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  • Not all reality television shows about former child stars are created equal -- Hollywood Reporter writer Andrew Wallenstein says the new VH-1 reality series Breaking Bonaduce, about the rise and fall of The Partridge Family star Danny Bonaduce, takes the genre to a new and sometimes unsettling place.
  • Sigur Ros, a five-piece band from Iceland, makes spacey progressive music, with often-indecipherable lyrics. Its fourth studio CD is called Takk..., which means "Thanks."
  • Rodrigo Garcia's Nine Lives peeks into the lives of nine women... but only for about 10 minutes at a time. He's attracted an all-star cast to the project, which builds on his past exercises in minimalist filmmaking.
  • Musician, avid golfer and Day to Day contributor David Was reviews jazz singer Tierney Sutton's new recording, I'm With the Band, a collection of mostly jazz standards given strange new life with an overly cheerful delivery.
  • The Squid and the Whale won two awards at the Sundance film festival. It's now in theaters. Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan says the movie deserves both, calling it "acutely observed [and] faultlessly acted."
  • From 1950 to 1956, the team of Martin and Lewis were America's favorite entertainers. A new memoir from Jerry Lewis details how their 10-year partnership was destroyed. Dean and Me: A Love Story details life behind the scenes of 16 films and numerous TV and club shows.
  • The "Freedom Convoy" began last month as a caravan of truck drivers who planned to drive to Ottawa to voice their opposition to the Canadian government's cross-border vaccine mandate.
  • Turkish novelist Elif Shafak and producer Sandy Tolan set out to capture the voices of Turkey and its cultural attitude on one street: Kazanci Yokushu, the "Street of the Cauldron Makers."
  • Slate advertising critic Seth Stevenson looks at a beer campaign that defies convention. With no silly jokes, scantily clad women or bumbling beer hounds, the Miller Brewing Company's new ads feature nostalgic old photos and emotive music to take the high road.
  • Some analysts and producers say the entertainment industry is struggling because of the corporatization of movie and TV studios. The pressure to keep stock prices and revenues up contributes to less risk-taking on the screen.
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