The romantic comedy is one of the most challenging film genres of the modern film world. The ending is always inevitable, so a filmmaker has to find a way to create interesting and likable characters and make the journey-- from the beginning, when both the man and the woman are single and ready to mingle, to the end when they fall in love after the man has chased the woman down at the airport…or something like that—worthwhile.
Fireworks in Seattle are illegal. Even so, as the Fourth of July holiday nears, the war on domestic tranquility in Queen Anne and Magnolia begins.
The legendary and lovely Gloria Vanderbilt, now in her late 80s. recently was interviewed on television by her son, Anderson Cooper. With her charming and childlike naïveté, the well-known socialite-designer-writer has never made any secret about having had a long and varied string of lovers over the span of her 88 years.
I’ve got a junk box. (The Lady Marjorie insists I have many more the just one.) I’m sure most of you have one also, or at least a drawer were all those things get tossed that are considered just too valuable to throw away, or that possibly may be useful at some latter date.
Starting off with a July 7 Japanese tea ceremony, Chocolopolis, 1527 Queen Anne Ave. N. will celebrate its fourth anniversary throughout the month with more than a dozen free events.
The EMP Museum will celebrate the first 50 years of the Seattle Center and the future of the Northwest music scene with The Next 50 Plays The First 50, a free outdoor concert on July 7 spotlighting local up-and-coming artists and the region’s music history.
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Ted, the little (artificially) furry guy at the center of “Ted”--a raunchy comedy from Seth MacFarlene, making his directorial debut—is one vulgar, vulgar teddy bear
I feel like Channing Tatum’s (still young) acting career has been building up to his performance in “Magic Mike.”
Roadway Structures crews of the Seattle Department of Transportation had planned to close lanes on two city bridges on Monday, July 2 for maintenance work. Work on one of the two, the Emerson-Nickerson Bridge, has been cancelled and will be rescheduled for mid July due to material availability issues. Work on the Albro Bridge in Georgetown is still scheduled for July 2: The right, westbound lane will be closed from 9 a.m. to 3:30 a.m.
“The Amazing Spider Man” is pretty good considering it’s a franchise reboot made only ten years after Sam Rami’s film starring Toby Maguire in 2002. [It’s an improvement, mostly in reintroducing the famed Marvel superhero.] But [at the same time] the movie-- directed by newcomer Marc Webb from a script by James Vanderbilt, Alvin Sargent and Steve Kloves—still suffers from some plot and structural issues (like dumb clichés and coincidences, mostly in the second half where the major action takes place) and whether it wants to be funny or dark in tone.