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Hollywood rarely did Donald Westlake justice
One of the enigmas in the long and rich career of Donald E. Westlake was that this author of more than 100 novels, many of them popular, accessible and plot-driven works of crime fiction, both grim and comic, received such a spotty handling by Hollywood....Tags: Mel Gibson, Gary Coleman, Film Festivals, Basketball, Cinema Industry
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Clint Eastwood shines up his 'Gran Torino'
In the afternoons, there's a hush and warm amber glow in Clint Eastwood's office, which, unlike other bungalows at the Warner Bros. studio lot, has a rustic feel and furniture that manages to be just as practical as it is stylish. All of that suits the...Tags: Schools, Changeling (movie), Celebrity, Crimes, Film Festivals
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Happy birthday! Jan. 5
Walter F. Mondale, former vice president, 81 Robert Duvall, actor, 78 Charlie Rose, talk-show host, 67 Diane Keaton, actress, 63 Brian "Marilyn Manson" Warner, singer, 40 January Jones, actress, 31 — The Associated PressTags: Diane Keaton, Celebrity, Walter Mondale, Marilyn Manson
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Travolta issues statement
In his first public statement since his 16-year-old son's death, John Travolta thanked people for their support and said he and his wife, Kelly Preston, were "heartbroken that our time with him was so brief." A caretaker found Jett Travolta unconscious...Tags: Diane Keaton, Celebrity, Jett Travolta, John Travolta, Pamela Sue Martin
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Today's Celebrity Birthdays
Today's Birthdays: Former Vice President Walter F. Mondale is 81. Actor Robert Duvall is 78. Football Hall-of-Fame coach Chuck Noll is 77. King Juan Carlos of Spain is 71. Talk show host Charlie Rose is 67. Actress-director Diane Keaton is 63. Actor Ted...Tags: Vinnie Jones, Diane Keaton, Chuck Noll, Clancy Brown, Celebrity
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Actor in ' Apocalypse Now '
Tribune Newspapers++++++++++++++++++++ || Sam Bottoms made his screen debut as a teenager in 1971. Michel Euler/AP 2001 || ++++++++++++++++++++ Tribune Newspapers LOS ANGELES — Sam Bottoms, a film and television actor who played the role of California surfer-...Tags: Lance Johnson, California, Marlon Brando, Peter Bogdanovich, Celebrity
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Dustin Hoffman: 'I would have wound up writing jingles'
Failure, it turns out, is never far from Dustin Hoffman's mind, and it doesn't take much to get the 71-year-old actor reminiscing about the decade he spent in his 20s in New York when almost every audition ended in rejection and he had to reconcile his...Tags: Jazz Music, Foods and Beverages, Celebrity, Ginger Rogers, Sex
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Sam Bottoms dies at 53; actor appeared in 'Apocalypse Now,' 'Last Picture Show'
Sam Bottoms, a film and television actor who played the role of California surfer-turned-GI Lance Johnson in Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam War epic "Apocalypse Now," has died. He was 53. Bottoms died Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles of...Tags: Lance Johnson, California, Marlon Brando, Peter Bogdanovich, Celebrity
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Critics Choice: Poetry & Politics
The Hartford CourantElizabeth Alexander, a Yale professor who is reading an original poem at Barack Obama's presidential inauguration, won't have one of the problems fellow poet Robert Frost encountered at John F. Kennedy's ceremony in 1961. Frost's original poem...Tags: Horton Foote, Westport Country Playhouse, Bill Clinton, 2009 U.S. Presidential Inauguration, Film Festivals
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Viewing Wayne's 'Grit'
John Wayne, after spending more than a quarter-century as probably the world's most popular movie star, finally won his Best Actor Oscar for 1969's True Grit (3 p.m., TCM), a revisionist Western in which he got to play a scurrilous, drunken federal...Tags: John Wayne, Louis Gossett Jr., Celebrity, Richard Gere, Celebrity Mothers
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Sam Bottoms, actor in theatrical family
The Associated PressSam Bottoms, who had small but memorable roles in the 1970s classics Apocalypse Now and The Last Picture Show, has died. He was 53. Mr. Bottoms, one of four actor-brothers, died Dec. 16 of brain cancer at his home in Los Angeles, his wife, Laura Bickford...Tags: Death and Dying, Francis Ford Coppola, Los Angeles
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'10,000 Hours' book a hit with Hollywood
Why is everyone in Hollywood talking about 10,000 hours?
That's the amount of time that author Malcolm Gladwell says it takes for a talented person to master a cognitively complex skill -- like becoming a world-class pianist or an Olympic athlete -- in...Tags: Kelly Clarkson, Newspapers, Will Smith, Sam Mendes, Celebrity
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