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Dolly Parton brings 'Rockstar' to local movie theaters
Nov. 9—Dolly Parton is popping up in a lot of places right now — local libraries for her Imagination Libraries initiative and Cracker Barrel as the face of its new rewards program — but next week she'll be in theaters.
In advance of the release of her first rock album, "Rockstar," on Nov. 17, the singer is inviting moviegoers to a global "first-listen" event on Wednesday that's only in movie theaters.
The screening will feature Parton showcasing music videos, behind-the-scenes peeks, and special performances including "Circle of Love," a holiday song recorded during the pandemic, and a rousing rendition of "9 to 5."
This album, Parton's 49th solo effort, is a collaborative project with a variety of rock musicians, including surviving Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, Stevie Nicks, Sting, Heart's Ann Wilson, Linda Perry, Emmylou Harris and Sheryl Crow.
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Movie Man: 'The Innkeepers' is just too slow to be scary
The best horror movies are delicate balancing acts. They combine a health dose of dreadful anticipation with just the right amount of out-and-out terror. Too much terror and you get, well, virtually any straight-to-video gorefest you care to name. Too much anticipation — in fact, way too much anticipation — and you get “The Innkeepers.”
It gives me no pleasure to admit I got no pleasure from “The Innkeepers.” Now on DVD and Blu-ray, the ghost story is the latest film from talented director Ti West. West is the man behind the movie “House of the Devil,” which was a personal favorite of mine. I loved its recreation of the s, its slowly building sense of dread and its no-holds-barred, horrifying conclusion. I was hoping for more of the same with “The Innkeepers.” Instead, I got a glacial-paced buildup followed by virtually no payoff.
The premise has promise: During the last nights before Connecticut’s Yankee Pedlar Inn closes
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Charles Manson: 40 years later, the movie about him you have to see
Here’s a date in history so grisly it would almost be wrong to acknowledge it with the word “anniversary.” Forty years ago, on August 9 and 10, (starting around midnight on the 9th), the Tate/LaBianca murders commenced — the gruesome slaughter of innocents masterminded by Charles Manson. So why am I bringing this up on ? Because Manson, in addition to being one of the most monstrous figures of the 20th century — the hippie-psycho cult-killer equivalent of Adolf Hitler — also became, in the very extremity and fascination of his evil, a part of popular culture.
He was famously associated with it. There was his friendship with Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys, which led to the California rockers recording one of Manson’s songs. (Guns N’ Roses did one, too, releasing it as an unlisted track on ’s The Spaghetti Incident.) There was Manson’s famous, quasi-paranoid-schizophrenic belief that the Beatles were calling o