Minor league football returns to town with the Bounty Hunters’ arrival. BY DEAN ANDERSON By day, Oklahoma City bail bondsman Tom Trepagnier is responsible for making sure local outlaws follow the rules. On the weekends, he lets them run free. Trepagnier, who owns Trep’s 2Blondes Bail Bonds, has invested his time and money into the […]
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Nice Guys Don’t Work in Hollywood: The Adventures of an Aesthete in the Movie Business — Curtis Harrington
Unlike so many Tinseltown true tales, Nice Guys Don’t Work in Hollywood doesn’t begin with a tumultuous childhood. Although the only child grew up in the throes of the Great Depression, Harrington’s upbringing was happy. He found escape (and influence) in the stories of Edgar Allan Poe, the pages of Esquire magazine and the flicker […]
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The Victim
Someone needs to define “grindhouse” for Mr. Biehn, I’m afraid. The hardworking man who helped define the ’80s in early James Cameron films (Aliens, The Terminator) is a good actor and, as it turns out, a competent director. His script, however, is awful. For one thing, it’s hardly enough on which to hang a feature […]
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While in Vietnam, he was a reporter for the BBC and Reuters and is now a part of the thriving Vietnamese community here in the metro. Family: “Wife, Nga Nguyen, and three children, and one of my grandchildren is the first female Vietnamese Rhodes Scholar.” If someone came here from Vietnam, where would you take […]
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Sketchy duo
But you do have a regular TV receiving local signals, including KAUT- TV 43. Lucky for you, 7 p.m. Saturday on the newly re-branded Freedom 43 is movie night. What makes that so special isn’t the film selection (unless you really like Jason Biggs), but the two men hosting it. Dubbed the 2 Movie Guys, […]
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WWH&LD?
Harp & Lyre with A Bullet for Pretty Boy, A Sequence of Ghosts, Jerusalem and more6 p.m. Saturday The Conservatory 8911 N. Western www.conservatoryokc.com 607-4805 $8 advance, $10 door Outward appearances can be deceiving. Such is the case of Harp & Lyre. The six guys who comprise the group look like the typical rock band, […]