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Sex, Cruelty and Theater in 'Liaisons'
Christopher Hampton's "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" is a total anomaly in modern dramatic literature. Based on the 18th-century French novel of the same title, it is a dark comedy-cum-erotic thriller that observes two pre-Revolutionary aristocrats who use...Tags: Theater, Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Reese Witherspoon, American Airlines, Inc.
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Decadent Theatrical "Les Liaisons Dangereuses"
Special to The CourantThe radiant, gifted Laura Linney is back on Broadway in perhaps her most challenging role: the corrupt, scheming proto-feminist in "Les Liaisons Dangereuses." Sweeping about in layered, floor-length, silken gowns, her Marquise de Merteuil commands the...Tags: Annette Bening, Roger Vadim, Music Theater, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close
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Movies
PREMIUM CABLE "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" *** 6:15 p.m., Cinemax Harry's fourth movie, set again in author J.K. Rowling's amazingly well-imagined Hogwarts witchcraft school, is the best filmed Potter so far, pitting him against a renascent...Tags: Mike Newell, Maggie Smith, Ralph Fiennes, Harry Potter, Brendan Gleeson
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Oscar-Winning 'English Patient' Director Dies
Zap2It.comAcclaimed director Anthony Minghella, who adapted books such as "The English Patient," "Cold Mountain" and "The Talented Mr. Ripley" for the screen, has died. He was 54. The Oscar-winning director died Tuesday morning, March 18 in a London hospital of...Tags: Juliet Stevenson, Television, Sony Corp., Isle of Wight (Isle of Wight, Virginia), Music Theater
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Fast Chat: Sam Rockwell
Another film, another whack-job character role for Sam Rockwell. In "Snow Angels," which opened recently, the gifted, 39-year-old character actor plays a suicidal, born-again Christian trying to reconnect with his estranged wife. So what else is new?...Tags: Elizabeth Edwards, Movies, Ron Howard, Javier Bardem, George Clooney
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'The Spiderwick Chronicles'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFebruary 14, 2008 With character names like Hogsqueal, Mulgarath and Thimbletack, it's got to be derivative. So it's not altogether surprising that Mark Waters' ("Freaky Friday," "Mean Girls") adaptation of "The Spiderwick Chronicles" suffers slightly...Tags: Mary-Louise Parker, Martin Short, Theme Park Vacations, New York, Movies
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Oscar winner Minghella dies at 54
Associated Press WriterOscar-winning director Anthony Minghella, who turned such literary works as "The English Patient," "The Talented Mr. Ripley" and "Cold Mountain" into acclaimed movies, died Tuesday of a hemorrhage following surgery. He was 54. Minghella's publicist,...Tags: Matt Damon, Juliet Stevenson, Television, Michael Ondaatje, Juliette Binoche
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Oscar competition is cut-throat
SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNEIt's hard to recall a year in American cinema when so many top contenders for Academy Awards were so bleak. True, comedies rarely win at the Oscars, but there was a day when thrillers didn't either, nor uber-violent dramas (unless they were war dramas)....Tags: Literature, David Cronenberg, Culture, Television, Helena Bonham Carter
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Release of the Week: 'Sweeney Todd'
Courant Staff WriterJohnny Depp and Tim Burton have made six films together. Most have had some element of the sinister: Willy Wonka's creepy personality, the witches, ghosts and demon tree in "Sleepy Hollow," Edward Scissorhands' home and hands, the entire premise of...Tags: DreamWorks Animation SKG Incorporated, Theater, Helena Bonham Carter, Tim Burton, Music Theater
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Deliciously morbid 'Sweeney Todd'
Brooding is the disposition that launched Johnny Depp's career, and in "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," he's back in fine brooding form.
He stars as the titular Sweeney Todd, a sweet-faced barber whose life gets dismantled when a...Tags: Theater, Helena Bonham Carter, Tim Burton, Music Theater, Johnny Depp
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