10. Sheryl Crow & Lance Armstrong: Granted, Lance didn’t plan it this way, but the timing was still pretty lousy. The famous cancer survivor broke off his engagement with rocker Sheryl shortly before her own diagnosis with breast cancer. While Lance pledged his support, the crisis failed to bring the couple back together. Sheryl recovered with treatment but confessed months later she was still brokenhearted.
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Tickets of all prices for classical performances around San FranciscoClassical-music performances — small or big, free or expensive — will pick up in the next couple of months pretty much where they left off just before the holidays. Here are a few recommendations for the new year: » If you are familiar with Robert Greenberg’s work, you are likely to attend his next lecture. If you
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The world is grim, cold and anarchic in Alfonso Cuaron’s "Children of Men," and, sometimes, the same can be said for this barely sci-fi, palpably bleak infertility thriller. But when the movie dazzles, and it often does, inaccessibility crumbles. When it hits on human truths, and it often does, itapproaches glory.
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10. Paris and Nicole reconcile: After long-estranged "Simple Life" stars Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie bonded over resistance to producers’ plans for the show’s next season and renewed their friendship, paparazzi rejoiced. You would think Israel and Palestine had brokered an accord from the media’s reaction to photos of the twiggy twosome happily shopping and lunching together.
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The next half of the 2006-’07 season in Bay Area theaters looks even stronger than the fall portion. There is variety here, and a healthy emphasis on new works. Ticket prices are well below those for most other shows. Here are a few tips for the new year:
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"The only truly objective critic is a dead critic," Stephanie von Buchau once said. Her life was a testament to the glory of individual, strong, provocative, fearless opinions, which often offended but never wavered. Her independent voice was silenced with her passing in her Marin home over the weekend.The well-known and frequently controversial critic — a stranger to political or any other kind of correctness — died at age 67, probably from complications of her decade-long bout with diabetes.
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"Curse of the Golden Flower" is probably the most lavish costume drama in history, equaling or outdoing director Zhang Yimou’s other spectaculars, such as "Hero" and "House of Flying Daggers." It’s a sea of gold, red, blue, silver, with Yee Chung Man’s improbably luxurious costumes. Armies clash, warriors fly, the imperial family self-destructs and the Shakespearean plotting, feuding and killing never stop.
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Evangeline Lilly has survived disaster on "Lost," and she just narrowly averted one in real life as well. Her rented Oahu, Hawaii, house near the "Lost" set went up in flames Wednesday morning.The fire was reported around 6:45 a.m. by neighbors who heard "loud popping sounds, like something electrical," one told The Honolulu Advertiser. By the time firefighters raced to the scene six minutes later, "the house was fully engulfed," fire Capt. Kenison Tejada said.
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Rarely has so much talent gone to waste. The credits of "Night at the Museum" read like a who’s-who of comedy: Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Steve Coogan, Ricky Gervais, Paul Rudd and Robin Williams, to name a few. So where are the laughs? Buried, perhaps, beneath the endless reels of effects that have been heaped on a story rich with promise.
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"The Good Shepherd," an espionage saga directed by Robert De Niro, takes us through a quarter-century of intelligence history, transpiring in a modern-times warp teeming with Nazi sympathizers, Soviet adversaries, Cuban perils, LSD experiments and other ingredients of the spy pie. It’s a terrifically ambitious movie whose wealth of detail should appeal to children of the Cold War. But for all its intrigue, it is too staid and stuffed to emotionally satisfy.
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