A Tuna Christmas 8 p.m. Friday, 4 and 8 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, Through Dec. 12 Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre Civic Center Music Hall 201 N. Walker www.cityrep.com 297-2264 $25-$30, $15 groups, $8 student rush When Jonathan Beck Reed plays a role, it stays played. And in Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre’s production of “A […]
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The Sooner Theatre gets into the holiday spirit with “Scrooge”
Scrooge: The Musical 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Through Dec. 12 The Sooner Theatre 101 E. Main, Norman www.soonertheatre.org 321-9600 $15-$28 The Sooner Theatre gets into the holiday spirit with “Scrooge,” musical version of the Charles Dickens classic “A Christmas Carol.” As in Dickens’ original novella, “Scrooge” tells the story of stingy Ebenezer Scrooge, […]
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Certifiably Jonathan
Getting older may mean getting wiser, but that doesn’t preclude enjoying a good fart joke now and then. Or, if you’re Jonathan Winters, several times a day. The venerable comedian, now 85, is the star and subject of “Certifiably Jonathan,” a cute documentary/mockumentary showing Friday through Sunday at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. Shot […]
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Pretty Maids All in a Row
From 1971, “Pretty Maids All in a Row” is a study in contradictions. It’s a sex comedy, but written by “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry. It stars Rock Hudson as quite the ladies’ man, but, well, Rock Hudson. It’s rated R, but sports a theme song by those famous Mormon vocalists known as The Osmonds. […]
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Luther
mp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B003R4ZMS6″>The Big C” and “The Office“) as a man of much instinct and intellect, but also a short temper and personal torment. His workaholic actions have driven his wife (Indria Varma, TV’s “Human Target“) into the arms of another man, and he can’t accept it. Luther’s rather shaky marriage is an ongoing struggle throughout the […]
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Eye of the Devil
Despite being told not to, Catherine Montfaucon (Deborah Kerr) takes the kids and follows hubby Philippe (David Niven) from their Paris home to the perfectly Gothic vineyard Castle Bellenac in “Eye of the Devil,” a 1966 thriller from veteran director J. Lee Thompson (“Cape Fear“). There, she finds Donald Pleasence as a man of […]
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Now That’s What I Call the 1990s
Ridiculously successful, EMI’s “Now That’s What I Call Music!” compilation series is up to volume 36, with some themed offshoots here and there. The latest of those is “Now That’s What I Call the 1990s” or, as I dub it, “Now That’s What I Call Officially Feeling Old.” Subtitled as “the alternative collection,” hardly any […]
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Sherlock: Season One
It’s tough to get too excited about the year’s best films when you compare them to the year’s best television shows. With rare exception (read: “Inception“), the boob tube kicked the big screen’s arse left and right in terms of quality all year long, with work like “Mad Men,” “Dexter” and “Breaking Bad.” Add “Sherlock” […]
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The Art of the Tool
OKG PICK From tools dating back to ancient Egypt to a Phillips screwdriver easily found in any toolbox today, a cache of handy items is on display at Science Museum Oklahoma, 2100 N.E. 52nd. “The Art of the Tool” highlights the scientific artistry found within the many objects people use on a daily basis without […]
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Rev. Blair reveals range, depth of knowledge
The Rev. Paul Blair’s exceptional and excellente retort (“Counterpoint: Precedents justify SQ 755,” Nov. 17, Gazette) reveals a range and depth of knowledge of Islam, Muhammad and the attached themes like few such articles published to date ” in the Gazette or elsewhere. His summary would earn kudos from the premiere expert on the subject, […]