by Cliff Vaughn | Nov 10, 2004 | News
A series of character-building dolls inspired by a Muppet-like TV show will soon hit the market. Good News Toys, a series of 16 hand-crafted dolls, are a creation of the Chrisagis Brothers, whose TV show and tour featuring the puppet Good News Gang sparked the new...
by Cliff Vaughn | Nov 5, 2004 | Opinion
“Alfie” is what Paramount calls a “stylish reinvention” of the 1966 original starring Michael Caine. It isn’t clear that “Alfie” needed updating. Jude Law as Alfie is fine, but the story itself—womanizer can’t stop...
by Cliff Vaughn | Oct 26, 2004 | News
In 1975, Stephen Sawyer graduated from the University of Kentucky with an advertising degree. His future, however, didn’t lie in creating ad slogans or slick copy. Rather, it lay in painting images of Jesus—images like no one had ever before seen. It lay in Art...
by Cliff Vaughn | Oct 22, 2004 | Opinion
When Joel Sonnenberg was 22 months old, a car accident at a New Hampshire toll booth burned him severely. More than 85 percent of his body suffered third-degree burns. That was Sept. 15, 1979. He’s also an author, having completed Joel, a first-person account of...
by Cliff Vaughn | Oct 20, 2004 | News
In the 1991 novel Spin by Donald Axinn, a young boy loses his parents in a plane crash. His subsequent upbringing doesn’t fit squarely within the family model of the book’s 1950s setting. A ranch foreman and his wife raise the boy amid underlying...
