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The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday October 8, 1999 "The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human," a mockumentary that charts and analyzes the courtship behavior of two healthy, young Homo sapiens, begins with the disembodied voice of an intellectually advanced extraterrestrial...Tags: Lucy Liu, Television, Carmen Electra, Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace
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Smaller venues, top notch films
Each year, hundreds of movies open in Chicago's regular first-run theaters -- and those are the films that dominate most "10 best" lists here and elsewhere. But each year, hundreds of films also open in the smaller local venues. These are theaters and...Tags: Franz Kafka, Hong Kong, Quentin Tarantino, Ingmar Bergman, Minority Groups
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5 films that are patriotic
1. DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK (John Ford; 1939) 3 1/2 stars Based on Walter Edmonds' best-selling novel, Ford's look at the Revolutionary War is typically rousing and beautifully shot. Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert are young Colonial couple Gil and...Tags: Political Systems, Tom Cruise, James Stewart, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Frank Capra Jr.
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5 films that are classic British murder mysteries
1. THE LODGER (Alfred Hitchcock; 1926) 4 stars Hitchcock's first thriller and the film that established him: A moody silent melodrama based on Marie Belloc Lowndes' tale of a mysterious lodger in fear-crazed London, who may be a modern Jack the Ripper....Tags: Ingrid Bergman, England, Vanessa Redgrave, Entertainment, Elsa Lanchester
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Top winners from 1956
denotes winner Performance by an actor in a leading role Yul Brynner as The King in THE KING AND I 20th Century-Fox James Dean as Jett Rink in GIANT Giant Production; Warner Bros. Kirk Douglas as Vincent Van Gogh in LUST FOR LIFE MGM Rock Hudson as...Tags: Ingrid Bergman, Kirk Douglas, Entertainment, Anthony Quinn, Yul Brynner
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Their lives, deaths touch us all
A father who left a simple note for his wife and children, expecting to return from a quick business trip. A husband whose oddly calm words are captured on an answering machine, saying his plane had been hijacked and he loved his family. A flight...Tags: Bodies of Water, University of New Hampshire, Cheers (tv program), BAE Systems Plc., Health and Safety at School
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Reely good and bad
Tribune staff reporterBaseball may be the national pastime, but Hollywood usually strikes out when it tries to make classic movies about the sport. Few actors have the athletic skills to pull off a lead role as a ballplayer. Even fewer screenwriters have spent enough time...Tags: Bob Uecker, Lou Gehrig, Chicago White Sox, Walter Brennan, Andy Dick
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'The Horseman on the Roof' ('Le Hussard sur le Toit')
Times Staff WriterJean-Paul Rappeneau's "The Horseman on the Roof" is a superb example of the classic European period romance, based on the third novel of Jean Giono's celebrated Stendhal-like Horseman cycle. It has an impossibly handsome hero and an equally...Tags: Juliette Binoche, Marlon Brando, Bastille Day, Health, Epidemics and Plagues
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