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Critic's Pick: Jack Nicholson's trifecta of discontent
Feeling a little rebellious? Frustrated with authority? You can't do much better than to spend Saturday night picking fights with Jack Nicholson at the Egyptian Theatre. It's a trifecta of discontent that begins with 1969's "Easy Rider," then 1970's "Five...Tags: The Monkees (music group), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (movie), Jack Nicholson, Easy Rider (movie)
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A Second Look: 'Postman Always Rings Twice' films are noir standard
A lean, mean tale of adultery and murder, James M. Cain's bestselling, once-scandalous 1934 novel "The Postman Always Rings Twice" is often considered a central text of noir fiction. It also has proved an eternally popular and durable template for the...
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New Haven Fall Arts Preview: A Festival and a Series For Film Buffs
Fall offers some interesting opportunities to catch unusual screenings. The 15th Annual Manhattan Short Film Festival screens Wednesday, October 3, 7:30 p.m. at the lovely Avon Theatre Film Center, the non-profit cinema at 272 Bedford Street, Stamford....
Tags: Movies, Ingmar Bergman, Jack Nicholson, Russia, Photography
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Davy Jones dies at 66; Monkees' romantic heartthrob
Davy Jones was a promising 18-year-old actor from England when he found himself among the guest performers on "The Ed Sullivan Show" on Feb. 9, 1964 — the same night about 75 million people tuned in to catch the American debut of the Beatles. Like...Tags: Entertainment Events, Music Theater, Neil Diamond, Television, The Brady Bunch (tv program)
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Bert Schneider dies at 78; 'Easy Rider' producer
Bert Schneider, the iconoclastic producer behind a trio of influential movies — "Easy Rider," "Five Easy Pieces" and "The Last Picture Show" — that captured the rootlessness and discontent of the late 1960s and '70s and became symbols of a new...Tags: Entertainment Events, Television, Terrence Malick, Deep River, Charles Champlin
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Bert Schneider: A long, strange trip for 'Easy Rider' mastermind
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Monkees singer Davy Jones dead at age 66
Soundboard Music Blog - Orlando SentinelTMZ is reporting that Jones, who churned out breezy pop hits such as “Last Train to Clarksville” and “I'm a Believer” with the TV-generated rock band the Monkees in the 1960s has died of a heart attack in Martin County, Florida. ... -
Around Town: The Stooges ride back to town
24 FramesThe Three Stooges, a Gary Cooper double bill and a tribute to Japan’s Studio Ghibli are among the Thanksgiving week film offerings.... -
'Easy Rider' Cinematographer Dies
Times Staff WriterLaszlo Kovacs, the Hungarian-born cinematographer who found international fame after treating the American landscape as a character in the landmark 1969 movie "Easy Rider," has died. He was 74. Kovacs, a former Budapest film student who arrived in the...Tags: Death, Movies, Obituaries, Jack Nicholson, Photography
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The self-confidence man
Schickel reviews movies for Time and is a contributing writer to Book Review. He is the author of many books, including the forthcoming "Elia Kazan: A Biography."Arnold Schwarzenegger never wanted to be an actor. He says so on Page 128 of "Fantastic," Laurence Leamer's dully dutiful biography. He wanted to be rich. He wanted to be famous. He wanted to be powerful. He thought he could grope women with impunity,...Tags: Bodybuilding, Death, Elections, Celebrities and Health Issues, Celebrities
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5 films that are '70s time capsules
1. FIVE EASY PIECES (Bob Rafelson; 1970) 3 1/2 stars Jack Nicholson in one of his signature roles as alienated Bobby Dupea, a classical pianist from an affluent family who buries himself in the persona of an oil rigger with a white-trash girlfriend...Tags: Woody Allen, Lily Tomlin, Death, Movies, Robert Duvall
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5 films of Arnold Schwarzenegger's that are actually good
1. THE LONG GOODBYE (Robert Altman; 1973) 4 stars Altman's sly version of the late Raymond Chandler-Philip Marlowe novels, with Elliot Gould as a shaggy Marlowe somehow stranded in '70s L.A., trying to avenge buddy Terry (Jim Bouton) and untangle the...Tags: Mark Rydell, David Carradine, Lance Henriksen, Michael Biehn, Sally Field
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