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Back Story: City's historic black cemetery was moved to Carroll
Several weeks ago, a friend of mine told me about the old Laurel Cemetery in the city's Belair-Edison neighborhood that had once been the premier resting place for Baltimore's African-American community until disappearing when the site was redeveloped...
Tags: National Government, Belair-Edison, Anglicanism, Belair Road, Christianity
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Oscar red carpet heats up as stars arrive
Hollywood's biggest fashion parade, the red carpet outside the Oscars, began heating up on Sunday afternoon ahead of the world's top film awards where silent movie "The Artist" is widely seen as the choice for best movie. Early arrivals included "Artist"...Tags: Christopher Plummer, Bérénice Bejo , Hugo (movie), Arts, Project Runway (tv program)
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Crashing the Oscars
The Oscars are serious — important people making important, relevant, thought-provoking movies about race, marital relations, horses and Owen Wilson seeing dead Parisians. The dresses and jewelry are beyond fancy. The tuxes are bespoke. Sidney...Tags: Melissa McCarthy, A Better Life (movie), Michel Hazanavicius , Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady (movie)
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Top films of 2011 go back in time, and many find success
The very best movies of the past year went back to the earliest years of cinema for their subject matter, but 100 or so years amount to just a few film frames when you consider that some of the other movies in this 10-best list went back to the dawn of...Tags: Of Gods and Men (movie), Werner Herzog, Hugo (movie), Documentary (genre), Trips and Vacations
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'Descendants': Rooting out troubles in paradise
Many bottles of pinot noir have been sold in the seven years since director Alexander Payne's "Sideways" took moviegoers through California's wine country. His long-overdue new movie, "The Descendants," was worth the wait.
Maintaining a delicate balance...Tags: Real Estate Buyers, George Clooney, The Descendants (movie), Shailene Woodley, Movies
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Breakouts
Michael Fassbender, 'Shame' and 'A Dangerous Method' You likely first saw Michael Fassbender as the cheeky Lt. Archie Cox in "Inglorious Basterds" or as Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto in this summer's "X-Men: First Class." But it's the latter part of this year...Tags: Andrea Riseborough, Pariah (movie), Minority Groups, BBC, Film Festivals
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'Aviator' flies high with 11 Oscar bids
Los Angeles TimesHOLLYWOOD - The Aviator, an old-fashioned Hollywood epic about Howard Hughes' obsessions, romances and crippling neuroses, captured 11 nominations to top all contenders for next month's 77th annual Academy Awards, including best picture, best actor for...Tags: Taylor Hackford, Documentary (genre), Annette Bening, Drama (genre), Morgan Freeman
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Ang Lee to direct FX pilot “Tyrant” — and other big-time directors who have gone to TV
Channel Guide MagazineNot many people expected Ang Lee to take home the Best Director trophy at the Academy Awards last month for Life of Pi. He's defying expectations yet again with his follow-up project, a pilot for FX called Tyrant, scheduled to shoot this summer. Tyrant... -
Hollywood's outsiders come inside
It's been nearly a generation since Quentin Tarantino burst on the scene with his raucous indie film "Pulp Fiction" in 1994, and Hollywood is a very different place. The once-vibrant independent film scene that Tarantino helped shape has shrunk to a...
Tags: John Malkovich, Alfonso Cuaron, Andy Wachowski, Customs and Tradition, Steven Soderbergh
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Laura Dern's 'Enlightened' approach
Season 2 of HBO's "Enlightened" finds Laura Dern as fortysomething executive Amy Jellicoe conspiring with an egotistical Los Angeles Times muckraker (Dermot Mulroney) to bring down her corporate overlords. Well-meaning but hopelessly naive — "I'm...
Tags: Enlightened (tv program), Jurassic Park (movie), Roman Polanski, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg
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