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Steve McQueen was a pilot, not a celebrity, at Santa Paula Airport
One day in 1979, the King of Cool decided to fly.
Before anyone knew it, Steve McQueen was living with his girlfriend in a hangar at the Santa Paula Airport. During the day, he learned to pilot a World War II-era biplane. In the evening, the tough-guy...Tags: Steve McQueen, Gene Hackman, Billy Graham, Emergency Planning, Celebrity
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Initial take on 'W.' is a balanced look at Bush
NewsdayFor the first 113 of the 232 years that a United States of America has existed, there wasn't anything called cinema. So movies about Washington, Lincoln or the peccadilloes of Grover Cleveland weren't really an option — not, at least, while the...Tags: John F. Kennedy, George Bush, Oliver Stone, National Government, Vice (movie)
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'W' a prime candidate for Oliver Stone
Special to NewsdayFor the first 113 of the 232 years that a United States of America has existed, there wasn't anything called cinema. So movies about Washington, Lincoln or the peccadilloes of Grover Cleveland weren't really an option -- not, at least, while the men...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, George Bush, Oliver Stone, National Government, Vice (movie)
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Mice get smarter with drug
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterLab mice with the mental retardation of Down syndrome got smarter after being fed a drug that strengthened brain circuits involved in learning and memory, researchers reported Sunday. After receiving once-daily doses of pentylenetetrazole, or PTZ, for 17...Tags: Research, Film Festivals, Family, Diseases, Health Organizations
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Long shots, sharp shooters and sneak attacks
Julie Christie, the certified icon and 1965 Oscar winner, has been in town making the awards season rounds thanks to her starring turn in Sarah Polley's "Away From Her."
The notoriously press shy actress turned up for a few Q&As, with co-star Gordon...Tags: Adrien Brody, Cinema Industry, Sigourney Weaver, Elections, Loretta Young
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Alan Inkles, man behind Stony Brook Film Festival
gene.seymour@newsday.comThese days, when he's not booking eclectic acts ranging from the Emerson String Quartet to jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis to guerrilla comic Sandra Bernhard to appear at Stony Brook University's Staller Center, Alan Inkles, the center's director, gets...Tags: Classical Music, Tickets, Festive Event, Cinema Industry, Los Angeles
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Some real eye-openers
Times Staff WriterThe UCLA Film & Television Archive's Festival of Preservation is at it again. Taking over the James Bridges Theater in the campus' Melnitz Hall today through Aug. 19, the 13th preservation event is once more showing the widest and most exciting variety of...Tags: Clothing and Textiles Industry, Ronald Colman, Festive Event, Martin Scorsese, John Wayne
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Crossing This Line Could Cost Gibson Deals
Zap2It.comMel Gibson is rich enough to finance his own movies, including the 2004 blockbuster "The Passion of the Christ" and the upcoming release "Apocalypto." But although riches can buy a certain freedom from creative interference, no man is an island in the...Tags: Cinema Industry, George Bush, Consumer Electronics Industry, Massacres, Batman
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'Psycho' Scribe Dies at 84
Zap2It.comJoseph Stefano, who wrote the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller "Psycho" and was the influential first-season producer-writer of the 1960s science-fiction anthology TV series "The Outer Limits," has died. He was 84. Stefano, who...Tags: Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Gary Cooper, Defense, Martin Landau, Armed Forces
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They stoked the star-maker machine
Special to The TimesWHAT is it about the public's obsession with stars? The media has been enthusiastically covering Hollywood for 100 years, and today's incessant, Internet-fueled celebrity "news" is omnipresent. The distribution methods have been dramatically accelerated,...Tags: Museum of Modern Art, Sexual Assault, Real Estate Buyers, Books and Magazines, Cinema Industry
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See the islands in flower
Times Staff WriterDISCOVER the archeological treasures of the Greek isles on a 10-night tour that explores Santorini and Crete. The tour, sponsored by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, begins May 10. "It's a wonderful time of year when wildflowers are blooming, enhancing...Tags: Ed Asner, Classical Music, Tourism and Leisure, Los Angeles, Richard Wagner
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Hepburn, Streisand Tie for Actress
From The Times: April 15, 1969
A glittering new setting, a vivid new format, a satisfactory quota of surprises and a solid triumph for the solid musical "Oliver" all marked the 41st running of the Academy Awards Monday night.
The first Oscar night to be...Tags: Cinema Industry, Los Angeles, Jack Albertson, Carol Reed, Ruth Gordon
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