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1. ‘Banana Shpeel’ shlips up at the Beacon
(Entertainment/Movies)

... being Patrick de Valette, a skinny mop-haired dude who does antic flasher bits. Much of the so-called comedy is tiresome banter. There's scarcely any slapstick business. Nobody even slips on a banana ...

2. ‘Graceland’ is a not so grave comedy
(Entertainment/Movies)

... his dad. A missing timepiece — an obvious yet meaningful symbol in a story about age — keeps the characters colliding with some droll results. If the siblings' eventual self-discoveries are scarcely ...

3. Jonathan Demme books a bad ‘Family Week’
(Entertainment/Movies)

... argue and vent and scarcely face their issues, let alone solve them, and that's pretty much it as far as the story goes. Everybody is more or less miserable. Perhaps an abstract approach might perk ...

4. Green Day’s ‘American Idiot’ lands on Broadway (VIDEO)
(Entertainment/Movies)

... in the parking lot of their neighborhood 7-11, scarred but scarcely the wiser for their separate experiences. This sketchy if do-able libretto strings along Green Day hits like "Wake Me Up When September ...

5. Valerie Harper portrays a ‘Looped’ Tallulah Bankhead
(Entertainment/Movies)

... turns on "The Lucy and Desi Comedy Hour" and "Batman"), it's questionable whether much of an audience remains intrigued by the lady's memory today to pay Broadway prices for this harmless but scarcely ...

6. Gay partners cope with life and death situations in ‘Next Fall’
(Entertainment/Movies)

... Theatre. From the sniffles pervading the auditorium, apparently some people are moved deeply by this comedy-drama-weeper. Not me. At least not in the way the playwright intends. Frankly I could scarcely ...

7. Abigail Breslin dukes it out as young Helen Keller in ‘The Miracle Worker’
(Entertainment/Movies)

... Worker," which opened on Wednesday at Circle in the Square, Abigail Breslin and Alison Pill scarcely eclipse the memory of Duke and Bancroft, but they provide extremely committed, convincing portrayals ...

8. New Jersey celebrates the Chinese Year of the Tiger
(Entertainment/Movies)

... sum, New Jersey never looked so good. The Belleville laundrymen scarcely had been in their new quarters for 12 hours when reporters from Newark and New York arrived to peer at the wondrous heathens. ...

9. ‘Happy Now?’ studies a working wife and mom’s frazzled life
(Entertainment/Movies)

... shoulders. These and other pressures eventually push her into a hotel room with a cheerfully adulterous colleague. Long before Kitty realizes it herself, viewers are all too aware that her life is scarcely ...

10. Romantic ‘Fanny’ returns to New York in fine concert form
(Entertainment/Movies)

... writing both the music and words for their scores, but their contemporary Harold Rome (1908-1993) has scarcely received his due recognition for the same accomplishment on a dozen Broadway musicals and ...

11. Nellie Bly's journey around the world ended where it started — in New Jersey
(Life/Style)

...  Despite the lack of high adventure, the very idea of the journey, at a time when many women scarcely left home unescorted, captured readers' imaginations and circulation soared for Bly's reports. She ...

12. Seton Hall prepared for a Big East ‘fist fight’ against No. 6 West Virginia
(Sports/Professional)

... sterner. It was a side his players had scarcely seen and do not want to see repeated. Leading into their next game with Navy, "We went about this game preparing as if the world was going to end," said ...

13. Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury shine in a darker ‘A Little Night Music’
(Entertainment/Movies)

... an unusually heartfelt performance of "Every Day a Little Death" by Erin Davie as the soldier's martyred wife and Ramona Mallory as Fredrik's foolish child bride. Scarcely a dancing show in spite of ...

14. James Spader, David Alan Grier and Richard Thomas argue David Mamet’s ‘Race’
(Entertainment/Movies)

... a box of matches to Broadway with his new comedy "Race." Opening Sunday at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, "Race" scarcely explodes into a satirical bonfire, but Mamet's typically cool comedy certainly ...

15. Fast, furious & fine: A review of the 2010 Chevy Camaro


(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... as the Camaro soared around the curve and again was on the straight and level asphalt. I tapped the shift again and, with scarcely a nudge of the accelerator, was back to 125 and racing. I slowed at ...

16. Okay ‘Dreamgirls’ visits the Apollo Theater
(Entertainment/Movies)

... the Dreams' crossover success. A boyish Trevon Davis is scarcely better as the Dreams' songwriter. At least Syesha Mercado's slim, sweet Deena Jones sings as prettily as she looks. But what about Effie, ...

17. A ‘Hamlet’ who knows what he’s doing
(Entertainment/Movies)

... in the murky blue atmospherics, Law's handsome Hamlet puzzles thoughtfully over the meaning of life but scarcely lets introspection hinder his practical intentions. If Kevin R. McNally's stolid Claudius ...

18. Flavorful acting sells ‘Superior Donuts’
(Entertainment/Movies)

... of Yasen Peyankov's ebullient Russian, Kate Buddeke's lovelorn Irish-American cop and Robert Maffia's neurotic bad guy lend spice to this sentimental but scarcely cloying occasion. For anyone seeking ...

19. 1918 Spanish Flu was cause for alarm in New Jersey
(Health/Healthquest)

... throughout the state. Within the next three days, more than 2,000 new cases were reported. Scarcely a week later — October 6th — that terrible tally of the afflicted was equaled in a single city — Gloucester ...