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Hollywood meets the Holy Land
PATRICK GOLDSTEININ HOLLYWOOD, a town full of Jews, there's a long-standing tradition to be in denial about being Jewish. Asked once why he never made films about Jewish characters, Louis B. Mayer complained: "Rabbis don't look dramatic." When Hitler was killing Jews in...Tags: Alexander Payne, Barack Obama, William Morris, Mel Gibson, Adam Sandler
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CBS Begins Overhauling 'Harper's Island'
Zap2It.comIs "Harper's Island" the new "Moonlight"? Last spring, CBS picked up "Moonlight" based on a presentation and proceeded to hire a new showrunner and recast the entire pilot with the exception of leading man Alex O'Loughlin. Despite that overhauling, the... -
CBS Picks Up Six for 2008-09
Zap2It.comCBS has reportedly ordered six new shows for the 2008-09 season. According to the industry trade papers, CBS has ordered two new comedies -- "Project Gary" and "Worst Week" -- plus four new dramas -- "The Mentalist," "Harper's Island," "The Ex List"...Tags: Rufus Sewell, Literature, CBS Corp.
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Mr. 'Fantastic' Makes Smart Pilot Choice
Zap2It.comIoan Gruffudd will take the male lead in CBS' romantic drama pilot "The Meant to Be's," appearing opposite Amy Smart. Produced by Glenn Gordon Caron ("Moonlighting"), "The Meant to Be's" stars Smart as a recently deceased woman stuck in a limbo where she...Tags: Century City, Ioan Gruffudd
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'National Treasure' fails by following same map
Sun Movie Critic(C+) National Treasure: Book of Secrets is a strictly by-the-book sequel: It doesn't cheat series fans but it doesn't offer many thrills or surprises or lingering puzzles, either. The biggest mystery may be why it's subtitled "Book of Secrets" and not...Tags: Cinema Industry, Buena Vista (Buena Vista, Virginia), National Government, The White House, Black Hills Corporation
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'Treasure' Squandered in an Aimless Sequel
Zap2It.comThe most suspenseful sequence in "National Treasure: Book of Secrets" has the American treasure hunter played by Nicolas Cage masquerading as a local and haranguing a London bobby in Buckingham Palace. Your breathing becomes very rapid and your knuckles...Tags: Nicolas Cage, Jon Voight, Ed Harris, The White House, Statue of Liberty
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'Jericho' Producers Promise Several Answers
Zap2It.comAlthough CBS decided that TV critics needed only a small panel discussion with the "Jericho" team, a room overflowing with reporters turned up to hear what's coming up on the post-apocalyptic drama. Amidst a mushroom cloud of mystery, "Jericho" went...Tags: CBS Corp., Skeet Ulrich
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Review: 'Jericho'
Zap2It.comFor its first 10 minutes, CBS' "Jericho" is the most banal of prodigal son returns stories, as 32-year-old Jake (Skeet Ulrich) journeys back home to Jericho, Kansas to make amends and collect his inheritance. Things go a little bit haywire when...Tags: Sprague, Matthew Fox, Johnny Depp, Television Industry, NBC
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Spying proves irresistibly seductive to agent
Despite strong competition from "Pan's Labyrinth" and "Days of Glory," Germany's "The Lives of Others," which arrives Tuesday on DVD, won the Oscar this year for foreign language film. The gripping dramatic thriller marked the film debut of writer-...Tags: Cinema Industry, Film Festivals, Unions, George Lucas, Popular Music
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They're just one big nuclear family
Newsday Staff WriterJust one thing weird about Wednesday's otherwise enthralling pilot episode of CBS' new post-nuke family drama "Jericho." How does an entire Kansas small town face the possible end of the world, or at least civilization as we know it, without somebody...Tags: The White House, Wars and Interventions, Family, Missing in Action, Internal Revenue Service
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'Jericho's' Struggle to Survive Continues
Zap2It.comThe wind is whipping hard in the San Fernando Valley on this late-November day. Clouds threaten for a while, and then the sun comes out. And yet, the pavement in Jericho, Kan., is, as always, wet. "Reads better on camera," explains a crew member on the...Tags: Van Nuys, San Fernando, CBS Corp., Skeet Ulrich
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Movie review: 'National Treasure'
3 stars (out of 4) Nicolas Cage can't make up his mind. Action hero or Academy darling? Ken doll or Coppola? With his off-kilter delivery and unconventional physical appeal, Cage travels seamlessly between drastically different genres, carving out an...Tags: Patrick Henry, John Travolta, Thomas Jefferson, Liberty Bell, John Adams
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