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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: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Duvall, Ginger Rogers, Sex, Movies
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All the best and all the rest from 2008
Special to the SentinelYou can tell we're giving way to a new year: All the lists are coming out, including this wrap-up of 2008. Movies & TV *Great movie performances: Emma Thompson in Brideshead Revisited, Sean Penn in Milk, Michael Sheen in Frost/Nixon, Richard Jenkins...Tags: Robert Rauschenberg, Denis Leary, Tim Russert, Monty Python's Spamalot, Music Theater
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Filmmakers
Filmmakers Edward Klosinski, 65; a Polish cinematographer best known for his work with director Andrzej Wajda (Jan. 5) Ralph Bradshaw White, 66; an underwater cinematographer who documented the 1985 discovery of the Titanic (Feb. 4) Kon Ichikawa, 92; a...Tags: Jurassic Park (movie), Movies, Victor Hugo, Andrzej Wajda, Academy Awards
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Blacklisted Director Jules Dassin Dies at 96
Jules Dassin, the blacklisted American filmmaker who was a master of film noir, directing such classics as "Brute Force," "The Naked City" and "Rififi," died Monday in an Athens hospital. He was 96. The cause of death was not made public. The...Tags: Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Middletown, Hume Cronyn, Movies, Richard Burton
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Emmy-winning actor Browne Dies at 81
Times Staff WriterRoscoe Lee Browne, the Emmy-award winning actor with the mellifluous baritone that he used to give voice to roles as varied as Shakespeare's plays and the popular animal film "Babe," died Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 81....Tags: CBS Corp., Movies, New York Shakespeare Festival, Family, Music Theater
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Movie review: 'Buzz'
Tribune movie critic3 stars (out of four) "Buzz" is the documentary tale of a Hollywood screenwriter--not just any writer but A.I. (for Albert Isaac) "Buzz" Bezzerides, a movie writer, as it turns out, for the ages. Many film noir devotees revere the Greek-Armenian-...Tags: Clint Eastwood, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Edward G Robinson, Movies, James Robert Thompson
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'Buzz'
Times Staff WriterA.I. Bezzerides, Buzz to his friends, had a long, fruitful writing career in the 1940s and '50s, churning out pulp novels and scripts for film noir classics such as "On Dangerous Ground" and "Kiss Me Deadly." Yet, like many screenwriters, he remains...Tags: Movies, Marilyn Monroe, William Saroyan, Television, Humphrey Bogart
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Mission: Impossible III
Zap2It.comFor five seasons on "Alias," if J.J. Abrams wanted his team of spies to go to Rome or Shanghai or Berlin, he had to insert an aerial establishing shot of the city and then dress a stage on the Burbank lot to resemble the exotic locale. Making his...Tags: Laurence Fishburne, Michael Bay, Billy Crudup, Ving Rhames, Movies
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They stoked the star-maker machine
Special to The TimesWHAT is it about the public's obsession with stars? The media has been enthusiastically covering Hollywood for 100 years, and today's incessant, Internet-fueled celebrity "news" is omnipresent. The distribution methods have been dramatically accelerated,...Tags: Cliff Robertson, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Washington Post Co., Movies, Joan Crawford
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Movie review: 'Topkapi'
Chicago Tribune Movie Critic3 1/2 stars (out of 4) Jules Dassin's 1964 "Topkapi" is one of two top-notch heist movies the American-French expatriate and blacklist victim made, and it's a real departure from his other classic, 1955's "Rififi," with its gray Parisian skies and doom-...Tags: Gang Activity, Eric Ambler, Peter Ustinov, Movies, Theft
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Move review: 'Le Cercle Rouge'
Chicago Tribune Movie Critic4 stars (out of 4) Jean-Pierre Melville was a reigning master of French noir and the heist movie, the proprietor of a tight-lipped, dangerous world of deadly men in raincoats, multiple betrayals and Paris by night. Yet while Melville's austere crime...Tags: John Woo, Movies, Ethics, Values, Alain Delon
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'Kaante'
Times Staff WriterReady for a singing and dancing "Reservoir Dogs"? That's what the makers of "Kaante" are hoping India's mass audience is eager to see, and while the Hindi-speaking film industry is looking to the much-delayed movie to give it a boost, it shouldn't...Tags: Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Movies, Bank Robbery, Music, Sanjay Dutt
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