You wouldn’t expect Pat Boone to win the “Best
Soul Singer of the Year” award, and you wouldn’t expect Donovan
McNabb to win a “Best Shortstop of the Year” statuette, but
the outcome was almost as unexpected on July 3 of this year when, as part
of the Sunoco Welcome America celebration a “Philly is Grilling”
competition was held in Fairmount Park.
Despite the presence of soul food and barbecue restaurant chefs, a panel
of celebrity judges picked as the winner of the “Best Overall Grillers...
by PETE MAZZACCARO
I was overwhelmed by one question after finishing conservative loudmouth
Bill O’Reilly’s new book, Who’s Looking Out for You
(Broadway Books, $24.95). After 212 pages I couldn’t figure it
out… Why would publishers put out a book so completely bereft
of focus, insight or even the occasional flare of style? For a man who
hosts the most watched so-called news show on the Fox News Channel,
“The O’Reilly Factor,” the lack of depth in Who’s
Looking Out… is breathtaking. But then I don’t have cable,
so I’m...
Blue Box Toys recently announced the creation of a George W. Bush
action figure that will be on the market in time for holiday gift
giving. The life-like figure is decked out in a flight suit, parachute
harness and all, meant to recreate the awesome figure that the President
cut aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln in May when he proudly announced
the conclusion of the “major battle phase” of the U.S.
military action against Iraq.
The Swami foresees an imminent flood of Philadelphia action figures
swamping local shelves within weeks, as manufacturers and merchants
take commercial advantage of the hero-worship that will soon be afforded
the trailblazing presidential doll.
The John Street action figure: actually, ...
Santa Dearest:
I know it’s not quite Halloween just yet, but I want you to
be sure to dispatch one of the elves posthaste to The Carol Schwartz
Gallery in Chestnut Hill before Howard Watson’s Philadelphia
watercolors are sold out! One of his paintings of the Philadelphia
Museum of Art will fit quite nicely under my Christmas tree (and
perhaps an evening view of City Hall as well). ...
How much can a single isolated event change the lives of three
young friends? Combining the best elements of a crime drama and
a psychological genre film, Mystic River explores this notion
of determinism.
Jimmy Markum (Sean Penn), Sean Devine (Kevin Bacon) and Dave Boyle
(Tim Robbins) grew up together in a tightly knit Irish-American
working class enclave in South Boston. One day, their puerile
hjinks are interrupted when a man, purporting to be a police detective,
abducts young Dave. The 11-year-old Dave is viciously tortured
and sodomized by the ersatz cop and his sidekick.
Somehow, things are never the same between the boys and their
lives veer off in different directions. Sean becomes...
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