Starz Entertainment Programming Highlights Nov 18, 2008
Source: Starz Entertainment, LLC. Dear Editor/TV Writer. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Former Durant resident Dennis Letts dies Feb 26, 2008
His filmography includes A Perfect World, Cast Away, Passenger 57, Fire Down Below, three episodes of Walker, Texas Ranger, and Blood Suckers from Outer Space. He appeared in productions of August: Osage County at both the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago and the Imperial Theater on Broadway. (Durant Daily Democrat, OK)
DVD watch: Movies of the same name Feb 5, 2008
But don't forget Steven Seagal's vocals and guitar in 1997's Fire Down Below (Warner, R, $10). He goes undercover, and his aged "moves" are as stationary as 2001's monolith. (USA Today -- Life)
Bruce Springsteen rocks out on 'Magic' Sep 30, 2007
In a hushed voice, he prophesies a bleak conclusion to the "tricks" at hand: "There's a fire down below but it's comin' up here/ So leave everything you know, and carry only what you fear/ On the road the sun is sinkin' low there's bodies hangin' in the trees/ This is what will be.". The album also introduces a few couplets that should take up residence in the Springsteen book of quotations, notably on the angry, war-inspired "Last to Die." In a voice tinged with resignation and regret he asks,... (Boston Globe)
Radio: Moldy Oldies May 1, 2007
1) was in a Wednesday afternoon set that included Bob Seger's "Fire Down Below." But most people who responded to our request for their views on rock radio said the fire is sputtering or gone. The set also included Aerosmith's "Same Old Song and Dance." Yet many album-oriented rockers -- who were teens in the 1960s, '70s and early '80s -- say they've clicked off those same old songs. (CTNow.com)
Hollywood guardedly embraces ecothrillers Mar 20, 2007
In one form or another, the corporate executive as environmental predator has worked in movies including "Silkwood," the 1983 Meryl Streep drama about damage from plutonium processing; "Erin Brockovich," the 2000 Julia Roberts vehicle about power-plant pollution; and "Fire Down Below," the 1997 thriller in which the action star Steven Seagal turns unlikely environmental activist by tearing into the dumpers of toxic waste. More recently, "Children of Men," about post-apocalyptic infertility, and... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
