Summary
A native of Rochelle, Ill., the actress Joan Allen graduated from Northern Illinois University. A Tony Award winner, she has been working in films since 1985 and has been nominated for an Oscar three times. Her films include "The Bourne Ultimatum," "The Upside of Anger," "The Bourne Supremacy," "The Notebook," "The Contender," "Pleasantville," "Face/Off" and "Peggy Sue Got Married."
A native of Rochelle, Ill., the actress Joan Allen graduated from Northern Illinois University. A Tony Award winner, she has been working in films since 1985 and has been nominated for an Oscar three times. Her films include "The Bourne Ultimatum," "The Upside of Anger," "The Bourne Supremacy," "The Notebook," "The Contender," "Pleasantville," "Face/Off" and "Peggy Sue Got Married."
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Short Takes: 'Towards Darkness,' 'Earth: A Biography,' 'The Last Winter,' 'Voice,' 'Bonneville,' 'Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt?'
Courant Staff WriterTowards Darkness (Peace Arch, 2007) — America Ferrera lent her star power to this project by a recent film school grad, and it turned out to be a good investment. Writer-director Antonio Negret's thriller is about a kidnapping in Colombia, one of...Tags: Kathy Bates, Kidnapping, Jessica Lange, Fiction, Cinema Industry
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Tony winner Rondi Reed relishes hard-won success
Chicago Tribune arts criticAs Rondi Reed dashed down the aisle to pick up her recent Tony Award, she paused briefly to hug Laurie Metcalf, a fellow nominee she beat out for the honor. Casual TV watchers no doubt dismissed it as facile, insincere show business. In fact, Reed and...Tags: Music Theater, John Malkovich, Kevin Anderson, Oriental Theater, Celebrity
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Reviews: Durang's 'Beyond Therapy,' 'Bette and Boo'
linda.winer@newsday.comAfter a weekend spent careening around the demented funhouse of two Christopher Durang revivals, I feel giddy with the joy of contradictory emotions: strong but needy women, big boys who do cry, and wild non-sequiturs that, somehow, seem less weird and...Tags: Thomas Hardy, Olympia Dukakis, Katie Finneran, Bay Street Theater, Bill Clinton
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'Trumbo'
Special to NewsdayGiven Hollywood's congenital negligence toward writers, Dalton Trumbo is far more famous for having been on the House Un-American Activities Committee's blacklist than he would have been for all the scripts he wrote, co-wrote or adapted (among them,...Tags: Paul Giamatti, Liam Neeson, Michael Douglas, Nathan Lane, John Anderson
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Tuesday's Highlights
SERIES Show your stuff: Judges Piers Morgan, Sharon Osbourne and David Hasselhoff winnow the field from the thousands who auditioned on the third-season premiere of "America's Got Talent" (9 p.m. NBC) Eating for 160: The chefs prepare a luncheon for 80...Tags: Jeff Bridges, Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, Cincinnati Reds, New York Mets
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'Bonneville'
Special to The TimesAlthough "Bonneville" is not as sturdy a vehicle for its stars -- Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates and Joan Allen -- as the 1966 red convertible that gives this gentle but slight film its title, it is nevertheless strong enough to allow these splendid actresses...Tags: Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, California), Kathy Bates, Jessica Lange
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Despite powerful cast, 'Bonneville' is a lemon
(C) The characters in this week's sisterhood opus, Bonneville, disobey a cardinal rule of family-in-mourning scenarios: Don't mess around with cremation urns. Sooner or later, they will fulfill the laws of gravity in concert with the laws of klutziness....Tags: Christianity, Kathy Bates, Religious Texts, Mormon, Death and Dying
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A Road Picture With Mileage
ORLANDO SENTINEL"Bonneville" is a sentimental, daffy and dawdling road picture about people who have some mileage on them. Well cast, with a couple of Oscar winners and a sometime Oscar contender at its core, it's a "Thelma & Louise & Carol Makes Three" journey of self-...Tags: Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, California), Christianity, Kathy Bates, Casino and Gambling Industry, Mormon
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Movie Review: 'Bonneville'
My, my, aren't we getting old? In "Bonneville," one-time "King Kong" girl toy Jessica Lange plays the widow of a recently deceased 80-year-old. Of course, she's a couple of decades younger than husband Joe was. In fact, that's sort of the point of the...Tags: Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, California), Kathy Bates, Jessica Lange
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Steppenwolf steppin' out
Stevenson Swanson is a New York correspondent for the Tribune. soswanson@tribune.com.Deanna Dunagan was Broadway-bound and she was not happy. It was mid-October and she was due to leave in a week for New York, where she would reprise her acclaimed performance as Violet Weston, the pill-addicted, cancer-stricken monster of a mother at the...Tags: Music Theater, Gore Vidal, Health Treatments, David Mamet, Edward Albee
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