2008 Woodie Awards
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) - Michael J. Fox will return to series TV with a four-episode guest role on FX's Rescue Me. FX also announced on Tuesday that Academy Award-winning actress Marcia Gay Harden ("Pollock") will be joining the Glenn Close legal drama Damages as a second-season series regular, while Ted Danson will return to the show for several episodes. (0) comments
The slapstick comedy routines and awful accents in "Tom, Dick, and Harry" will leave any audience short of breath and teary-eyed from laughter. Tom and Linda Kerwood are an uptight couple yearning to adopt a child. While prepping for the arrival of Mrs. Potter, the adoption agent assigned to review their home, Tom's incompetent and idiotic brothers, Dick and Harry create massive chaos, resulting in unfortunate consequences. (1) comment
As soon as you think every sub-genre has found its niche somewhere along the modern rock spectrum, an album like Pyramids wipes the board in one giant, disorienting wave of reverb. The Denton four-piece self-titled debut reaches for post-rock peaks, swirling heavily chorused guitars and dream-like vocals with a disturbingly glitchy drum machine to create one of the most confusing and strangely disarming releases this year. (0) comments
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Ben & Jerry's has done it again: Hoping to honor rocker Elton John before his first-ever Vermont performance, Vermont's crazy-cool confectioner has whipped up a flavor just for him - "Goodbye Yellow Brickle Road." The limited-batch ice cream, made from "an outrageous symphony of decadent chocolate ice cream, peanut butter cookie dough, butter brickle and white chocolate chunks," is a take-off on his 1970s album and song "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. (0) comments
While it might have an unattractive atmosphere, Sukhothai II delivers satisfying Thai food at an affordable price. The restaurant recently changed its look after renovating in the late summer of 2007. Sukhothai II is named after the first capital of Thailand. (2) comments
