Entertainment - Reviews
Horton Foote chronicles a man's search for family
NEW YORK (AP) -- Don't be fooled by the deceptively gentle way Part 1 of Horton Foote's extraordinary "Orphans' Home Cycle" initially unfolds....
Review: Electricity adds spark 'In the Next Room'
NEW YORK (AP) -- The dawn of electricity and the quest for sexual fulfillment. Who knew the two could be linked so satisfactorily on stage?...
Review: A sense of deja vu at Radio City Xmas show
NEW YORK (AP) -- Like a shiny toboggan wedged on wet snow, the Radio City Christmas Spectacular needs a little push....
Review: Old Italy lives in 'Assassin's Creed II'
Italian crime families have become a staple of video games over the last few years, starring in such hits as "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City," "The Godfather" and "Mafia." And don't get me started on "Mafia Wars," the browser game that's consuming half of my Facebook friends....
Review: Bella mopes through pretentious `New Moon'
Where would Hollywood be without that old standby, the vampire-werewolf-schoolgirl love triangle?...
Review: Ayckbourn's new play enlivened by a child
NEW YORK (AP) -- Some adults still believe that children should be seen and not heard. But what if that quiet child is writing down every foolish thing the adults are saying and doing?...
Review: `Planet 51' proves unable to support life
It's been a big year for animation, with a great variety of styles represented by "Up," "Monsters vs. Aliens," "Fantastic Mr. Fox" and the upcoming "The Princess and the Frog."...
Review: New York the subject of historical saga
"New York: The Novel" (Doubleday, 864 pages, $30,) by Edward Rutherfurd: New York City wasn't born a grand metropolis and world financial center. In 1664, the year in which Rutherfurd begins his latest sweeping historical novel, New York is New Amsterdam, a modest Dutch trading post of about 1,500 residents on an island the Native Americans called Manna Hata....


