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Thursday, December 4, 2008
ENTERTAINMENT
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| NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- It was a bittersweet moment for Brad Pitt, walking through the Lower 9th Ward neighborhood where families were preparing to spend their first holidays since Hurricane Katrina. Those families are moving into the first six houses built through Pitt's Make It Right foundation. One home was already strewn with green garland, lights, wreaths and red bows. | |
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The “Transporter,” Frank Martin (Jason Statham), crashes back into a box office near you this holiday season in what will be the franchise’s third installment. If you haven’t seen the original film, or its sequel, then let me introduce you to Frank Martin.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Lawyers for film director Roman Polanski, a fugitive for 30 years in a notorious sex case involving a 13-year-old girl, filed a request to dismiss the charge against him because of prosecutorial and judicial misconduct.
The worst part about “Transformers Animated: The Game” is how close it is to being great. The groundwork is laid here for a really fun game, but nothing ever comes of it. The game is uninspired and uninspiring from start to finish, and it isn’t clear whether the developers lacked imagination or just time.
Three years, three husbands.
And here’s the amazing part – all three have the name Bob Cratchit.
No. It isn’t one of those role reversal situations where the husband takes the wife’s name. Let’s just say when it comes to names, Mrs. Cratchit is very picky about her choice of husbands.
Colin Douglas is a 60-something true crime writer. When he witnesses the execution of a man about whom he has written, it dredges up old memories of his boyhood in Baton Rouge. Something happened in 1959 when he was 15, something terrible and he can’t remember it all. He’s long since left Louisiana, but now he feels compelled to go back, not only in distance, but in time.
Jason Statham talks about working on his new action film, "Transporter 3." In "Transporter 3," Frank Martin has been pressured into transporting Valentina, the kidnapped daughter of Leonid Vasilev, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency for the Ukraine, from Marseilles through Stuttgart and Budapest until he ends up in Odessa on the Black Sea.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Akon's explosive rise to the top of the music charts was fueled by feel-good songs and naughty grooves — but his criminal past was always an underlying part of his success. His breakthrough album was titled "Konvicted," his music company is called Konvict, and the clank of prison bars are often heard in his music.
On Saturday, Nov. 29, at the Blackham Coliseum in Lafayette, Gladiators Academy hosted Collision at the Coliseum 4. All in all, it was a great night for fights with Gladiators going 5-1 overall and its amateurs showing up with an impressive 5-0. Gladiators improved their overall amateur record to 81-16. Cowboy Combat Club of Stillwater, Okla. also had an exciting showing going 2-0 for the night.
Louisiana will kick into full gear for the Christmas season this coming week. Dazzling lights, glittering decorations and festive music will be found in every corner of the state. Allow plenty of time to get to a festival or event safely. And don’t worry if you miss something, there’s more to come throughout December.
Scott Woltz hasn’t given it much thought until now. Until someone poses the question. And it was only fate that someone would. Judas? At Christmas? “Gosh,” he said. “You know, it really didn’t occur to me.”
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