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'The House of Blue Leaves'
Times Theater CriticGROPING for a comfortable moral in John Guare's classic black comedy "The House of Blue Leaves," which opened Sunday at the Mark Taper Forum in a sensational revival directed by Nicholas Martin, is a little like asking an escaped felon for some friendly...Tags: Swoosie Kurtz, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Theater, John Guare, California
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Mark Taper Forum makeover freshens up L.A. theater scene
Times Theater CriticTouring the newly renovated Mark Taper Forum a few weeks before its official unveiling was a bit like standing at the crossroads between the past and the future. It wasn't merely the sight of stage carpenters readying the set for "The House of Blue...Tags: Walt Disney, Architecture, Peter Brook, Los Angeles, Santa Monica
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No slowing down for Jane Kaczmarek
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIt's a truism of the theater: Nuns are funny. Just ask Nicholas Martin, director of John Guare's "The House of Blue Leaves," the inaugural production of the newly remodeled Mark Taper Forum, reopening Saturday after a $30-million makeover. "It's true....Tags: Family, Celebrity Mothers, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Children, Health and Safety at School
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Two musicals on Taper's 2009 slate
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterHoping to give audiences something to buzz about in the expanded lobby yielded by its $30-million renovation, the Mark Taper Forum will offer a 2009 season that includes revivals of the Broadway musicals "Pippin" and "Parade" and Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya"...Tags: Family, Robert Brown, Festive Event, John Guare, International Military Interventions
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Taper will undergo yearlong remodeling
Times Staff WriterThe Music Center's Mark Taper Forum will receive a $30-million interior renovation beginning in July, Music Center officials said Monday. The remodeling project, expected to continue through mid-2008, will include doubling the lobby space by relocating...Tags: Culver City, Walt Disney, Renovation, Los Angeles, Kirk Douglas
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One-man show
Times Staff WriterNO one said it was going to be easy. But with his first season behind him and his second already underway, Center Theatre Group artistic director Michael Ritchie has yet to communicate a clear theatrical game plan. Questions concerning his artistic...Tags: Culture, August Wilson, Robert Wilson, David Henry Hwang, Music
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Richard Linklater: Bad News Bears
Why Linklater got the job: Lately it seems as though everything Linklater touches turns to critically acclaimed gold, whether it's an animated bull session ("Waking Life"), a slick slacker comedy ("School of Rock") or a quirky sequel ("Before Sunset")....Tags: Billy Bob Thornton, Marcia Gay Harden, Terry Zwigoff, Greg Kinnear, Richard Linklater
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It's not quite dark chocolate
John Anderson is a regular contributor to Newsday.Far away, on a tiny street in Amsterdam, is a shop called Puccini that produces chocolates in all manner of eccentric flavors - tamarind, tea, lemongrass, black pepper. The intention, one guesses, is to make chocolate more interesting for a certain type...Tags: Johnny Depp, Tim Burton, Family, Gene Wilder, People
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Movie review: 'Bad News Bears'
Tribune movie critic3 stars (out of four) "Bad News Bears," with Billy Bob Thornton as the booze-guzzling coach whose youth baseball team goes from ragtag to riches, is one movie remake that doesn't need a defense attorney. If you were ever a kid who played baseball—and...Tags: Chris Barnes, Billy Bob Thornton, Burt Lancaster, Baseball, Greg Kinnear
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5 films about baseball
1. THE BAD NEWS BEARS (Michael Ritchie; 1976) 3 stars Spawning two sequels and a TV series that failed to live up to the original's charm, "The Bad News Bears" stars the delightfully cranky Walter Matthau as a reluctant Little League baseball coach...Tags: All Stars, Lou Gehrig, Barry Levinson, Baseball, Major League Baseball
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A Simple Wish
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday July 11, 1997 If you put a gleeful performance inside an indifferent movie, does the film get better or does it remain an indifferent piece of work with an asterisk next to it? This is no abstract question, it's what audiences will be...Tags: Martin Short, Nebraska, Central Park, Bette Davis, Andrew Lloyd Webber
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Drop Dead Gorgeous
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday July 23, 1999 Satirizing beauty contests is hardly new--Michael Ritchie's "Smile" did it brilliantly back in 1975--but since they're still around they remain ripe targets, as demonstrated with dark hilarity in "Drop Dead Gorgeous."...Tags: Statue of Liberty, Adam West, Kirsten Dunst, Family, Denise Richards
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