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'The Godfather': The movie you can't refuse
For anyone in America's fabled "movie generation" - men and women who were in college or just out of it when The Godfather came out in 1972 - Francis Ford Coppola's Mafia epic had the impact that Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band had in music or The...Tags: Family, Al Pacino, James Caan, Doris Day, Senator Theatre
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Paul Newman dies at 83
Paul Newman the actor, director, race car driver, political activist and philanthropist has died - and a buoyant strain of the American spirit has gone with him. He was 83 when he succumbed to cancer at his home near Westport, Conn., on Friday.
For all...Tags: Celebrity, Pauline Kael, William Inge, James Dean, Robert Redford
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Carina Chocano: 'Shampoo'
"Shampoo," made in 1975 but set in 1968, the night before Richard Nixon's election to the presidency, was directed by Hal Ashby and written by Robert Towne and Warren Beatty, who may have produced one of the best scripts in the last three decades. The...Tags: Hal Ashby, Warren Beatty, Beverly Hills, Beauty Products, Beauty Products and Fragrances
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Oscar Winner Sydney Pollack Dies at 73
Sydney Pollack, the Academy Award-winning director of "Out of Africa" who achieved acclaim making popular, mainstream movies with A-list stars, including "The Way We Were" and "Tootsie," died Monday. He was 73. Pollack, who also was a producer and actor,...Tags: Alfred Hitchcock, Guggenheim Museum, Lancaster (Lancaster, Virginia), Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Ed Harris
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Writers work picket lines as TV shows shut down
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIn an often spirited display of protest playing out on both sides of the country, more than 1,000 screenwriters -- representing "Lost," "The Young and the Restless," "Chinatown" and everything in between -- hoisted picket signs and chanted labor songs...Tags: Labor Disputes, Unions, Walt Disney Co., Dwayne Johnson, Sony Corp.
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10 THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT SCREENWRITERS
the Tribune's foreign/national news editorThe Writers Guild of America went on strike last week, idling wordsmiths for both the small and big screens. Just think of the fun that W.C. Fields, who wrote scripts under such pseudonyms as Mahatma Kane Jeeves and Otis Criblecoblis, might have had...Tags: Labor Disputes, Paul Schrader, Tina Fey, Bob Newhart, Spike Lee
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Guild sets stage for key talks
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAs some of Hollywood's biggest screenwriters dined on prime rib and salmon in May at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, David Young's mind was on pie. Not the edible kind, but the one full of revenue that Hollywood studios and networks divide up. In Young's...Tags: Consumer Electronics Industry, Unions, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), CBS Corp., Labor Legislation
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L.A.: Life that art can't imitate
So Reggie the alligator already has escaped once from his cell at the Los Angeles Zoo. Mark my words: No prison will hold him. He will escape again and steal a Ferrari Enzo. This is what makes writing wild fiction about Los Angeles so hard. L.A. just...Tags: Nature, Theft, Natural Resources, Warren Zevon, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California)
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Esotouric tours explores L.A.'s dark side
Times Staff WriterIt was on a bus tour of 100-year-old ghost stories that two L.A. history freaks hit a speed bump on their journey into the city's most obscure corners. "The problem with that tour," says Richard Schave, one of the movers behind a new tour series called...Tags: Koreatown, Tourism and Leisure, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Monuments and Heritage Sites, Fiction
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'Bobby'
Times Staff WriterThe death of Robert F. Kennedy in June 1968 marked the end of a certain type of idealism in American politics. In trying to translate the power of what Kennedy meant to so many people into a compelling film, writer-director Emilio Estevez has exceeded his...Tags: Shia LaBeouf, Laurence Fishburne, Tourism and Leisure, Martin Sheen, Political Candidates
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This town is rated noir
Special to The TimesNOIR is the indigenous Los Angeles form: It was created here, it grew up here and from here it spread, not only as a genre but as a way of looking at life, character and fate. As a framing lens, it's now so powerful that it seems not only to be a strategy...Tags: Lawyers, Nathanael West, Murder, Al Pacino, Paul Schrader
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Mods & Rockers festival swivels along with Elvis
Times Staff WriterElvis is in the building. The American Cinematheque's Mods & Rockers festival celebrates the life and legacy of the King with a six-day tribute featuring several of Presley's most successful films, plus the 2005 CBS miniseries "Elvis" and two...Tags: Patricia Neal, Armed Forces, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Academy Awards, Jack Nicholson
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