http://www.philly.com/r?19=960&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2F Entertainment news from the Inquirer en-us Fri, 16 May 2008 15:59:01 GMT 2008-05-16T15:59:01Z en-us http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166691&44=19005014&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2F20080516_A_wildly_strange_triple_bill_at_The_Fire.html It was a spectacularly strange triple bill on Thursday night at The Fire, the drinking establishment and music venue in Northern Liberties. Fri, 16 May 2008 15:59:01 GMT fd6c9bc9dae2e36e1797a5a9910b216d 2008-05-16T15:59:01Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166691&44=19001924&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2F20080516_A_frenzy_of_filming_in_Philly.html When David Frankel agreed to direct the movie adaptation of John Grogan's best seller Marley & Me, he expected to shoot in Philadelphia at The Inquirer, where Grogan had been a columnist. Fri, 16 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT f4d2342ab6ee6e9188ca3331cee927e1 2008-05-16T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166691&44=19002359&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2F20080516_A_trooper_uses_paint_to_transcend_tragedy.html Weeks after a milk-truck driver opened fire in an Amish school, a state police commander sought an unconventional way to both evoke and transcend the tragedy: a piece of art. Fri, 16 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT b350c291d78537d270f093cd3ea89d9a 2008-05-16T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166691&44=19002364&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2F20080516_Judge_again_rejects_foes_of_Barnes_move.html A Montgomery County judge has thrown out an attempt to stop the Barnes Foundation's $5 billion art collection from moving to a new Philadelphia exhibition space. Fri, 16 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT bde11d77959075fe432de0b5b8ab9eb7 2008-05-16T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166696&44=18965109&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2Fbooks%2F20080515_Walters__career_a_continuing_audition.html Barbara Walters paved the way and shattered the ceiling, the first woman to cohost a morning news program, coanchor an evening newscast, interview world leaders and be remunerated with movie-star money. Thu, 15 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT 29bbc10fc0c4f7c8ffe73fbd672f7b8e 2008-05-15T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166696&44=18965114&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2Fbooks%2F20080515_Philadelphia__Book_Festival.html Barbara Walters appears at the Central Branch of the Free Library, 1901 Vine St., at 5 p.m. Sunday as part of the Philadelphia Book Festival. Admission is free but tickets are required for entry. They can be picked up at the Library Clubhouse beginning at 2 p.m. Sunday. Patrons without tickets can watch on the library's Jumbotron. For information, call 215-686-5322 or visit www.philadelphiabook Thu, 15 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT 6f9c0534e8b29735b6fd94acd64389cd 2008-05-15T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166691&44=18959489&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2FRobert_Downey_Jr_Transformer_.html The Summer of Downey? On Friday, Iron Man - easily one of the smartest, most satisfying comic-book superhero movies since Tim Burton's first Batman - opens across America. And Robert Downey Jr.'s the guy: As playboy industrialist Tony Stark, a billionaire inventor who transforms himself into an awesome armor-plated crimefighter, Downey puts the iron in irony. He's cool, he's tough, he's weird. Thu, 15 May 2008 04:02:43 GMT 53431d7498a5d6371e2fb45dd29b6c02 2008-05-15T04:02:43Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166696&44=18886244&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2Fbooks%2F20080513_Cooking_up_a_best-seller.html Already one of the best-selling vocalists in the history of country music, Trisha Yearwood is now a best-selling author as well. Georgia Cooking in an Oklahoma Kitchen, a book of family recipes that Yearwood, her mother and sister coauthored, recently debuted at No. 3 on the New York Times best-seller list. It's just another accomplishment for the 43-year-old Georgia native, who has had nine No. 1 hits, sold more than 10 million albums, and won three Grammys. Tue, 13 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT 018ff2d2b63b909e03f53b23e32abe41 2008-05-13T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166691&44=18836869&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2F20080511_Post-Katrina_housing_fits_designers__agendas__But_can_the_city_live_with_it_.html NEW ORLEANS - The style wars between the modernists, the traditionalists, and the free-thinking blobists were the farthest thing from Vernessa Rogers' mind when she was asked to choose from a group of sleek house designs commissioned by actor/architecture buff Brad Pitt. Sun, 11 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT 6c8d6b92086efab7f0f1f07ad469d71b 2008-05-11T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166691&44=18837024&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2F20080511_Best_Jersey_beach_.html The ballots are in. And the New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium is guarding the results as if it were PricewaterhouseCoopers on Oscar night. Sun, 11 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT d99a2184dc64fd09d85b60676aee478b 2008-05-11T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166691&44=18798914&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2F20080511_One-name_wonders_vie_to_be_next_Winehouse.html Who will be this year's Amy Winehouse? Nobody, that's who. Smoky-voiced, beehive-hairdo'd, tabloid train-wreck retro-R&B singers who write powerfully revealing, instantly grabby songs - and grab Grammys by the fistful - don't wander onto the pop culture landscape in their bra and short-shorts every day. That type of entertainment value is not easily duplicated. Sun, 11 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT 8b53c6278e94a46d5520edf6e4b0ffb3 2008-05-11T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166691&44=18798904&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2F20080511_Poet-turned-novelist_settles_into_spotlight.html WILMINGTON - Unlike J.K. Rowling, she's not richer than the Queen of England. Unlike Lisa Scottoline, she doesn't own a farm with horses (yet). Sun, 11 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT 696527108e72da4085b11befaf137646 2008-05-11T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166691&44=18798909&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2F20080511_The_Heavy_s_sound_of__70s_resonates.html It's not only female vocalists who have tapped into the time-honored British tradition of selling American music back to the Yanks: There's also the Heavy, a five-piece band from Noid, England, whose electric debut Great Vengeance and Furious Fire (Counter ***) draws from the Curtis Mayfield-Sly Stone reservoir of American soul. Sun, 11 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT aaa0236553e9524c0a0024a1598294bc 2008-05-11T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166691&44=18798919&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2F20080511_Our_critics_recommend___.html Movies Opening Friday Before the Rains Scandal visits 1930s India in the form of a married British colonialist who is caught having an affair with his married Indian housekeeper. Sun, 11 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT 98f39a228ac321cc9b12ac67a48e5de0 2008-05-11T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166691&44=18808299&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2FArt_Unencumbered_youth.html The childhood that Maurice Sendak remembers, in which children were allowed more trial and error in coming to grips with the vicissitudes of life, no longer exists. Childhood today is tightly regulated, circumscribed and electronically monitored. Sun, 11 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT b4b10d927260f884926319be9a91046b 2008-05-11T07:00:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166696&44=18798959&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2Fbooks%2F20080511_More_deeply_ridiculous_thinking_from_Jack_Handey.html Humor can be a funny thing. Take, for example, What I'd Say to the Martians (and Other Veiled Threats), by Jack Handey. It's a completely hilarious little book, a throwback to the kind of offbeat compilations of essays, non sequiturs and notes that Woody Allen published in the 1970s. But it's the sort of humor that's difficult to convey out of context. Sun, 11 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT 6b90f3300a4aaa5b675934747795ee9a 2008-05-11T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166696&44=18798954&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2Fbooks%2F20080511_Julie_Andrews.html Julie Andrews' early life wasn't exactly Dickensian. It was, however, filled with trauma, drama and colorful - often tragic - characters. Sun, 11 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT 8e99cc2e7b4790b17ef687be49fac5fc 2008-05-11T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166696&44=18798949&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2Fbooks%2F20080511_Can_a_cad_really_become_better__get_a_revision_.html If there was ever a person who could use some revision, it's Harry. A black-and-white sketch of this antihero looks pretty unsympathetic - he's a paunchy, self-absorbed neurotic who cheats on his wife weekly with prostitutes. A creep, you could say. Luckily, as he gets filled in with the colors of author Sarvas' full palette, Harry begins to look much more human. Sun, 11 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT eb98cc026ebc646096bea27e56120152 2008-05-11T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166691&44=18798879&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2F20080511_New_Recordings.html Pop "Who says you can't take a shot at the president, just say you're sorry and be on your way?" Ike Reilly spits out in "Fish Plant Rebellion." Like the best rockers, and you can count him among them, Reilly delights in wreaking havoc with polite society. He continues to do just that with Poison the Hit Parade. Sun, 11 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT 98c9852edb79f53a0a82a6d6446f5688 2008-05-11T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166691&44=18798884&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2F20080511_A_financial_policy_horror_story.html Kevin Phillips' new book would be sobering enough if it were the first we had heard from him. When you take into account how often he's been right, this 14th volume in his continuing commentary on the American condition becomes positively alarming. Sun, 11 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT 8f5e9fe1cdb1234fe734c1fd57a06d86 2008-05-11T07:01:00Z