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Summer bombast needs silver bullet

By -Alec Toombs · Tuesday, May 25,2004 10:55 a.m.

Remember that scene in "American Wedding" where Stifler (Seann William Scott) accidentally feeds Michelle's (Alyson Hannigan) wedding ring to a dog, and retrieves it via the magic of ex-lax? Well, watching "Van Helsing" is sort of akin to that.

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Get out and eat!

By George Lyle IV · Tuesday, May 25,2004 10:48 a.m.

Springtime -- the birds sing in the blooming trees, a warm breeze blows over red and yellow tulips, and lawn chairs sprout up on the sidewalks like dandelions in an open field.

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FRESH AIR FLICKS

By Kelly Phillips · Tuesday, May 25,2004 10:41 a.m.

Mark Bowen grins and heaves hard as he hoists his end of a 10-foot projection screen up an inconspicuous pulley that runs up the side of the orange Soma coffeehouse sign overlooking Grant St.

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'Rose' grows where Loretta goes

By Ryan Whirty · Monday, May 24,2004 4:50 p.m.

Ever since Loretta Lynn released her first single 44 years ago, her heart and soul have remained intimately tied to her childhood as a coal miner's daughter in rural Kentucky.

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The art of chill

By John Barnett · Monday, May 24,2004 4:50 p.m.

There's a new Jack Johnson tune called "Free" making its way to a radio station near you, only it's not Jack Johnson (regardless of what your ears would have you believe) but rather his friend, surfing buddy and musical progeny, Donavon Frankenreiter.

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Starship sucks?

By Ryan Whirty · Monday, May 24,2004 4:49 p.m.

I always knew that night nearly 20 years ago would come back to bite me in the ass.

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Behold! The power of the producer

By -Brandon Tucker · Monday, May 24,2004 4:48 p.m.

The era of the "producer" is upon us, where a good hip-hop CD is nothing without a cut from Kanye West, Timbaland, Just Blaze, or of course, Rap's Top 40 golden boy: Lil' Jon.

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Third time's not always a charm

By Amy Hamblen · Monday, May 24,2004 4:47 p.m.

Can any movie that starts out with sleepover friends Jenny McCarthy and Pamela Anderson wearing low-cut white blouses and Catholic schoolgirl skirts be that bad?

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'Fog of War' a true eye-opener

By John Barnett · Monday, May 24,2004 4:45 p.m.

Winner of the Oscar for Best Documentary, "The Fog of War" is Errol Morris' gripping, chilling and most of all timely gaze into the life and mind of former United States Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.

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'In America' on DVD

By -Kehla West · Monday, May 24,2004 4:43 p.m.

If the DVD contained nothing more than this charming, touching movie, it would be well worth purchasing.

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No bad 'Demons' for 'Onimusha 3'

Monday, May 24,2004 4:42 p.m.

Attention all game developers and wannabe developers: if you're going to make the last entry of a definitive series, take notes from Capcom; these guys know how to do it right.

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'Troy' offers scintillating swords, sandals

By -Alec Toombs · Monday, May 24,2004 4:41 p.m.

Following on the sandaled heels of Ridley Scott's "Gladiator" (a film that single-handedly resurrected the seemingly deceased swashbuckler sub-genre -- see "The Lord of the Rings," "Pirates of the Caribbean" and the upcoming "King Arthur" for further examples), comes "Troy," director Wolfgang Peterson's reinterpretation of Homer's timeless, epic poem, "The Iliad."

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Killswitch sure to 'Engage' listeners

By Benjames Derrick and Benjamin Derrick · Monday, May 24,2004 4:40 p.m.

There is a time and place for all kinds of music. I don't mean to degrade commercial rock 'n' roll along the lines of Hoobastank and New Found Glory, but if you've grown tired and find it lame, then The End of Heartache could be just the remedy.

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House fire kills 3 students

By Tony Sams · Monday, May 24,2004 4:22 p.m.

An off-campus house fire Saturday morning killed three IU students and left one student severely injured. Monroe County Coroner David Toumey said juniors Jacob Surface and Joseph Alexander, both 21, died Saturday in Bloomington. Sophomore Nicolas Habicht, 20, died Sunday afternoon following continued critical condition status while on life support at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis.

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No rules broken in 'Breakin' All the Rules'

By -Jenny Kobiela · Monday, May 24,2004 3:56 p.m.

Love makes people crazy," claims Quincy Watson (Jamie Foxx) in "Breakin' All the Rules." That may be true, but the characters in this movie act as crazy as people in almost any run-of-the-mill romantic comedy ever created.

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HONING THE CRAFT

By Holly Johnson and Holy Johnson · Monday, May 24,2004 3:21 p.m.

He's been insulted by a South African jazz songstress who, visiting Bloomington for a brief tour, was shocked he didn't know the tune of Hoagy Carmichael's 1937 classic, "Stardust."

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BEYOND SKIN DEEP

By C. Warner Sills and Jeff Douglas · Monday, May 24,2004 12:36 p.m.

Rob Poulos is a walking fragment of literature. Tattooed on his left wrist is a single word, lowercase, followed by a comma and quotation marks -- "back," -- as if it was lifted from the end of a line of dialogue.

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