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"Confidence," the new film by director James Foley, portrays how a team of grifters steal $5 million from a bank.
Last week, it came to our attention that several articles published in The Spectrum over the course of the spring 2003 semester contained unoriginal material that was not properly credited to its sources.
Due to the unusually high volume of noteworthy concerts arriving in the Western New York area in the coming days and weeks, The Spectrum has decided to compile a calendar of events. Students from out of town might want to stick around a week or two to check out these shows.
After stealing $35 million in gold bars, master safecracker John Bridger, played by an old but nimble Donald Sutherland, says:
It was a dark and stormy night and a killer was on the loose. And one by one, people began to die.
When comedian Dave Chappelle ambled his way on the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on Wednesday night, it was difficult to determine whether he was high. His memory was hazy, but his enthusiastic presence suggested he was not feeling like Sir Smoke-a-Lot from his hit film, "Half Baked."
University Police arrested UB student Douglas Marong Saturday after repeated attempts to ski down O'Brian Hall.
Best known for her titillating work in such films as "Up and Cummers 10," "Hard Evidence" and "Philmore Butts Taking Care of Business," adult film star Jenna Jameson will headline UB's 17th Annual Distinguished Speakers Series.
"Hi, we're the girls of Delta Xi Omega, and we're standing on the campus at the University of Buffalo."
One hour before a verdict is ready to ignite Los Angeles in flames, Sergeant Eldon Perry is dazed in his bedroom, with a half empty bottle of whiskey on the nightstand. Standing disheveled in his boxer shorts, Perry could use a shave, but he is too tense from watching the local news broadcast. According to the reporter, the jury is ready to decide the fate of four Los Angeles Police Department officers.
Kingpin dents the ceiling of his office with the body of Daredevil. Daredevil shatters the stained glass of a cathedral with the body of Bullseye. Bullseye aims a knife at the body of Elektra. Elektra lunges a sai into the body of Daredevil.
50 Cent only seems like an overnight success story. The truth reveals quite the contrary. Before there was "Wanksta," there was "How to Rob An Industry N----." The underground rapper aroused the ire of big industry hip-hop and R&B artists with lyrics dissing P. Diddy ("I'll snatch Kim and tell Puff, 'You wanna see her again?/ Get your ass down to the nearest ATM) and Mariah Carey ("I'll manhandle Mariah like, 'B----, get on the ground/You ain't with Tommy no more. Who gonna protect you now?'")
"How do you function as a satirist when reality has become so ludicrous?"
Henry Rollins has a problem. He has to keep working, and if he dares stop, he feels uncomfortably inadequate, just like he did this winter break. Or, as Rollins put it while lecturing to an audience at his spoken-word tour stop at Convocation Hall in Toronto last Saturday,
"The Hours" starts with a suicide, and in terms of mood, the picture doesn't get any prettier. Despite the glamour of "The Hours'" A-list female cast, fronted by Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore and Nicole Kidman, this film is as pleasant as a wake.
"I got rid of my self-esteem and my morality a long time ago," said Ryan Dunn, one of several young, white males that made a career out of "Jackass," the defunct MTV program that raised the bar for comedic stupidity. "I flushed that down the toilet with my toy car."
If you had only one day left to spend on Earth, what would you do? It's not the easiest question to answer, but a film like "The 25th Hour" allows viewers to see some other hapless perp suffer through the scenario - not that director Spike Lee makes the experience easy for both his doomed subject, drug dealer Monty Brogan (Edward Norton), or the viewer.
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"Yeah, 7 Mile. It didn't have gangs, but it's a lot of thugs in Detroit," said acid rapper Esham, about his hometown on 7, not 8, Mile Road. "But I can guarantee you this: ain't no white boys running up to all the brothers in Detroit and punching them."
Dicky Barrett, lead singer of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, wasn't telling the Warped Tour punks at LaSalle Park any secrets this past summer when in the middle of his set, he announced: "Buffalo's our second favorite city to play, outside of our hometown of Boston."