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Friday October 22, 1999      "Crazy in Alabama" gives you two movies for the price of one, but it's no bargain.      One picture is about a boy, Peejoe (Lucas Black), who is 12 years old and living in rural Alabama in the summer of 1965, when the...

2 stars (out of 4) When Steve Earle played a two-night stand at the Park West this fall, he was not the same man you see in "Just An American Boy," a documentary shot mostly in 2002. For starters, Earle has slimmed down to about half the size of the man...

Between the end of summer and the edge of winter and the holiday season, the movies shrink. The budgets are lower; the weekend totals dip. As young acolytes await the second coming of Harry Potter on Nov. 15 and older fans count the days until Pierce...

There was the night in 1988 when Bob Dylan came to town in search of James Dean. "Yeah," said Marcus Winslow Jr., "he came in late one night. It was 1 or 2 o'clock in the morning. He'd had a concert in Indianapolis, and he came with a bus to Fairmount....

FOUND Freedom phone: Martain of Bethlehem has found the 30-minute microcassette that Barbara is looking for. It is available from Quill Office Products and can be ordered at www.quilcorp.com. Scout Detrick also has a cassette for Barbara. Communion set:...

"Unleashed," a howlingly ludicrous new movie directed by Louis Leterrier ("The Transporter") and produced by Luc Besson, stars Jet Li as a human pit bull. Danny is kept on a leash by his loan shark "uncle" Bart (Bob Hoskins), who has trained him since...