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1. The Wedding Singer -- Adam Sandler
   The Wedding Singer is a 1998 film written by Tim Herlihy and directed by Frank Coraci that stars Adam Sandler as Robbie Hart, a wedding singer, and Drew Barrymore as Julia Sullivan, the object of his affections. The movie was notable for being Sandler's first romantic comedy, and was the beginning of his shift away from the lowbrow comedic material.
2. Mandelbrot Set -- Program
   The Mandelbrot set was discovered much later than Julia sets. Julia and Fatou were looking at Julia sets right after World War I, but until computers came along and got easier to program -- in the 1960s and 1970s -- mathematicians didn't know much about what Julia sets looked like and how many different kinds there were. In the 1970s, Benoit Mandelbrot was interested in looking at highly irregular forms in geometry, such as coastlines, mountain range shapes, and coral formations, and looked again at Julia sets with the aid of a computer.
3. Pop Art -- New York
   What are some of the most famous Pop Art films, pictures, and paintings? By far the most productive Pop Art gallery and studio was Andy Warhol's Factory, which was situated in the heart of the action in Union Square in New York City. During the late '60s and early '70s, the Factory was abuzz with creative action, drug use, and celebrity gossip.
4. Jack Haley -- Jack Haley Jr
   Nine years after his last compilation of musical-movie highlights (That's Entertainment, Part II), producer Jack Haley Jr. offers another enjoyable nostalgia-fest, That's Dancing. Unlike his earlier films, which were confined to the output of MGM, That's Dancing offers vignettes from the best of Warner Bros. (the Busby Berkeley extravaganzas, On Your Toes), RKO (Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers), 20th Century-Fox (The Nicholas Brothers, Carmen Miranda), Universal (1969's Sweet Charity) and United Artists (the "Cool" number from West Side Story). There are ... highlights from the top musicals of the 1970s and 1980s, which with such rare exceptions as Saturday Night Fever (1977) can't hold a candle to Hollywood's vintage songfests. Host/narrators Gene Kelly, Sammy Davis Jr., Mikhail Baryshnikov, Liza Minnelli and Ray Bolger help put the clips in their historical perspective, though all five stars seem tired and unenthusiastic. The real money scene in That's Dancing is Ray Bolger's "wind" dance, which was cut from the final release print of The Wizard of Oz (1939).
5. Bob Seger -- Songs
   For years, Bob Seger's songs glamorized big American cars. One of his tunes helped Chevy sell millions of pickups. But on his latest CD, the Michigan native urges America to kick its gas-guzzling habit.
6. Feminist Art -- Feminist Art Movement
   The Feminist Art Project is a national initiative celebrating women’s contributions to art and the Feminist Art Movement. Organizations and individuals are invited to participate by listing exhibitions, symposia, publications, courses, and other events or programs on their web national calendar. Many of these events mark historic anniversaries, including the 35th anniversary of the founding of the Women’s Caucus for Art. The project ... supports archival initiatives to assure that women’s contributions to contemporary art are included in the cultural and historical records.
7. Benny Hill -- Bbc America
   For nearly four decades Benny Hill reigned supreme as the king of bawdy humour and seaside postcard-style japery on British television. Undoubtedly, out of his entire body of work, it is the shows that he did for Thames television in the 1970s for which he is best remembered, with their combination of high-speed farce, risqué jokes and beautiful ladies. It is these shows that undoubtedly turned him into a global superstar – topping the ratings in America .... With his “three stooges” - Henry McGee, Bob Todd and Jack Wright – Benny Hill concentrated on producing a handful of ‘specials’ every year – shows which were critically acclaimed and always topped the ratings.
8. Boogie Nights -- Porn
   Boogie Nights is not the best film you're likely to see in your lifetime, but it continues the pop postmodernism of Goodfellas and Pulp Fiction in an affable form. The questions it raises regarding sex and society are neither profound nor insightful, but they are memorable and pointed all the same. Particularly effective is the scene with Reynolds making an undignified video vérité in the back seat of a Limo which goes horribly wrong and reminds the participants of the choices they have made in their lives. With a kickin' soundtrack and plenty of retro vibes, the film will ... appeal simply on the level of spectacle, where it is best received. Boogie Nights is fun the way the seventies and the porno industry probably never really were deep down (check out The Ice Storm [F]or a different take on some of the same subject matter from the same year of production), and though it is not so stupid as not to acknowledge this, it does eventually wrap itself up more like an episode of The Love Boat than Mean Streets.
9. Music Genre
   A new music genre called Wizard Rock features songs related to the Harry Potter books, played by bands like the Remus Lupins and Harry and the Potters. Josh Bernstein writes: “Almost every one of these bands on their Myspace or website mention that one of their goals is to promote literacy.
10. Takashi Miike -- Director Takashi Miike
    This early work by acclaimed director Takashi Miike ("Ichi the Killer") is an atypically subdued drama, dealing with the enduring rivalry of two fight-prone children growing up in 1970s Japan. Unable to definitively confront one another throughout their youth, the two become professional fighters and, nearly 20 years after their first meeting, find themselves opposing each other in the ring. Takeshi Caesar, Kazuki Kitamura star. 114 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: Japanese Dolby Digital stereo; Subtitles: English; interview. In Japanese with English subtitles.

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