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Ken Stovitz returns to the agency fold with Paradigm
Ken Stovitz is returning to the agency business after six years as a producer. Stovitz, who formerly was a longtime agent at Creative Artists Agency until leaving to become a partner at Will Smith's production company, has joined Paradigm as a senior...
Tags: Hancock (movie), Kathryn Bigelow, Jaden Smith, The Karate Kid (movie, 2010), Will Smith
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Around Town: Indiana Jones rides back into town
24 FramesArclight Cinemas, celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, asked filmgoers to choose classic movies for this month's ArcLight Presents. And they came up with some popular choices, including "Raiders of the Lost Ark."... -
Will Hollywood ever top its Cinema Class of 1982?
24 FramesIf I heard that someone was assembling a screening series of fondly remembered films that included the likes of “Road Warrior,” “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” “Blade Runner,” John Carpenter’s “The Thing,&#... -
The 'Bridesmaids' Effect: Isn't it time a woman got to direct a raunchy comedy?
The Big PictureIn corporate America, it's no longer a surprise to see a woman running a giant company like EBay or Hewlett-Packard. But in Hollywood, where actresses have far shorter careers than actors do, and it's accepted practice to pay male stars...... -
Meghan Daum: Breaking comedy's raunch barrier
The results are in: "Bridesmaids," the much-hyped girl-raunch comedy touted as the long-awaited antidote to Judd Apatow's "bromance" phenomenon, opened way bigger than expected at the box office, thereby proving that women can be just as funny —...Tags: Judd Apatow, Comedy (genre), Michael Palin, Aretha Franklin, Movies
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Nina Foch, actress and influential acting teacher, dies at 84
Nina Foch, a veteran actress from Hollywood's film noir era of the 1940s who became a widely respected acting coach and teacher of directors, died Friday at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. She was 84. She died of complications from long-term...Tags: Anne Frank, My So-Called Life (tv program), Basketball, William Holden, Television
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'Remember the Daze'
Special to The TimesIf you swiped the most insipid dialogue of the teenage-angst movies of John Hughes and Kevin Smith and Amy Heckerling, you would still have a script -- and a movie -- far superior to the newest of the genre, "Remember the Daze." The feature film debut of...Tags: Health, Drugs and Medicines, Movies, Entertainment
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Michelle Pfeiffer: Remember her?
Michelle Pfeiffer had no intention of spending nearly five years away from the silver screen.
"You know," the 49-year-old actress says matter-of-factly, "it just happened."
A few years ago, Pfeiffer, her über-TV-producer husband David E. Kelley and...Tags: Children, David E. Kelley, Comedy (genre), Film Festivals, Matthew Vaughn
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Coming attractions directed by women
Gray Matters Director: Sue Kramer, making her feature debut. The UCLA film school graduate also wrote the screenplay. Synopsis: Romantic comedy about a tightknit brother (Thomas Cavanagh) and sister (Heather Graham) who fall for the same woman. Release...Tags: Comedy (genre), Paul Rudd, Documentary (genre), Heather Graham, Entertainment
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Alicia Silverstone back to Broadway: Actress joins cast of porn comedy 'Performers'
VarietyAlicia Silverstone has signed on to join the cast of the Broadway world preem of "The Performers," the porn-industry comedy in which Heny Winkler also appears. The casting of Silverstone's role had been the final piece of the puzzle in filling out the...Tags: Entertainment Events, Ari Graynor, Shrek (fictional character), Pornography, Mike Tyson
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Wally Pfister to receive AFI honor: Cinematographer draws Schaffner Medal
VarietyThe American Film Institute has tapped cinematographer Wally Pfister to receive its Franklin J. Schaffner Alumni Medal. Pfister will be presented with the medal as part of the AFI Life Achievement Award honoring Shirley MacLaine, to be held at Sony...Tags: Janusz Kaminski, Terrence Malick, Movies, Entertainment, Shirley MacLaine
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