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Astronomer's frontman lives on steady diet of inspiration
Special to the Chicago TribuneCountless authors struggle with writer's block, often spending untold hours staring at blank computer screens, filling trash cans with crumpled legal sheets and, as Nicolas Cage's screenwriter demonstrates in "Adaptation," bargaining with themselves....Tags: Bertolt Brecht, MySpace, Nicolas Cage, Astronomy, Tom Waits
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Live: Tom Waits
Times Pop Music CriticPHOENIX -- The sprawling, brawling concert Tom Waits gave here Tuesday, opening his Glitter and Doom tour with two nights at the city's grand old Orpheum, found its central image, unsurprisingly, in a hat. This wasn't just any of the countless porkpies...Tags: Bertolt Brecht, Bo Diddley, Music Theater, Movies, Theater
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'Redbelt'
Times Movie CriticPeer pressure is tough, especially when it's pervasive, grown-up and institutionalized. In samurai movies, as in westerns, the warrior is often faced with a choice between individual morality and fealty to the tribe. Individual morality tends to prevail...Tags: Corruption, Corporate Crime, Movies, Tim Allen, David Mamet
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'Redbelt' complex? Yes, it's Mamet
(B) Peer pressure is tough, especially when it's pervasive, grown-up and institutionalized. In samurai movies, as in Westerns, the warrior is often faced with a choice between individual morality and fealty to the tribe. Individual morality tends to...Tags: Corruption, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Corporate Crime, Movies, Tim Allen
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Film Noir Great Samuel Fuller Book's Theme
Courant Staff WriterWhen Lisa Dombrowski was an undergraduate at Wesleyan University in 1992, she took a class in film noir and arranged a screening of the Samuel Fuller classic "Shock Corridor." By the time the film was over, Dombrowski was so tense she was sitting in a...Tags: Samuel Fuller, Police, Police Investigations, Books and Magazines, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut)
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'Wristcutters: A Love Story'
jan.stuart@newsday.comThe suicidal characters of Goran Dukic's road comedy dwell together in a mirthless afterlife that looks very much like waking life, if all bright colors were washed away and the landscape were strewn with detritus. A recent addition to the populace is...Tags: Patrick Fugit, Movies, Tom Waits, Manhattan (New York City)
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In praise of a tiny thing
Special to The TimesMost directors believe movies deliver their strongest impact when splashed across 40 feet of widescreen, but Jonas Mekas, the 84-year-old poet, avant-garde film diarist and former columnist for the Village Voice, is praising a new — and to him...Tags: Radio City Music Hall, New Products, Academy Awards, Cinema Industry, Movies
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'The Tiger and the Snow'
Special to The TimesRoberto Benigni was an amusing delight in the 1986 Jim Jarmusch films "Down by Law" and "Coffee and Cigarettes" and a wonderfully wistful wayfarer in Fellini's lovely allegorical valedictory, "The Voice of the Moon" (1989). But by 1997, "Life Is...Tags: Roberto Benigni, Beverly Hills, Injuries, Movies, Tom Waits
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Movie review: 'Delirious'
Special to the Tribune3 stars (out of four) Writer-director Tom DiCillo takes the same approach to his films as he has to his career: There's a general theme, but the execution is all over the place. A former cinematographer for Jim Jarmusch (on "Permanent Vacation" and...Tags: Gina Gershon, Cinema Industry, Music Box Theatre, Movies, Steve Buscemi
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Without smoking, films lose some fire
THE PORTRAIT photographer Marion Ettlinger once told me that the worst thing to ever happen to her art form was the demise of smoking. A cigarette, after all, not only gives a subject something to do with his hands, it seems to provide an uncanny cure for...Tags: Movies, John Cassavetes, Peter Bogdanovich, Virginia, Photography
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Talking with: Forest Whitaker
For almost 25 years, Forest Whitaker has been a presence in Hollywood. He's worked as an actor ("Good Morning, Vietnam," "The Crying Game," Clint Eastwood's "Bird"), a director ("Hope Floats," "Waiting to Exhale") and a producer ("Chasing Papi," "Green...Tags: Rutger Hauer, Celebrity, Movies, Forest Whitaker, Film Festivals
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Lonesome Jim
Steve Buscemi behind the camera and Casey Affleck and Liv Tyler in front of it bring life-saving grace notes to the otherwise pedestrian "Lonesome Jim." They turn it from a conventional comedy of family dysfunction into a comedy of despair that's...Tags: Steve Buscemi, Casey Affleck, Kevin Corrigan, Liv Tyler
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