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No bitter endings when the readers chime in
In the Dec. 28 Movies section, we talked about how some recent movies had less than enjoyable endings, then shared some of our favorite movie conclusions and asked to hear yours. And did we ever hear from you! Here are some of the responses (out of...Tags: Richard Gere, Beach Vacations, Waukegan, Cary Grant, Elk Grove Village (Cook, Illinois)
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'The Black Dahlia'
Zap2It.comIt's often necessary to see Brian DePalma films twice -- the first time to get the muddled narrative storytelling out of the way and the second time to appreciate the operatic excess and intricate visual storytelling. Even though "The Black Dahlia"...Tags: Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Hilary Swank, Josh Hartnett, Minority Groups, Movies
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The death-deifying De Palma
Special to The Times"Nothing stays buried forever," says a cop in the new Brian De Palma thriller "The Black Dahlia." This basic rule of homicide investigation also applies to De Palma's career. One of his very first movies was called "Murder à la Mod," and the murders...Tags: Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), John Travolta, Movies, Steven Spielberg, Nature
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Celebrity birthdays for the week of June 19-25:
The Associated PressJune 19: Actress Gena Rowlands is 69. R&B singer Al Wilson is 66. Singer Spanky MacFarlane of Spanky and Our Gang is 63. Actress Phylicia Rashad is 57. Singer Ann Wilson of Heart is 55. Actress Kathleen Turner is 51. Country singer Doug Stone is 49....Tags: Michael Lerner, Graham Greene, Gena Rowlands, Michael Gross, June Lockhart
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'Circuit'
Times Staff WriterDirk Shafer's lively "Circuit" is at once a sexy soap opera, at times lurid and bathetic, and also a gritty cautionary tale made by a filmmaker honest enough to have it both ways. In other words, Shafer can see the circuit party scene with its sex,...Tags: AIDS, Minority Groups, Movies, Rudolph Valentino, Family
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'Gandhi' and 'Gump'
"Gandhi" (Columbia TriStar, $25), which was directed by Sir Richard Attenborough, is a lengthy, literate and traditional biopic about the famed Indian leader. Winner of numerous Academy Awards, the film is brilliantly acted by best actor winner Ben...Tags: Betty Buckley, Robin, Ben Kingsley, Movies, Robin Wright
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Out of Sight
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday June 26, 1998 Hollywood has been doing business with Elmore Leonard for decades, and the novelist has quite a store of amusing stories about the unmitigated fiascoes the studios have turned his novels into. Like the time Richard Widmark...Tags: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Movies, Ving Rhames, Danny DeVito, Jennifer Lopez
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