Tokyo Godfathers

A homeless drag queen adopts an orphan in what is, but for some violence and harsh language, old-fashioned, big-hearted entertainment in high animé style.

"...into writer-director Satoshi’s loopy vision. Teamed with grizzled old drunk Gin (Emori) and scrappy teenage runaway Miyuki (Okamoto), Hana..."

Jan. 23, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Last Samurai

Tom Cruise turns Japanese.

"...of Capt. Nathan Algren starts off as a dissolute drunk haunted by nightmares of bloodshed and carnage, and ends..."

Dec. 5, 2003 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...spent two days presenting evidence that Maspero had been drunk in public at least 12 times and had engaged..."

Dec. 5, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Bad Santa

Billy Bob Thornton plays a thieving, degenerate Santa.

"...yes, a half-hearted quest to root out Willie’s dormant (dead-drunk) heart, but happily, that message gets mostly lost amid..."

Nov. 28, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Elephant

Gus Van Sant examines the petri dish that grows the lethal seeds of high school disaster, à la Columbine.

"...are John (Robinson) and his father (Bottoms), the latter drunk and in charge of very little indeed. Arriving at..."

Nov. 21, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator

The rise and fall of Eighties skateboard king Mark "Gator" Rogowski.

"...stung by the departure of his longtime girlfriend, got drunk one night and lured her best friend to his..."

Nov. 21, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Fighting Temptations

Cuba Gooding Jr. and Beyoncé join the church choir.

"...the Big Competition: an American Idol-esque tryout montage, a drunk redneck organist named Scooter, and Rue McClanahan, who gets..."

Sept. 19, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Mondays in the Sun

"...which day is which to the layabouts and functional drunks of this multiple Goya Award-winning film. They weren't always..."

Aug. 15, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Letters at 3AM

We have replaced our concept of the heroic with the superheroic, and the sense of the possible with the impossible.

"...Bogart fires only one shot; he's also a weepy drunk and indulges mightily in self-pity -- but he projects..."

July 25, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

Summer Reading

"...W.C. Fields is commonly remembered as a sort of drunken bully who acerbically defended his actions with the signature..."

June 6, 2003 Screens Feature

Letters at 3AM

A Little Late, For Bix

"...its way, ends vaguely. He died the next summer, drunk and alone in a cheap room, his last work..."

May 16, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

Picks 2 Click

SXSW 2003

"...Shane Bartell "I got really drunk and fell into a river, and I got out..."

Feb. 28, 2003 Music Feature by Michael Chamy

Dark Blue

"...(most recent) dark hour. So what? As Perry, Russell, drunk and in charge of a ballistic temper and the..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Two Weeks Notice

"...ease in the Pratfall, the Bodily Crisis, the Slurry Drunk, and the Hit-in-the-Head-Hard-With-Sumpun'-Funny. All those comedy standbys crop up..."

Dec. 20, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Social Agenda

"...the baby due to an accident caused by a drunk driver, there is no civil cause of action nor..."

Dec. 13, 2002 News Feature

Page Two

If the City Council approves a proposed noise ordinance, Austin will have to stay weird quietly, and possibly without many nightclubs.

"...smoke, dance, listen, and love. They go to get drunk, see and be seen, get laid, hear a favorite..."

Nov. 29, 2002 Column by Louis Black

Page Two

Instead of ideas, this year's election campaigns are serving up character assassination from all sides.

"...politics. But the new Bentzin attack ad showing a drunk Barrientos being stopped by the police for DWI is..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Column by Louis Black

Tom Waits Hoot

Texas Platters

"...Tom Waits song: Don't try to sing like you're drunk. You can be drunk and sing his songs, but..."

Aug. 9, 2002 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Townes Without Pity

The battle for Townes Van Zandt's legacy

"...civil suits should he injure or kill someone while drunk driving...."

June 14, 2002 Music Feature by Andy Langer

The Kingsbury Manx

SXSW Records

"...Down. "Pass the veeno, off the vine-o -- we're drunk as winos," is how the Kingsbury choir bids us..."

March 15, 2002 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Coach's Corner

In a Vail sports bar, Coach once again meets up with his old pal Cedrick Trout, and the mad-dog Raiders fan isn't in a good mood.

"...August evening four months ago that an erratically employed barfly/drunk/bikerwannabe named Cedrick Trout and I had words. In writing..."

Jan. 25, 2002 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Postmarks

Our own little Gaza Strip, and the Halloween (Gas) Mask is taken to task.

"...nine shots of alcohol," she couldn't possibly be too drunk to drive. Fooling around and having too much fun...."

Nov. 2, 2001 Column

The Golf Cart Story

The oral history of the Great Chronicle Lakeway Golf Cart Raid

"...Black: I was in a really mean drunk. I didn't mean to be, but I'd already worked..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature by Jordan Smith

Chapter 4: The Nineties!

March 1991 -- December 2000

"...with an undercurrent of waiting for mom to get drunk, dad to start yelling, and someone to push their..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

The Musketeer

"...-- Athos, Porthos, and Aramis (Kremp, Speirs, Moran) -- drunk half the time, as they're out of work at..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

'Equal in God's Sight'

The letters of Martha Early and Andrew Papke

"...don't know if it will ever go away. Driving drunk was so stupid, so selfish. All of this could..."

Aug. 24, 2001 News Feature

Postmarks

The environment, the alleged marijuana, the traffic, Ventura's highway, and more.

"...has been done by the fine organization, Mothers Against Drunk Driving...."

June 8, 2001 Column

Bridget Jones's Diary

romantic fantasy as it is social satire.

"...in Jerry Maguire; the film's opener, which finds Zellweger drunk on the couch singing and pantomiming “All By Myself”..."

April 13, 2001 Movie Review by Sarah Hepola

The Widow of Saint-Pierre

"...1859, an innocent man is killed by two sailors. Drunk silly, they jab a knife in him to determine..."

April 6, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...belligerents Oneida close things out with an assault of drunk, slobby, wonderful rock & roll. (Ritz Lounge, 10pm-1am) --..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

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