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Hollywood Hills home of the late Milton Katselas listed for $2.6 million
This is one of those houses you might want to bow to in homage as you approach. It was owned by the late Milton Katselas, founder of the Beverly Hills Playhouse acting school, director and coach to half of Hollywood.
Katselas, who died at 75 on Oct. 24,...Tags: Patrick Swayze, Building Material, Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Tom Selleck
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Hosts with the most
Hosting the Academy Awards, as Jon Stewart is about to find out, is at once exhilarating, terrifying, rewarding and headache-inducing.
It's one of the most high-profile jobs a comic can land. But it's also a thankless gig in front of a distracted,...Tags: Soups, Cinema Industry, Bob Hope, Bleep (euphemism), Marlon Brando
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Oscars to Actors: Get Real
Tom O'Neil, The EnvelopeOscar voters have lots of strange biases. They love dreary costume epics, laugh off comedies. But nothing's more peculiar than their passion for films based upon real people and events After all, voters work in a make-believe biz. They create movie...Tags: George Reeves, Elections, Michael Pena, James Cagney, United Kingdom
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10 Inspired Moments of Casting Against Type
7 CitiesSometimes it works (Eastwood in "The Bridges of Madison County") and sometimes it's a disaster (Stallone in "Rhinestone," or for that matter, Stallone in any comedy). Here are 10 times when it made magic: Andy Griffith in "A Face in the Crowd" - This was...Tags: Charles Chaplin, Sally Field, Family, Andy Griffith, It's a Wonderful Life (movie)
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Star power never dies
The Orange County RegisterI was looking for Marilyn Monroe, when I nearly walked over Rodney Dangerfield - literally. The path to the most famous crypt in California leads past the comedian's grave. "There goes the neighborhood," reads the epitaph on Dangerfield's headstone at...Tags: Cartoons, Al Jolson, Family, Truman Capote, Jayne Mansfield
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'Kiss Kiss Bang Bang'
Zap2It.comFor reasons perhaps only known internally, Warner Bros. decided to treat Shane Black's "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" like an obscure indie film, opting for a lengthy platform release that left the movie unable to even make $5 million domestically. As a result,...Tags: Val Kilmer, Celebrities, Robert Downey Jr., DVDs and Movies, Movies
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Emmy Awards 2008: Facts and Figures
Zap2It.comNON-CABLE NOMINATIONS AND WINS ABC – 76 nominations CBS – 51 nominations CW – 2 nominations FOX – 28 nominations NBC – 50 nominations PBS – 33 nominations CABLE NOMINATIONS AND WINS A&E – 9 nominations AMC – 20 nominations Animal Planet – 1...Tags: Cinema Industry, Don Knotts, Rob Reiner, PBS (tv network), Hill Street Blues (tv program)
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'10 Bad Dates With De Niro' edited by Richard Kelly
10 Bad Dates With De Niro
A Book of Alternative Movie Lists
Edited by Richard T. Kelly
Overlook/Rookery: 460 pp., $29.95
Movie geeks are list-making animals. It begins with the frenzied -- and nonsensical -- annual compilation of "10 best lists" (as...Tags: Book, Bugs Bunny (fictional animal), Ian McKellen, Steven Soderbergh, DVDs and Movies
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Female Oscar hosts
The EnvelopeHilary Clinton is running for president, and Ellen DeGeneres is hosting the Academy Awards. These two things are not exactly equivalent--after all, we've never had a female president, while the Academy Awards has had a female host. One. Whoopi...Tags: Dustin Hoffman, Bob Hope, Cinema Industry, Minority Groups, Frank Sinatra
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Richard Chamberlain: Nervous in paradise
Richard Chamberlain, a trim and youthful 74, cherry picks his acting assignments these days.
"Working is lovely and not working is lovely," he says.
Chamberlain has called Hawaii home for more than two decades -- he currently lives in Maui -- and when...Tags: Minority Groups, Lauren Bacall, Johnny Carson, Richard Chamberlain, NBC (tv network)
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U.S. is facing a war unlike all others
Baltimore Sun StaffAt the beginning of the 1970 movie "Patton," George C. Scott's title character stands in front of an American flag backdrop and speaks of war. "No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country," Patton says with characteristic bluntness as he turns the...Tags: Terrorism, Afghanistan, Aldo Moro, Johns Hopkins University, Defense
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Fall
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday June 27, 1997 "Fall" is an act of bravado on the part of actor-writer-director Eric Schaeffer that is never less than involving, despite some silly asides. It is convincing as a scorchingly intense love affair and, as such, it is considerably...Tags: Anglicanism, Thomas Pynchon, Christianity, Eric Schaeffer
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