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Whatever popular good will and box office credibility Sandra Bullock reestablished with this summer’s “The Proposal’’ is hereby undone - no, obliterated - with “All About Steve,’’ easily the worst movie of the week, month, year, and Bullock’s entire career. It is to comedy what leprosy once was to the island of Molokai: a plague best contemplated from many miles away. In a spectacular feat of miscasting, the star plays a California fruitcake named Mary Horowitz who lives with her parents, constructs crossword puzzles for a living, and never stops yammering about the trivia that fizzes around...

Whatever popular good will and box office credibility Sandra Bullock reestablished with this summer’s “The Proposal’’ is hereby undone - no, obliterated - with “All About Steve,’’ easily the worst movie of the week, month, year, and Bullock’s entire career. It is to comedy what leprosy once was to the island of Molokai: a plague best contemplated from many miles away. In a spectacular feat of miscasting, the star plays a California fruitcake named Mary Horowitz who lives with her parents, constructs crossword puzzles for a living, and never stops yammering about the trivia that fizzes around...

WASHINGTON - One of the finest Cajun-style restaurants in the nation can be found in the heart of the nation's capital. Jeff Tunks is the guiding force behind Acadiana, named one of the best new restaurants of 2006 by Esquire magazine. The chef, who with some partners also launched popular local restaurants Ceiba, DC Coast, and TenPenh spent four years in New Orleans and developed a strong affinity for the cuisine. Tunks calls Acadiana "a contemporary interpretation of a Louisiana fish house" although the decor belies that sort of casualness.

WASHINGTON - One of the finest Cajun-style restaurants in the nation can be found in the heart of the nation's capital. Jeff Tunks is the guiding force behind Acadiana, named one of the best new restaurants of 2006 by Esquire magazine. The chef, who with some partners also launched popular local restaurants Ceiba, DC Coast, and TenPenh spent four years in New Orleans and developed a strong affinity for the cuisine. Tunks calls Acadiana "a contemporary interpretation of a Louisiana fish house" although the decor belies that sort of casualness.

NEW YORK -- Roland Martin has reeled in a big one for his weekly fishing show on the Outdoor Life Network. Baiting a hook beside him recently on a dock in Crawford, Texas, was President George W. Bush, whose afternoon casting for bass was chronicled for "Fishing With Roland Martin" in an episode that first aired on Friday. (It airs again on Wednesday and Thursday at 6:30 p.m.) If you're wondering what the leader of the free world is doing fishing on an obscure cable TV show, you don't know politics.

It’s as if we’ve been dropped into a substratum of Bizarro World: Who are these people who see every negative Mideast political development as a positive, who can barely contain their joy when the world’s powder keg creeps closer to detonation, and who glower at the thought of peace? They’re the millions of Christian evangelical millennialists who expect the Rapture any day now, and the documentary “Waiting for Armageddon’’ wants us to meet them and know them for the cultural force they certainly intend to be. Written and directed by the triumvirate of Kate Davis, David...

NEW YORK -- Roland Martin has reeled in a big one for his weekly fishing show on the Outdoor Life Network. Baiting a hook beside him recently on a dock in Crawford, Texas, was President George W. Bush, whose afternoon casting for bass was chronicled for "Fishing With Roland Martin" in an episode that first aired on Friday. (It airs again on Wednesday and Thursday at 6:30 p.m.) If you're wondering what the leader of the free world is doing fishing on an obscure cable TV show, you don't know politics.