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Broadway 's 'Young Frankenstein' is a monster mishmash
Tribune theater critic"Young Frankenstein" has a roughly $20 million budget, some $450 orchestra seats, an iconic 1974 source movie, performers with better pedigrees than the Queen of England's corgis, and heaps of goodwill flowing from the way its eminently lovable creator,...Tags: Theater, Mel Brooks, Broadway, Music, Music Theater
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'Young Frankenstein' cast is puttin' on the shtick
robert.kahn@newsday.com'What am I, a robber baron?" Mel Brooks barks into the phone from his Upper East Side apartment. "I'm giving you a performance to enjoy. I deserve whatever the hell I can get out of it." The 81-year-old comic has come unleashed at the rumor (confirmed, it...Tags: Madeline Kahn, Broadway, Nathan Lane, Tickets, Gene Wilder
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Movie review: 'Pan's Labyrinth'
Tribune movie critic4 stars (out of four) "Pan's Labyrinth," Guillermo del Toro's horrific yet wonderful tale of a little girl's dream world during Spain's worst era of fascism, is a great cinematic fairy tale--a brilliant work of the imagination capable of truly seizing...Tags: Guillermo Del Toro, Doug Jones, Evanston, Alfonso Cuaron, Movies
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'Father Knows Best' Mother Wyatt Dies
Times Staff WriterJane Wyatt, a three-time Emmy Award-winner for her portrayal of the patient, understanding housewife and mother on the classic 1950s family situation comedy "Father Knows Best," has died. She was 96. Wyatt, whose acting career spanned stage, screen and...Tags: Adolf Hitler, Broadway, Frank Capra Jr., Emmy Awards, Dana Andrews
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Movie review: 'The Spirit of the Beehive'
Tribune movie critic4 stars (out of four) "Spirit of the Beehive," the 1973 debut film of one of the world's great, neglected filmmakers, Spain's Victor Erice, is a work of sheer, entrancing beauty. It's a film that transports us back not just to the sights and sounds of...Tags: Terrence Malick, Boris Karloff, Music Box Theatre, Family, Movies
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Movie review: 'Van Helsing'
Chicago Tribune Movie Critic3 stars (out of 4) "Van Helsing," Stephen Sommers' high-tech revision of three Universal horror classics--"Dracula," "Frankenstein" and "The Wolf Man"--is a movie that's underwritten, overdirected, overproduced and almost constantly over-the-top. But it'...Tags: Hugh Jackman, Errol Flynn, Kevin J O'Connor, Bram Stoker, Movies
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'Hulk'
Times Staff WriterA story about a nice guy who turns as big, bad and green as King Kong on a bender, "Hulk" is based on the character created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, who launched their monster around the time that Kennedy and Khrushchev were set to launch their...Tags: Biotechnology, Eric Bana, Marvel Enterprises Incorporated, Stan Lee, Gale Ann Hurd
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What Really Scares Us?
Staff WriterSHORTLY AFTER James Whale's "Frankenstein” opened in November 1931, the manager of a certain Granada Theater received a 2 a.m. wake-up call. "I can't sleep,” said the unhappy patron. "So I'll be darned if you're going to sleep either!” The anecdote,...Tags: Texas, Jared Leto, Government, Claire Bloom, Movies
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First trilogy installment triumphs with skill, passion
Los Angeles Times Film CriticWith an endeavor like "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, it's the numbers that catch your eye first—and how could they not? An unprecedented three feature films shot simultaneously in 274 days spread over 15 months at a cost of nearly $300 million are...Tags: Richard Taylor, Sean Bean, Movies, Christopher Lee, Elijah Wood
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Fulfilling a Grand Quest
TIMES FILM CRITICWith an endeavor like "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, it's the numbers that catch your eye first--and how could they not? An unprecedented three feature films shot simultaneously in 274 days spread over 15 months at a cost of nearly $300 million are...Tags: Sean Bean, Richard Taylor, Christopher Lee, Movies, Elijah Wood
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'The Simian Line'
Times Staff WriterThe curious title of Linda Yellen's "The Simian Line," a blithe but tart romantic comedy with a supernatural twist, refers to what the dithery psychic Arnita (Tyne Daly) discovers when she reads the palm of her elegant neighbor Katharine (Lynn Redgrave),...Tags: Santa Monica, Rental Service, Tyne Daly, Monica Keena, Cindy Crawford
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Real To Reel
Courant Staff WriterNear the end of the director's cut of Giuseppe Tornatore's exquisite "Cinema Paradiso," a character who is a successful fortysomething filmmaker sits alone in his boyhood bedroom projecting a reel of grainy old footage on the wall. There, in the...Tags: Ingrid Bergman, Ronald Reagan, Akira Kurosawa, Crimes, Paul Schrader
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