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Coens give us a 'Burn'
Los Angeles Daily News*Burn After Reading: Burn After Reading is one of those strange comedies from Joel and Ethan Coen that is surprising, funny, head-scratching and emotionally distanced. The brothers have done better ones -- Fargo, Raising Arizona, The Big Lebowski, O...Tags: Cloris Leachman, Meg Ryan, Joan Crawford, Sex and the City (movie), John Malkovich
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George Bernard Shaw's typewriter is up for sale
GEORGE Bernard Shaw's typewriter is up for grabs at AbeBooks.com -- it could be yours for roughly $8,600.
Shaw's most lasting work, the play "Pygmalion" (which inspired "My Fair Lady"), was not written on this typewriter. Because he wrote "Pygmalion"...Tags: Auction Service, Ernest Hemingway, William Morris, Fishing, Georgia
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'The Last Theorem' by Arthur C. Clarke and Frederik Pohl
The most exciting part of "The Last Theorem" (Del Rey: 304 pp., $27), the novel by the late Arthur C. Clarke and fellow science fiction veteran Frederik Pohl, has nothing to do with the titular titillation of finding a proof for Fermat's famous marginal...Tags: Minority Groups, Arthur C. Clarke, Sex, Fiction, Books and Magazines
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Under the lens at Griffith Observatory
Times Staff WriterFROM the moment he took on the expansion of the Griffith Observatory a decade ago, Stephen Johnson knew his work would not go unnoticed. "More than any other project we've worked on, this is an incredibly visible one," says Johnson, 56, a polished,...Tags: Metal and Mineral, Columbia University, Radio City Music Hall, Stephen Johnson, Leonard Nimoy
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Time to Panic?
Times Staff WriterThey're nearly impossible to pick out of a crowd. Unlike Deadheads, they don't come with a preferred lifestyle and unlike Trekkies, they don't wear distinctive uniforms or pointy ears. They don't even have a clever nickname, although some have taken to...Tags: Heart Disease, Ivan Reitman, Diseases, Jim Carrey, Cinema Industry
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Lucas, Spielberg usher in summer with sci-fi wars
AP Movie WriterThis summer means war between old buddies George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. Colleagues on the "Indiana Jones" franchise, the two will duke it out for the title of galactic overlord on the 2005 science fiction front, Lucas with the final installment of...Tags: Matt Damon, Sean Penn, Vince Vaughn, Bob Hoskins, Ben Stiller
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Summer movies release schedule
The Associated PressRelease dates are tentative, and some films play in limited release. Late April: ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM: The corporate train wreck unfolds through insider interviews and company video and audio tapes. THE GAME OF THEIR LIVES: An outgunned...Tags: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson, Music Industry, Ian McKellen
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Movie review: 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
Tribune staff reporter3 stars (out of 4) Taming author Douglas Adams' silly, sci-fi classic "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" into movie form is like training two schnauzers in petticoats to water ski. It's impossible. Even so, there's a lot to love about Garth...Tags: Peter Jackson, John Malkovich, Alan Rickman, Stephen Fry, Terry Gilliam
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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
STAFF WRITER(PG). Douglas Adams' whimsical space opera reaches its long-awaited big-screen transmogrification. The movie is cuddly, cozy and companionable enough, but it cops out on the book's cheekiness. With Martin Freeman, Sam Rockwell, Mos Def, Zooey Deschanel,...Tags: John Malkovich, Mos Def, Movies, Alan Rickman
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'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
Times Staff WriterThere's not much of the blithe spirit in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" that made "Star Wars" and even old "Flash Gordon" serials such fun. Amid a stupefying barrage of fantastic images involving all manner of special effects, spectacular...Tags: National Government, John Malkovich, Mos Def, Government, Religious Leaders
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Eye On The Perfect Hit?
Courant Film CriticVengeful Siths! Marauding Crusaders! Monster mother-in-laws! Outer-galactic space oddities! Not-so-wild wild animals! Political intrigue! And Allied pigeons! Yes, ladies and gentlemen, tots and tykes, it's spring at the multiplex, and there is, at...Tags: Pedro Almodovar, Jimmy Smits, Defense, Robin Williams, New York Film Festival
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