Movie Review: ‘The Hurt Locker’

THE HURT LOCKERViewed at the Newport AMC Theater in Newport, Kentucky6:45 Saturday night showPre-movie meal: watermelon and blueberries–Intense!I was skeptical of this film because it was directed by Katherine Bigelow, who also directed one of the silliest movies I’ve ever seen: Keanu Reeves going undercover as a surfer dude-bank robber to nab Patrick Swayze in POINT BREAK.

Les Paul, Electric Guitar Inventor, Has Died

If you listen to rock, pop, blues, or country music, thank Les Paul.Paul invented the solid-body electric guitar — the John Deere plow of rock and roll.

Happy 70th, George Hamilton

Glowing bronze actor George Hamilton turns 70 today. He was born this day in 1939, the same year as another master of suave aging: George Lazenby.Here’s an awkward photo from April. The caption: “George Hamilton being asked for money by a homeless person outside Mr. Chow restaurant. Beverly Hills, California.”

Weird New Images From Heath Ledger’s Last Film

Heath Ledger was filming a movie when he died: not Batman but The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, the latest hallucinatory (and typically cursed) project from Monty Python alumnus Terry Gilliam.How hallucinatory? New photos below.The flick was described this way at Cannes:

Keanu Reeves vs. Teddy Bears

This video from 1984 features Keanu Reeves as a correspondent for a TV show called Going Great. He’s talking with a 13 year-old who collects stuffed bears.