Parents’ guide to ‘Green Hornet’

‘THE GREEN HORNET’  Rating: PG-13 for sequences of violent action, language, sensuality and drug content. What it’s about: A hard-partying heir to a newspaper fortune, on a goof, decides to become a crime fighter and enlists his martial-arts and gadget-whiz chauffeur as a sidekick. The kid attractor ... Read More »

‘Rabbit Hole’ well acted

(MCT) — Becca (Nicole Kidman) and Howie (Aaron Eckhart), a well-off Westchester couple, have traveled down a rabbit hole into a nightmare: life without their 4-year-old son, w

Guide to ‘Gulliver’s Travels’

(MCT) — “Gulliver’s Travels”

‘Little Fockers’ comedy is stale

(MCT) — Focus on this, “Focker” makers: You’ve wrung every last drop of comic possibility out of this tired franchise.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Some unknown kids with superpowers have nudged out the actor who plays the world’s most famous teen wizard at the weekend box office.
Dear Sara: How long do spices last? I know I have tons that have no expiration dates on them. Some spices still have a good smell, but I’m not sure if they will hold their true spice flavor during cooking. I hate to pitch them, but I’d also hate to use them in a batch of cookies and not have them turn out. Other than cinnamon and cream of tartar, I have several McCormick spices in tin cans: allspice, dill, paprika, mustard seed, etc. Any tips? — Tina, Midwest
(MCT) — “Chronicle”
(MCT) — Lego toys have always seemed pleasantly gender-neutral. Perhaps that’s why the new Lego Friends line for girls has triggered a fair bit of protest from some health and equal-rights organizations.
DEAR DOCTOR K: I am a very ticklish person. My husband thinks it’s hilarious how easy it is to make me giggle and squirm. What causes ticklishness?
(MCT) — Steven Soderbergh has been telling interviewers that he’s planning to take a sabbatical from filmmaking because he has lost his inspiration. His lack of interest is palpable in “Haywire,” a rote exercise in action filmmaking that is sleek and polished and instantly evaporates from memory.
DEAR ABBY: May I respond to “Iowa Reader” (Nov. 10), the older woman who asked you where to turn when she needed to be hugged and listened to? I’m guessing she was married a long time and doesn’t have any real friends — just people from her married days.
OAKLAND, Calif. — Thomas Horn looked alarmed. The 14-year-old star of the new film “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” had just finished a news interview at an Oakland coffeehouse when his mother suggested he run down the street and pick up the dry cleaning while they were in the neighborhood.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The black-and-white silent film “The Artist” led the Golden Globes with three wins Sunday at a show that spread Hollywood’s love around among a broad range of films, including best drama recipient “The Descendants” and its star, George Clooney.
LOS ANGELES (MCT) — Human beings are such gorgeously contradictory creatures — we demand variety (it’s the spice of life!) and hate change. Nowhere is that more pronounced than in our attitude toward television; we regularly decry the monotony of the standard formats and then yelp when someone messes with them.
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