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Not yet out but Coming Very Soon to a Theatre near you. Coming out shortly is yet another end of the world film from Hollywood. Again, Ben Affleck appears as lead actor in the film which has the US designing a satellite like device meant to create of all things, Earthquakes, so as to defeat our enemies ( we may need this as apparently nearly the whole world hates us). One must be very careful in divining Hollywood, even during these days of positive sentiment about our country and its righteous mission. In the movie it would appear that this...

Hope I die before I get old, sang Roger Daltrey in the classic Who anthem My Generation 35 summers ago. Only one of the original band's members - the endearingly lunatic drummer Keith Moon - actually managed to pull off that particular feat. When bassist John Entwistle died a couple of weeks ago, he was, like the rest of the baby boom generation's leading edge, pushing 60. In a gesture that captured the spirit of that generation the band's surviving original members, Daltrey and Pete Townshend, decided to carry on with the concert tour that had been scheduled to start...

A luxury multiplex opening in Hollywood later this month will charge $14 for a ticket, a new record for a Los Angeles movie theater. The price at Pacific Theaters' all-reservation ArcLight multiplex adjacent to Hollywood's historic Cinerama Dome exceeds even the costliest tickets at the recently opened Bridge, currently L.A.'s priciest movie venue. "It is a slightly higher ticket price than other venues but includes substantial added value," Pacific chief Christopher Forman said Wednesday. ArcLight debuts March 22, a week after Pacific opens a multiplex at a new midtown-L.A. complex called the Grove. Most tickets at that theater will cost...