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The Hustler: What they ate in this movie
Dining@LargeI keep thinking it would be fun to blog about what people eat in movies, especially when a movie isn't about food and eating. Eating scenes are notoriously tricky to film and, for reasons of continuity, to edit. Someone is always......Tags: Movies, Piper Laurie, Dining and Drinking, Restaurants
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Made in Maryland
Absolute Power (1997)
Clint Eastwood stars as the sensitive thief who can save the entire American political system from complete corruption. Too bad he wasn't around during the Reagan administration. Eastwood discovers presidential corruption during...Tags: Nathan Lane, James Earl Jones, Students, Gary Cooper, River Phoenix
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Director Ulu Grosbard dies at 83: Helmed "The Subject Was Roses" on B'way, onscreen
VarietyBelgian-born Ulu Grosbard, who drew a Tony nomination for his direction of Frank Gilroy's "The Subject Was Roses" in 1965 and then launched a feature helming career by directing an acclaimed 1968 adaptation of the play that starred Jack Albertson,...Tags: Entertainment Events, Jack Albertson, Joan Didion, Woody Allen, Arthur Miller
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The art of politics
It may come as a surprise to learn only one film revolving around politics has ever won the Academy Award for best picture: 1949's "All the King's Men." Based on the novel by Robert Penn Warren, the Robert Rossen-directed drama (unsuccessfully remade in...Tags: Platoon (movie), Entertainment Events, Constantin Costa-Gavras, David Frost, Frank Capra Jr.
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The Hustler (Blu-ray)
THE FILM:
Ever since the days of VHS, Robert Rossen’s masterpiece of a small time pool hustler yearning for the big leagues has been released and rereleased on Father’s Day. 2011 is no exception with a brand spankin’ new Blu ray of THE...Tags: Blu-ray Discs, Movies, George C. Scott, Piper Laurie, Billiards, Snooker and Pool
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