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Best upcoming entertainment in 2009
With 2008 nearly in the books, it's time to look ahead to 2009 and the exciting entertainment that the new year will bring. Our critics offer what they're most looking forward to in '09.
POP MUSIC
1. Jay-Z's new album. "Swagga Like Us," the single...Tags: Jane Fonda, Joan Allen, Rap, Minority Groups, Networking
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Broadway shows cancel and close as investors get more conservative
They added four new songs, lined up a big theater and psyched up their backers. The producers of "Vanities, A New Musical," originally staged at the Pasadena Playhouse, then announced it was opening on Broadway in February. But three weeks later, on Dec....Tags: Mary Poppins (musical), Boeing Co., Times Square, Monty Python's Spamalot, Neil LaBute
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British Playwright Harold Pinter, 78
Washington PostHarold Pinter, who was widely esteemed as the most important British playwright of the past half-century and was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2005, died Wednesday of cancer in London. He was 78. Pinter, who wrote more than 30 plays, was...Tags: Samuel Beckett, Death and Dying, Literature, Celebrity, F Scott Fitzgerald
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Sunny von Bulow, heiress who spent almost 28 years in a coma, dies at 76
Martha "Sunny" von Bulow, an heiress of misfortune who spent almost 28 years in a coma and whose husband, Claus von Bulow, twice went on trial on charges of attempting to kill her, died Saturday at a nursing home in New York City. She was 76. She had a...Tags: Rhode Island, Truman Capote, Crimes, Movies, Murder
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Can Robert Wankel help Broadway survive recession?
linda.winer@newsday.comIs there no business in show business? Does anybody know? Well before the unexpected death of Gerald Schoenfeld, 84, powerhouse chairman of the Shubert Organization, the theater community - like everyone tangled in the global economy - was imagining...Tags: Boeing Co., Mary Poppins (musical), Monty Python's Spamalot, Katie Holmes, Jane Fonda
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Deaths elsewhere
MARTHA VON BULOW, 76 American heiress Martha von Bulow, the American heiress who was first married to an Austrian playboy prince and then to a Danish-born man who was twice tried on charges of attempting to murder her, died yesterday at a nursing home...Tags: Crimes, Punishment, Murder, Glenn Close, Trials
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The menagerie in 'Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa' is a hoot
The Circle of Life becomes the Three-Ring Circus of Life in Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa.
Remember how Robin Williams in Aladdin giddily exploded the dignity of 2-D animated classics right after they reached a high point in Beauty and the Beast?...Tags: Robin Williams, Bernie Mac, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Tina Turner
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Quick Takes
Damages sought in Nazi art seizure An 82-year-old Holocaust survivor and his family are suing the German government over an extensive art collection, including paintings by El Greco and Peter Paul Rubens, seized by the Nazis and sold at auction during...Tags: Georgia O'Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz, Quantum of Solace (movie), Auction Service, Family
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Oscar likes to keep it real
" The Duchess." "W." " Changeling." " Defiance." "Frost/Nixon." "Milk." " Valkyrie." "Che." What do these films have in common, other than succinct titles? All are based on real people and events, and all happen to have release dates timed to award...Tags: There Will Be Blood (movie), Jamie Foxx, Tom Hanks, The Soloist (movie), Angelina Jolie
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Less than a 'Masterpiece' this time around
Chicago Tribune criticIn certain scenes, Laurence Olivier took more time sipping his tea in the 1981 British television adaptation of " Brideshead Revisited" than it takes to watch the entirety of the brisk, rather disheveled film version of the Evelyn Waugh novel now in...Tags: Jane Austen, Michael Gambon, Emma Thompson, Laurence Olivier, Movies
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Upholding law and order in 'Appaloosa'
The tang of good old-fashioned Westerns only improves with time. Appaloosa, a story of two lawmen who clean up the title town at some personal cost, goes down like a single-malt aged for 25 years - since that last defiantly traditional big-screen Western,...Tags: Appaloosa (movie), Renee Zellweger, Gary Cooper, Fred Schepisi, Crimes
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'Brideshead' is a soapy remake of 1982 miniseries
Sun movie critic(C) Although movie critics like to mock multipart British literary adaptations for being slavishly reverential to their sources, let's just admit that at their best they provide actors with greater opportunities to develop complex characters than any...Tags: Jane Austen, Philip Kaufman, Emma Thompson, Music Theater, Juliet Stevenson
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