Attention LOTR nerds: Lord Aragorn is in the house

By Beatrice Kim
INTERMISSION| I’m in the top floor “secret” suite at the Ritz Carlton in San Francisco, waiting my turn to talk to “Hidalgo” star Viggo Mortensen (better known as Aragorn from “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy) and director Joe Johnston (“Jumanji,” “October Sky”).

An interview with Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson, stars of 'Starsky & Hutch'

By Ramin Setoodeh
INTERMISSION| MARINA DEL REY, Calif.—”Starsky and Hutch,” the television show, is more dated than lava lamps. Can you still dig it?

Homoeroticism returns to the big screen in ‘Starsky’

By Ramin Setoodeh
INTERMISSION| In “Starsky & Hutch,” Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson play a pair of cops out to protect the citizens of Bay City, a swinging town of skyscrapers.

‘Havana Nights’: the reason Elián braved the inner tube

By Nicole Beckley
INTERMISSION| In 1987, “Dirty Dancing” was a girl’s chocolate-sundae-daydream. Fueled by teen angst and Patrick Swayze’s hips, we all wanted to be Baby (Jennifer Grey), disobey our parents and gyrate to “I Had the Time of My Life.

Shouldn’t it be ‘Shaolin Football’? Only in America. . .

By John Holgate
INTERMISSION| Two soccer players soar through the air passing the ball between them as they leap over defenders and then nail the ball past a diving goalie into the net.

Weekend Party Snooper

By Barrett W. Sheridan
INTERMISSION| “We might have met, but I’m always drunk.” — A chesthair-revealing, white-shirted, tall Junior, bespectacled in snazzy rainbow-tinted sunglasses (even while inside) “Well, at the very least, she should have been ugly.

The horse and his boy

By Eric Ford
INTERMISSION| r I hear about a film that is “based on a true story,” I always cringe. Instead of a deep, arousing film that fleshes out the real people and events that inspire it all, we end up watching the same Hollywood crap that does anything it can to create a cheap thrill while hiding behind its creative license.

DJ John's techno scoop

By John Holgate
INTERMISSION| What’s new * The Outernationalists, a new project from Simon Emmerson (formerly of the Afro-Celts) and producer Phil Meadley, put out their first album, entitled “Ethnomixocology.

Don't forget about. . . Circulatory System

By Mike Orme
INTERMISSION| Nestled in the heart of the deep South, in the musical oasis of Athens, Ga., a mysterious musical collective is growing.

The W Spot

By Lizzie Epstein and Alla Gonopolsky
INTERMISSION| During a particularly stressful trip to the Stanford Bookstore, it took me an entire hour to locate textbooks for three classes, despite their seemingly foolproof organizational system (the alphabet).