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Kirk Douglas on the blacklist: Why Hollywood showed so little courage
24 FramesKirk Douglas has written a lively new memoir about one of his greatest triumphs. Titled “I Am Spartacus!” it recounts how Douglas helped break the midcentury anti-communist blacklist by secretly hiring Dalton Trumbo to write “Spartacus,&... -
Around Town: Oscar short films and a 'Magnificent Obsession'
24 FramesScreenings of Oscar-nominated shorts and documentary films highlight the week.... -
Showcasing the femmes fatales of film noir
24 FramesTurner Classic Movie Festival salutes some of the femmes fatales who made the film noir thrillers so memorable.... -
Around Town: Happy 85th to Grauman's Chinese Theatre
24 FramesOne of Hollywood' most venerable movie palaces, Grauman's Chinese Theatre, is celebrating its 85th birthday this year. And as part of the theater's celebrations, the Chinese is offering a "25 Cent Movie Mondays" series. The first movie screening this... -
Farley Granger dies at 85; handsome leading man best known for roles in Hitchcock films
Farley Granger, a handsome young leading man during Hollywood's post-World War II era who was best known for his starring roles in the Alfred Hitchcock suspense thrillers "Strangers on a Train" and "Rope," has died. He was 85.
Granger died of natural...Tags: Music Theater, Career and Workplace, Movies, Shelley Winters, Drama (genre)
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Playing L.A. Noire: A book nerd detects and tries to drive
Jacket CopyA novice gameplayer with a love of LA and noir fiction tries playing LA Noire.... -
Book Review: 'Warning Shadows' by Gary Giddins
Warning Shadows
Home Alone With Classic Cinema
Gary Giddins
W.W. Norton: 416 pp., $18.95
Gary Giddins is well known for his writing about music — he was a Village Voice jazz columnist for three decades, and his books, among them the biography...Tags: Donald Duck (fictional animal), Death, Joan Crawford, Movies, Samuel Fuller
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Manny Farber: A film critic not in awe of Hollywood
Farber on Film
The Complete Film Writings
of Manny Farber
Edited by Robert Polito
Library of America: 824 pp., $40
At this year's Academy Awards, the most incongruous moment came during the "In Memoriam" roll call. Among the distinguished deceased...Tags: Robert Aldrich, Daffy Duck (fictional animal), Academy Awards, Val Lewton, Martin Scorsese
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James Stewart: Celebrating his 100th birthday
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTO MILLIONS, James Stewart was Everyman. To Kelly Stewart, he was just Dad. "Dad was a very private person," she says, adding that her father never brought his work home with him. But she got her first inkling of his tremendous popularity at age 6,...Tags: Festive Events, Celebrities, Mass Media, Academy Awards, Movies
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Lucasfilm in 'Star Wars' costume fight
It's a storm in a Stormtrooper's helmet.
Lawyers for George Lucas' Lucasfilm Ltd. and a British prop designer faced off in London's High Court Tuesday over rights to the molded white Stormtrooper uniforms from the "Star Wars" films.
Standing alongside...Tags: Star Wars (movie), Entertainment, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, George Lucas
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Anthony Mann's 'The Furies'
Special to The TimesIT HAS been a good DVD year for Anthony Mann (1906-67), a longtime critics' favorite often considered one of Hollywood's most underrated directors. Mann's relatively low name recognition might have something to do with the ease with which he slipped from...Tags: Judith Anderson, Barbara Stanwyck, Academy Awards, Death, Movies
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Charlton Heston, 84; actor, Oscar winner, played grand figures
Special to The TimesCharlton Heston, the Oscar-winning actor who achieved stardom playing larger-than-life figures including Moses, Michelangelo and Andrew Jackson and went on to become an unapologetic gun advocate and darling of conservative causes, has died. He was 84....Tags: Tim Burton, Music Theater, Firearms, Obituaries, Orson Welles
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