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A local documentary about wrongfully convicted East Palo Alto man airs on KTEH Nov. 5.
TALK ABOUT double jeopardy. In 1991, Rick Walker, an independent auto mechanic living in East Palo Alto, was wrongfully convicted of murder, mostly on the basis of questionable testimony. Years later, the witness confessed, and Walker was exonerated. Having spent 12 years in San Quentin, Pelican Bay and other hard-core prisons, Walker was punished again by a quirk in the law. While the average prisoner is given some money and assistance upon release, an exonerated prisoner must wait for special legislative appropriation bills to receive the paltry $100 a day for each day of wrongful imprisonment mandated by California statute. More
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Theater
Tabard brings the ’60s singing sisters to the altar in new revue
RICK LEWIS’ latest installment in the Taffetas series, A Taffeta Wedding, transports audiences back to 1964 when doo-wop music ruled the airwaves, and there was nothing classier to wear than taffeta. In this Tabard Theatre premiere, the stage is set for the musical wedding of the century when the Taffetas, the singing sisters from Muncie, Ind., get married to the Cardigans, their male doppelgangers, in front of a live television audience. As both groups perform hits from the ’50s and ’60s before their quadruple wedding, an event transpires that leaves the sisters questioning their love and their wardrobe. More
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Is there anything Lars von Tried won't put on screen?
THE MOST prestigious gross-out since Irreversible, Lars von Trier's Antichrist is billed as a director's return to instinctive filmmaking. Von Trier's "Your guess is as good as mine" approach includes comments such as "I let this film flow to me instead of thinking it up." More
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Theater
The Weekly World News icon comes to life onstage
A review of 'Bat Boy, the Musical" at Foothill Musical Theatre More
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Books
A politician tries her hand at novel writing
BLIND TRUST by Barbara Boxer; Chronicle Books; 234 pages; $24.95. Boxer appears for a booksigning event on Saturday (Aug. 15) at 1pm at Barnes & Noble, 3600 Stevens Creek Blvd., San Jose. More
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Theater
A glitzy new production announces big ambitions for South Bay Musical Theatre
For its 2009 season, Saratoga Drama Group decided to make a play for the big time. Changing the group's name to South Bay Musical Theatre, its members took a chance on the notion that if they had the moxie to grab audiences' attention in a bold new way, it would pay off in fame and financial success. Their plan is not all that different from the plot of Chicago, if you really think about it. More
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The aliens and the humans have a hard time getting along in sci-fi thriller
THEY APPEARED in Johannesburg, and only there. Their filthy flying saucer, thousands of feet in diameter, still hovers, broken down above the city. Twenty years after their arrival, the aliens are penned up in District 9, a refugee camp. It was supposed to be a real home for them once, if you trust the decaying sculptures of humans and aliens striding hand in hand. More
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Jessica Biel tries to hold her own with seasoned vets in misguided Noel Coward adaptation
EASY VIRTUE (PG-13; 93 min.), directed by Stephan Elliott), written by Elliott and Sheridan Jobbins, based on the play by Noel Coward, photographed by Martin Kenzie and starring Jessica Biel and Colin Firth, opens May 29 at Camera 7 in San Jose and CinéArts Santana Row in San Jose More
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Books
The best book in English on Jean-Luc Godard is still lacking
EVERYTHING IS CINEMA: THE WORKING LIFE OF JEAN-LUC GODARD by Richard Brody; Henry Holt; 704 pages; $20 hardback. More
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A new documentary exposes the problems with our agricultural system
FOOD, INC. (PG; 94 min.), a documentary by Robert Kenner, opens June 19 at Camera 7 in Campbell. More
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