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'Barbershop'
Times Staff Writer"In some communities, a barbershop is merely a place where you go to get your haircut," explains actor and rapper Ice Cube. "However, in the black community, barbershops are a place where black people get to hang out and express themselves with no...Tags: Family, Fox Broadcasting Company, Education, MGM Inc., Personal Service
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Summer movies release schedule
The Associated PressRelease dates are tentative, and some films play in limited release. Late April: ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM: The corporate train wreck unfolds through insider interviews and company video and audio tapes. THE GAME OF THEIR LIVES: An outgunned...Tags: Family, John Hurt, Heather Locklear, Joan Chen, Weddings
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'Cursed' and 'Man of the House'
Times Staff WriterYou don't get a lot of relationship-driven werewolf movies, and "Cursed" could very well kill off the possibility of it becoming a major subgenre. Christina Ricci and Jesse Eisenberg play an L.A. brother and sister who tangle with a mysterious beast after...Tags: Christina Milian, England, Death, PG-13 Rated Movies, Health and Safety at School
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'Beauty Shop'
Times Staff WriterWhen the success of "Barbershop" led to its inevitable sequel, its filmmakers shrewdly introduced Queen Latifah into the predominantly male world of an African American barbershop in Chicago. Latifah was cast as a hair stylist in a salon next door,...Tags: Queen Latifah, African Americans, Alicia Silverstone, Mena Suvari, Kimora Lee Simmons
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'Be Cool'
Times Staff WriterTen years ago, the amusing "Get Shorty," based on the Elmore Leonard novel, introduced John Travolta as Chili Palmer, a Miami loan shark and movie fan, who on a trip to L.A. became convinced the motion picture business was a snap compared to wheeling...Tags: Christina Milian, Business Trips, John Powell, Danny DeVito, Trips and Vacations
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Lucas, Spielberg usher in summer with sci-fi wars
AP Movie WriterThis summer means war between old buddies George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. Colleagues on the "Indiana Jones" franchise, the two will duke it out for the title of galactic overlord on the 2005 science fiction front, Lucas with the final installment of...Tags: Family, Heather Locklear, Keira Knightley, Star Wars (movie), Renee Zellweger
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Eye On The Perfect Hit?
Courant Film CriticVengeful Siths! Marauding Crusaders! Monster mother-in-laws! Outer-galactic space oddities! Not-so-wild wild animals! Political intrigue! And Allied pigeons! Yes, ladies and gentlemen, tots and tykes, it's spring at the multiplex, and there is, at...Tags: FBI, Todd Solondz, John Hurt, Joan Chen, Star Wars (movie)
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Movie review: 'Diary of a Mad Black Woman'
TRIBUNE MOVIE CRITIC1½ stars (out of 4) Remember this name: Tyler Perry. Perry is a feisty playwright-filmmaker who manages, at his best and worst, to mix the raunchiness of Moms Mabley and the shamelessness of Ed Wood ("Glen or Glenda") with the dramatic structures of...Tags: Pat Robertson, Television, Health, Opera (genre), Hospitals and Clinics
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'Serving Sara'
Times Staff WriterThe crushingly unfunny new comedy "Serving Sara" raises the question: Can you kill something that's already dead? One of the more cynical and insulting Hollywood offerings in recent memory, the film was nominally directed by Reginald Hudlin (best known...Tags: John Huston, Movies, Death, Bruce Campbell, Jim Miller
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Movie review: 'Be Cool'
TRIBUNE MOVIE CRITIC2½ stars (out of 4) Be forewarned: "Be Cool" ain't. Even if you enjoyed the mean, funny 1995 John Travolta-Elmore Leonard crime comedy "Get Shorty"and many of us didthis forced sequel isn't likely to help you repeat the experience. Though based on...Tags: Christina Milian, Britney Spears, John Powell, Danny DeVito, Pulp Fiction (movie)
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