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The 80s: the best of times, the worst of timesSaturday, July 31, 2010 @ 9:13PMTop Gun, the Smiths, The A-Team … popular culture reached its height in the 1980s – didn't it? Toby Litt on a decade he hated at the time, but is reluctantly starting to admire There's a fantastically annoying ad on Spotify at the moment for yet another Hits of the 80s compilation CD. Voiceover man hails "the decade that just won't die" – which is true, even though, along with a large number of ...

The Week Ahead: Natalie Merchant, Seattle Opera's 'Tristan und Isolde' and Movies at the MuralSaturday, July 31, 2010 @ 9:09PMNatalie Merchant, the 14/48 theater festival, cinema under the stars and a MadArt sculpture installation are Seattle-area arts highlights this week.

Return to Lonesome DoveSaturday, July 31, 2010 @ 6:35PMHighly Recommended A worthy follow-up to Lonesome Dove , the landmark, phenomenally successful 1989 Western miniseries, Return to Lonesome Dove (1993) is more of the same and almost as good, this despite the fact that a) several leading roles have been recast; and b) unlike its predecessor and all subsequent Lonesome Dove -based miniseries, it's an original work not based on a Larry McMurtry ...

'American Idol': Crystal Bowersox weighs in on Ellen's exitSaturday, July 31, 2010 @ 6:24PMAs the "American Idol" Season 9 runner-up, Crystal Bowersox took more feedback from Ellen DeGeneres than most other contestants -- and she's OK with the former judge's decision to call it quits after just one season.Bowersox, currently on tour with the rest of the top 10, offers her take on the current "Idol" situation: "Ellen is an amazing and kind human being, and I respect her and her ...

LAist Interview: The Cast of Charlie St. CloudSaturday, July 31, 2010 @ 3:24PM              In Zac Efron’s latest movie Charlie St. Cloud , in which he plays the title character, we get to see him brood, sail, play with his dead brother Sam (Charlie Tahan), romance a pretty girl named Tess (Amanda Crew) and take his shirt off (a lot). At the start of the film, Charlie and his brother both die in a car accident, but a paramedic (Ray Liotta) is able to save Charlie and ...

Entertainment / Arts › The mind is latest movie frontierSaturday, July 31, 2010 @ 3:22PMFor the visually savvy filmmaker, there is a new frontier with as much cinematic appeal as the old West held for moviemakers half a century…

TV Ratings: President Obama pulls in record 'View' audienceSaturday, July 31, 2010 @ 2:24PMNot in nearly 3,000 airings of "The View" has the series nabbed the kind of numbers it brought in for its July 29 visit from President Barack Obama.The first ever daytime talk appearance of sitting president averaged 6.6 million viewers during its one-hour broadcast. And more astonishing than the numbers, everyone actually behaved. Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who got flack earlier in the week for some ...

Catch him if you canSaturday, July 31, 2010 @ 1:45PMOver the last decade, Leonardo DiCaprio has established himself as one of the finest actors in Hollywood.

'Dinner for Schmucks' edges out 'Inception' at Friday box officeSaturday, July 31, 2010 @ 12:09PM"Inception" finally loosens its grip on the U.S. box office -- but not by much.Paramount's "Dinner for Schmucks" bested the two-week-old champ at Friday's box office, despite tepid reviews and the trailers' obvious warning of ventriloquy humor, with $8.3 million haul, reports Deadline.The other two new entries thought to be in contention for this weekend's title, "Charlie St. Cloud" and "Cats ...