006 If the idea of interrupting the climax of a film with an Applebee’s commercial or having an urbane, French, homosexual race-car driver discuss the finer points of “Highlander” with a hero who’s dumber than a set of Craftsman tools doesn’t strike you as pants-peeingly hilarious, then “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby”…
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1966/2006 A claustrophobic nightmare filmed in razor’s edge close-up, Mike Nichols’ astonishing 1966 directorial debut, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” still shocks you some four decades later. Anchored by the powerhouse performances of then-couple Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, it’s a visceral adaptation of Edward Albee’s play that pins you to the wall and…
Massive Attack-Collected
Virgin Since its start in the late Eighties, Massive Attack has been a leading force in electronic music and DJ culture. Even if you don’t know the band by name, chances are you’ve heard one of its oft-licensed songs. When a commercial, movie or TV show needs some down-tempo trip-hop with an icy chill, Massive…
Karen Dalton-In My Own Time
Light in the Attic Records Bob Dylan and Devendra Banhart named her as their favorite singer. Nick Cave lists her among his faves. Enid native Karen Dalton was part of the early-Sixties Greenwich Village folk boom, but played the part of wallflower when it came to recordings, producing only two in her lifetime. Her…
William Orbit-Hello Waveforms
Sanctuary William Orbit is better known for other people’s music than his own. He engineered Madonna’s late-Nineties comeback by producing “Ray of Light,” her Grammy-winning album of plugged-in pop, and when an LP under his own name actually moved units, it was comprised of covers of classical music stalwarts like Beethoven and Barber. It…
Oklahoma resolutions
2007 might be the ideal time to create a “MAPS for Oklahoma” program that painlessly generates the revenue we need to make our state a leader. Let’s resolve to replace the income tax with alternative taxes that attract manufacturing jobs and corporate headquarters, and make Oklahoma an economic growth state. If a fraction of a…
