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The two-person piece about the first murder trial of the legendary rock producer raises big questions about media and culture. - After 43 years in Chestertown and two in New York, the ceremony for announcing the winner of the Sophie Kerr Prize, the most lucrative undergraduate literary award in the nation, is moving to Baltimore.
- What a great weekend: HBO sent a screener for "Phil Spector," a made for TV movie about the legendary music producer, starring Al Pacino and Helen Mirren. Barry Levinson is the executive producer, with David Mamet as writer and director.
- William Charles Brubaker, a retired aeronautical engineer who was a founding trombone player in the Baltimore Colts Marching Band, died at Sinai Hospital Feb. 12 of complications of injuries he suffered near his Lutherville home. Family members said he had been struck by a vehicle while walking last year. He was 91.
- Ravens' owner Art Modell was no friend of Baltimore
- Barry Levinson says there would have been no parade, no Lombardi Trophy, no stadium — no Ravens — without the vision and determination of one man
- Barry Levinson wrangling with various delays in bringing his Baltimore movie to the stage.
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- Gertrude Brownstein, who worked eight decades in a grocery and department stores and later in a family-owned auction business, died of cancer Dec. 18 at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. She was 100 and lived in Owings Mills.
- When Henry Bromell won the Writers' Guild Award this year for scripting The Good Soldier episode of Homeland, he thanked Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana.
- Formstone, the hand-sculpted building facade that was invented and popularized in the Baltimore region, would be banned from use by the city's proposed zoning code overhaul. All front and side facades of new rowhouses would need to be "modular clay brick," in colors "consistent with Baltimore traditions" if the new zoning code were approved.
- The chef-writer takes the stage at the Hippodrome Saturday
- John Travolta knew what he wanted to do with the role of Edna Turnblad, the zaftig housewife at the center of "Hairspray." The movie's producers, however, weren't so sure. Especially when he insisted on using a Bawlamer accent.
- Baltimore-born film director Barry Levinson has said his new eco-horror movie, "The Bay," about a Chesapeake Bay turned deadly by environmental abuse, is "80 percent factual."
- Barry Levinson's latest, 'The Bay,' succeeds as both warning and thrill ride.
- Baltimore-born Oscar-winning director uses fact to create science fiction.
- Program devoted to Maryland films and filmmakers ceasing production after 15 years
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- First, the video series went viral on YouTube. Comedy Central could be next
- The bottle of beer on the bar is the alpha and omega of the next four hours at the Fork & Wrench. That and the dozens of replacement bottles that will be dressed, made up, back-lit, side-lit, primped, primed, misted and beaded with an eye dropper before being brought in front of the camera.
- We all know singer/songwriter/guitarist/producer Joan Jett loves Rock and Roll. She also has proclaimed her love for the Orioles for years.
- Baltimore's Pat Moran won an Emmy Award Saturday for casting on HBO's "Game Change."
- Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana, the executive producers of "Homicide: Life on the Street," return to prime time Aug. 19 on BBC with "Copper," starring Tom Weston-Jones.
- Since its last movie screening in 1968, the historic Ambassador Theater in Howard Park has been a cosmetology school, a dance hall and a Baptist church — and in recent years a vacant shell.
- Baltimore's al fresco film festivals draw top crowds even on dog days.
- Baltimoreans and Marylanders have become simply blase about actors, film crews and their inevitable caravans of trucks and portable dressing room being in their midst.
- Dr. Norman I. Zipper, a retired Baltimore optometrist active in the Jewish community, died of renal failure May 12 at his Pikesville home. He was 89.
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- Baltimore Sun Editor Mary Corey The Sun's 175th anniversary
- The comptroller's office has issued a formal request for a new operator of the Hollywood Diner, made famous as a filming location for the Barry Levinson film "Diner."
- Was it the Berger cookies? Did they consider the wrong Old Bay?
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- Much of the Baltimore-born actor and author's book 'After Annie' hits close to home
- After a brief hiatus, the Hollywood Diner is back in business — but the city has other plans for the downtown eatery.
- Ravens' success lets an often-disrespected city hold its head high again
- Party raises questions about Levinson's other 'killer' Baltimore project
- Werner's, the historic luncheonette that closed in April, will reopen in March 2012 under new ownership
- Baltimore events, entertainment: Everything you need to know about the week of 12/5-12/11
- Barry Levinson's film about a bunch of guys hanging out in 1959 Baltimore may be 30, but its star-studded cast and long-lasting influence are timeless.
- Best Thanksgiving movie line ever -- "You cut the turkey without me?!"
- Director Barry Levinson and some cast members will return for Dec. 10 celebration of the film's 30
- Red Springs Cafe struggles in the building made famous by Barry Levinson's 'Diner'
- Louis R. Mills Jr., a nationally known and highly-regarded recording engineer who was called "Baltimore's Godfather of Sound," died of a heart attack
- Another classic American film set in Baltimore will be turned into a Broadway musical. Barry Levinson has adapted "Diner," his well-regarded 1982 movie, for the stage. With music and lyrics by rock singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow, the new show is scheduled to open in New York next fall.
- As word began spreading Tuesday that the beloved movie "Diner" was being rejiggered as a Broadway show — with Sheryl Crow music, no less — the mood of the people could best be summed up with a universal head scratch.
