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Forget almost, Crowes Famous is perfect film

It is truly amazing when a film captures the audience members’ collective heart; when every person sitting in the theater can’t help but feel all the trivial pains and pleasures put forth in the story. Unfortunately for audiences everywhere, this only occurs once in a great while. However, it did in many theaters this weekend when writer and director Cameron Crowe’s “Almost Famous” caught its first batches of well-deserved attention. The movie, Crowe’s first film since his double Academy Award-nominated “Jerry Maguire,” is set in one of rock ’n’ roll’s most cardinal eras, the 1970s - back when everything was on vinyl.

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Copacabana portrays drama of life in show biz

Like many who go to the Big Apple to try to make it big in show business, Darcie Roberts got her break in New York.Tonight, Roberts plays a similar role as Lola Lamar, the leading lady in Barry Manilow’s “Copacabana,” who heads to New York to break into the business.The play is inspired by Manilow’s Grammy award-winning song “Copacabana.” “Copacabana” is the story of a small-town girl from Tulsa, Okla.

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Mockingbird conveys lesson

LANSING - “To Kill a Mockingbird” reveals the racial tensions of life in a small town in the Deep South in the 1930s. The show opened Thursday at Boarshead Theater, 425 S.