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John Grisham

  • Film

    July 28, 1994

    The Boy Who Knew Too Much

    Another Grisham thriller hits the screen, with middling results

  • Film

    December 23, 1993

    Pretty Woman, Bad Movie

    Julia Roberts picked the wrong vehicle for her comeback

  • Calendar

    November 3, 1994

    Press Picks

    Julia Roberts picked the wrong vehicle for her comeback

  • Calendar

    July 6, 1995

    Press Picks

    Julia Roberts picked the wrong vehicle for her comeback

  • Calendar

    May 23, 1996

    Beat the Heat!

    1996 Summer Guide

  • Film

    July 25, 1996

    Black, White and a Few Shades of Gray

    A Time to Kill does John Grisham proud

  • News

    August 1, 1996

    Secrets of the Sphinx?

    Big money, big lawyers, bizarre allegations: it's Sarofim v. Sarofim, the divorce from hell

  • Film

    October 17, 1996

    Blasts from the Past

    Geena Davis and Gene Hackman exhume some explosive histories

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2009

    An Opera About Houston's Anna Nicole Smith? Why The Hell Not?

    World, you have waited long enough -- you are finally getting your Anna Nicole Smith opera.Britain's Royal Opera House has announced it will produce an opera based on the life of Houston's favorite stripper/golddigger/Rusty Hardin antagonist in 2011.The libretto will be written by the guy who did Je ... More >>

  • Culture

    July 31, 1997

    Computer Terror

    Duane Franklet programs a cyberthriller into Houston

  • Film

    November 20, 1997

    Down by Law

    Even Francis Ford Coppola can't make much of John Grisham

  • Music

    January 8, 1998

    Baby, It's Him

    Burt Bacharach isn't making a comeback -- he never left

  • Film

    January 7, 1999

    Class Action

    A true case offers testimony to the talents of Travolta and Duvall

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2009

    John Royal's New Year's Resolutions for 2009

    In honor of the New Year, I thought I would go the cliché route and give you my Ten Resolutions for 2009. 10. I'm going to continue to be as objective as I can when it comes to my coverage of Houston sports. 9. I'm going to find some way to get the Houston Press to pay for my MLB Extra Innings pa ... More >>

  • News

    February 19, 2009

    She Almost Killed Stump!

    A close call for a champ

  • News

    July 31, 2008

    Texas Woman Fights Abuse at the State's Schools for the Mentally Retarded

    Her son was beaten up by an angry caregiver at Denton State School

  • Film

    October 11, 2007

    Michael Clayton

    Watch your back, Grisham: Michael Clayton's no ordinary legal thriller

  • Calendar

    January 5, 2006

    Roam the Iles

    Watch your back, Grisham: Michael Clayton's no ordinary legal thriller

  • News

    March 16, 2006

    Scooby-Dooby-Done

    The Sinatra magic fails, and baffles, in rural Texas

  • Film

    February 16, 2006

    The Price Is Wrong

    Freedomland turns a rich, complex book into a poor, simple movie

  • Calendar

    November 3, 2005

    It's Been Reel

    John Pierson brings film culture to Fiji

  • Music

    December 2, 2004

    Flirt for the Cure

    Peddling flesh in the fight against cancer

  • Film

    November 25, 2004

    Skip It

    This holiday movie will make you very, very Kranky

  • News

    August 5, 2004

    Case Closed

    Wal-Mart finds the ultimate bargain: beating a family's $20 million verdict

  • News

    December 18, 2003

    Writer's Block

    Texas prisons start barring book authors from inmate interviews

  • Calendar

    February 27, 2003

    Takin' It to the Street

    A Scottish mystery novelist steps out of the drawing room

  • News

    August 15, 2002

    Global Warming Is Good for You!

    Cheap heating bills! Great gardens! Thriving civilizations! In energy-crazed Houston, friends of greenhouse gases abound

  • News

    August 1, 2002

    POD People

    A new publishing method attracts first-time authors. Will it do the same for readers?

  • Film

    February 14, 2002

    Hart Failure

    Audiences are the real POWs in this unoriginal and ponderous Bruce Willis effort

  • Music

    October 14, 1999

    Oxford Punks

    Out of Mississippi comes the rowdy Neckbones

  • Calendar

    May 7, 1998

    Gore Tex

    Out of Mississippi comes the rowdy Neckbones

  • Film

    January 2, 1997

    Black & White, By the Numbers

    Out of Mississippi comes the rowdy Neckbones

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2010

    Author Steve Berry: An Evening of Thrills Tonight At The Houston Museum Of Natural Science

    Photo by Kelly Campbell​It's been a good year for author Steve Berry. His new release The Paris Vendetta debuted at Number 9 on The New York Times bestseller list (no little feat since the list was already filled with heavy hitters like John Grisham, Michael Crichton, Stephen King and Sue Grafton) ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2010

    Pop Rocks: A World Without Oprah

    So long, suckers.​The 25th and final season of The Oprah Winfrey Show kicked off yesterday with a John Travolta dance number, an appearance by Paul Simon (of "and Garfunkel" fame, not the deceased U.S. Senator), and an announcement that Oprah would take the 300 studio audience members in atten ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2011

    Pop Rocks: Pocket Full Of Kryptonite

    Lindsay Lohan's in my next movie? Just leave the bottle.​I'd done a decent job putting the fact they're rebooting the Superman franchise *again* next year out of my mind, that is until a flurry of recent Man of Steel-related news items popped up in the last week or so. "Wait," you're saying, ... More >>

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