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Last season not 'Lost' on fans
LOST: SEASON 4 Series: Last spring's 13 episodes can help tide you over (or help you scour for clues) until the Oceanic survivors start their fifth ABC season Jan. 21. Revisit the freighter "rescue," the return to society of the six who "survived" and...Tags: Hawaii, Bill Murray, Milton Berle, Van Morrison, Ed Koch
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'Star Wars' empire still strong
Sun movie critic(B-) Lucasfilm's new feature-length cartoon, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, has a light heart and a spring in its step. It's not exactly thrilling, and it doesn't cover much new ground. But young audiences will lap it up like ice cream, and its good humor and...Tags: Cartoons, Armed Forces, Defense, Star Wars (movie), Networking
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'Hellboy II' star Ron Perlman has a hard-earned cigar
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterHis face is a triptych of granite-like features. When the camera focuses on Ron Perlman, it captures, with clarity, the sum of his distinguished parts -- the lantern jaw, the deep-set eyes and the high, square forehead. Perlman is 6 feet 2, which...Tags: Demi Moore, Armed Forces, Defense, West Hollywood, Celebrity
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10 books and movies to prep for a trip to Rome
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIf you're planning to visit Rome before you die, it pays to prepare for the experience. Here are 10 books and movies to help you understand what you see in the Roman Forum, at the Vatican and on the Piazza Navona. 1. "The Agony and the Ecstasy" (1961, by...Tags: Marguerite Yourcenar, Stanley Kubrick, Roberto Rossellini, Charlton Heston, William Wyler
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Largo gets new lease on life at the old Coronet
Special to The TimesJON BRION'S last night at Largo was epic. The singer-songwriter's free-for-all Fridays at the tiny Fairfax Avenue nightclub had been drawing capacity crowds for more than a decade, but his May 2 show was historic: his final turn before owner Mark Flanagan...Tags: Elliott Smith, Music Industry, Jimmy Stewart, Buster Keaton, Theater
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'Lost' art tells of a love lost
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterHe was a celebrated painter and political agitator who put revolution before art. She was a twentysomething poet, dazzled by her charismatic suitor, David Alfaro Siqueiros, one of the leading Mexican muralists who audaciously combined public art and...Tags: Christianity, Pablo Neruda, Defense, Interior Policy, Assault
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A retreat charges on
Times Staff WriterIn the summer of 1955, "Stravinsky scarcely moved from Wetherly Drive," writes Stephen Walsh in the newly published second volume of his biography of the composer. Stravinsky scarcely moved because his arthritis was acting up and because he had music to...Tags: Werner Klemperer, Music Industry, Classical Music, Ojai, Pierre Boulez
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Movie review: 'Picadilly'
Chicago Tribune Movie Critic3-1/2stars (out of 4) "Piccadilly," a silent classic forgotten for decades, resurfaces this week at the Gene Siskel Center - and it's a must-see for film buffs. This sparkling revival of E.A. Dupont's 1929 British romantic crime-drama, in a...Tags: Emil Jannings, Gene Siskel, Dupont E I Nemours & Company, Movies, Anna May Wong
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Fun facts
Special to Baltimoresun.comAre you having a few film buffs over for an Oscar party? Would you like to impress them with your uncanny knowledge of Oscar trivia? Here are a few fun facts about the annual ceremony to sprinkle in amid the overdone musical numbers and the nominees for...Tags: Charlie Chaplin, Franchot Tone, Jackie Cooper, Awards and Prizes, Music
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Movie review: 'The Magdalene Sisters'
Chicago Tribune Movie Critic4 stars (out of 4) A fierce, brilliant film that breaks (and then mends) your heart, Peter Mullan's "The Magdalene Sisters" is based on the life stories of three young women sent in the mid-'60s to the convent laundries of the Magdalene Asylums, run by a...Tags: Christianity, Crimes, Migration, Juvenile Delinquency, Celebrity
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Theater review, 'Fahrenheit 451' by Steppenwolf Theatre's Arts Exchange
Tribune arts reporterSince the main topic of Ray Bradbury's anti-utopian "Fahrenheit 451" is books, and the burning thereof, it's a good fit for the Steppenwolf Theatre's Arts Exchange program, which aims to introduce students and young people to both decent literature and...Tags: Ohio, Music, Abusive Behavior, Arts, Steppenwolf Theatre
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Movie reviews, the films of Billy Wilder at the Music Box
- See where these movies are playing. ++++++++++++++++++++ || Make a night of it. Find: - Recommended dining - Recommended bars || ++++++++++++++++++++ Death robbed us this year of one of Hollywood's greatest treasures, writer-director...Tags: Armed Forces, Cary Grant, Jack Lemmon, Defense, Edward G Robinson
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