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Jewish guys get an image makeover
Early on in 2007's comedy hit "Knocked Up," Seth Rogen and a bunch of buddies, nearly all of them Jewish, are hanging at a nightclub when Rogen announces that he's just seen "Munich," the Steven Spielberg film about an Israeli assassination squad....Tags: Elliott Gould, Organized Crime, Richard Benjamin, Mel Brooks, Celebrity
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Bogart Menacing In 'Kid Galahad' At Suffield's Kent Library
The Hartford CourantOnly Humphrey Bogart, it seems, could take a character named "Turkey" and make him not laughable. Bogart has this unfortunate moniker in "Kid Galahad." Michael Curtiz's 1937 drama stars Edward G. Robinson as a fight promoter who sees a bellhop knock a...Tags: Bette Davis, Suffield, Humphrey Bogart
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Review: 'Living Proof'
Times Television Critic“Living Proof” is a new Lifetime TV docudrama about Dr. Dennis Slamon and the development of the drug Herceptin, which has had great success in extending the lives of women with a particularly aggressive form of breast cancer. (The film,...Tags: Diseases, Paul Muni, Harry Connick Jr., National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Medicine
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Newman Tribute on TCM: Oct.12
The TV ZoneYup, that's the big important date to remember, when TCM will devote its full Sunday schedule to Paul Newman classics, including ...Cool Hand Luke (1967), Somebody up There Likes Me (1956), Torn Curtain (1966), Exodus (1960), Hud (1963), and......Tags: Literature, Akira Kurosawa, Celebrity, Paul Newman, Religious Conflicts
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SCREEN SCENE: Chicagoan Balaban tackles a rich subject -- plus a guide to art house and 2nd run films
Tribune staff reporterShe was called "the richest little girl in the world." No, not Paris Hilton--Doris Duke, heiress of the Duke tobacco and energy fortune. From her birth in 1912 to her death in 1993, Duke amassed and gave away much of her wealth to charity. Also...Tags: Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Akira Kurosawa, Benicio Del Toro, Health and Safety at School
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'Nobody, nothing was sacred'
Shortly before midnight on Aug. 3, 1958, Lenny Bruce got off an airplane at Midway Airport. No one knows exactly what he did the next day until, at 8 p.m., he walked onto the stage of the Cloister Inn nightclub and said, "I've been thinking a lot about...Tags: Steve Allen, Bob Newhart, Hotels and Accommodations, Hugh Hefner, Health and Safety at School
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Key Largo, masked A
Akron Beacon JournalHollywood boat, a gangster movie and a mangrove swamp are three of the biggest on-land attractions on 33-mile-long Key Largo. The 30-foot boat is from the 1951 movie The African Queen, with Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. It is suspended in the...Tags: Katharine Hepburn, Coral Reefs, Natural Resources, Humphrey Bogart, Gardens and Parks
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No bitter endings when the readers chime in
In the Dec. 28 Movies section, we talked about how some recent movies had less than enjoyable endings, then shared some of our favorite movie conclusions and asked to hear yours. And did we ever hear from you! Here are some of the responses (out of...Tags: Gary Cooper, Wisconsin, Dana Andrews, Elk Grove Village (Cook, Illinois), Michael Myers
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'Foreign Correspondent' Actress Laraine Day Dies at 87
New York Times News ServiceLaraine Day, a ladylike leading lady who appeared in almost two dozen MGM films from 1939 to 1945, notably as nurse Mary Lamont in the series of Dr. Kildare movies, died Saturday in Ivins, Utah. She was 87. For 13 years she was popularly called "the...Tags: Gary Cooper, Family, Baseball, Joel McCrea, Lew Ayres
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Joey Bishop Dead at 89
Zap2It.comJoey Bishop, the deadpan comedian who was ABC's answer to NBC's late-night talk show king Johnny Carson in the late 1960s and was the last surviving member of Frank Sinatra's legendary Rat Pack, has died. He was 89. Bishop, who had been in failing health...Tags: Death and Dying, Marlo Thomas, Religious Leaders, Johnny Carson, National Government
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Movie review: 'Buzz'
Tribune movie critic3 stars (out of four) "Buzz" is the documentary tale of a Hollywood screenwriter--not just any writer but A.I. (for Albert Isaac) "Buzz" Bezzerides, a movie writer, as it turns out, for the ages. Many film noir devotees revere the Greek-Armenian-...Tags: Barbara Stanwyck, James Robert Thompson, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California)
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Lawyer to Celebrities Is Subject of Inquiry
Times Staff WriterHis name is nowhere in Monday's 60-page indictment of celebrity gumshoe and alleged wiretapper Anthony Pellicano. But the shadow of 76-year-old lawyer Bertram Fields, who for years employed Pellicano as an investigator, looms over the case. Listed...Tags: William Shakespeare, Corporate Crime, Justice System, Celebrity, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California)
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