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' Yes Man' with Jim Carrey just genial
VarietyIn the spectrum of Jim Carrey vehicles, Yes Man hews closest structurally to Liar Liar, offering the rubber-faced comic actor plenty of opportunities to riff but with far too few moments that approach the explosive hilarity of that earlier movie....Tags: Jim Carrey, Loans, Movies, Employees, Zooey Deschanel
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New Onscreen
++++++++++++++++++++ || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ++++++++++++++++++++ In theaters beginning Friday is "Seven Pounds," starring the always-bankable Will Smith as a guilt-ridden IRS agent who changes the lives...Tags: Moby, Norfolk (Norfolk, Virginia), Emma Watson, Lou Christie, Real Art Ways
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Happy birthday: Dec. 10
Fionnula Flanagan, actress, 67 Susan Dey, actress, 56 Michael Clarke Duncan, actor, 51 Kenneth Branagh, actor-director, 48 J Mascis, Dinosaur Jr. singer-guitarist, 43 Meg White, White Stripes drummer, 34 Sarah Chang, violinist, 28 Raven-Symoné,...Tags: Kenneth Branagh, Michael Clarke Duncan, Celebrity
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Today's Celebrity Birthdays
Actor Harold Gould is 85. Former Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter is 78. Actor Tommy Kirk is 67. Actress Fionnula Flanagan is 67. Pop singer Chad Stuart (Chad and Jeremy) is 67. Actress-singer Gloria Loring is 62. Pop-funk musician Walter "Clyde"...Tags: Blues, Music, Music Industry, Kenneth Branagh, Rock and Roll
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Films, From The Serious To The Silly, That Wrap Up The Year
The Hartford CourantPeople who love politics will be feeling a little empty a week from now, when the campaign is over and the decisions have been made. Two highly anticipated films opening in the upcoming Oscar season will fill the bill. "Frost/Nixon" is Ron Howard's...Tags: Samuel L. Jackson, Sean Penn, Valkyrie (movie), Jennifer Connelly, Dianne Feinstein
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'Brotherhood' Star Puts the Accent on Artistry
Zap2It.comBrian F. O'Byrne is one of the most respected actors in American theater, although he still isn't a household name. In fact, a lot of people who do recognize his name don't know how to pronounce it (it's BREE-an, in the traditional Irish fashion). That...Tags: Ethan Hawke, Martha Plimpton, Athletics, Track and Field, Music Theater, Broadway
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Hopkins Indulges Himself in 'Slipstream'
Zap2It.com"Slipstream" is bold, experimental, off-the-wall kicky and utterly exasperating. To sit through it, you need to bring an exceptionally good mood and a high tolerance for artistic self-indulgence. Anthony Hopkins, both star and director, clearly decided...Tags: Illnesses, Mental Illness, Anthony Hopkins, Christian Slater, Movies
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TV Gal Reveals the Winners
Zap2It.comIt's not the Emmys or even the Golden Globes, but like Reese Witherspoon said, we're just trying to matter. So thank you so much for voting in the 2006 Amy Awards. I have so much fun doing this every year because you pick the categories, you pick the...Tags: CBS Corp., Danny DeVito, Physiology, Judd Hirsch, Football
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Heroes and Villains Hard to Separate in 'Brotherhood'
British actor Jason Isaacs is so very, very good at playing very, very bad -- he's been Captain Hook in "Peter Pan" and Lucius Malfoy in the "Harry Potter" movies, for example -- that it's not all that surprising to find him playing a dangerous gangster...Tags: Organized Crime, Annabeth Gish, Television, Jason Isaacs, Harry Potter
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The right accents
Times Staff WriterWHEN veteran Irish stage and film actor Fionnula Flanagan met with producers and writers of Showtime's "Brotherhood" to discuss her portrayal of the Irish-born working class matriarch of the show, Rose Caffee, one of the first questions she asked the...Tags: Literature, James Joyce, Family, National Government, Osama bin Laden
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Transamerica
STAFF WRITERCall him Bree (Felicity Huffman). She's not really a "he": Psychologically, she hasn't been a "he" for years. Bree's about to complete the physical transformation from man to woman, needing only legal clearance from his psychiatric counselor (Elizabeth...Tags: Los Angeles, Movies, Graham Greene
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'Transamerica'
Times Staff WriterFelicity Huffman is such a wonder, at once funny and brave, playing a pre-op male-to-female transsexual in the uneven comedy "Transamerica" that she sustains several lapses that might otherwise have sunk it. But Huffman's portrayal is so extraordinarily...Tags: William H Macy, West Hollywood, Therapies, Los Angeles, Movies
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