You may not know Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul, but you probably know Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson.

While it's true both duos have played disco-era undercover detectives Dave Starsky and Ken Hutchinson, only one pair was lucky enough to enlighten the Wildcat's readership about the new movie, "Starsky & Hutch."

"We didn't really worry about having to stay totally true to the original show," Stiller said. [Read article]

Rapper/actor Snoop Dogg needs no introduction at any university community in the Western world.

Dogg, who plays street informant Huggy Bear in the new flick "Starsky & Hutch," had a few extra minutes yesterday to teleconference with student journalists all over the nation and wax-playalistically on a host of quizzestions.

Here's a sampling. Foshizzle.

Q: I read when you were younger, your mom used to play records and that's what got you into music, so I wanted to know if something like that happened with movies. [Read article]

Don't be fooled by the title or the pink cover; Robert Thurman's book, "Infinite Life: Seven Virtues for Living Well," is a thoughtful philosophical look at how we view our lives and our deaths.

Thurman, who will be signing copies of the book at the UofA Bookstore at 4 p.m. Tuesday and speaking in Room 101 of the Social Sciences building at 7:30 p.m. the same day, is a professor at Columbia University, a close personal friend of the Dalai Lama and the father of actress Uma Thurman. [Read article]

"Riverdance" has arrived. And with it, of course, comes Irish dance. But the show also incorporates Spanish flamenco, Russian folk and American tap.

Even with their busy schedules, two of the lead dancers of "Riverdance" talked to the Wildcat to discuss their lives behind the scenes.

Co-lead dancer Anthony Sharkey, originally from Ennis, Ireland, has been performing in "Riverdance" for more than five years and has danced the lead for three. [Read article]

San Francisco in 1969 was the birthplace of The Cockettes, a midnight dance ensemble that was an interesting side effect of the psychedelic counterculture and the sexual revolution. Men, women and children expressed their sexual and cultural freedom in a chaotic, drug-ridden drag show. Ah, the good ol' days.

David Weissman, award-winning independent filmmaker, captures the essence of this flamboyant group in a documentary, "The Cockettes," which is being shown to UA media arts students, but is open to everyone tomorrow. This showing includes a lecture and discussion given by Weissman himself. He is coming as part of the Visiting Filmmakers Program, sponsored by four groups, including the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Studies. [Read article]

To prepare for their performance, students in the Vietnam play "Tracers" were put through the paces by an actual marine drill sergeant. Talk about getting into character.

Theatre arts grad student and "Tracers" director Glen Coffman emphasizes the importance of presenting an educational and thought-provoking play.

"(ÎTracers') is one of the very few based on actual experiences because it was developed and written by people who were there," Coffman said. [Read article]

I recently went to a movie, and in the row behind me, an old, old lady was eating liver and fried onions from a Ziploc bag. She ate slowly and leisurely, unlocking the bag's protective seal every few minutes to eat. She created a rolling wave of thick, funky onion air in the theater; it completely distracted me from the movie. That sort of thing happened to me again Monday night when I saw the Arizona Repertory Theatre's presentation of "Hamlet." [Read article]

There is no alternate dimension or trapdoor in the subconscious that would place Hugh Hefner and his seven Playboy girlfriends in the same conceptual place and time as indie rockers the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

Except maybe the 2004 Grammy Awards.

Like a bad acid trip, the Yeahs had the distinction of trailing Hefner and his golden bunnies down the showbiz media gauntlet known as the red carpet.

Except this carpet was not red. [Read article]

Sony Pictures Classics

Rated: PG-13

105 min.

Now playing at Century El Con

For those of us who are too scared (or scarred) to go see "The Passion of The Christ," there is a brilliant alternative. If profound thinking, sensitivity and human brutality are what you seek, but like myself, don't want to be a victim of "Passion" hype, "Fog of War" will provide for you ÷ guilt not included. [Read article]

Now It's Overhead

Sounds Like: Early Î90s Brit-pop

See Also: Cursive, The Cure

Fall Back Open

Andy LeMaster, the man behind Now It's Overhead, is supposedly a songwriting/studio wizard. With only nine songs on Fall Back Open, clocking in at a little over 36 minutes, it seems a little early to start calling him the merlin of indie rock.

The opener, "Wait in a Line," combines circling drums and echoing vocals, which may be more than extraneous for the first time in years. While the guitar work sucks on almost every song, the synthesizer and keyboard give some real life to songs "Profile" and "Turn & Go." [Read article]

Today

311÷ Rialto Theatre, 318 E. Congress St. With special guest. Omaha's good old rap-rock funksters hit Tucson! 8 p.m. $30 in advance. 798-3333

The Bled ÷ Skrappy's, 201 E. Broadway Blvd. Live music from local rock acts including Cure the Rocketship, Versus the Minor and Fallen Rain. 7 p.m. $5. 358-4287

Circus Chimera ÷ Tucson Mall parking lot. 4500 N. Oracle Road. Opening Night of touring Circus, which features contortionists, jugglers and clowns! 7:30 p.m. $6 bleachers, $9 reserved, $12 box seats. 293-7300 [Read article]