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April 8, 2012
Movies
“Is everybody having a threesome except for us?”
Jan. 31, 2019
Entertainment & Arts
Backstage: Designing a home tacky enough for this ‘Prince’
Travel & Experiences
In impersonal L.A., a modest newsstand draws regulars who turn a bare strip of asphalt into a warm community.
June 28, 2003
There’s an intelligent thriller lurking inside “Defenseless,” but the intelligence is constantly obscured by the B-movie plot devices and crude direction and a jangly score that telegraphs everything but the kitchen sink.
Aug. 23, 1991
Television
In a surgical departure from his characteristically tense screen persona, James Woods is virtually unrecognizable as a recovering, melancholy widower fitfully raising two kids and taking a second chance on love and marriage in “Jane’s House” (Sunday night at 9, Channels 2 and 8).
Jan. 1, 1994
When he’s on a roll, James Woods is an actor who gives off such blasts of energy he can burn holes in your consciousness.
Dec. 23, 1988
“Nothing in Common” (citywide) starts out like yet another yuppie Tom Hanks comedy--until it takes off in a surprising and unexpectedly rewarding direction.
July 30, 1986
The dynamics of human attraction can be thoroughly mystifying. “What does she see in him?”
July 25, 2008