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By BRUCE DANCIS
The release this week on DVD of 1949's "All the King's Men" seems to have everything to do with promoting the new version of the movie, opening later this month, and nothing concerning the importance and significance of the original film.

This bare-bones DVD (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, $19.94, not rated) comes with not a single bonus feature about producer/director/writer Robert Rossen's movie.

By BETSY PICKLE
Jason Statham fans will get their money's worth out of "Crank."

At last, here's a heart-pumping action film that's boiled down to its literal essence: adrenaline. The protagonist has been injected with a deadly poison that's inhibiting his, and he will stay alive only as long as he keeps moving and keeps his adrenaline up.

It's the kind of scenario that would be right at home in a videogame, and indeed the film uses graphics and replenishes the hero's power as if it were one.

By ROBERT DENERSTEIN
ACCEPTED (C+) An agreeably mediocre and highly derivative comedy about slackers who start their own college. Justin Long stars as the slacker-in-chief. Think "Animal House" meets "Revenge of the Nerds."

Rated: PG-13.

By JUDD ZULGAD
Minnesota Twins television analyst Bert Blyleven has been suspended for two telecasts for accidentally using obscenity on the air before the start of the Twins-Yankees game Sunday in New York.

WFTC (Ch.

By DIXIE REID
Adrien Brody will always be known as the jubilant Oscar winner who swept surprised presenter Halle Berry into his arms for an honest-to-goodness Hollywood-heartthrob kiss.

And now here he is, all gangly arms and legs, happily impulsive making the rounds with director Allen Coulter to talk about the fact-meets-fiction noir film "Hollywoodland."

It also stars Ben Affleck, Diane Lane, Bob Hoskins and Robin Tunney.

Brody, 33, (who won the Oscar in 2003 for his leading-man performance in "The Pianist") plays a fictional down-on-his-luck private eye named Louis Simo who is hired to look into the 1959 suicide of real-life actor George Reeves (played by Affleck, who gained 20 pounds for the role.)

Reeves was beloved by millions of American children as TV's Superman.

By DIXIE REID
Charles Bukowski was a novelist, a poet, a short- story writer and a raging alcoholic. He loved women, many women. He lived hard and fast, a low-life kind of life, and wrote exhaustively of it, turning out reams of work in his 73 years.

By CHUCK CAMPBELL
Sunday, October 15, 2006
"KELIS WAS HERE," Kelis (Jive)

Her milkshake brought all the boys to the yard, and now Kelis is leashing up those dogs with a "Kelis Was Here" that explores a seemingly infinite number of ways to assert her grandiosity.

The modern R&B singer cruises along on her fourth release without the help of The Neptunes, producers of the hit "Milkshake" from 2003's "Tasty."

Kelis would be the first to tell you she doesn't need those guys.

By RICK MASSIMO
Sunday, October 15, 2006
Whether she's working alone or as part of a larger ensemble (the latter often including her husband, the matchless accordionist Marc Savoy), singer-guitarist Ann Savoy is one of the most tireless performers and historians of Cajun and American roots music.

Savoy is also part of The Magnolia Sisters, an all-female Cajun group that recently released "Rabbit Rabbit," a collection of Louisianan children's songs.

By RONNA RUBIN
Friday, October 13, 2006
When it comes to the creation of country music stars, Canada is second only to the United States. Recording artists including Anne Murray, Shania Twain, Terri Clark, Paul Brandt and Carolyn Dawn Johnson all hail from the great white north and have enjoyed successful careers courtesy of contracts with US-based record labels.

This year's Canadian Country Music Awards _ airing on GAC, at 7 p.m.

By ROB OWEN
Fox is getting its new fall series on the air before other networks, and with "Justice" last week, the network showed some creative promise. This week? Not so much.

"Standoff"

TV dramas do not have to be believable in the strictest sense _ dramatic license, by necessity, must sometimes be taken _ but today's sophisticated TV audience expects dramas to at least be credible within their own universe.