BEN GOLDACRE'S "BAD PHARMA BOOK The latest book by Ben Goldacre, "Bad Pharma: How drug companies mislead doctors and harm patients" is an interesting yet terrifying look at how the pharmaceutical industry works, and the tricks and distortions used to ensure profits at the expense of patient safety.
Through April 28 An exceptionally talented comic performer, Tamy Ben-Tor dons bad wigs and fake facial hair to transform herself into funny and despicable stock characters.
(Smith) Galleries: Chelsea Tamy Ben-Tor: 'New Performance Work' (through Saturday) An exceptionally talented comic performer, Ms. Ben-Tor dons bad wigs and fake facial hair to transform herself into funny and despicable stock characters.
Heath has been one of the stories of the year, with this summer's beautiful, generation-spanning album "Tootie's Tempo," with bassist Ben Street and the Bad Plus' Ethan Iverson on piano.
Amy Adams ("Arrival") and Annette Bening ("20th Century Women") deserve recognition as much as any of the women listed below; Bening, especially, has had bad Oscar luck, having lost twice to Hilary Swank.
But it is also littered with the smoking remains of high-profile disappointments ("The BFG," "Ghostbusters," "The Legend of Tarzan") and flat-out bad ideas ("Ben-Hur").
Basically, we need to go back to Clash of the Titans and apologize, because even the most saccharine exemplars of the sandal-genre are nowhere near as bad as Ben-Hur, which cost $60 million more to make than Passion of the Christ.
BEN MCGRATH: Tailgating is probably bad for public health, too.
(Music World Entertainment, $7.99) BEN RATLIFF CAROLE KING: 'A HOLIDAY CAROLE' The bad news: Carole King didn't write any of the songs here.
When it comes to bad action movies, we've all Ben there and done that.
