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Today is Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Toby Keith embraces his bad-boy persona
By Marc Hirsh The Boston Globe
MANSFIELD — For as much as they’ve been set up as opponents in the line drawn in the Nashville and political sand, Toby Keith went through the same sort of career-changing moment as the Dixie Chicks, where he must have looked at “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)” and said to himself, “After this, there’s no turning back.” The difference, of course, is that Keith came by his by choice, rather than having it forced upon him, and at the Comcast Center Sunday night, he was a man without regrets.
Stageloft’s ‘Memoirs’ memorable
THEATER REVIEW
By Paul Kolas TELEGRAM & GAZETTE REVIEWER
STURBRIDGE — There’s some kind of perverse coincidence at work when Neil Simon’s least successful work, “Fools,” appears on the local theater scene concurrently with — arguably — his most fully satisfying achievement, “Brighton Beach Memoirs.”
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ENTERTAINMENT COLUMNS
When you don’t have to toke to get the joke
Jim Keogh Film Clips
Acouple of weeks ago I was attacked by a kidney stone, which I can only describe as feeling like you’re being stabbed repeatedly from the inside out. It’s a long story that I won’t bore you with, but like a good movie it involved drama (lurching and vomiting by the side of the Mass Pike), thrills (an ambulance ride from the side of the Mass Pike), a final conflict (jagged shard of calcium vs. narrow nerve-filled pathway of my ureter), and a happy ending (stone passes, the sun rises on a new day).
Reznor revisits his dark side
Craig S. Semon Tracks
With tales of sadomasochism, suicide, self-loathing, social oppression and severe pain, Trent Reznor — the manic mastermind and one-man studio band known as Nine Inch Nails — takes the listener on a tour of his personal concentric ring of hell and the endless cycle that has become the downward spiral of his tortured existence.
ENTERTAINMENT HEADLINES
Seeking ugly women for Outback's lonely hearts
By Kristen Gelinaeau THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SYDNEY, Australia —
Life can get a little lonely for bachelors in the Australian Outback mining town of Mount Isa. So the mayor has offered up a solution: recruit ugly women.
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Woman accused of beating fiance at prenup party
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
POULSBO, Wash. —
A Poulsbo woman was jailed after being accused of beating up her fiance at their prenuptial party. Kitsap County sheriff's deputies said the woman's 12-year-old son told her he saw her fiance kissing one of her women friends early Thursday morning.
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