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John Hansen
August 13, 2012

10 movies worth checking out this fall (Commentary)

I’ve perused Entertainment Weekly’s Fall Movie Preview, watched the trailers and come up with my list of 10 movies I wouldn’t mind seeing in the

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John Hansen
April 19, 2012

R.I.P. Dick Clark. And I miss ‘American Dreams’ (TV commentary)

I was shocked — pleasantly so — to find the first reference to “American Dreams” only five paragraphs into the Associated Press’ feature obituary on Dick Clark,

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John Hansen
January 25, 2012

First episode impressions: ‘Smash’ (TV review)

I have to confess that I generally don’t enjoy musicals. With the notable exception of the “Buffy” musical episode, the genre doesn’t work for me.

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John Hansen
December 23, 2010

These were the catchiest singles of 2010 — for better or worse (Music commentary)

I don’t actively seek out mainstream pop hits like I used to, so when two songs are bouncing around my brain at the end of

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John Hansen
December 23, 2010

John’s top 5 albums of 2010 (Music commentary)

1. Jenny and Johnny, “I’m Having Fun Now” — When two musicians in a relationship make an album together, it rarely results in good music; at least

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John Hansen
December 8, 2010

Folds/Hornby collaboration Lonely Avenue a compelling but mediocre experiment (Music review)

Author Nick Hornby writes the words and musician Ben Folds puts the music to them. The September album “Lonely Avenue” is, on the surface, hard to resist.

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John Hansen
November 26, 2010

Latest Belle & Sebastian disc ‘Write About Love’ a step down, but still good (Music review)

Chance, a commenter on these threads, feels that Belle and Sebastian’s October release, “Write About Love,” is weak; I think it’s decent. Actually, we’re both right. It