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41. Film Feature

    The New York cop drama Pride and Glory holds its audience hostage

    By Robert Wilsonky

    Published: October 23, 2008

    Pride and Glory doesn't make any effort to disguise precisely what it is: a barely-held-together string of vignettes lifted from every cop movie ever made, save perhaps Turner...

42. Film Feature

    Anne Hathaway makes a compelling bad girl in Jonathan Demme's Rachel Getting Married

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: October 23, 2008

    Anne Hathaway makes a compelling bad girl in Jonathan Demme's Rachel Getting Married. Those who believe that Jonathan Demme went all soft with Philadelphia and never recovered...

43. Flick Pick

    Les Blank appears in person for screenings of his masterpieces

    By Amber Taufen

    Published: October 23, 2008

    Filmmaker Les Blank might be best known for his documentary portraits of American musicians, but many critics believe his masterpiece is Burden of Dreams, which catalogued the...

44. Night & Day

    Talking Shop

    Taking care of all the Details.

    By Susan Froyd

    Published: October 23, 2008

    The girlish pink-and-black curlicued, marquee-style sign in front says it all. When the decision was made to move downtown Littleton stalwart and favorite lady’s store...

45. Night & Day

    Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!

    Maureen McCormick dishes Marcia Brady’s dirt.

    By Mark Dragotta

    Published: October 23, 2008

    Fortunately for you and me out here in TV Land, The Brady Bunch was just a sunny place to visit. For Maureen McCormick (aka Marcia), Bradyville was far worse than just braces...

46. Night & Day

    One Book, Many Attitudes

    By Amber Taufen

    Published: October 23, 2008

    Have you read this year’s One Book, One Denver selection, Dashiell Hammett’s The Thin Man? What did you think? “There’s a lot of drinking in the book,”...

47. Art

    A Wynne Wynne for Denver's Kirkland Museum

    By Michael Paglia

    Published: October 23, 2008

    Hugh Grant, director of the Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art, has relentlessly carried the torch for Colorado's art history, doing more to promote awareness of this...

48. Artbeat

    Natural Abstractions at Walker Fine Art

    By Michael Paglia

    Published: October 23, 2008

    In the front gallery at Walker Fine Art (300 West 11th Avenue, 303-355-8955, www.walkerfineart.com), owner Bobbi Walker has paired up painter Don Quade and sculptor James...

49. Now Showing

    Capsule reviews of current exhibits

    By Michael Paglia

    Published: October 23, 2008

    Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The fall opener at the Center for Visual Art is a conscientious survey of the careers of Christo and Jeanne-Claude as seen through their personal...

50. Theater

    November is a thin but amusing satire that gives hell to the chief executive

    By Juliet Wittman

    Published: October 23, 2008

    It's a few days before the election, and Charles Smith, the sitting president, is hoping for a second term. Trouble is, his poll numbers are in the toilet (or, as the script...

51. Encore

    Capsule reviews of current shows

    By Juliet Wittman

    Published: October 23, 2008

    Les Misérables. This huge, sprawling musical is based on Victor Hugo's novel, and the plot centers on the merciless pursuit of a freed prisoner, Jean Valjean, by a...

52. Theater

    Glengarry Glen Ross has a lot to say — and a sizzling way of saying it

    By Juliet Wittman

    Published: October 23, 2008

    David Mamet wrote Glengarry Glen Ross more than twenty years ago, but this study of unscrupulous salesmen pitching worthless plots in Florida is acutely relevant today. The...