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Robert F. Boyle dies at 100; longtime Hollywood production designer
Robert F. Boyle, a four-time Oscar-nominated production designer best known for his work on Alfred Hitchcock's "North by Northwest" and "The Birds" and Norman Jewison's "Fiddler on the Roof," has died. He was 100.
Boyle died of natural causes Sunday at...Tags: Monuments and Heritage Sites, Doubt (movie), University of Southern California, Tourism and Leisure, Documentary (genre)
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Manny Farber: A film critic not in awe of Hollywood
Farber on Film
The Complete Film Writings
of Manny Farber
Edited by Robert Polito
Library of America: 824 pp., $40
At this year's Academy Awards, the most incongruous moment came during the "In Memoriam" roll call. Among the distinguished deceased...Tags: Casablanca (movie), Anthony Mann, Salami, Death, Elizabeth Taylor
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'The Invasion'
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer"Help me," the young woman screams. "They're coming, they're among us." No one on screen is paying attention, but we know what it means. That's right, the body snatchers are once again on the prowl. "The Invasion," starring the upscale duo of Nicole...Tags: Venezuela, Ghouls and Zombies (supernatural entities), Fiction, Los Angeles Times, Hugo Chavez
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Christopher Nolan's 'Knight' vision
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTHE BRITISH filmmaker Christopher Nolan has the mien of a passionate literature professor (passionate, that is, in the British sense of the term) and, last December, he spoke about the young actor Heath Ledger as if he were the most fascinating manuscript...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Popcorn, Burbank (Los Angeles, California), Michael Caine, Los Angeles Times
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Mae Mercer dies at 76; blues singer also had a Hollywood career
Mae Mercer, a deep-voiced blues singer who spent much of the 1960s performing at a blues bar in Paris and touring Europe before launching an acting career back home in films and television, has died. She was 76. Mercer was found dead Oct. 29 at her...Tags: Book, Documentary (genre), Dining and Drinking, Death, New York City
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Clint Eastwood targets the legacy of Dirty Harry
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterON a recent afternoon at the Warner Bros. lot, Clint Eastwood took a break from a long day in the editing bay and strolled over to a hushed screening room. There, his armed-and-dangerous past was waiting for him, and the filmmaker winced when he looked it...Tags: Casablanca (movie), Steve McQueen, Los Angeles Times, Nicolas Cage, Death
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A bond beyond borders
Times Staff WriterABOUT six years ago, while wrapping up "Amores Perros," the movie that would stamp him as the new "It Boy" of global cinema, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu got an early-morning phone call from a man he'd never met in his life. Like Inarritu, the caller was a...Tags: Gael Garcia Bernal, Michael Caine, Harry Potter (fictional character), Wrestling, Death
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Mods & Rockers festival swivels along with Elvis
Times Staff WriterElvis is in the building. The American Cinematheque's Mods & Rockers festival celebrates the life and legacy of the King with a six-day tribute featuring several of Presley's most successful films, plus the 2005 CBS miniseries "Elvis" and two...Tags: Casablanca (movie), Sunset Boulevard, Faye Dunaway, Patricia Neal, Barbara Eden
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Invaders From The Past
Courant Film CriticIt's back to the '50s in "Signs," M. Night Shyamalan's odd, semi-comic science-fiction tale centering on a weirdly sculptured cornfield in Bucks County, Pa., and a lapsed reverend played in shifting moods by Mel Gibson. Recalling "The War of the Worlds"...Tags: Jodie Foster, George Romero, Cherry Jones, Joaquin Phoenix, M. Night Shyamalan
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5 films that are down and dirty movies about morally flawed cops
1. "The French Connection' (William Friedkin; 1971) 4 stars The most violently kinetic cops and robbers thriller of its day, based on the real-life Marseilles heroin connection investigation by New York City cops Sonny Grosso and Eddie Egan -- re-created...Tags: William Friedkin, Gene Hackman, Al Pacino, Sidney Lumet, Sonny Grosso
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Aliens spawn own genre
The Hartford CourantJust over 50 years ago, the first major movie alien, a giant, murderous carrot, struck terror into the hearts and minds of Cold War America. It was called "The Thing," or "The Thing From Another World," and it scared audiences silly. Now the monsters...Tags: Tommy Lee Jones, Business Enterprises, Jules Verne, Stranger Than Fiction, Roland Emmerich
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