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'Sex Drive' gets raunchy in Amish country
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterChin whiskers and horse-drawn buggies. Women in bonnets and unadorned frocks. Long days of earnest labor and active avoidance of modern conveniences. Amish country isn't the first place you'd imagine the protagonists of a raunchy sex comedy to wind up --...Tags: Weird Al Yankovic, Movies, Halloween, Seth Green, Harrison Ford
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Take 5: Hail to the Chief
With Sarah Palin and Joe Biden squaring off in tonight's vice presidential debate, we offer up five memorable veeps who have been dramatized on TV. Dick Cheney Lawrence Pressman played the current vice president in the 2003 TV movie, "DC 9/11: Time of...Tags: Dick Cheney, Movies, John F. Kennedy, Government, Television
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Georgyanna Giardini has spent 45 years buffing her manicurist reputation
Special to The TimesIN A CITY where there's a nail salon on every corner, the woman who may do it best works inside her Los Angeles apartment, polishing and buffing the nails of the famous and not-so-famous with extraordinary zeal and opinionated wit. Georgyanna Giardini...Tags: Health Treatments, Los Angeles, Uma Thurman, San Fernando, Manicures and Pedicures
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Fame, fortune and financial distress -- that's showbiz
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersThey can live in mansions. Shop at the fanciest department stores. Drive luxury cars. So why is it that so many highly paid entertainers have money issues? Well, they often live in mansions, shop in the fanciest department stores or drive luxury cars --...Tags: Johnny Carson, Financially Distressed Companies, Ohio, Giorgio Armani, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California)
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Top 5 bowling movies
Metromix.comSo, you're rarin' and ready to roll now that you've perused our bowling guide? Think again, champ. Get some silver-screen inspiration first, by watching one of these bowling-centric flicks before you head out to the lanes. "The Big Lebowski": The Coen...Tags: Janeane Garofalo, Bowling, Woody Harrelson, Movies, Ethan Coen
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'Goya's Ghosts'
Times Staff Writer"Goya's Ghosts" is Milos Forman's first film since 1999, but you sincerely wish it wasn't. A logy, rambling period piece, it feels about as far away from the spirit of "Amadeus" as it's possible to get with wigs and britches. Focusing only incidentally on...Tags: Milos Forman, Natalie Portman, Movies, Madonna, Javier Bardem
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Quaid to Serve As 'Tennis Coach'
Zap2It.comRandy Quaid better start practicing his backhand. The Oscar-nominated actor is in final talks to star opposite Seann William Scott in the indie comedy "Gary the Tennis Coach." According to The Hollywood Reporter, Scott will play the titular character...Tags: Milos Forman, Tennis, Celebrity
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Quaid Quits 'Brokeback Mountain' Suit
Zap2It.comActor Randy Quaid announced he's going to drop his lawsuit against Focus Features for swindling him out of money for his role in "Brokeback Mountain" because the studio has agreed to pay him a bonus. The only problem is that someone needs to tell Focus...Tags: Milos Forman, Natalie Portman, Celebrity, Javier Bardem, Academy Awards
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Giving the lie to five Oscar pics
The Envelope'Munich' On the subject of "Munich," there's been much hand-wringing. Was it good for the Jews or bad for the Jews that Israeli assassins were portrayed as conscience-stricken? Can serious moral issues and box-office success be effectively melded by a...Tags: Movies, Richard Burton, Adolf Eichmann, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), CBS Corp.
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Quaid Sues 'Brokeback' Producers Over Fake Broke Budget
Zap2It.com"Brokeback Mountain" fans may think the film was robbed of a best picture Oscar, but actor Randy Quaid claims to be the injured party considering the film's success. Quaid, who played the laconic boss Joe Aguirre in the film, filed a lawsuit that alleges...Tags: Ang Lee, Movies, Budgets and Budgeting, Trials, Los Angeles
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Fast-Paised review: 'The Ice Harvest'
Big question: John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton are two of the most appealing--and different--comic leads working today. But do we really need a morose movie about what happens when Mr. Nice Guy and Bad Santa steal $2 million on Christmas? Catch it:...Tags: Robert Benton, Movies, John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Harold Ramis
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Movie review: 'The Ice Harvest'
Tribune staff reporter2 stars (out of four) Billy Bob Thornton must be itching for a Bill O'Reilly boycott. Leave it to the guy who wore a vial of blood and played James Carville in "Primary Colors" to launch a liberal Hollywood attack on Christmas — first with "Bad Santa,"...Tags: Robert Benton, Movies, Waukegan, Harold Ramis, Religious Festivals
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