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Mae Mercer dies at 76; blues singer also had a Hollywood career
Mae Mercer, a deep-voiced blues singer who spent much of the 1960s performing at a blues bar in Paris and touring Europe before launching an acting career back home in films and television, has died. She was 76. Mercer was found dead Oct. 29 at her...Tags: Jazz Music, Bessie Smith, Blues, Music, Television
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Christopher Nolan's 'Knight' vision
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTHE BRITISH filmmaker Christopher Nolan has the mien of a passionate literature professor (passionate, that is, in the British sense of the term) and, last December, he spoke about the young actor Heath Ledger as if he were the most fascinating manuscript...Tags: Joel Schumacher, Spider-Man, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Christian Bale, Batman
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Clint Eastwood targets the legacy of Dirty Harry
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterON a recent afternoon at the Warner Bros. lot, Clint Eastwood took a break from a long day in the editing bay and strolled over to a hushed screening room. There, his armed-and-dangerous past was waiting for him, and the filmmaker winced when he looked it...Tags: Charlton Heston, Game Playing, Jodie Foster, Werner Herzog, Hillary Clinton
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'The Invasion'
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer"Help me," the young woman screams. "They're coming, they're among us." No one on screen is paying attention, but we know what it means. That's right, the body snatchers are once again on the prowl. "The Invasion," starring the upscale duo of Nicole...Tags: Hugo Chavez, Fiction, Nicole Kidman, Adolf Hitler, Daniel Craig
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A bond beyond borders
Times Staff WriterABOUT six years ago, while wrapping up "Amores Perros," the movie that would stamp him as the new "It Boy" of global cinema, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu got an early-morning phone call from a man he'd never met in his life. Like Inarritu, the caller was a...Tags: Christmas, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Epidemics and Plagues, Julianne Moore, Assault
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Mods & Rockers festival swivels along with Elvis
Times Staff WriterElvis is in the building. The American Cinematheque's Mods & Rockers festival celebrates the life and legacy of the King with a six-day tribute featuring several of Presley's most successful films, plus the 2005 CBS miniseries "Elvis" and two...Tags: Barbara Eden, Samuel Goldwyn, Satyajit Ray, Arts, Roman Polanski
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Invaders From The Past
Courant Film CriticIt's back to the '50s in "Signs," M. Night Shyamalan's odd, semi-comic science-fiction tale centering on a weirdly sculptured cornfield in Bucks County, Pa., and a lapsed reverend played in shifting moods by Mel Gibson. Recalling "The War of the Worlds"...Tags: Joaquin Phoenix, Arthur C. Clarke, Jodie Foster, Bucks County, George A Romero
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5 films that are down and dirty movies about morally flawed cops
1. "The French Connection' (William Friedkin; 1971) 4 stars The most violently kinetic cops and robbers thriller of its day, based on the real-life Marseilles heroin connection investigation by New York City cops Sonny Grosso and Eddie Egan -- re-created...Tags: Bob Balaban, New York City Police Department, Jerry Orbach, Abel Ferrara, Gene Hackman
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5 films about aliens invading Earth
1. THE THING (FROM ANOTHER WORLD) (Christian Nyby-Howard Hawks: 1951) 4 stars THE THING (John Carpenter: 1982) 3 1/2 stars If 1951's "Day the Earth Stood Still" is the great liberal '50 alian invasion movie, the 1951 "The Thing" by director Nyby and...Tags: Fiction, Francois Truffaut, Kevin McCarthy, Donald Sutherland, Leonard Nimoy
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Aliens spawn own genre
The Hartford CourantJust over 50 years ago, the first major movie alien, a giant, murderous carrot, struck terror into the hearts and minds of Cold War America. It was called "The Thing," or "The Thing From Another World," and it scared audiences silly. Now the monsters...Tags: Paul Verhoeven, Rhode Island, People, Ray Bradbury, Business Enterprises
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Movie review, 'Undisputed'
Walter Hill makes action and crime movies that are always smart and good-looking but often a little artificial. His latest, "Undisputed," takes place in the same noirish wonderland -- half hip and tough, half cartoonish -- that we often see in Hill...Tags: Robert Aldrich, James Robert Thompson, Ving Rhames, Wesley Snipes, Punishment
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The Arrival
FOR THE TIMESFriday May 31, 1996 There's a woman standing in a lush, sun-buttered field, where poppies are in riotous bloom and the air has the languorous, slo-mo quality of an endless summer's day. Still--we know this is coming--all is not quite right. "It's...Tags: John Anderson, Movies, Charlie Sheen, Radio Industry
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