FresnoBee.com: Donald Munro

Ledger's role reminds us of dark loss

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:35:05 PDT

We filled the seats, that we did, to send Heath Ledger off in style.

Chihuly, Kahlo stir things up in San Francisco

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:51:39 PDT

SAN FRANCISCO -- Hated the Chihuly. Loved the Frida Kahlo.

'Comedies' vie for worst summer flick

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:44:50 PDT

We're here at the Ego-Bloated Comedians Who Make Terrible Summer Movies World Championships, and let me tell you, ladies and gentlemen, the competition in this final round is going to be fierce.

Art that clicks

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:40:12 PDT

Chemistry is an ephemeral and mysterious thing. Movie-star couples can have it in romantic spades on screen -- or wind up hobbling along like brother and sister. A chef might combine two wildly different menu items and score a hit -- or cause indigestion. A boss and employee might get along famously, or they could wind up at each other's throats.

New 'War and Peace' translation is a continent worth conquering

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:09:14 PDT

If I were a professional book critic, I would have rushed out and devoured Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's acclaimed new translation of "War and Peace" when it first hit bookstores in November. That's what Time, Newsweek, the New York Review of Books and other national magazines did. I picture the critics for those august publications locking themselves in their comfortable studies, preferably with views from their windows of vast fields of golden hay resembling the steppes of Russia, emerging only for snacks of borscht and pickled beets, all in a rush to devour the novel's staggering 1,215 pages (without endnotes) and meet their deadlines.

Carrie wouldn't like 'Sex and the Country'

Thu, 29 May 2008 17:40:24 PDT

Five really bad ideas: