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Newman Tribute on TCM: Oct.12
The TV ZoneYup, that's the big important date to remember, when TCM will devote its full Sunday schedule to Paul Newman classics, including ...Cool Hand Luke (1967), Somebody up There Likes Me (1956), Torn Curtain (1966), Exodus (1960), Hud (1963), and......Tags: Ed Begley, Julie Andrews, Film Festivals, Claire Bloom, William Shatner
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'The China Lover' by Ian Buruma
Special to The TimesIN 1940, at the height of Japan's military aggression during World War II, a movie called "China Nights" won the hearts of countless Japanese soldiers and patriots who were riveted by the stirring singing voice of the young girl who plays a Chinese orphan...Tags: Armed Forces, Defense, Truman Capote, Firearms, Frank Capra Jr.
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Paul Newman: A Legend Dies At 83
SPECIAL TO THE COURANTPaul Newman was a stage actor who became a movie star. A sex symbol who celebrated 50 years of marriage with his second wife. A grieving father who turned to philanthropy after the death of his only son. A citizen activist who campaigned for liberal...Tags: Broadway, John O'Hara, Susan Sarandon, Theater, New York Times
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Kurosawa's restored 'Rashomon' to be screened
It's a film so profound that it changed the way we talk about truth and perception.
Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's 1950 masterpiece, "Rashomon," involves the rape of a woman and the apparent murder of her husband from the different accounts of...Tags: Photography, Film Festivals, Cinema Industry, Beverly Hills, Movies
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In remake, Cage recasts himself as an actor
Los Angeles TimesNicolas Cage didn't wind up in Bangkok, Thailand, by accident. As the Oscar-winning actor explains it, there were reasons both personal and professional that compelled him to change gears after the mega-dollar success of the family-friendly action-...Tags: Nicolas Cage, Contracts, Movies, Academy Awards, Wes Craven
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Cage takes a risk in 'Bangkok Dangerous'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterNICOLAS CAGE didn't wind up in Bangkok by accident. As the Oscar-winning actor explains it, there were reasons both personal and professional that compelled him to change gears after the mega-dollar success of the family-friendly action-adventure...Tags: Contracts, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Academy Awards, Cinema Industry, Bangkok Dangerous
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Anne Arundel Education Notes
St. John's College is offering a number of continuing education and fine arts courses starting Sept. 13. Registration deadline is Thursday. Tuition is $210 for preceptorials. In preceptorials, up to 15 students meet with a St. John's tutor for a close...Tags: Periodicals, Further Education, Newspaper and Magazine, Chesapeake (Chesapeake, Virginia), Magazines
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Shakespeare through the modern ages: on stage and screen
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTraditional or not traditional? That is the question when directors mount productions of William Shakespeare's plays. Over the decades, theater, movie and even television versions of the Bard's plays have defied convention, some turning them into...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Leonardo DiCaprio, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Film Festivals, Broadway
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'21' a winner with featurettes
Chicago Tribune Newspapers'21': Based on Ben Mezrich's nonfiction best seller "Bringing Down the House," director Robert Luketic's "21" doesn't make much of an effort to get the details right, but what the movie loses in authenticity, it recovers in kinetic dazzle. Jim Sturgess...Tags: William Hurt, Film Festivals, Sony Corp., Manuel Puig, Los Angeles
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New DVDs: '21' is entertaining where it counts
21 Sony, $28.96/$34.95; Blu-ray, $38.96
Based on Ben Mezrich's nonfiction bestseller "Bringing Down the House," director Robert Luketic's "21" doesn't make much of an effort to get the details right, but what the movie loses in authenticity, it...Tags: William Hurt, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Film Festivals, Sony Corp., Little Tokyo
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Fast Chat: Terri Garr
Teri Garr had a solid career in the 1970s and '80s playing ditsy blondes, housewives and the girlfriend of the leading man. Along the way she was Oscar-nominated (supporting actress for "Tootsie"), and appeared in a slew of high-profile pictures,...Tags: Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, Celebrity Mothers, Cher, Viral Diseases
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Grim tale takes wing
Los Angeles TimesTHE PLAGUE OF DOVES, by Louise Erdrich. HarperCollins, 314 pp., $25.95. It has been difficult to come back from this novel to the familiar atmosphere of my daily life. I have been through this before with Louise Erdrich, who weaves exotic and erotic...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Epidemics and Plagues
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