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Dustin Hoffman: 'I would have wound up writing jingles'
Failure, it turns out, is never far from Dustin Hoffman's mind, and it doesn't take much to get the 71-year-old actor reminiscing about the decade he spent in his 20s in New York when almost every audition ended in rejection and he had to reconcile his...Tags: Jon Voight, Dustin Hoffman, Hamburgers, Anne Bancroft, Movies
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L.A. Opera enlists David Cronenberg, William Friedkin and Woody Allen
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIN DIRECTOR David Cronenberg's 1986 movie "The Fly" -- remember "Be afraid. Be very afraid"? -- scientist Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum) commits a fatal error when he combines his own genes with those of a common housefly. At Los Angeles Opera these days,...Tags: Movies, Tim Robbins, Franco Zeffirelli, Music Theater, Julie Taymor
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A critical time of our sign
Idon't know about you, but I'm proud of the fact that the most celebrated symbol of our city isn't a statue that was a gift from the French. I also think it's fitting that it isn't burdened with heavy ideology, profound symbolism or deep meaning. Nobody...Tags: Real Estate, Hugh Hefner, Alice Cooper, Chicago Real Estate, Los Angeles
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The Big Winners
Times Staff WriterFrom the Times: April 8, 1970 "Midnight Cowboy" was honored as best picture of the year and Maggie Smith and John Wayne won Oscars as best actress and best actor of the year at the 42nd annual Academy Awards presentation in the Dorothy Chandler...Tags: Maggie Smith, Goldie Hawn, Movies, Richard Burton, Fred Astaire
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Movie review: 'A Home at the End of the World'
Tribune Arts Critic2 stars (out of 4) Timing can be everything, and so it proves, sadly, for "A Home at the End of the World," a film based on Michael Cunningham's 1990 novel. Cunningham is author of "The Hours," the more recent novel and even more recent, Oscar-nominated...Tags: William Faulkner, Minority Groups, Movies, Tom Hulce, Film Festivals
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NC-17 rating fails to vex Waters
Sun Movie CriticJohn Waters must be one of the few film directors who can shrug when their work is declared off-limits to a significant portion of the movie-going population. "If anyone can take it, I can," Waters says, not as boast, but fact. Titled A Dirty Shame, the...Tags: Johnny Knoxville, Marketing, Peter Farrelly, Movies, Pornography
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Rated 'F' for failure
As moviegoers, we are a nation of children. How else to explain the fact that the U.S., unlike England and Canada, lacks a working movie rating that indicates that a film is for adults, not kids? Sure, in theory there's the NC-17, an abbreviation of...Tags: Ellen Burstyn, Roger Ebert, National Government, Marketing, Darren Aronofsky
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'Eye for an Eye'
For The TimesPicture Sally Field as Charles Bronson and you have about half of what "Eye for an Eye" is about: the vicarious thrill of watching jerry-built justice meted out to a more-than-deserving lowlife, while we sit agitated but safe in the warm embrace of our...Tags: Sally Field, John Anderson, Ed Harris, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Movies
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Cold Comfort Farm
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday May 10, 1996 What could be more welcome than a classic English comedy, bristling with wit and hilarity and crammed with wonderful eccentrics? Since such comedies have become something of a rarity, that's all the more reason to cherish "Cold...Tags: Farms, Kate Beckinsale, Ian McKellen, Movies, Gramercy
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Shooting Fish
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday May 1, 1998 "Shooting Fish," not as inspired or amusing as it might be, leans heavily on the considerable charm of its three young and attractive principals. Their charisma and the film's larky spirit, English locales and elaborate cons might...Tags: Kate Beckinsale, Robin Hood, Robin Williams, Movies, Brooklyn Bridge
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The Next Best Thing
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday March 3, 2000 Trying to cheer up gay best pal Robert (Rupert Everett) after the AIDS-related deathof one of his friends, Abbie (Madonna) takes a kitchen moment in "The Next Best Thing" to say she knows just what she wants in the way of...Tags: Rupert Everett, Arthur Hiller, Minority Groups, Movies, Paramount
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The Innocent
TIMES STAFF WRITERMonday September 4, 1995 "The Innocent," a ponderous, old-fashioned love story set in postwar Berlin, would surely have been far more effective had it actually been told in the '50s, the era in which it is set. In any event, it's altogether the...Tags: Engineering, Ingrid Bergman, Movies, Isabella Rossellini, Cinema Industry
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