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Turner Classic Movies packs classic gifts into Christmas week
Sentinel ColumnistDuring Christmas week, when many channels take it easy, Turner Classic Movies steps up the celebrating. Is it any wonder commercial-free TCM is one of the best channels around? Christmas Eve will be especially festive. The greatest present may be Cluny...Tags: Barbara Stanwyck, Howard Hawks, Paul Newman, Religious Festivals, Christmas
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Off the Wall: Sports-o-Rama on ESPN
wertstv@gmail.comOff the Wall can be the ride of your life, too. SPORTS-O-RAMA. Beyond the live games and sleazy scandals, TV offers some probingly in-depth sports coverage even non-fans can appreciate. "The Greatest Game Ever Played" (9-11 tonight, ESPN) revisits...Tags: Television Industry, NASCAR, Richard Petty, Music Theater, Bobby Allison
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Downtown is no theme park -- I'm just saying
Special to the SentinelI was going to do a whole column on parking, but no one really seems to care about dealing with it. It isn't on the Obama agenda, for instance. So here's just a little bit. I paid $12 for parking when I went to Epcot for the Candlelight Processional, and...Tags: Diseases, Mad Cow Theater, James Taylor, Music Theater, Dallas Cowboys
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Edie Adams
Edie Adams has died. The singer and actress who won a Tony Award for bringing Daisy Mae to life on Broadway and who played the television foil to her husband, comedian Ernie Kovacs, was 81. Adams died Wednesday in a Los Angeles hospital from pneumonia...Tags: Death and Dying, Celebrity, Jack Lemmon, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), New York Times
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'Transsiberian': Intrigue abounds in Brad Anderson's entertaining thriller
Tribune newspapers" Transsiberian" is the quintessence of what critic Judith Crist affectionately refers to as a movie-movie: a picture that breathes entertainment through every celluloid sprocket hole while seeming, without affect or pomposity, to encapsulate the entirety...Tags: Woody Harrelson, Abusive Behavior, Transsiberian (movie), Cheshire, Movies
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Atmospheric 'Transsiberian' thrills, never veers off track
(B-) Transsiberian is the quintessence of what critic Judith Crist affectionately refers to as a movie-movie: a picture that breathes entertainment through every celluloid sprocket hole while seeming, without affect or pomposity, to encapsulate the...Tags: Woody Harrelson, Transsiberian (movie), Cheshire, Movies, Ben Kingsley
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Critics' Choice: Recommendations From Connecticut's Arts And Culture Buffet
The Hartford CourantBOOKS Well, if you can't go to the best parties, you can look at the pictures. "Vanity Fair Portraits, A Century of Iconic Images" (Abrams, $65) is a collection by the magazine's editor, Graydon Carter, of some of the iconic celebrity shots from its...Tags: Whoopi Goldberg, James Taylor, Greta Garbo, Leonard Cohen, Massachusetts
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Sarah Palin, if her life was a movie
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterLIKE MANY around Hollywood, I've spent an embarrassing amount of time during the week trying to decide which actress would be best to play Sarah Palin in the story of her life. I know conventional wisdom says that Tina Fey is a lock for the part, but do...Tags: Christianity, David Duchovny, Frank Capra Jr., Sarah Palin, Tina Fey
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Thank you, ThighMaster: Somers to sell
Los Angeles TimesAt first glance, it looked like a typical holiday photo card sent out by Suzanne Somers, her husband, producer Alan Hamel, and their family. But the rubble pile behind them in the photo was the couple's former Malibu home, burned to the ground by a...Tags: Louisiana, Family, Los Feliz, Celebrity, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California)
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The week's best bets for kids
"Angels in the Outfield": A boy (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) prays for a miraculous turnaround for the last-place California Angels. Heavenly angels answer his prayers by divine intervention during the baseball games, making the team unstoppable. Danny Glover...Tags: Selena, Winnie the Pooh, Donny Osmond, Major League Baseball, Baseball
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No thanks, James
By Richard Rayner
"Ulysses" (Vintage: $17 paper) is the description of a single day, June 16, 1904, a day in the mingled lives of characters walking, talking, dreaming, eating, drinking, mourning and climaxing their way through the hours of an average...Tags: Horace Greeley, Franz Kafka, Literature, John F. Kennedy, Philip Roth
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'Real Life' a Charmer of the Pre-Raunch School
Zap2It.comCan a low-key, highly agreeable charmer such as "Dan in Real Life" make itself heard in today's shrill comic marketplace? I hope so. While there's no denying the formidable raunch and formidable verbal wit of "The 40 Year-Old Virgin," "Knocked Up" and...Tags: John Mahoney, Daniel Auteuil, Dianne Wiest, Movies, Academic Progress
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