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'Arthur Christmas': How spare heir to Santa's throne saved the holiday — 3 stars
Five years ago, the Bristol, England-based Aardman animation folks — who created the stop-motion legends Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep and therefore are eligible for sainthood — made the digitally animated British/American co-...Tags: Movies, Holidays, Arthur Christmas (movie), Hugh Laurie, Ashley Jensen
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Toronto's Hollywood juggernaut can't swamp indie pleasures
In "Argo," one of the leanest satisfactions of this year's massive Toronto International Film Festival, director and star Ben Affleck anchors a movie based on the true story about how Central Intelligence Agency operative Tony Mendez faked his way into...
Tags: Movies, Sidney Lumet, Argo (movie), Festive Events, Sony Corp.
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Partnership outlives romance for 'Celeste and Jesse' writers
The vinegary romantic comedy "Celeste and Jesse Forever" took half-a-forever to get financed and made, as so many films do. Rashida Jones of "Parks and Recreation" co-stars with Andy Samberg. With her longtime best friend and, briefly, early on, two-to-...
Tags: Healthy Diet, Celeste and Jesse Forever (movie), Film Festivals, Mary McCormack, Rashida Jones
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Steve Jobs' approach a lesson for Broadway's 'Motown'
In 2011, Nick Bilton of The New York Times asked Walter Isaacson, the biographer of Steve Jobs, an interesting question: "Did he try to control what you wrote in the book?" "I anticipated that," Isaacson replied. "But he didn't. He kept surprising me by...
Tags: Music, Apple iPod, Ashton Kutcher, The Social Network (movie) , Lawyers
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Ebertfest: Poignant tribute to late founder
CHAMPAIGN — Film festivals — festivals themselves, let alone films — are rarely as poignant as the one unfolding right now in this college town. The 15th Annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival began Wednesday without its founder, who...
Tags: Movies, Roger Ebert, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Festive Events, Twitter, Inc.
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Giving kids a view to a better future
Bosko Magana, a 10-year-old fifth-grader at Dolores Mission School in Boyle Heights, began noticing about a year ago that her world was getting a little fuzzy around the edges. But eyeglasses didn't fit into the family budget. Joanna Hernandez, 13,...
Tags: Human Accomplishments, Personal Income, Alcon Incorporated, City National Corporation, Teaching and Learning
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For film fest, is 'good enough' good enough?
Is the Chicago International Film Festival good, good enough or not quite that? This is the question. This is the question to be asked of any festival, every perennial cultural mainstay in every city. It's the way to keep us all honest, whatever dog we...
Tags: Music, Los Angeles Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival, Festive Events, Helen Hunt
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An improbably happy ending for Rodriguez
A lovely film about a Detroit singer-songwriter robbed of musical fame but rewarded with a second chance decades later, at age 70, "Searching for Sugar Man" tells a story of serendipity and just deserts. If it were fiction, it'd be improbable fiction. But...
Tags: Movies, Music, Van Morrison, Cape Town (South Africa), Sundance Film Festival
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The Variety Guide to Entertainment Philanthropy: Showbiz Philanthropy Leader Report 2012
VarietyWhen Paul Newman received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the Oscars in 1994, he remarked that Hollywood was "the most generous" community in the world. In the intervening years, the entertainment industry's commitment to philanthropic endeavors...Tags: Music, Advertising, Satellite and Cable Service, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Paul Newman
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Navigating Cannes screenings a tricky task
CANNES, France — Here’s why the world’s greatest film festival, the one on the Cote d’Azur, means something, and to some filmmakers means everything — even if a lot of the surrounding movies are lame. The other evening at...
Tags: Movies, Inglourious Basterds (movie), Mud (movie), Lee Daniels, Richard Jenkins
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‘Iron Man 3′: Guy Pearce transforms himself for role (spoilers)
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles Times“Iron Man 3″ pits genius billionaire Tony Stark, played with panache by Robert Downey Jr., against a terrorist plot that ......
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