"I can't believe I have to show a 3-D porn to fill this theater."
- Lani Potts, general manager of E Street Cinema, to a full and rowdy house Saturday at a midnight screening of "The Lollipop Girls in Hard Candy," a 1979 3-D skin flick.
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With the recent closings of Visions in Dupont and the Outer Circle in Tenleytown, there's a theatrical void in D.C. Finally, someone stepped up to the plate to fill it: Regal Cinemas Gallery Place Stadium 14. What D.C. really needs is another corporate-backed multiplex showing 'Shark Tale." The brand-spankin' new 14-screen theater on 7th Street at the Gallery Pl.-Chinatown Metro stop opens tomorrow. Don't worry about being horribly overcharged for tickets and concessions, because the first 100 ticket buyers get free T-shirts. What, do they read "Visions Closed and All I Got Was Another Blockbuster Behemoth"?
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There's only one known fact about Jandek: No one knows who he is. The musician has never given an interview, played a live show or shown his face. His label, the mysterious Corwell Records, operates out of a P.O. box in Houston. In hiding, Jandek has released almost 40 records over the past 26 years. But something happened on Sunday at Glasgow's Instal Festival. Jandek played his first-ever live show. He wasn't announced, he wasn't billed and those in attendance didn't find out it was him until it was over. And now, anything seems possible. A documentary, "Jandek on Corwood," is being screened in independent cinemas all over the country. Perhaps that will aid in his demystification.
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Whatever happened to cash? At the Marketplace Tuesday, several people whipped out credit cards to pay for coffees and muffins. Is all credit all the time where we're headed as a society? Is it because we think it's more convenient to just carry one card instead of a litter of bills and coins? If so, we all need to be prepared to wait longer - the time it takes to make a credit card transaction and sign the slip cancels out the convenience of carrying one card. We hope plastic-happy people register this.
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Jon Stewart's withering glare and criticism were the main attractions on Friday's "Crossfire." Stewart, host of the delightfully perceptive "Daily Show," eviscerated "Crossfire" and its hosts, Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala, calling their material "partisan hackery" and saying their show was "hurting America." But notice the young man who posed the first query in the Q&A session following the exchange; it's AU junior and Eagle staffer David Bashein, who asked Stewart if he knew what the hump was on George W. Bush's back during the third debate. Stewart played dumb, and Carlson and Begala refuted the myth of an audio feed tucked in Bush's blazer. The whole show is available in streaming format on IFILM.com and is the site's most viewed movie.
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As one master chef is forced to go to jail, one has been forced to leave. Though Martha Stewart may not love the idea of prison, Charlottesville, Va., inmate David Byers loved his prison cooking class so much, he asked to have his sentenced extended, according to the Associated Press. Despite some raised eyebrows, Byers was granted permission to stay past his Oct. 5 release date. Consequently, Byers was able to graduate with the rest of his cooking class and has since been released. Hey David, word on the street is there's a job open at OmniMedia Inc. Maybe you should send in your resum?.
- COSTA CALOUDAS, DANIEL LONGINO, CRISTA SCATURRO & DAN ZAK.
