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    Dec 22, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. The art of politics

    It may come as a surprise to learn only one film revolving around politics has ever won the Academy Award for best picture: 1949's "All the King's Men." Based on the novel by Robert Penn Warren, the Robert Rossen-directed drama (unsuccessfully remade in 2006) followed the rise and fall of a Southern U.S. politician, said to have been inspired by 1930s Louisiana Gov. Huey P. Long. It also won that year's Oscars for lead actor (Broderick Crawford) and supporting actress (Mercedes McCambridge).
    It may come as a surprise to learn only one film revolving around politics has ever won the Academy Award for best picture: 1949's "All the King's Men." Based on the novel by Robert Penn Warren, the Robert Rossen-directed drama (unsuccessfully remade in...

    Tags: Frank Langella, William Goldman, Robert Rossen, Dustin Hoffman, Oliver Stone

    2. Nov 6, 2010 |Story| Associated Press
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    Tags: Robert De Niro, Jill Clayburgh, Jane Fonda, Howard Dean, Tom Stoppard

    3. Dec 21, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. Robert Mulligan dies at 83; directed 'To Kill a Mockingbird'

    Robert Mulligan, who was nominated for an Academy Award for directing the 1962 film classic "To Kill a Mockingbird," died Saturday at his home in Lyme, Conn. He was 83. Mulligan had heart disease, his nephew Robert Rosenthal said. The director began...

    Tags: Natalie Wood, Awards and Prizes, Film Festivals, David Lean, Steve McQueen

    4. Jan 2, 2012 |Story| Tribune Media Services

  4. Berlinale fetes Meryl Streep: Thesp to receive honorary Golden Bear, homage

    Tribune Media Services
    BERLIN -- The Berlin Film Festival is honoring Meryl Streep this year with a homage and honorary Golden Bear. "We are delighted to be able to award the honorary Golden Bear to such a terrific artist and world star," said Berlinale topper Dieter Kosslick....

    Tags: Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman, Drama (genre), Entertainment Events, Robert Altman

    5. Dec 28, 2010 |Story| WJW

  5. 'Empire Strikes Back,' 'Saturday Night Fever' Among Films to Be Preserved

    Darth Vader proclaiming he's Luke Skywalker's father, Tony Manero preening in his underwear and an early 20th-century deaf activist speaking in sign language are among the images that will be preserved by the Library of Congress as part of its National Film Registry.
    Associated Press
    Darth Vader proclaiming he's Luke Skywalker's father, Tony Manero preening in his underwear and an early 20th-century deaf activist speaking in sign language are among the images that will be preserved by the Library of Congress as part of its National...

    Tags: Dining and Drinking, Documentary (genre), Robert Altman, Star Wars (movie), Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

    6. Oct 7, 2010 |Story| Hola Hoy
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    Tags: Mark Johnson, Anthony Minghella, Martin Scorsese, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc.

    7. Nov 1, 2006 |Story| Baltimoresun.com

  7. Made in Maryland

    <B>Absolute Power</B> (1997)
    Absolute Power (1997) Clint Eastwood stars as the sensitive thief who can save the entire American political system from complete corruption. Too bad he wasn't around during the Reagan administration. Eastwood discovers presidential corruption during...

    Tags: Frank Langella, Gary Oldman, Amanda Peet, Matthew Lillard, Hector Elizondo

    8. Feb 25, 2006 |Story| Zap2It

  8. 'All the President's Men' -- Two-Disc Special Edition

    Zap2It.com
    Of the wave of paranoid thrillers that hit theaters in the 1970s -- like "The Conversation" or "Three Days of the Condor" or "The Parallax View" -- "All the President's Men" was among the best. Every bit as breathless, pulse-pounding and twisted as its...

    Tags: Politics, Jane Alexander, William Goldman, PG Rated Movies, Dustin Hoffman

    9. Aug 2, 2006 |Story| Zap2It

  9. Green Goes From Bond Babe to Good Witch

    Zap2It.com
    New Bond bombshell Eva Green will join the cast of New Line's big budget adaptation of "The Golden Compass." The adaptation of the first part of Phillip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy is set to begin production in September with Chris Weitz at...

    Tags: Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Ridley Scott, Bernardo Bertolucci

    10. Jul 6, 1999 |Story| Metromix

  10. Pressing business

    CMB
    Why do the movies, old and new, have such a continuing fascination for newspaper offices? For wisecracking reporters, tantrum-throwing editors and the race to beat the last deadline? Ever since movies started to talk in the 1920s, newspapers have been a...

    Tags: Barbara Stanwyck, Orson Welles, Buster Keaton, Andrzej Wajda, Cary Grant

    11. Mar 7, 2000 |Story| Metromix

  11. Top winners from 1962

    denotes winner Performance by an actor in a leading role Burt Lancaster as Robert Stroud in BIRD MAN OF ALCATRAZ Harold Hecht Productions; UA Jack Lemmon as Joe Clay in DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES Martin Manulis-Jalem Productions; Warner Bros. Marcello...

    Tags: Companies and Corporations, Geraldine Page, Death, Shirley Knight, Celebrities

    12. Apr 19, 2001 |Story| Metromix

  12. 5 films starring Robert Redford

    1. BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (George Roy Hill; 1969) 3 1/2 stars One western that nearly everyone likes is this affable, picaresque, elegiac tale of two charming outlaws on the run: Paul Newman's feisty Butch Cassidy and Robert Redford's...

    Tags: Sam Waterston, Butch Cassidy, Max von Sydow, Bruce Dern, John Houseman

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