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Fitzgerald's long and uneven onscreen history
Tribune newspapersHOLLYWOOD—F. Scott Fitzgerald's magical short story "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" was a hard sell during the early days of the Roaring '20s, when magazines were hungering for one of the author's more down-to-earth flapper stories. "Benjamin...Tags: Elia Kazan, Shelley Winters, Movies, Mira Sorvino, Robert De Niro
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Review: 'In Spite of Myself' by Christopher Plummer
Bloomberg NewsIN SPITE OF MYSELF, by Christopher Plummer. Alfred A. Knopf, 648 pages, $29.95. 'In Spite of Myself," Christopher Plummer's memoir of his career in theater and film, is one of the most entertaining books I have encountered in a long life of reading....Tags: Euripides, Movies, Orson Welles, Celebrity, Nicholas Ray
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Films of Fitzgerald tales not always on the button
Los Angeles TimesThe magical short story "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" by F. Scott Fitzgerald was a hard sell during the early days of the Roaring '20s, when magazines were hungering for one of the author's more down-to-earth flapper stories. "Benjamin Button"...Tags: Elia Kazan, Paramount, Movies, Jennifer Jones, Robert De Niro
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Film Adaptations Of 'The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn'
Among the adaptations of "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" on film: "Huckleberry Finn," 1920, silent film with Gordon Griffith "Huckleberry Finn," 1931, with Jackie Coogan, Junior Durkin, Mitzi Green, Jane Darwell "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,"...Tags: Geraldine Page, Dana Ivey, Richard Kiley, Harvey Korman, Movies
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'The Life of Reilly' (Charles Nelson Reilly's one-man show)
Tribune movie criticCharles Nelson Reilly died last May, but for years before he died, people would gape at him at the grocery store, giving him that look that says: You're alive?!? And: Oooo, what's his name, again? Bronx-born into a melodrama-rich family, a more astute...Tags: Jack Lemmon, Movies, North Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), NBC
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Hail to the chiefs, as played by . . .
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAmericans usually celebrate the likes of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy on President's Day. But rarely are the less stellar commanders in chief ever mentioned, such as William Henry Harrison -- who caught a...Tags: Robert Vaughn, Executive Branch, Robin Williams, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Johnson
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Spring awakening
linda.winer@newsday.comHowever the wind blows, theatergoers know it's spring when Broadway gets crazy with openings. Whatever the calendar says about the year's end, commercial theater will be observing New Year's Eve on May 7 - the last night to open eligible shows before the...Tags: Harvey Fierstein, Music Theater, Mike Nichols, Ellen Burstyn, Thurgood Marshall
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Leaving art out of history
How did George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" reflect both the Jewish and African American experience in America? Why was Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises" so influential for modern fiction and journalism? What was Abstract Expressionism, and why did...Tags: Arthur Miller, Wars and Interventions, Cultural Development, Sidney Lumet, Ernest Hemingway
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Technicolor thriller in academy screening lineup
Times Staff WriterMost films produced in Technicolor during the late 1930s and early '40s were musicals, historical epics or period melodramas — but that all changed with 1945's juicy psychological thriller "Leave Her to Heaven." Leon Shamroy won a cinematography...Tags: Gene Tierney, Film Festivals, Culture, Ronald Colman, Movies
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'All the President's Men' -- Two-Disc Special Edition
Zap2It.comOf the wave of paranoid thrillers that hit theaters in the 1970s -- like "The Conversation" or "Three Days of the Condor" or "The Parallax View" -- "All the President's Men" was among the best. Every bit as breathless, pulse-pounding and twisted as its...Tags: Film Festivals, Dustin Hoffman, Government, Movies, Freedom of the Press
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Not a brooder, and yet...
STAFF WRITERAcopy of Maureen Dowd's latest screed, "Are Men Necessary?" lies open in Gabriel Byrne's dressing room. The actor, a dashing, black-haired, blue-eyed, pensive sort with many artistic interests and talents, shouldn't need any reassuring. But he obviously...Tags: Music Theater, Timothy Dalton, Emily Watson, Photography, Ellen Barkin
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'Annie Hall' Named Best Film
Times Staff WriterFrom The Times: April 4, 1978 Diane Keaton, Richard Dreyfuss and "Annie Hall" won top honors in the 50th annual Academy Awards ceremonies Monday at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion of the Los Angeles Music Center. Vanessa Redgrave and Jason Robards were...Tags: Government, Richard Dreyfuss, Movies, Washington Post Co., Paddy Chayefsky
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