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'Ben-Hur': Still going well beyond the material
Pity the poor film lovers who blew their entire month's movie budget on the latest "Star Wars" box set. This week, for roughly the same price, they could have owned a cinema milestone superior to "Star Wars" in just about every way — William Wyler's...Tags: Television, Charlton Heston, Fox Broadcasting Company, Helen Mirren, Blu-ray Discs
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Status updated
Even before the undead yet live-wire comedy-horror hit "Zombieland," Jesse Eisenberg had established a beachhead as the thinking man's Michael Cera: slender and sensitive but also emotionally tough and sinewy.
In "The Squid and the Whale," playing the...Tags: Michael Cera, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, Colleges and Universities, David Fincher
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The story of the Oscars
While it's true that there's only so much anyone can say about the Oscars, remember it can be said again and again. As a reader (and writer), I know by now that there are 10 abiding Oscar stories. Here they are, all in a single article: The history...
Tags: Johnny Carson, Lillian Gish, Arts, Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Richard Burton
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Hansen: Filming ourselves in Technicolor
From the beginning, movies were always mesmerizing but now they have become permanently imprinted onto our personalities and culture. Movies saturate our lives with golden hues and perfect prose. They have turned us into pixilated extras who privately...
Tags: Movies, Academy Awards, George Weiss, Colleges and Universities, Awards and Prizes
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Ann-Margret: The eternal kitten (with a whip) celebrated in Hollywood
Liz Smith"WHY DO you think you're such a smoky something, when you're so nothing painted blue?" Every disreputable film fan knows that line. It is one of Ann-Margret's many out-of-space utterances in 1964's black-and-white juvenile delinquent saga, the luridly...Tags: Celebrities, Television, Academy Awards, Roger Smith (actor), Les Miserables (musical)
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Oscar nominations 2013: 'Lincoln' leads field; surprises, snubs seen
Only in Hollywood could a tiny, low-budget tale of a little girl named Hushpuppy who lives in the bayou take on a historical epic by master filmmaker Steven Spielberg about the 16th president’s struggle to end slavery and the Civil War. But...
Tags: Google+, Celebrities, ParaNorman (movie), Alan Arkin, Lincoln (movie, 2012)
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‘60 Minutes’ goes to Paris, finds Olivia de Havilland
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelMorley Safer's charming segment on author David McCullough for Sunday's “60 Minutes” contained moments certain to thrill movie fans. McCullough was thrilled, too, that Oscar-winner Olivia de Havilland attended a Paris party in his honor. She... -
Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies
In a world more to his liking, Gore Vidalmight have been president, or even king. He had an aristocrat's bearing — tall, handsome and composed — and an authoritative baritone ideal for summoning an aide or courtier. But Vidal made his...
Tags: Johnny Carson, U.S. Army, Charles Manson, U.S. Military, Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In (tv program)
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Gore Vidal's spat with Charlton Heston over gay 'Ben-Hur' subtext
Back in the Jurassic Age before Twitter, celebrities used to settle scores in public by writing letters to newspapers. One of the liveliest dust-ups in memory took place in the pages of the L.A. Times between actor Charlton Heston and Gore Vidal, the...
Tags: Celebrities, Charlton Heston, Movies, Ben-Hur (movie), Gore Vidal
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Bieber, Fassbender and D'Angelo -- what's it all about, GQ?
Liz Smith"I KEEP my guard up a lot, because, you know, you can't trust anyone in this business. That's what's sad. You can't trust anybody." That's pop star Justin Bieber, talking to GQ's Drew Magary. Poor Justin. He is not going to feel much better about...Tags: Celebrities, Sonny Bono, Michael Fassbender, Academy Awards, Richard Burton
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Andrew Sarris dies at 83; longtime film critic
Film critic Andrew Sarris began his rise to prominence in the early 1960s when, fresh off an extended visit to Paris, he became a primary spokesman for a theory that would reverberate throughout the cinema world.
Screenwriters and producers may have...Tags: David Thomson , Wesleyan University, Newspaper and Magazine, Columbia College Chicago, French Movies
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Around Town: Marvel legend Stan Lee hosts 'Avengers' screening
24 FramesMarvel Comics' guru Stan Lee will be honored with the Ronald Reagan Foundation "Great Communicator" Award and will host a screening of "The Avengers," which is opening theatrically this weekend, at the Catalina Film Festival. The festival, which runs...
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