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A Lion in Winter
Sun movie criticPart I An American hero -- and antiheroBeyond anything else, Marlon Brando is the towering original who came out of the Midwest 58 years ago and electrified Broadway and then Hollywood with the visceral excitement and veracity of his acting. He exploded...Tags: Family, Sean Penn, DVDs, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Heroism
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Actor, hailed as greatest of his era, dies
Sun Movie CriticMarlon Brando, who changed not just the face but the mind and soul of movie acting with a series of revolutionary performances in the 1950s, died Thursday at age 80 of lung failure at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. In his five decades on screen, Mr....Tags: Culture, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Marlon Brando, Children, Movies
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'Greatest actor of his generation,' Brando dies at 80
Times Staff WritersMarlon Brando, a two-time Oscar winner whose riveting performances transformed acting from a remote craft to a naturalistic art form, has died, the Associated Press announced today. He was 80. An actor's actor whose skill was envied by generations of...Tags: Sean Penn, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Tyrone Power Sr., The New York Times, Documentary (genre)
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'Apocalypse' now and again
Sun Movie CriticPART I -- A Veterans Reunion After watching Francis Coppola's newly restored, 197-minute Apocalypse Now Redux, it is a shock to show up at a New York hotel room and see the actors who played sailors dressed in civvies. I had been prepared to conduct...Tags: International Military Interventions, Hotels and Accommodations, Companies and Corporations, Documentary (genre), Laurence Fishburne
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What's old is new - and perhaps better
Sun Movie CriticWith the last remnants of winter finally dribbling through art theaters, let us now praise summer remakes, sequels and franchises. With trailers rampant and the movies themselves unseen, every question mark registers as a come-on. Around the World in 80...Tags: Spider-Man (fictional character), Kenneth Branagh, Harry Potter (fictional character), Willem Dafoe, Tobey Maguire
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2001: A movie odyssey
What book, painting or TV series was more pertinent to the world of the new millennium than the 1999 picture Three Kings? That wised-up Gulf War adventure dramatized the dire consequences of America's failure to support Iraqi dissidents and topple...Tags: Maryland Film Festival, Muhammad Ali, Film Festivals, Movies, Crown Heights
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Critic Andrew Sarris dies at 83: Village Voice sage championed auteur theory of film criticism
VarietyAndrew Sarris, the Village Voice reviewer who was one of the most important film critics of the last half century, died Wednesday morning in Manhattan from complications of an infection after a fall. He was 83. Sarris was a key proponent of the auteur...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Budd Boetticher, Movies, John Ford, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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Andrew Sarris dies at 83; longtime film critic
Film critic Andrew Sarris began his rise to prominence in the early 1960s when, fresh off an extended visit to Paris, he became a primary spokesman for a theory that would reverberate throughout the cinema world.
Screenwriters and producers may have...Tags: George Cukor, John Huston, French Movies, William Wyler, Wesleyan University
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A night with Broadway's Phyllis Newman -- talking Texas!
Liz Smith"TOURISM DESTROYS the object it loves," said travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor. My friends who were in London over the last few weeks complained by email that it rained on them for 11 straight days. But now they are back in New York at the height of the...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Liz Smith, University of Texas at Austin, Jerry Seinfeld, Lyndon B. Johnson
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Ernest Callenbach dies at 83; wrote environmental novel 'Ecotopia'
Ernest "Chick" Callenbach, a film scholar and environmentalist who created a cult favorite in "Ecotopia," a 1975 novel that predicted with uncanny accuracy a world where recycling is commonplace, food is locally grown and energy comes from the sun, died...Tags: Periodicals, Stranger Than Fiction, University of Chicago, Ecosystems, Clint Eastwood
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The Chicago Tribune's favorite books of 2011
As 2011 comes to a close, we take a minute to reflect on the year's best in the world of publishing. Here is the list of our favorites, all published this year:
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"The Paris Wife" by Paula McLain
This gorgeous novel portrays the whirlwind...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Paris (France), Haruki Murakami, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Companies and Corporations
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The best presents for the book nerds on your gift list
It Chooses You, by Miranda July (McSweeney's, 2011)
The filmmaker/artist/poet/fiction writer Miranda July is well-known for her movies, whose moods share a kind of charming sincerity with that of her other work. Last month, July's first attempt at...Tags: Bruce Springsteen, Joan Didion, Miranda July, Laurie Anderson, Dave Eggers
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