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'21' a winner with featurettes
Chicago Tribune Newspapers'21': Based on Ben Mezrich's nonfiction best seller "Bringing Down the House," director Robert Luketic's "21" doesn't make much of an effort to get the details right, but what the movie loses in authenticity, it recovers in kinetic dazzle. Jim Sturgess...Tags: Sony Corp., Raul Julia, Celebrity, House, Manuel Puig
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New DVDs: '21' is entertaining where it counts
21 Sony, $28.96/$34.95; Blu-ray, $38.96
Based on Ben Mezrich's nonfiction bestseller "Bringing Down the House," director Robert Luketic's "21" doesn't make much of an effort to get the details right, but what the movie loses in authenticity, it...Tags: Sony Corp., Raul Julia, Celebrity, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Manuel Puig
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Revisiting international greats: Kurosawa, Truffaut and Bu�uel
Special to the SentinelI've been on foreign-movie-watching and reading jags lately. Films: The 400 Blows (France), Rash�mon (Japan), The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (France, with a Spanish director), The L-Shaped Room (Britain), December Boys (Australia), Mongol...Tags: Wallis Simpson, Charles Dickens, Olivia de Havilland, Orlando Public Library, Hillary Clinton
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Elmo, vampires and all that jazz out now, too
McClatchy Newspapers*21 (PG-13): "Inspired by a true story," director Robert Luketic's movie is about a math professor at MIT ( Kevin Spacey) who recruits a group of brilliant students (including Jim Sturgess and Kate Bosworth) to master blackjack and win a bundle in Las...Tags: Forest Whitaker, Dexter Gordon, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Chad Pennington, Kevin Spacey
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BASIC CABLE "Seven Samurai" **** 7 p.m., TCM The basis for "The Magnificent Seven," this 1954 Japanese classic is directed by legendary filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. An overwhelmed village is constantly under attack by a large group of well-armed...Tags: Toshiro Mifune
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Saturday's Highlights
SERIES Buyers' market: Agents scour American real estate markets to find perfect properties for their clients in the new series "Buy This House!" (10 a.m. A&E). Not smart: A new "Stupid Behavior" edition of "Cops" (8 p.m. Fox) includes footage of police...Tags: Major League Baseball, Classical Music, Cleveland Indians, Anton Bruckner, Philadelphia Phillies
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OFF THE WALL: A summer lineup that's all over the map
wertstv@gmail.comOff the Wall never misses watching the first samurai. INTERNATIONAL ACTION. Akira Kurosawa's influential 1954 global smash "The Seven Samurai" (tonight 8-11:45, Turner Classic Movies) directly begat the American knockoff "The Magnificent Seven" with...Tags: Al Pacino, Alan Cumming, Bruce Lee, Gilbert Gottfried, Quincy Jones
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Kazakh film beautifully copies Hollywood formula
Forum Publishing GroupThe best thing about the epic film "Mongol," Kazakhstan's official entry for this year's Academy Awards? It's a stunning achievement of epic scope and intimate emotion, a perfectly calibrated adventure story without an ugly shot in its 124 minutes. The...Tags: Fort Lauderdale, Fiction, Academy Awards, John Woo, Film Festivals
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Fast Chat: Terri Garr
Teri Garr had a solid career in the 1970s and '80s playing ditsy blondes, housewives and the girlfriend of the leading man. Along the way she was Oscar-nominated (supporting actress for "Tootsie"), and appeared in a slew of high-profile pictures,...Tags: Steven Spielberg, Medical Specialization, Francis Ford Coppola, Virus Diseases, Jean-Luc Godard
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'The Plague of Doves' by Louise Erdrich
The Plague of Doves
A Novel
Louise Erdrich
HarperCollins: 314 pp., $25.95
It has been difficult to come back from this novel to the familiar atmosphere of my daily life. I have been through this before with Louise Erdrich, who weaves exotic and erotic...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Book, Epidemics and Plagues, Judges
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