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Muere cineasta Jesus Franco
Málaga — El director de cine español Jesús Franco, que recibió el Goya de Honor de la Academia de Cine en 2008 y trabajó en Hollywood con actores como Christopher Lee y Klaus Kinski murió esta semana en su hogar en Málaga tras sufrir un derrame...
Tags: Christopher Lee, Klaus Kinski
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The man behind the people who know the story behind 'The Shining'
You know the Calumet Baking Powder cans in Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining"? You know — the Calumet Baking cans? Lining the pantry of the film's Overlook Hotel? No, no: The baking cans behind all the carnage! Right, those baking cans. What's that,...
Tags: Film Festivals, Stanley Kubrick, James Joyce, Sundance Film Festival, Steven Spielberg
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A Second Look: 'Monsieur Verdoux' was Charlie Chaplin's undoing
With his 1947 provocation "Monsieur Verdoux," Charlie Chaplin completed a remarkable transformation from the universally beloved Little Tramp to a vilified monster both on-screen and off. In the most polarizing film of his career, just issued on DVD...
Tags: The Great Dictator (movie), Charlie Chaplin, Criminals, Entertainment, Crime, Law and Justice
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Donald Richie dies at 88; interpreted Japan for the West
Donald Richie, an American expatriate in Japan who became that country's preeminent Western interpreter, explaining its culture — from cinema to Zen to tattoos — in books and essays that illuminated the author's psyche as much as that of his...
Tags: Arts and Culture, England, Japan, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal
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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: Cary Grant, Jack Palance, Daniel Day-Lewis, George Lucas, David Thomson
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Midweek Madness keeps that special holiday feeling flowing
For your Midweek Madness drollery, I have -- yes -- once again gone to the SCTV well, this time to pull up a holiday-theme gem. You may thank me later. Here's the attempted filming of promo for a 'Liberace' Christmas Special with a very temperamental...Tags: Holidays
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Tim Burton reflects on ‘Frankenweenie’ box office, plots his next step
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesIt was only Wednesday, but sitting at a small table in the restaurant at the Chateau Marmont, Tim Burton looked ...... -
When H.G. Wells met Orson Welles, Or: How typos lead to neat things
The strangest part of this story may be that in the middle of World War II, 74-year-old British author H.G. Wells took a train to Texas to speak to a meeting of the United States Brewers Assn. I can't quite figure out why he was tapped to speak there;...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Radio, Google+, Entertainment, Radio Industry
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Revolution on the screen, on the ground in 'I Am Cuba'
From 1964, a time when the world seemed ready to accommodate 33 revolutions per minute, the film "I Am Cuba" boasts some single-take shots so boggling, the following phrases showed up in my notebook: "How did they do that? A three-story-high tracking shot...
Tags: Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Soderbergh, Terrence Malick, Sergei Eisenstein
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Steve Schapiro, a fly on the wall — with a camera
Steve Schapiro wants to photograph President Barack Obama, and there is little doubt that he will one day do so. In his lengthy and star-studded career, he has photographed so many famous and influential people that one can almost believe he has Zelig-...
Tags: People (magazine), Frank Sinatra, Johnny Depp, Halloween, Mae West
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'Not Fade Away' like a Rolling Stone ★★★
"That pianola sure brings back memories," says Orson Welles, entranced by Marlene Dietrich's bordello background music in "Touch of Evil." A few moments of this scene pop up on somebody's television in "Not Fade Away," the wry feature film debut by...
Tags: The Rolling Stones (music group), Touch of Evil (movie), Dean Martin, Entertainment, Mick Jagger
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What to read in 2013
January Insane City by Dave Barry (Putnam) The Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist's first solo adult novel in more than a decade is a typically absurdist comic story about everything — and then some — that goes wrong for Seth and his friends en...
Tags: Frank Sinatra, Robert Taylor, Henry Jaglom, Artie Shaw, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
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Feb 15, 2013
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Feb 7, 2013
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Jan 27, 2013
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Dec 27, 2012
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