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Jack Goes Confidential: ‘Lee Daniels’ THE BUTLER’—A Powerful Personal Journey
I REALLY wanted to like “Lee Daniels’ THE BUTLER.”
And guess what, I wasn’t disappointed!
Is it this year’s THE HELP? No. I wouldn’t elevate the film to that level but it does compare favorably to THE COLOR PURPLE.
“Lee Daniels’ THE BUTLER” is a historical drama alright. But it’s really a fictional account of the real butler who served in the White House continuously from the early 1950’s right on through the Reagan Administration.
In other words, the storyline here is only inspired by true events. Continue reading
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Jack Goes Confidential: ‘JOBS’ Bio-Drama Delivers — Up To A Point
“Steve, you’re good. Damn good.. But you’re an asshole.”
One of the defining lines thrown at Steve Jobs by an inner circle member of his legendary Apple Computer empire.
JOBS is a small—and I stress SMALL—biographical drama based on the life of the legendary, entrepreneurial visionary, covering a span from the early 70’s until the introduction of the Ipod in 2000.
Matter of fact, the movie begins with Jobs’ introductory remarks for the revolutionary music device—or as he put it, “It’s a thousand songs in your pocket.”
And a tip of the hat to Ashton Kutcher who got Steve Jobs’ looks and mannerisms down to a tee. Continue reading
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Hearne: Will Jason Whitlock Finally Get the Paycheck He So Richly Deserves @ ESPN?
What goes around comes around…
Three years back when former Kansas City Star sports scribe Jason Whitlock imploded and left town amidst a flurry of acrimony and accusations (ranging from editor Mike Fannin having an affair with a married subordinate to W nearly landing a gig as co-sports editor at the newspaper) he managed to convince 610 Sports Nick Wright and a handful of sports bloggers that he was leaving town with a $2 million three year deal.
Which maybe seemed reasonable were Whitlock to have been able to pyramid his part time blogging on Fox Sports into some additional radio and/or TV gigs.
Never happened. Continue reading
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Paul Wilson: Kaplan Update – The Wheels of ‘Justice’ Go Round & Round
For those who didn’t follow the story back in May – either on KCC or local news – Leawood teen Eric Kaplan is a Blue Valley North graduate accused of stalking two women…
He followed one woman from an Overland Park grocery store. As she was leaving the store, Kaplan was walking in, made eye contact with her, turned and went back to his car. She thought that odd and, within moments realized she was being followed.
Smart enough to not drive down the street to her home, she intentionally turned down a cul-de-sac to determine if her suspicion was correct. When doing the requisite U-turn at the end of the street it gave her not only confirmation she was being followed but also his alleged intention as she could see he was wearing a ski mask while driving a late model BMW.
This might be considered normal behavior in Raytown, not so much in Joco. Continue reading
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Sounds Good: Kurt Vile @ Granada, Bob Mould @ Bottleneck
As many of you probably know, a couple weeks ago Chad Rogers went missing when he
went out for an evening run.
He was found dead about a week later at a construction site, so his former colleagues at 96.5 the Buzz put together a concert to help benefit his family. The show features The Old Crows, Jake Turner, Atlas, Matt Pryor of the Get Up Kids, We Are Voices and Six Percent and goes down this Saturday, August 17th at the Midland.
Tickets are just $10…
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Hearne: Star Shows Political Hand, Closes Ranks on Rodeo Clown Story
Uptown Theater main man Larry Sells isn’t the only conspiracy on the loose…
When it comes to what passes for the “mainstream press,” there are plenty of people convinced that the deck is stacked against Republicans and conservatives with liberal leaning reporters and columnists itching to lay the pipe to them whenever they get the chance.
And after spending 20 combined years at the Pitch and Kansas City Star I can tell you that for the most part those fears are generally warranted. As evidenced by the closing of ranks at 18th and Grand yesterday on the Obama Rodeo Clown Controversy.
Starting with the front page story with a headline noting that the incident had been “widely condemned” and that the event’s sponsor would be required to take “sensitivity training” if it wanted to take part in future fairs.
On and on the Star story and handwringing went with anybody and everybody who wanted to weigh in with their outrage getting their say in a “news” story that not only piled on, but made no effort whatsoever to offer a balancing voice.
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Hearne: Scribe Bullish on Royals Despite Ups & Downs
Roller coaster ride, anyone?
It’s not easy being “The Scribe.” There are hotties to bed, football teaser bets to be sorted out, nasty comments section dudes to be dealt with and – oh yeah – Royals and Chiefs teams to be divined and fretted over, comics to be promoted, a new midtown club to be opened.
All in a week’s work for Stanford’s main man Craig Glazer.
It’s good work if you can get it. Continue reading
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Hearne: The Z Man – Bob Zuroweste – Returns to Kansas City
One of the wildest guys in Kansas City radio history is back in the saddle again…
Former Entercom chieftain Bob Zuroweste – the honcho who killed off KXTR FM and Smooth Jazz and launched 610 Sports – has returned to Kansas City,
“We moved back five weeks ago,” Zuroweste says. “We’re living in South Leawood, – basically at 143rd and State Line – in a little maintenance-free villa.”
But instead of babysitting Rock 98.9 FM bad boy Johnny Dare, contemplating the demise of former album rock station 99.7 KY or gnashing his teeth over WHB’s Kevin Kietzman, Z as he is called in the trade is something of a traveling salesman for Cumulus, that operates KCFX “The Fox” locally. Continue reading
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Paul Wilson: The (Mid) Weak in Review — Tales of Two ‘Messiahs’
Tennessee Judge Changes Baby’s Name
A Nashville courtroom brings us baby-momma, Jaleesa Martin, represented by Stan Greenburg (Harley’s faux attorney), seeking a last name change for her 7 month old baby, Messiah. What started as a simple paternity and name change suit has turned into a cluster f**k after Child Support Magistrate Lu Ann Ballew stuck her pasty white nose in a little too deep, ordering a first name change for the baby as well.
Ballew, who serves the 4th Judicial District of Tennessee, ordered the boy’s name to be changed from Messiah DeShawn Martin to Martin DeShawn McCullough.
“It (the name Messiah) could put him at odds with a lot of people and at this point he has had no choice in what his name is,” Ballew said about her decision last week to replace Messiah with his mother’s surname.
“The word Messiah is a title and it’s a title that has only been earned by one person and that one person is Jesus Christ,” Ballew said. Continue reading
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Hearne: Cleaning Up the Cowtown — One (Off Duty) Cop At A Time
About the Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners decision to allow off duty police to moonlight a security for local bars and taverns…
Win, win is the way police and bar owners view the move. Stationing cops outside some of the more troublesome nightclubs and bars should work as a deterrent to bad guys doing bad things as well as free up on duty police to attend to murders, mayhem and the like rather than effectively babysitting irascible drunks.
Better yet, with the bars picking up the tab.
It’s not like Kansas City Police aren’t used to working part time after hours or anything. Continue reading
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Paul Wilson: Breaking News – Double Homicide at 13th and…MLK?
Bill Shakespeare – one of Harley’s cousins – penned a rather famous line in Romeo and Juliet…
It was about Romeo’s linage – the house of Montague – and was meant to express that a name means nothing, changes nothing;
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”
While true for a rose, Charles E. Coulter, a former Star Opinion Page Editor, in an editorial that ran yesterday, said that renaming Troost after Martin Luther King would make it seem less like the racial and crime dividing line that it now is and would essentially make us co-equal with the other great cities of our nation who already have an MLK Blvd.
I found the piece so inane I called Star editorial page VP Miriam Pepper to see if I could submit an opposing point of view. Pepper told me the newspaper “doesn’t do point/counter point” and my only alternative was to submit a Letter to the Editor, limited to 200 words.
That’s funny.
I thought that the Star specialized in giving both sides of a story, but here we have Coulter, a black dude and former employee with an inside track to Pepper and the Star with a PRO Troost/MLK name change piece. He gets three headlines, a pic and 400+ words. While lowly Paul Wilson, internationally known scribe and white guy with an opposing point of view, has to take his chances by submitting a Letter to the Editor with a 200 word limit.
Racists! Continue reading
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Starbeams: Obama Clown @ Mo. State Fair, Jamaal Charles, P&L & Sox Stink
A circus clown dressed in an Obama mask has been banned from the Missouri State Fair after he made comments to a frenzied crowd about “watching the President get run down by a bull.” More proof that the president is killing employment in this country.
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Jamaal Charles was carted off the field after a foot sprain. X-rays revealed no serious damage, but for Chiefs fans, it brought back memories when Chester McGlockton was carted off the field for a food sprain.
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New Jack City: Your 2013 Hollywood Barometer
So what’s the 2013 movie season been like to date?
With the summer movie’s winding down, it’s time to look back and see which ones have scored the best to date.
Here then are the top dozen films at the domestic box office since January 1, 2013. (U.S. and Canada.)
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Hearne: The Top 25 Teen Idols of All Time & Faded KC Heartthrob Ryan Cabrera
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Word in GQ magazine that rapper Jay-Z wears “Best New Mensware Designer” Matt Baldwin of Standard Style’s pants calls to mind one of Baldwin’s earlier celebrity devotees, Ryan Cabrera.
Remember him? No? Maybe when you see the hair. Continue reading
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Hearne: Police Board Greenlights Off Duty KC Officers to Work @ Taverns
This just in…
In a historic move hailed by bar owners and police alike, Kansas City’s Board of Police Commissioners have begun allowing off duty police officers to work at taverns and bars.
“It’s a huge win for Kansas City,” says Westport tavern owner Bill Nigro. “The police department is finally allowing taverns to hire off duty police for security. That’s never been allowed in Kansas City – at least as far back as the 1960s.
Kansas City Off Duty Coordinator Matt Masters concurs.
“It became effective last Wednesday,” Masters says. “It’s the first time to my knowledge in the history of the police department we’ve been allowed to do that.”
The reason took so long? Continue reading
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Edelman: Unicorn Throws 40th Birthday Bash, Unleashes Sexy Slate for Upcoming Season
One of the best shows of KC’s summer musical theater season went down last night at the Unicorn…
Sorry if you missed it.
I’m talking about the feisty midtown theater’s 40th birthday bash, which featured a reprise of their 1991 hit FALSETTOLAND. Broadway regular Don Richards returned to the Unicorn stage (actually, he and the cast were in the area where the audience usually sits; we were on stage). Together with a crackerjack company under artistic director Cynthia Levin‘s skillful hand, the concert reading of this groundbreaking musical left no dry eye in the house.
FALSETTOLAND takes us back to pre-AIDS New York City. Continue reading
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Donnelly: Sporting Back Atop East With 3-0 Beatdown of New England
After losing to two of the top teams in the Eastern Conference recently – Montreal and 
New York – Sporting Kansas City was finally able to get by a key conference foe.
The 3-0 win against the New England Revolution Saturday in KCK saw the boys in blue running on all cylinders – and that without star play maker Graham Zusi, who is still out with a pulled quad. The win puts KC on top of the east with 39 points, one point over New York and two over Philly.
And get this – the packed house at Sporting Park was the team’s 29th straight sell out.
Crazy huh? Continue reading
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Edelman: Bikinis Hold Up American Heartland’s Last Hurrah
Bouncy, happy middle-aged chicks having a great time reliving the fabulous girl group hits of the 60s….
I’m talking about the audience, not the cast, of American Heartland Theatre‘s farewell production THE BIKINIS, now through August 24 at the venue on the 3rd floor of Crown Center. Don’t get me wrong– the cast was having a ball, too.
BIKINIS is one more evening of uncomplicated entertainment from a theater that’s been spooning it out for 26 years. They’ll be missed. Continue reading
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Hearne: Weekend Munchkin Roundup – One Down, Two to Go
Then there were two…
Once upon a time – in 1939 to be exact – there were 124 Munchkins. You know, the “little people” who used to be (and in some cases still are) called midgets. They were cast by the Singer Agency to appear in the Wizard of Oz.
Eight years ago there were only six surviving -only three of which were healthy enough to travel – when I interviewed Lollipop Guild Kid Jerry Maren when he flew in for the grand opening of the Legends 14 movieplex in KCK.
And now, as of this week – after the death of Margaret Pellegrini – we’re down to two, Maren 93, who lives in LA and Ruth Duccini, 95, who resides in Phoenix.
And soon there will be none. Continue reading
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