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Martha Plimpton Shines In 'Pal Joey,' But Understudy Promoted To Title Role Is Weak
Special To The CourantThe songs are great, the book is much improved and the women deliver, especially the astonishing Martha Plimpton. But there is no Cinderfella story for Matthew Risch, the understudy who took over the title role in "Pal Joey." Stockard Channing is the...Tags: Gene Kelly, Bars and Clubs, Rita Hayworth, Oscar Hammerstein, Martha Plimpton
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As Sammy's star imploded
Deconstructing
Sammy
Music, Money, Madness,
and the Mob
Matt Birkbeck
Amistad: 288 pp., $25.95
Sammy Davis Jr. was the epitome of the artist as brilliant naif, blazing as he collapses into a cold, dark star, a posthumous object best described...Tags: Books and Magazines, Horatio Alger, Family, Sammy Davis Jr., Internal Revenue Service
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The Master's style, without the Master's passion
Special to the TribuneFor the first few minutes, it's easy to see "Married Life" as an early Alfred Hitchcock film. The year is 1949, and Pierce Brosnan's elegant, mannered narration sets the scene as he and old friend Harry ( Chris Cooper) meet in an upscale supper club. They...Tags: Alfred Hitchcock, Movies, Family, Evanston, Douglas Sirk
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RECOMMENDED READING
CRITICS' PICKS
Summer can be a time for devouring the latest blockbuster, but it can also be a time for catching up on last century's blockbuster or even a blockbuster from the century before that - something by Dickens is always good. Let us suggest...Tags: Music Theater, Terry Zwigoff, Drug Trafficking, Don DeLillo, John Lennon
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Keys Opens Disney Deal
Zap2It.comAlthough her first acting roles have yet to make it to the big screen, Disney is convinced that Alicia Keys is a movie star. The studio has signed the Grammy-winning musical and her manager Jeff Robinson to a first-look film production deal, according to...Tags: James Stewart, Jeff Robinson, Alicia Keys, Jack Lemmon, Movies
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Movie review: Basic Instinct 2'
Tribune arts critic1˝ stars (out of four) It's mainly a chore, but "Basic Instinct 2" features the funniest opening-credits sequence since "Monty Python and the Holy Grail." Fourteen years after her affair with the surly patsy played by Michael Douglas in the first...Tags: John Murphy, Madonna, Michael Douglas, Anthony Hopkins, Sharon Stone
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Kim Novak, James Dean Win Henrietta Awards
From The Times: March 1, 1957 Motion picture actress Kim Novak and James Dean, deceased film actor, were named as the world favorites at the annual Golden Globe Awards presentation of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association last night at the Ambassador....Tags: Kirk Douglas, Movies, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean, Eileen Heckart
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And the loser is...
The EnvelopeNo one is likely to mention Allan Carr from the stage of the Kodak Theatre tonight. If the 77th annual Academy Awards ceremony includes a film montage of previous shows, chances are that the one he produced won't be among them. But make no mistake, he...Tags: Beach Vacations, Michael Jackson, Michael Caine, Loretta Young, Tyrone Power Sr.
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75 achievements Oscar forgot
Tribune movie criticWhen the Oscar nominations come out Tuesday, there are bound to be cries of injustice -- and in many cases, those charges will have merit. Can anyone really defend the exclusion from the Oscar nominee list in various years of movies such as "Some Like...Tags: James Stewart, Bette Davis, Ted Williams, James Dean, Murder
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'Mostly Martha'
Times Staff WriterOne of the most persistent and endearingly silly subcategories of the woman's picture is the Symbolic Hair Story, those cautionary tales of uptight ladies with upswept tresses in which a woman's journey directly corresponds with the downward trajectory of...Tags: James Stewart, Cinema Industry, Neil LaBute, Santa Monica, Movies
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How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
STAFF WRITER(PG-13). Star-crossed schemers find that losing at love isn't all that easy. Trite, contrived, but often entertaining. With Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey, Robert Klein, Bebe Neuwirth, Shalom Harlow. Screenplay by Kristen Buckley, Brian Regan, Burr...Tags: Donald Petrie, John Anderson, Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey, Movies
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Picnic
TIMES STAFF WRITERThursday August 8, 1996 "Picnic," the 1955 film of the William Inge play of the same name, not only remains timeless in its appeal but now has even more impact for those of us who saw it in our youth upon its initial release. From its...Tags: Cinema Industry, Labor Day, Movies, Jo Mielziner, Football
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