Apr 5-11, 2006
How Lobbyists are Doctoring the Health-Care Debate; At Vermont’s Ski Resorts, Mud Season Means Party Time; Who Should Pay for Hospitals’ Compassionate Care?
Astrology 04.05.06
ARIES (March 21-April 19): If you live to be 90 years old, you will have spent a total of eight months sitting in your car…
News Quirks 04.05.06
Curses, Foiled Again Two masked men with semiautomatic handguns burst into a credit union in Benicia, Calif., ordered employees to drop to the ground, and…
Nothing About Grover, Remain
(Self-released, CD) Remain is the first release from Nothing About Grover, a quartet from the Mad River Valley by way of Connecticut. It’s an ambitious…
MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA**1/2
Rob (Chicago) Marshall adapts Arthur Golden’s bestseller about a poor Japanese girl who transforms herself into a figure of skill and refinement. Ziyi Zhang, Michelle…
KING KONG***
Naomi Watts, Adrien Brody and Jack Black head the cast in Peter Jackson’s big-budget update of the 1933 classic. (PG-13) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/king_kong/hd/…
GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN**1/2
Jim (In America) Sheridan and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson team up to bring us yet another tale of a street kid who becomes a successful…
CAPOTE****1/2
Philip Seymour Hoffman disappears into the role of writer-socialite Truman Capote in this biopic, which focuses on the years when the author wrote In Cold…
A SOUND OF THUNDER*1/2
In this futuristic thriller from director Peter (Timecop) Hyams, Ben Kingsley stars as the owner of a time-travel agency that sends wealthy clients on prehistoric…
