Cape Fear News

Published: Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 12:05 p.m. Most of the time, remakes are a bad thing.

Here's what's happening this weekend on the small screen: Saturday * The ghostbusters team on Most Haunted heads to Transylvania for a special Halloween episode.

He loves playing unpredictable characters, but the most cryptic one seems to be the legend himself.

As Juliette Lewis prepares for a UK tour, she talks about her transformation from Hollywood star to raw, bluesy rocker with new album Terra Incognita.

But music isn't a side gig for Juliette Lewis. The actress has taken time off the past couple of years to rock.

After a four-year break from film, the actress who emanates a misfit's primal energy is back in a glut of new screen projects, while also touring as a solo singer.

Juliette Lewis as Iron Maven , nemesis to Ellen Page as Babe Ruthless. Darren Michaels Juliette Lewis as Iron Maven , nemesis to Ellen Page as Babe Ruthless.

Paramount has debuted a second new trailer for Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island today on Apple .

UNIQUE: "I ... like something that's always a little amiss," Juliette Lewis says.

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She mesmerized film buffs in her breakout role as a precocious teen in 1991's Cape Fear by notoriously -- and improvisationally -- sucking dangerous convict Robert De Niro's thumb.

Hey kids, maybe if you murder a couple hundred people for the mob, Mickey Rourke will star in your life story, too.

The history of actors turned rock stars is not an illustrious one. Try thinking of one movie actor who has successfully ditched celluloid fame for rock threads and you'll realise why Lewis is a rare breed.

NOAH And The Whale's 2008 debut firmly established them as a favourite with the critics a ' does their new release The First Days Of Spring live up to it? Elsewhere, actress Juliette Lewis continues her foray into the music world, and Rufus Wainwright returns as theatrical as ever.

The singer known as the Boss and an actor who found early acclaim playing a mob boss are two of the five 2009 Kennedy Center honorees.

In "All About Steve," opening Friday, Sandra Bullock is in full kooky, clumsy mode as a lovable stalker set on winning Bradley Cooper.

Robin Williams, as the empathetic doc, and Robert De Niro, as the most eloquent of the patients, are brilliant.

From presumed bad joke to opening for Cat Power and the Pretenders on a current North American tour, Juliette Lewis has navigated the back-and-forth between being an Oscar-nominated actress and a fierce rock 'n' roll frontwoman with little regard for her naysayers.

Maureen O'Hara is 89 today. Once voted one of the five most beautiful women in the world, Miss O'Hara is proabably best known now as Natalie Wood's unbelieving mother in the classic Miracle on 34th Street ; or perhaps as Esmeralda to Charles Laughton's Quasimodo in the Hunchback of Notre Dame .

Chrissie Hynde and the Pretenders have a new album and a tour date in Harrisburg on Saturday night.