2008 Woodie Awards
Sunday's "CollegeHumor Live Tour" was one of the final events of Fordham's Fall Fest. Keating 3rd auditorium turned into a comedy club as comedian Dan Levy, who served as emcee of the tour, kicked off the show with a short standup routine of his own. Levy's jokes were hit-or-miss, but he clearly knew how to get the audience ready for what was to come.
Fans of the Muppets who reflect on the glory days of films like The Great Muppet Caper now have a great Muppet comeback to look forward to. Since the Walt Disney Company bought the Muppets in 2004, the corporation has struggled with what, exactly, to do with the fuzzy friends that used to be overwhelmingly popular.
You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll squirm and you'll wince. Miracle at St. Anna (rated R), although a mediocre movie, will surely entertain you. Directed by Spike Lee and based on the novel written by James McBride, Miracle at St. Anna begins with an old Latino man sitting in his apartment watching a black- and-white movie about World War II.
The newest Disney sweetheart to release an album has put Miley Cyrus to shame. Sixteen-year-old Demi Lovato's (Camp Rock) first album, Don't Forget, is not even in the same league as those by Cyrus or former Disney darlings Hilary Duff, Lindsay Lohan or Britney Spears.
This year, master chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten will celebrate the 10-year anniversary of his downtown and underground dining refuge, The Mercer Kitchen. In 1998, Vongerichten envisioned Mercer, his eighth New York City establishment, and quite literally, unearthed a prime location for posh SoHo dining.
There are many things in life that make me want to gouge my eyes out with a rusty object as an alternate form of entertainment, but watching a television show jump the shark takes the two-tiered, buttercream-frosted cake. Critics of television already exist in unprecedented numbers, but their claims - once regarded as the irrational rantings of the perceived intellectual elite - now threaten to become more valid as the brains behind small-screen programs forego creativity in favor of blatant shock value.
Eric Arthur Blair, who is well known by his pen name George Orwell, remains a prominent figure in contemporary literature. Works such as 1984, Animal Farm and Down and Out in Paris and London continue to be re-issued, printed in new editions, and studied, keeping the works of Orwell alive and prevalent.
This Cincinnati quintet's name, which they assert was slang in their high school for "cool shoes," is not the only thing that makes them stand out from the whiny, teeny-bopping messiahs of our generation. Their altogether sound and fluid movement from style to style surely does.