My One and Only News

Tim and Julie Lenon make an appearance at the New York City premiere of "My One and Only." Photo courtesy of TIM LENON It is most common to think of movie stars, as people - individuals such as Julia Roberts, Tom Hanks or Will Smith.

Published: Friday, November 20, 2009 at 12:01 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 12:26 a.m. This weekend brings plenty of entertainment events, including plays, holiday events, festivals and more.

But even by the dismal standards of those post - best supporting actress nosedives, nothing quite compares to the year that Rene Zellweger just had.

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In my review of All About Steve last week, I asked why 45-year-old Sandra Bullock was still making the kind of girly rom-coms she made in her 20s and 30s.

In the Loop: This fast-paced, very funny, very intelligent British comedy depicts the United States and Great Britain preparing for war in the Middle East , showing how these preparations play out on the staff level, with various functionaries maneuvering for position on both sides of the Atlantic.

Wizard of Oz- This 1925 black-and-white, silent film is the first major movie adaptation of the original book.

'Southern Hospitality' Starlight Dinner Theatre presents this comedy about sisters on a mission to save their town; it's onstage at Waverly East Intermediate School, 3131 W. Michigan Ave.

Movies are rated on 0 to 10 scale. 6 - My One and Only Renee Zellweger makes the most of her best role in years, as a woman in the 1950s who leaves her cheating husband and heads out on the road with her sons .

9 to 11 - 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:30; Oct. 12 to 15 - 5:00, 7:30 See full review, Page XX.

Drew Barrymore, left, Ellen Page and Kristen Wiig, right, star in "Whip It." NEW RELEASES "My One and Only" It's the 1950s and the glamorous Anne Devereaux takes a drive down the Eastern seaboard to search for a wealthy man to fund her life.

Tired of her bandleader husband's philandering ways, Ann Devereaux packs her sons, Robbie and George , into their 1953 Cadillac and hits the road in search of a new man who can bankroll their future.

Dressing room trailers and vintage automobiles turned Charles Street into 1953. I never got to see the star, Renee Zellweger , that evening, but recently I caught up with the finished product, entitled "My One and Only." The film producers selected Baltimore to shoot that film, but the story placed the action in New York, Boston, Pittsburgh, St.

The Baader Meinhof Complex Uli Edel's drama about Germany's urban guerrilla outfit, the Red Army Faction, is swift, brutal, lurid, usually overheated, and occasionally comical.

A T ONE POINT in the wearying '50s-era road movie My One and Only , Robbie coaxes his mother to "find a balance between Dorothy Malone and Donna Reed." This line bothered me on a couple of levels.

Gary Wolcott's "Mr. Movie" column has appeared in the Tri-City Herald since 1992.

Get a jump on your weekend entertainment plans every Wednesday, and be sure to pick up the Limelight section on Friday.

Scott Bakula, left, as FBI Special Agent Brian Shepard, Joel McHale, as FBI Special Agent Bob Herndon, and Matt Damon, as Mark Whitacre, in "The Informant!" The Informant! Opens Friday at theaters everywhere; rated R for language; 108 minutes.

With Armand Schultz, Michael Tucker, Dina Korzun, Ted Koch; directed by Sophie Barthes.

As executive producer of the film, Hamilton is said to have been emotionally moved upon seeing the film as he remembered his close, yet conflicted relationship with his beautiful mother, Ann Stevens, and the struggles that eventually led to his celebrity life the year she divorced his father, George William Hamilton.