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    May 23, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. TV picks: 'Arrested Development,' biopics, 'Longmire,' cartoons

    <strong>"Arrested Development" (Netflix, Sunday, then anytime).</strong> The 15-episode, seven-years-belated fourth season of what was formerly a Fox comedy and now belongs to the Internet is not being offered in advance for critical review, so you know as much as I do. Apart from appeasing the critical community, and, as my wife pointed out, not wrecking our Memorial Day weekend by making us work on Sunday, there doesn't seem to be any reason to make it available. Public interest is already running high &mdash; higher, anyway, than when the show was actually on &mdash; and the producers don't have to worry about winning their time slot, because they have don't have one. The whole series will become available at once Sunday, and then remain available, to Netflix subscribers, something like forever; new subscriptions will be the only metric that matters. I don't think for a moment that this coyness disguises any sort of tactical damage control &mdash; given that the old team (who are back every man-jack and woman-jill of them) had an unerring sense of how to make this show, I suspect watching the new episodes will be like running into an old friend from whom the longest separation feels like no time at all. The third season ended not at a moment of resolution but of escape &mdash; escape is a kind of resolution, I know &mdash; with Michael Bluth (Jason Bateman) and son George Michael (Michael Cera) and Michael's father, George (Jeffrey Tambor), sailing off to Mexico; Michael's mother, Lucille (Jessica Walter), hijacking the Queen Mary to evade the SEC; and George Michael's cousin, Maeby (Alia Shawkat), who turned out not to be his cousin, pitching her family story to "AD" executive producer (and narrator) Ron Howard, who didn't see it as a TV show. (But maybe a movie.) Some things have no doubt happened in the interim.
    Los Angeles Times Television Critic
    "Arrested Development" (Netflix, Sunday, then anytime). The 15-episode, seven-years-belated fourth season of what was formerly a Fox comedy and now belongs to the Internet is not being offered in advance for critical review, so you know as much as I do....

    Tags: Cartoon Network (tv network), Jason Bateman, Jeffrey Tambor, LEGO Group, Plastic Surgeons

    2. May 24, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. 'Behind the Candelabra': Forgive me, Richard LaGravenese

    In my <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-behind-the-candelabra-20130524,0,1185148.story">recent review</a> of the HBO film "Behind the Candelabra," I was so busy deconstructing the big flap over casting as an ironic example of image trumping reality that I proceeded to perpetuate the same crime.
    In my recent review of the HBO film "Behind the Candelabra," I was so busy deconstructing the big flap over casting as an ironic example of image trumping reality that I proceeded to perpetuate the same crime. No film is created by a director and his or...

    Tags: Beautiful Creatures (movie), Water for Elephants (movie)

    3. May 23, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune

  3. Soderbergh shines light on Liberace's secret life

    Contra Costa Times
    WALNUT CREEK, Calif. If you're going to make a movie that invites viewers into the outrageous world of flamboyant showman Liberace, you had better be ready to amp up the glamour and bring the bling. With HBO's "Behind the Candelabra," director Steven...

    Tags: Matt Damon, AIDS, Lady Gaga, Jerry Weintraub, Walnuts

    4. May 22, 2013 | Orlando Sentinel

  4. HBO's Liberace movie burns with brilliant acting

    HBO's Liberace movie is a lot like Liberace himself: audacious, glitzy, a campy delight. "Behind the Candelabra," premiering at 9 p.m. Sunday on HBO, is an event, the TV movie of the season.
    Staff writer
    Could the best movie of the summer be on television? Here's an early preview of what I've written for Sunday's paper about "Behind the Candelabra." You've been hearing about the film, and it's one movie that deserves the buzz. HBO's Liberace movie...

    Tags: Matt Damon

    5. May 21, 2013 |Story| Tribune Media Services

  5. Cannes Film Review: 'Behind the Candelabra'

    Variety
    During his lifetime, Liberace sued (and won) when publications hinted at his homosexuality. In "Behind the Candelabra," former lover Scott Thorson gets the final word, serving as the basis of a film that gleefully thrusts itself into those aspects of...

    Tags: HIV, Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Surgery, Movies

    6. May 10, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. HBO sees the light in Liberace biopic 'Behind the Candelabra'

    NEW YORK &mdash; When the news broke in 1987 that Liberace, the famously flamboyant pianist, was dead at age 67 with what his manager had claimed was anemia brought on by a watermelon diet but was, in fact, AIDS, it made front-page headlines around the country. It was a fitting tribute for a world-famous entertainer who just a few months earlier had played three weeks of sold-out shows at Radio City Music Hall.
    NEW YORK — When the news broke in 1987 that Liberace, the famously flamboyant pianist, was dead at age 67 with what his manager had claimed was anemia brought on by a watermelon diet but was, in fact, AIDS, it made front-page headlines around the...

    Tags: Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Central Park, Gays and Lesbians, AIDS, Film Festivals

    7. May 19, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. New Releases: 'Side Effects,' 'Beautiful Creatures' and more

    Side Effects
    Side Effects Universal, $29.98; Blu-ray, $34.98 Available on VOD beginning Tuesday Director Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter Scott Z. Burns don't really try to reinvent the psychological thriller with their film. Structurally, it's a...

    Tags: Movies, The Last Stand (movie), Beautiful Creatures (movie), Payback (movie), Side Effects (movie)

    8. May 21, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  8. Michael Douglas impresses at Cannes with HBO Liberace pic 'Behind the Candelabra'

    Michael Douglas&rsquo;s <span class="italic" style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;">faaaaabulous</span> portrayal of Liberace won&rsquo;t be eligible for an Oscar, since the droll Steven Soderbergh-directed biopic &ldquo;Behind the Candelabra&rdquo; debuts Sunday on HBO before playing theatrically (and talk about theatrically!) overseas.
    Michael Douglas’s faaaaabulous portrayal of Liberace won’t be eligible for an Oscar, since the droll Steven Soderbergh-directed biopic “Behind the Candelabra” debuts Sunday on HBO before playing theatrically (and talk about...

    Tags: Italy, Michael Douglas, Awards and Prizes, Film Festivals, Jerry Weintraub

    9. May 26, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. Q&A: Steven Soderbergh talks 'Behind the Candelabra,' retirement

    <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-behind-the-candelabra-20130524,0,1185148.story">HBO's Liberace biopic "Behind the Candelabra"</a> has generated so much buzz thanks to its subject matter (the tormented relationship between the pianist and his much younger lover, Scott Thorson) and its well-known leading men (Michael Douglas and Matt Damon), it's easy to forget it also happens to be the last film directed by Steven Soderbergh before he goes into self-imposed exile from moviemaking.
    HBO's Liberace biopic "Behind the Candelabra" has generated so much buzz thanks to its subject matter (the tormented relationship between the pianist and his much younger lover, Scott Thorson) and its well-known leading men (Michael Douglas and Matt...

    Tags: Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Matt Damon, Lady Gaga, Elton John, Golf

    10. Apr 19, 2013 |Story| Zap2It

  10. 'Beautiful Creatures'

    Aiming to be the next "Twilight," director Richard LaGravenese's ("P.S. I Love You") take on the best-seller by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl doesn't quite get there, but it still has striking visuals and a very strong supporting cast. Alice Englert...

    Tags: Viola Davis, Emmy Rossum, Movies

    11. May 1, 2013 | Zap2It

  11. Behind the Candelabra: Steven Soderbergh, Michael Douglas and Matt Damon on the year’s most talked-about telefilm

    Channel Guide Magazine
    Depending on how you look at it, the genesis for Behind the Candelabra, HBO’s extravagant and surprisingly emotional Liberace biopic, happened nearly 14 years ago — or more than 40. The film’s director, Steven Soderbergh, 50, says he...
    12. Feb 20, 2013 |Story| Aberdeen News

  12. At the Carmike: Father risks everything for son in 'Snitch'

    OPENING FRIDAY
    OPENING FRIDAY Snitch  Starring Dwayne Johnson, Susan Sarandon, Benjamin Bratt and Barry Pepper, "Snitch" is a fast-paced action thriller. Johnson stars as a father whose teenage son is wrongly accused of a drug distribution crime and is looking at...

    Tags: A Good Day to Die Hard (movie), Lasse Hallstrom, Susan Sarandon, Sylvester Stallone, Josh Hamilton

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