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Cinema as art
Baltimore movie-lovers voiced concern when the Baltimore Museum of Art canceled its free monthly film series. For two years, Eric Hatch, the series' programmer, had put together a lively and original slate that typically attracted 150 to 200 people,...Tags: Schools, Woody Allen, Festive Event, Werner Herzog, Preston Sturges
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Off the Wall: From unscripted to film festivals
diane@tvworthwatching.comOff the Wall attacks the week's TV listings like a pit bull. KEEPING IT REAL. Well, as "real" as "reality" TV can be. A couple of this week's series premieres actually look more like docuseries of possible authenticity. "Making It Home: Greensburg"...Tags: Weeds, Michael Vick, Labor Day, Movies, Public Holidays
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'The Exiles'
Times Movie CriticNever released theatrically and all but unseen in the 50 years since shooting began, "The Exiles" is a lost Los Angeles treasure about a culture that disappeared and haunting neighborhoods that are no more. That we have it with us again is little short of...Tags: Los Angeles, Tommy Reynolds, Movies, Cinema Industry, Culture
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'Die Hard' at Linwood Dunn, Downtown Film Festival and more
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterYippie-ki-yay! The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is throwing a 20th birthday bash for the action thriller "Die Hard" tonight at the Linwood Dunn Theater. "Die Hard," which was one of the top box office hits of 1988, made Bruce Willis a movie...Tags: Bela Lugosi, Anna May Wong, Fiction, Festive Event, Virginia
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Kim Novak gives TCM some summer sizzle
Sentinel ColumnistShe was a sex symbol to rival Marilyn Monroe and a captivating actress who never received the Oscar attention lavished on Elizabeth Taylor. But Kim Novak, now 75, continues to grow in stature, and TCM will salute her Tuesday with 24 hours of her movies....Tags: Kirk Douglas, Dean Martin, Movies, Alfred Hitchcock, Defense
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'Night of the Hunter' outtakes to screen at UCLA Film & Television Archive festival
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThere have been many myths and rumors that have sprung up around the making of Charles Laughton's haunting 1955 film, "The Night of the Hunter," especially that he hated directing children and let star Robert Mitchum take over the reins when it came...Tags: Virginia, Hunting, Movies, Peter Graves, Charles Laughton
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Bret Lott's Hollywood reflection
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSOME places you can't find on a map. You can't reach them by plane or train -- not even by foot. Novelist Bret Lott got here, to this very spot in Echo Park, via a more oblique route: a collection of photographs, a tilting "postmodern" bluegrass melody...Tags: Road Transportation, Photography, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Books and Magazines, Howard Hughes
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A 'Shining' thriller at the Charles
Sun reporterThe Shining, director Stanley Kubrick's visually stunning 1980 adaptation of Stephen King's horror tale of a snowbound author (Jack Nicholson) with a demonic case of writer's block, is this weekend's entry in the Charles Theatre's Saturday revival series....Tags: Denzel Washington, Jodie Foster, Little Italy (Baltimore, Maryland), Mount Vernon Place, Stephen King
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'Sex and the Single Girl' will have your eyes popping
Times Film Critic"I always named 'em the Berkeley Girls, and no one picked any girls but me. I picked 'em all. Always." Busby Berkeley's voice rumbled like a semi-active volcano. "Once a producer came up to me and said, 'Buz, that one on the end looks cute,' and I said,...Tags: Festive Event, Movies, Ginger Rogers, James Cagney, Dance
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'Four Presidents on Television' at the Billy Wilder Theatre
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAt the New York World's Fair on April 30, 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first commander in chief to appear on television when he formally opened the festivities on a NBC telecast. Since that time, every president and presidential...Tags: Jack Benny, Christianity, Vice, John McCain, Dwight David Eisenhower
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Walter Mirisch, his memoir and memories
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterOscar-winning producer Walter Mirisch has lived the American dream. He grew up in a poor immigrant family, and despite suffering hardships during the Great Depression, he found his way to Harvard. He later went on to a storied career producing some of the...Tags: Norman Jewison, National Government, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Yul Brynner, Jerome Robbins
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Screening Room: Charles Boyer films at LACMA
SCREENING ROOM With his beautiful voice, bedroom eyes and passionate demeanor, Charles Boyer was the epitome of the romantic Frenchman -- in fact, he was the inspiration for the beloved Looney Tunes character Pepé Le Pew. Now, Boyer is the subject of the...Tags: Charles Boyer, Los Angeles, Movies, Ivan Reitman, Irene Dunne
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