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'What Just Happened' stars Robert De Niro, Bruce Willis, Catherine Keener
Chicago Tribune criticIf relaxation were an automatic cinematic virtue, we'd have the comedy of the year in director Barry Levinson's "What Just Happened." Small, mild, easy to watch and easier to forget, this adaptation of producer Art Linson's Hollywood memoirs has the...Tags: Bruce Willis, Robert De Niro, Movies, John Turturro, Film Festivals
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'The Touch,' directed by Ingmar Bergman, tonight at the Billy Wilder Theater
"The Touch" is Ingmar Bergman's orphan film.
The celebrated, late Swedish director's only project in English, it's a gut-wrenching relationship drama from 1971 starring Elliott Gould, who was as hot then as the entire cast of "Twilight" is now, and...Tags: Max von Sydow, Celebrity Mothers, Movies, Curtis Hanson, Twilight (movie)
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'Shel Silverstein Uncensored!'
Though the late Shel Silverstein is best remembered as an author of wryly subversive children's poetry, his 40-year career spanned a dizzying array of artistic media: songwriter-musician, cartoonist, screenwriter and playwright. His work in that latter...Tags: Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), North Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Jerome Kern, Movies, Music
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'I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With'
At heart, the sweet if undernourished looking-for-love comedy "I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With" is writer-director-star Jeff Garlin's way of saying, it's hard out there for a blimp. Lonely, lives-with-his-mom 39-year-old actor James (Garlin) is the kind...Tags: Sally Kirkland, Bonnie Hunt, National or Ethnic Minorities, Movies, Woody Allen
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Movie review: 'Diggers'
Tribune movie critic2½ stars (out of four) It may have had to do with the reportedly mellow quality of the alleged marijuana back then, the kind that is smoked with some regularity in the new film "Diggers." But in the 1970s it wasn't hard to find on your local movie screen...Tags: Josh Hamilton, Ron Eldard, Long Island, Movies
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Diggers
Zap2It.comIt may have had to do with the reportedly mellow quality of the alleged marijuana back then, the kind that is smoked with some regularity in the new film "Diggers." But in the 1970s it wasn't hard to find on your local movie screen the occasional genial...Tags: Ron Eldard, Long Island, Movies
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A pre-Oscars perk gets erased
Times Staff WritersOne of Hollywood's greatest freebies — the bonanza of DVDs and videocassettes that clogs showbiz mailboxes every awards season — met an abrupt end Tuesday after the major studios agreed to halt their largess in the name of fighting movie...Tags: News Corp., Robert Ellis, Sony Corp., Marketing, Elections
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Actor Art Carney dead at 85
Los Angeles Times staff writerArt Carney, who won a best actor Oscar for "Harry and Tonto" and originated the role of fussy Felix Unger in "The Odd Couple" on Broadway, but who is best remembered as Jackie Gleason's lovable sewer worker pal Ed Norton on "The Honeymooners," has died....Tags: Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Music Theater, Broadway, Lily Tomlin, Public Employees
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A Decade Under the Influence
STAFF WRITER(R). Documentary by Richard LaGravenese and the late Ted Demme is a sketchy, but earnest valentine to the anything-goes American cinema of the early 1970s. Film clips are derived from, among others, "Easy Rider," "The Godfather," "Shampoo," "McCabe and...Tags: Movies, Personal Service, Peter Bogdanovich, Sydney Pollack, Martin Scorsese
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'A Decade Under the Influence'
Times Staff WriterThroughout Richard LaGravenese and the late Ted Demme's stirring survey of American movies of the '70s, "A Decade Under the Influence," filmmakers and stars remark how their movies couldn't have been made in an earlier era. Some add wistfully that they...Tags: Robert De Niro, Movies, Roger Corman, Family, Peter Bogdanovich
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In the director's chair
Melanie Mayron finds that no matter how hard she tries, she keeps getting typecast both as an actress and a director. "I have played the best friend to some of the biggest and best movie stars," Mayron says, laughing. "In the leads I have done, I was...Tags: Medicine, Movies, Constantin Costa-Gavras, Schools, Television
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5 films that are undated Shakespearean plays
1. Forbidden Planet (Fred McLeod Wilcox; 1956) 3 1/2 stars One of the best-loved '50s sci-fi movies, with a plot boldly cribbed from Shakespeare's "Tempest." The cast includes Walter Pidgeon (Prospero), Anne Francis, a pre-comedy Leslie Nielsen and the...Tags: Ethan Hawke, Anne Francis, Movies, John Cassavetes, Natalie Wood
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