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Thursday's Highlights
Times Staff WriterSERIES Manufactured: The new series "Factory Floor With Marshall Brain" (8 and 9 p.m. National Geographic) documents the design, manufacture and testing of a range of products. Mode: Wilhelmina ( Vanessa Williams) offers Betty ( America Ferrera) a job at...Tags: Chicago Cubs, Television Industry, Political Candidates, Walter Matthau, America Ferrera
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Court's in session
It's law night on Turner Classic Movies, as five of Hollywood's most celebrated legal eagles are showcased in an evening of programming that shouldn't raise objections from anyone. The proceedings commence at 5:15 p.m. with Otto Preminger's Anatomy of...Tags: Charles Laughton, Prosecution, Marlene Dietrich, Elsa Lanchester, Gregory Peck
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Naughty ladies of noirdom strut their stuff
Times Movie CriticAudiences at the time thought of them simply as bad girls, but the UCLA Film & Television Archive is determined to salvage their reputations. The archive's exceptionally interesting 12-film repertory series "Cool Drinks of Water: Columbia's Noir Girls...Tags: Evelyn Keyes, Vittorio Gassman, William Holden, Peter Lorre, Celebrity
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Cinema as art
Baltimore movie-lovers voiced concern when the Baltimore Museum of Art canceled its free monthly film series. For two years, Eric Hatch, the series' programmer, had put together a lively and original slate that typically attracted 150 to 200 people,...Tags: Frederick Wiseman, Film Festivals, Michelangelo Antonioni, Maryland Film Festival, Preston Sturges
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Middletown Entertainment, Cultural Events
The inaugural Autism Speaks Music Festival, held in honor of Ryan Woods, will take place on South Green/Union Park in Middletown Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. What a busy day it's going to be. After remarks from various city and state officials, a...Tags: Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Greater Middletown Chorale, Edward G Robinson, Colleges and Universities, Green Street Arts Center
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Off the Wall: From unscripted to film festivals
diane@tvworthwatching.comOff the Wall attacks the week's TV listings like a pit bull. KEEPING IT REAL. Well, as "real" as "reality" TV can be. A couple of this week's series premieres actually look more like docuseries of possible authenticity. "Making It Home: Greensburg"...Tags: Animals, Social Sciences, Charles Bronson, Joan Rivers, Public Holidays
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Eric Rohmer retrospective at LACMA
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterOne of the fathers of France's New Wave -- he was editor of the seminal "Cahiers du Cinema" from 1956 to 1963 -- Eric Rohmer made his first film in 1959 and just recently completed a movie at the age of 88. Known for his wry, cerebral comedies dealing...Tags: Betty Hutton, Film Festivals, Fred MacMurray, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), William Holden
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The Jason Alexander era at Reprise Theatre Company
Special to The Times"Once on This Island," a tale of love and redemption in the Caribbean, marks a new beginning for L.A.'s leading presenter of old musicals. "Island," which opens Wednesday at UCLA's Freud Playhouse, is the first show of Reprise Theatre Company's first...Tags: Reprise, Jerome Robbins, Benny Andersson, Celebrity, Broadway
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A 'Shining' thriller at the Charles
Sun reporterThe Shining, director Stanley Kubrick's visually stunning 1980 adaptation of Stephen King's horror tale of a snowbound author (Jack Nicholson) with a demonic case of writer's block, is this weekend's entry in the Charles Theatre's Saturday revival series....Tags: Dundalk, American Visionary Art Museum, Reese Witherspoon, Jack Nicholson, Academy Awards
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'The Exiles'
Times Movie CriticNever released theatrically and all but unseen in the 50 years since shooting began, "The Exiles" is a lost Los Angeles treasure about a culture that disappeared and haunting neighborhoods that are no more. That we have it with us again is little short of...Tags: Cinema Industry, Tommy Reynolds, Culture
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'Die Hard' at Linwood Dunn, Downtown Film Festival and more
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterYippie-ki-yay! The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is throwing a 20th birthday bash for the action thriller "Die Hard" tonight at the Linwood Dunn Theater. "Die Hard," which was one of the top box office hits of 1988, made Bruce Willis a movie...Tags: Don Cheadle, Traitor, Charles Laughton, Shane Black, Film Festivals
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'Night of the Hunter' outtakes to screen at UCLA Film & Television Archive festival
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThere have been many myths and rumors that have sprung up around the making of Charles Laughton's haunting 1955 film, "The Night of the Hunter," especially that he hated directing children and let star Robert Mitchum take over the reins when it came...Tags: Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Hunting
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