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Fans sink into Cruise's 'Oblivion' in $38.2M debut
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Movie fans slipped into "Oblivion" as the Tom Cruise sci-fi thriller led Hollywood with a $38.2 million debut, according to studio estimates Sunday. That domestic haul comes on top of $33.7 million "Oblivion" added in overseas...
Tags: G.I. Joe: Retaliation (movie), Star Trek into Darkness (movie), The Hunger Games (movie), The Place Beyond the Pines (movie), Movies
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Tom Cruise proves his box-office worth with No. 1 'Oblivion'
After suffering a couple of box-office disappointments, Tom Cruise posted his first No. 1 film opening in years at the multiplex this weekend. The 50-year-old's science fiction flick "Oblivion" was the only new movie to hit theaters this weekend and...
Tags: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Movies, 42 (movie), Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Tom Cruise
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Allan Graf's latest sport? Stunts in movies
It may seem surprising that Allan Graf — the baseball coordinator, stunt coordinator and second-unit director for Warner Bros.' Jackie Robinson biographical drama "42" — first made his name on the gridiron. But that's precisely why Graf was...
Tags: Chicago Bears, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Movies, Los Angeles Dodgers, 42 (movie)
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Art Callaham: It's easy to get me going on baseball ...
I promised another column on baseball, our “national pastime,” and the Baseball Hall of Fame; so, while it’s still spring here goes: Two weeks ago on Ruth Anne’s and my radio show, Ed Lough talked baseball. Ed is known locally for...Tags: Lou Gehrig's Disease, Baltimore Orioles, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, New York Yankees, Voting
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Trio of Pasadena legends named to CIF list of greats
Opinions and arguments as to whom the best athlete to come out of the Pasadena area can be found around town from barbershops to basketball courts. Recently, the CIF Southern Section entered the debate, at least on the high school level, when the...Tags: Basketball, Adidas AG, World War I (1914-1918), Wimbledon Championships, U.S. Open (tennis)
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NBA Player's Coming Out A Big Step Among Many
Perhaps this is a Jackie Robinson moment, a historic point in time — but it doesn't feel like one. It feels so inevitable that we had to be reminded that it hadn't already happened. We refer of course to National Basketball Association player...Tags: Steve Nash, Martin Luther King Jr., Oprah Winfrey, Basketball, Sports Illustrated
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Take a chance on Terrence Malick's 'To the Wonder'
It feels as if we've hit a major movie slump. So much this year has disappointed. I wasn't entranced with Danny Boyle's crime thriller "Trance." "42," Brian Helgeland's new drama based on baseball great Jackie Robinson's historic defiance of racial...
Tags: To the Wonder (movie), Ben Affleck, Spring Breakers (movie), 42 (movie), Olga Kurylenko
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Reel Critics: '42' hits a grand slam
It's only April, but a leading contender for this year's Best Picture award is already in a theater near you. "42" is the absolutely compelling story of Jackie Robinson. He was the first African American ever to play Major League Baseball and wore that...
Tags: Major League Baseball, Los Angeles Dodgers, 42 (movie), L.A. Confidential (movie), Baseball
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'Oblivion' opening at Carmike on Friday
Opening Friday Oblivion Early in the sleek sci-fi thriller ‘‘Oblivion,’’ Tom Cruise, as a flyboy repairman living a removed, Jetsons-like existence above an invaded and deserted Earth, intones his home sickness. ‘&...
Tags: Movies, Racism, PG-13 Rated Movies, Apple iPod, Star Wars (movie)
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'Hank Greenberg' reveals resilience of early baseball legend
The game of baseball seemed grandly American in the 1930s. Players had cherubic names — Birdie and Schoolboy, sounding like characters from a Broadway musical. Beneath the good times, though, breathed an awful hatred. In his new book, "Hank...
Tags: Cleveland Indians, Discrimination, Broadway Theater, Spring Training, Judaism
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Commentary: Jackie Robinson picture is a window into history
You should consider going to the movies to see "42," the new film about baseball Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson's first year with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. The actual date of his major league debut, April 15, is commemorated in baseball by all...Tags: Movies, 42 (movie)
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Newport Harbor Big 3 on CIF Southern Section 100 list
The Bird. Turtle. The Backstroke King. They are known as three of Newport Harbor High's greatest athletes. Newport Harbor's "Big Three" can also be known as among the best in CIF Southern Section history. George Yardley (basketball), Misty May-Treanor...
Tags: Jamaal Wilkes, Brenda Villa, Dara Torres, Janet Evans, Softball
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