But no household name has led a life devoid of conflict and drama, and the three-director doc skirts over those portions, because I assume this project was made with the subject’s full approval. It is — pardon my French — one ass-kisser of a career retrospective. To give credit where credit is due, Lee truly […]
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The Man with the Iron Fists — Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
The compilation is packed with hip-hop heavyweights like Kanye West, Pusha T, Talib Kweli and Wiz Khalifa. Also making appearances are the remainder of the Wu-Tang Clan, R&B singers Corinne Bailey Rae and Mable John, and indie rock band The Black Keys. First things first: You can’t really go wrong with Wu-Tang, whether it’s a […]
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The Man Who Created Halloween — Irwin Yablans
This self-published paperback is his story — emphasis on The Man, not Halloween. The making of that 1978 now-classic movie is only a small part of the autobiography, which covers his entire life. Luckily, Yablans is an engaging storyteller who’s full of amusing anecdotes — some of which are intentional (John Wayne declaring his wish […]
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Frankenweenie
A film of stop-motion animation, it is a feature-length version of a charming but unremarkable live-action short he made for Disney in 1984, about a kid who revives his beloved dead dog via lightning bolts. The House of Mouse found the end result so odd and macabre that it shelved plans to send it to […]
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At the crib
Ask him not to throw out the baby with the bathwater, and it’s possible he’ll tell you the baby is actually a 30-year-old man who can support himself. And the bathwater doesn’t pay for itself. Coburn has had his moments (Think back to comments about southeastern Oklahoma schools being run by roving gangs of lesbians, […]
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Munn ho!: Second in a series
We didn’t think we’d be reporting on the goings-on of former Oklahoman turned actress/model/geek icon Olivia Munn so quickly after debuting this nugget in last week’s Chicken-Fried News, but damn, the girl gets around! And maybe in the sneaky ways, too, as Miami Herald and several outlets reported that Munn may be the object of […]
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CFN Mailbag
I read your Chicken-Fried News article “To inform or inflame?” in the Jan. 5, 2011, Oklahoma Gazette. I have these comments to make. Muslim terrorism became personal for me in 2001 when a group of missionaries was kidnapped and held hostage in the Philippines and by extreme Muslim terrorists. Two of the men were beheaded, […]