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'Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood'
From the time Adolf Hitler became Germany's chancellor in 1933 to the opening salvos of World War II in 1939, about 800 actors, directors, writers, composers and producers fled Europe for the safety of America. The Third Reich's loss was Hollywood's...Tags: Adolf Hitler, Billy Wilder, Folklore and Mythology, Fred Zinnemann, Vampires
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STAYINGIN?
Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood" (CPTV, 9:30 p.m.) reminds us that Germany was way ahead in various aspects of film art until the rise of Nazism caused many of the region's finest practitioners to go the U.S.. The list includes directors Fritz...Tags: Adolf Hitler, Billy Wilder, Fred Zinnemann, Casablanca (movie), Movies
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'From Hitler To Hollywood' Best New Year's Offering
With the end of the year comes the flowering of the cinematic arts (or at least the films that want to win Oscars). So it's fitting that some of the biggest specials on TV this week also concern film. The most splendid of them is the New Year's Day...Tags: Roger Daltrey, Wrigley Field, New Year's Day, Music Theater, The Hills (tv program)
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Forrest J Ackerman, writer-editor who coined 'sci-fi,' dies at 92
Forrest J Ackerman, who influenced a generation of young horror-movie fans with Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine and spent a lifetime amassing what has been called the world's largest personal collection of science-fiction and fantasy memorabilia, has...Tags: Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Michael Jackson, Monsters, Folklore and Mythology, Vampires
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Reasons to shiver: New in paperback
"The Paris Review Interviews, Vol. III" edited by Philip Gourevitch (Picador) "Have you found any professional criticism of your work illuminating or helpful? Edmund Wilson, for example?" asks Julian Jebb, the guy sent by the Paris Review to interview...Tags: Movies, Book, Martin Amis, Raymond Carver, Mamma Mia! (movie)
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'City of Ember'
rafer.guzman@newsday.comTo call the sci-fi kids' film " City of Ember" a parable of energy independence might be pushing things, but it certainly abounds in symbols and allegories. It's set in a futuristic but delightfully rattletrap underground metropolis - part Fritz Lang,...Tags: Tim Robbins, City of Ember (movie), Movies, Martin Landau, Rube Goldberg
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Auto Didact
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterPencils, clay knives and computer-imaging applications shape J Mays’ creations; something less tactile animates them. Perhaps no other automotive designer active today seeks out our heartstrings as doggedly or successfully as the 53-year-old Oklahoma...Tags: Van Nuys, Passenger Cars, Audi, Los Angeles, Oklahoma
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'Contempt'
Special to The TimesJean-Luc Godard's 1963 "Contempt" opened at the old Academy Theater on Hollywood Boulevard in March 1965, without a press preview. Despite a scratchy print accidentally projected out of focus, the film was clearly a masterpiece, a poetic, deeply...Tags: Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Movies, Jack Palance, Family, Santa Monica
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Giving Angela Carter her due
By Richard Rayner "A good writer can make you believe time stands still. Yet the end of all stories, even if the writer forbears to mention it, is death," wrote the English writer Angela Carter, who died 16 years ago this month. At the time Carter was...Tags: Jane Greer, Sade, Movies, Book, Family
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Apocalypse fears big in film, TV
Detroit NewsAmerica suffers 23 nuclear attacks, but one small town in Kansas is spared, and the survivors find the courage to forge together and start anew. This is the overriding theme behind CBS' never-say-die, apocalyptic series "Jericho," which is back for a...Tags: CBS Corp., National Government, Movies, Kansas, Will Smith
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Movie review: 'The Bothersome Man'
Tribune movie critic3 stars (out of four) Perhaps "The Bothersome Man"--a nerve-janglingly odd film directed by Norwegian newcomer Jens Lien--is set in hell. Perhaps it is set in a heaven gone terribly wrong, a would-be paradise of sterile modernist decor where everything...Tags: George Lucas, Movies, Family, Jean-Luc Godard, Sex
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Almost famous
South Florida Sun-SentinelAlthough Jonathan Lethem is 43 already, a grown-up by even baby boomer standards, it is still possible to think of him as a promising young writer. I mean this in the best possible way. Emerging in the early 1990s as an edgy sci-fi writer in the Philip...Tags: Book, Philip K Dick, Music, Los Angeles, Paul Auster
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