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    Nov 6, 2010 |Story| Associated Press

  1. Jill Clayburgh dies at 66; Oscar-nominated actress

    Jill Clayburgh, whose Broadway and Hollywood <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001049/">acting career</a> was highlighted by her Oscar-nominated roles in the 1970s films "An Unmarried Woman" and "Starting Over," died Friday. She was 66.
    Jill Clayburgh, whose Broadway and Hollywood acting career was highlighted by her Oscar-nominated roles in the 1970s films "An Unmarried Woman" and "Starting Over," died Friday. She was 66. Her husband, Tony Award-winning playwright David Rabe, said...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, Broadway Theater, David Merrick, Richard Thomas, Health

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

  2. 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: Arts and Culture, Drama (genre), David Lean, Gregory Peck, Film Festivals

    3. Oct 10, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  3. 'Argo' director/star Ben Affleck grows smarter and more ambitious with each picture

    In the last shot of Ben Affleck's "Argo" &mdash; relax, there are no spoilers here &mdash; the camera pans slowly along the shelves of toys in a young boy's bedroom. The year is 1980; the film spends most of its time on the true story of how a CIA operative named Tony Mendez (Affleck) used the faux production of a low-budget sci-fi picture as the cover to sneak a handful of American embassy workers out of an Iran in the midst of post-revolutionary upheaval.
    In the last shot of Ben Affleck's "Argo" — relax, there are no spoilers here — the camera pans slowly along the shelves of toys in a young boy's bedroom. The year is 1980; the film spends most of its time on the true story of how a CIA...

    Tags: Matt Damon, Central Intelligence Agency, Jennifer Garner, Celebrities, Entertainment

    4. Jul 23, 2012 |Story| Tribune Media Services

  4. Frank Pierson, former AMPAS prexy, dies

    Variety
    Frank Pierson, the Oscar-winning writer of "Dog Day Afternoon," former president of the Academy of Motion Pictures & Sciences and a consulting producer on "Mad Men" as recently as this past season, died Monday after a short illness in Los Angeles. He...

    Tags: Drama (genre), Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Alcoa Incorporated, Robert Morse, Bruce Willis

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

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

  6. 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: Ronald Reagan, William Hurt, James Spader, Democratic Party, Black Hills Corporation

    7. Feb 25, 2006 |Story| Zap2It

  7. '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, Ned Beatty, Movies, Entertainment

    8. Aug 2, 2006 |Story| Zap2It

  8. 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

    9. Jul 6, 1999 |Story| Metromix

  9. 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: William Hurt, Ron Howard, Structural Failures, Comedy (genre), Celebrities

    10. Mar 7, 2000 |Story| Metromix

  10. 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: Angela Lansbury, Music Industry, Shirley Knight, David Lean, Jack Lemmon

    11. Apr 19, 2001 |Story| Metromix

  11. 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: Central Intelligence Agency, Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Marvin Hamlisch, Mia Farrow

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