Author: Al Daniel
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Home Alone 2’s advantages over the original
As of this week, Home Alone 2 has lived 25 years in the entertainment universe. Granted, most moviegoers who invested their anticipation and money in the sequel prefer to forget they did. The 1992 sequel to 1990’s Home Alone fetched a leading $32 million over its premiere weekend. Fast-forward a quarter-century, and its Rotten Tomatoes…
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Keep laughing, or else: A Lewis Black concert-goer’s diary
Only by attending a Lewis Black concert can you grasp the incisively infuriated comedian’s all-encompassing outreach. And only by these means can you absorb the deepest insights from what he has to say. As with sporting events, even a full-length viewing from one’s residence is no substitute. I know this having seen Black’s show this past…
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Best actors from ECHL Central Division cities
Editor’s note: This is the latest installment of a series in which a Pucks and Rec writer will select the top contemporary entertainment citizen of every city in a select minor-league hockey division. The seven markets comprising the ECHL Central Division are this week’s focus. All filmography and award information is courtesy of the Internet…
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Alyssa Holmes: A tale of two Burlingtons
Alyssa Holmes hopes her choice to follow Jim Plumer’s half-joking counsel marks a storybook beginning. The prelude has been gripping enough. Holmes hails from Burlington, Ont., a middle-heavyweight of a city wedged between Toronto and Hamilton. Her neighborhood there is none other than Vermont Crescent. Plumer implored her to bring her hockey talents to his…
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Best actors from ECHL South Division cities
Editor’s note: This is the latest installment of a series in which a Pucks and Rec writer will select the top contemporary entertainment citizen of every city in a select minor-league hockey division. The seven markets comprising the ECHL South Division are this week’s focus. All filmography and award information is courtesy of the Internet…
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Best actors from ECHL North Division cities
Editor’s note: This is the latest installment of a series in which a Pucks and Rec writer will select the top contemporary entertainment citizen of every city in a select minor-league hockey division. The seven current and future markets comprising the ECHL North Division are this week’s focus. All filmography and award information is courtesy…
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Planes, Trains & Automobiles’ lesson against assumptions
Neal Page becomes a hero of sorts to his audience when he spews a string of seven-letter adjectives. But in his universe and narrative, he is most in need of rescuing, no matter how grudgingly grateful he is. Planes, Trains & Automobiles’ most NSFW scene speaks to anyone whose watery ill fortune has ever crisscrossed…
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Kelsie Fralick seizing new days with Old World tongues
Attende, quaeso. Nunc goaltending pro superbia Boston: una numero, Kelsie Fralick. (Your attention, please. Now goaltending for the Boston Pride: No. 1, Kelsie Fralick.) Fralick terminatur ad tres salvet ad tres shots ad eius debut in superbia. (Fralick finishes with three saves on three shots in her debut for the Pride.) Kelsie Fralick and John…
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Best actor from each AHL Pacific Division city
Editor’s note: This is the fourth installment of a series in which a Pucks and Rec writer will select the top contemporary entertainment citizen of every city in a select minor-league hockey division. The eight markets comprising the AHL Pacific Division are this week’s focus. All filmography and award information is courtesy of the Internet…
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Weird Al can help Halloween, Christmas meet halfway
Before hearing of Weird Al Yankovic or “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” I helped pull a former on the latter. Just for kicks, in October of my first-grade year, our teacher had us compose and perform “The Twelve Days of Halloween.” Only the last five gifts from the unspecified true love have stuck in my…