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That '70s gadget, the CB, hangs on
Thirty years from now, will we recall a song that captures the significance of today's technology? Will someone have penned a tune about the iPhone that is so vivid that it becomes a cultural touchstone? That's what happened in 1975, when "Convoy" became...
Tags: Burt Reynolds, Consumer Electronics Industry, iPhone, Vehicles, Sony Corp.
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Fast Forward
The Rewind/Fast Forward Film and Video Festival offers restored prints of classic films, painting lessons, a glimpse of Miami's future (as predicted in the 1960s) and more through Sunday. It begins tonight with art historian and critic Helen Kohen, who...Tags: Miami Beach, Jayne Mansfield, Dundee, Charlton Heston
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Rewind/Fast Forward Film and Video Festival through Sunday
South Florida Sun-SentinelThe Rewind/Fast Forward Film and Video Festival offers restored prints of classic films, painting lessons, a glimpse of Miami's future (as predicted in the 1960s) and more through Sunday, Aug. 24. It begins Thursday night with art historian and critic...Tags: Miami Beach, Jayne Mansfield, Dundee, Charlton Heston, Festive Event
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'Vicky Cristina Barcelona' is one of Woody Allen's most entertaining films
Sun movie critic(A-) It used to be said that Woody Allen's best movies were about "sex in the head," as if his characters simply had to relax and let it travel through their bodies. In Allen's affectionate, enlightening and, best of all, blissfully entertaining Vicky...Tags: Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Scarlett Johansson, Javier Bardem, Woody Allen, Penelope Cruz
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Raising a thumb to the thumb
Sun Movie CriticLet us now grieve for the thumb. With the demise of the crit-chat show At the Movies with Ebert and Roeper (the last episode will air Aug. 17 on WMAR, Channel 2), the thumb goes on indefinite hiatus. We will no longer see "two thumbs up" or "two thumbs...Tags: Gene Siskel, Marion Cotillard, Contracts, Roger Ebert, Richard Roeper
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Dip into films' beautiful disasters
Sun Movie CriticThe great Sam Peckinpah once said, "It's not just blowing up a bridge, it's the way you blow up a bridge." That's how I feel about apocalyptic or dystopian movies. It's not just blowing up the world, it's the way you blow up the world. Pundits are...Tags: Alfonso Cuaron, Pixar, Ridley Scott, James Cameron, Jean-Luc Godard
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Oscar winner Charlton Heston Dies
Charlton Heston, the Oscar-winning actor who achieved stardom playing larger-than-life figures including Moses, Michelangelo and Andrew Jackson and went on to become an unapologetic gun advocate and darling of conservative causes, has died. He was 84....Tags: Unions, NBC, Andrew Jackson, Rock Hudson, Firearms
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'The Wire' loses spark in newsroom storyline
Sun television criticWriting about the past four seasons of HBO's The Wire has been one of the great pleasures of this job. But reviewing the fifth and final season, which begins next Sunday on the premium cable channel, is more of a mixed blessing. It's not that the...Tags: NBC, David Simon, Newspaper and Magazine, Murder, Television Industry
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Faces are a-changin' in Bob Dylan biography
Sun Movie Critic(C) If any man should be more than the sum of his parts, it's an artist. But Todd Haynes' I'm Not There makes Bob Dylan less than the sum of his parts. It's like a tony art-school parlor game. Haynes, who directed and co-wrote (with Oren Moverman) this...Tags: Heath Ledger, Carl Franklin, Cate Blanchett, Bob Dylan, Richard Gere
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Six actors in search of the real Bob Dylan
Special to NewsdayThe sun's not yellow, said Bob Dylan, it's chicken. And Bob Dylan? He's not elusive, vague, or mysterious, says director Todd Haynes: He's always been specific and totally in the moment. "Wherever he happened to be, he's nailed himself down thoroughly to...Tags: Michelle Williams, Heath Ledger, Carl Franklin, Bob Dylan, Todd Haynes
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The Road: A Novel
Special to The TimesBEFORE a morgue culture determined to hang a tag on every toe, Cormac McCarthy stands defiantly alive and untagged. Born in New England, he came of literary age in the South with 1965's "The Orchard Keeper" and thus was a "Southern writer" in the eyes...Tags: Book, Cormac McCarthy, Disasters
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A peek at 'Invasion' precursors
Special to the TribuneHollywood has never been known for its originality. But in an age when recycling is lauded, maybe the public will warm up to the latest Nicole Kidman vehicle, "The Invasion." If the story of a mother uncovering a sinister, otherworldly plot to replace...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Don Siegel, Meg Tilly, Leonard Nimoy, Celebrity Mothers
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