When vocalist-guitarist Nathan Nicholson first left his native Tennessee for exotic England in 2000, his mind was swimming with romantic notions. “I’d always had this affinity for British music, like the whole Britpop era and bands before that, like The Smiths, The Stone Roses and Joy Division,” he says. “So I moved there to start playing music.
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If you didn’t catch the brainy Drew Barrymore/Justin Long comedy “Going The Distance” in theaters, no worries — it just hit the streets on DVD. Allowing viewers to really focus on the band that chews up a lot of nightclub-set scenery — Britain’s dreamy The Boxer Rebellion, whom (spoiler alert!) Long’s character ends up managing. And their real-life story isn’t too far from that depicted in the film.
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Drew Barrymore and Christina Applegate were friends long before fashioning a playful sibling rivalry for the new romantic comedy "Going the Distance," opening Friday.Both born into show-business families – Barrymore the granddaughter of Hollywood legend John Barrymore, Applegate the daughter of singer and actress Nancy Lee Priddy – the two grew up in Los Angeles sharing some of the same teachers.
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Nanette Burstein always loved movies, but she wanted to be both a filmmaker and a journalist. She compromised, and became a documentary filmmaker.This path turned out to be right; her first released film, the boxing documentary “On the Ropes,” earned her an Oscar nomination.
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