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Gigli kicks major Razzie ass, and considering J-Lo is in it, that’s a lot of ass to kick: Golden Raspberry Awards voters picked “Gigli” as 2003’s worst picture, Affleck as worst actor, Lopez as worst actress and the two as worst screen couple. “Gigli” filmmaker Martin Brest also took the …

The Academy Awards are tomorrow night – are you “grippped by award fever” as this BBC story suggests? I didn’t think so. However, after taking many years off in my young adulthood, I do find myself interested in the results, to a certain extent, but moreso of the awards shows …

I freely admit that’s an ugly, sensationalistic title, but what an interesting coincidence that two reports on child molestation by Catholic priests were released today, just two days after Mel Gibson’s deeply “Catholic” bloodbath of a film about the last 12 hours of Christ’s life was set loose upon the …

Symbols count, and in times of great uncertainty and distress, they can count a lot. Iraq has been reinstated by the International Olympic Committee and can now compete under its own flag: Iraq was reinstated by the IOC on Friday, clearing the way for Iraqi athletes to compete under their …

Mars rover teams say it with song: The eclectic playlist is Mars rover Spirit mission manager Mark Adler’s way of waking exhausted engineers and scientists who are working and sleeping on Mars time and dealing with a sometimes temperamental rover millions of miles away. And with entries like the Ramones’ …

Rosie O’Donnell is heading to San Francisco today to marry girlfriend Kelli Carpenter as a reaction against President Bush’s endorsement of a constitutional amendment barring gay marriage: “We, too, have a dream of equality for all families,” the comedian said in a statement. “The only way changes are made in …

Jerry Hall – master thespian, or at least a really fast one: Jerry Hall dashed around London’s theater district Tuesday night, appearing briefly in six musicals – and six costumes – but didn’t have to learn any lines. The theatrical marathon, one of a series of events promoting London as …

The NY Times’ view of Mel Gibson’s new film The Passion is clearly not a positive one. Not even taking into account their reviewer’s mostly negative reation, the paper subjects Gibson to something of a “hammer and anvil” squeeze between the religious community and Hollywood. Their “interfaith panel” reacts: An …

Prior to receiving this outrageously entertaining reissue – recorded in 1958 and ’59 for Contemporary with a raft of Latin jazz specialists including Willie Bobo, Armando Peraza, Mongo Santamaria, and Vince Guaraldi – I had only a vague notion of who Victor Feldman was. British-born Feldman (1934-1987) was a child-prodigy …

Sad news from our friends at Alligator Records: A.C. REED, MAY 9, 1926 – FEBRUARY 25, 2004 Famed Chicago-based blues saxophonist, vocalist, songwriter and bandleader A.C. Reed – a leading elder figure and the best-known sax player of the Chicago blues scene – died Wednesday, February 25, 2004, from complications …