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Volume II, Issue 50 June 7 - June 14, 1999

News & Opinion

A "script for Oliver Stone's next movie" is how an attorney characterizes charges that his client murdered famous atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair to steal $600,000 from her organization. Small re-enactments for the Civil War centennial have evolved into large-scale military reproductions, as re-enacting grows in popularity. Republican Lamar Alexander wants to finish in the top of the pack in next February's primary races, and then, he says hopefully, "the money will roll in." Plus, Walter Jowers doesn't believe that "good fences make good neighbors," and more. News & Opinion contents page

Film & TV

How many places have a film festival that's been around 30 years? Our Nashville Film Festival coverage this week includes background, a chat, a profile, and some tips. Recent films about virtual reality echo themes that have been around. While "nice" movies everywhere at Cannes this year, edgy works still won the prizes. Also, interviews with a director and an actor, a bunch of movie reviews and lots of TV stuff. This week in Film & TV The Apple The Castle Children of Heaven Desert Blue Endurance(1) Endurance(2) Existo Instinct(1) Instinct(2) The King of Masks Notting Hill(1) Notting Hill(2) Return With Honor Thirteenth Floor This Is My Father The Winslow Boy PLUS Basketball on Video Charles Burnett Bruce Campbell Intvw Get A Life Indie Film Tips The Krofft Brothers Machine Dreams Nashville Film Festival New Fall Cartoons Report from Cannes Tommy Awards for TV TV Eye Videos A Go-Go and more... Film & TV contents page Visit the Film Vault for thousands of reviews

Music

Bluegrass music sounds older than the hills, but it originated in the early Forties, in the music of Bill Monroe and his band. The Internet is changing the way we select, buy, and listen to music. Ani DiFranco is an songwriter and performer, bubt she's also a maverick entrepreneur. Mary Chapin Carpenter still has a chance on the country music charts. Also, "Ellington at Newport" again, Public Enemy, and more. This week in Music Mary Chapin Carpenter Darcie Deaville(1) Darcie Deaville(2) Ani DiFranco Duke Ellington Public Enemy Scared of Chaka PLUS Bluegrass Music The Dopy Show Jews in the Blues Music on the Internet New Blues CDs and more... Music contents page

	Arts & Leisure
	Cajun Cooking Court Warrior NCAA Baseball Depraved Websites and more... Arts & Leisure contents page

Books

Reading is an exercise that's appropriate for the summer, and the Austin Chronicle has some warm-weather suggestions. Few people know Chechnya or Fred Cuny, but an interview with Cuny's biographer explains the connection. Gottfried Wagner has spent much of his life overcoming the troubling legacy of his great-grandfather, Richard Wagner. Also, Nabokov's memoirs, Russian poetry, and more. Books contents page

	Comics
	Come down from your Staggering Heights and get to the Red Meat of the matter with this swell set of cartoons that also includes Mueller, Eye of the Beholder, K. Rat and Random Shots. Comics contents page Visit the official Red Meat site

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