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Leisure Living: Prices hold up in well-known Western second-home markets, but sales are down
AP Business WriterSki season's coming, and with it the traditional flurry of sales in second-home markets in mountain resort towns in the West. Locals are hoping this season reverses the downhill slide in sales caused by the national housing recession and tight credit...Tags: Real Estate Agents, Clubs and Associations, Mortgages, Jack Nicholson, Real Estate Buyers
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Paul Newman: A Legend Dies At 83
SPECIAL TO THE COURANTPaul Newman was a stage actor who became a movie star. A sex symbol who celebrated 50 years of marriage with his second wife. A grieving father who turned to philanthropy after the death of his only son. A citizen activist who campaigned for liberal...Tags: Theft, Broadway, Fred Schepisi, Colleges and Universities, Parties and Movements
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Ben Affleck's a Man About 'Town'
Zap2It.comBen Affleck is set to write, direct and star in "The Town" for Warner Brothers. The project is based on Chuck Hogan's novel "The Prince of Thieves" and will be produced by Graham King through his GK Films banner. According to the industry trades,...Tags: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Ben Affleck, Theft, Film Festivals
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Dane Cook looks to 'My Best Friend's Girl' to give audiences his best on-screen performance
AP Entertainment WriterLOS ANGELES (AP) _ When Dane Cook was 3, he was attacked — and almost killed, he says — by a German shepherd. Beneath his hair is a zigzagging scar that became etched into his cranium after receiving nearly 80 stitches. Following the...Tags: Alec Baldwin, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Jason Biggs, Jessica Simpson, MySpace
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Sturges' tours de farce trounce Coen brothers' stabs at madcap comedy
Sun Movie CriticThe Coen brothers are fabulously talented filmmakers, but for my money, they come a cropper whenever they veer into the crazy- or extreme-comedy territory of Preston Sturges. Movies like Intolerable Cruelty and today's premiere, Burn After Reading,...Tags: Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida), Pixar, Goofy, Rivers, Bodies of Water
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Summer box office sets new record
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterEDDIE MURPHY'S career was on the rebound. Until this summer. Larry and Andy Wachowski had been box-office gold. Then " Speed Racer" crashed and burned. And not that long ago, 20th Century Fox could peddle the most middling movies. But there was no...Tags: George Lucas, Will Ferrell, Television Industry, Wall-E, Hancock
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Capsule reviews
Capsule reviews are written and rated by Courant film critics: ***** — Classic **** — Excellent *** — Good ** — Fair * — Poor * — Don't bother Opening this week Burn After Reading — The Coen brothers...Tags: Torrington, Hancock, Christopher Isherwood, Meryl Streep, Transsiberian
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Studios' summer a smash
Tribune NewspapersIt was a summer of sequels, remakes and knockoffs, but almost everything worked for Hollywood's studios during the record-breaking summer movie season. Quality mattered, and no matter how hard the studios hammered away with bombastic television ads and...Tags: Pixar, You Don't Mess With the Zohan, Will Ferrell, George Lucas, Television Industry
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The Costner art: make it look natural
Sun movie criticThe late director Sydney Pollack said the ability to relax in front of the camera is a key to great film acting. Nobody chills out for the lens better than Kevin Costner, especially when he's playing a character he calls "the American rascal," in movies...Tags: Tim Robbins, Sydney Pollack, Elections, Swing Vote, Personal Weapon Control
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Coming soon
Next Friday BRIDESHEAD REVISITED (Miramax) Between the world wars, a young British man becomes infatuated with an aristocratic family and its lifestyle. With Emma Thompson, Michael Gambon and Matthew Goode. MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN (Lionsgate) The lure of...Tags: Vinnie Jones, Brooke Shields, Elections, Maria Bello, Kelsey Grammer
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A love affair with the dirt on divorce
Sun reporterEditor's note: An article in the July 9 Today section about celebrity divorce incorrectly characterized accusations made by David Gest against Liza Minnelli. Gest did not allege that Minnelli had given him a sexually transmitted disease, and he says he...Tags: Guy Ritchie, Television Industry, Richie Sambora, Jason Alexander, Liza Minnelli
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Casting a 'Vote' for satire
Sun movie critic(B-) Kevin Costner can do certain kinds of American confusion better than anyone else. He's nonpareil at playing the mental fog that isn't quite a hangover, or the comfort a modest man can take in a homey, familiar mess. As Bud Johnson, the single father...Tags: Richard Petty, Kelsey Grammer, Elections, Stanley Tucci, Dennis Hopper
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