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Mice Are Nice For 'Despereaux' Voices
Zap2It.comFirst, animated ants were everywhere. Suddenly it seems that filmmakers can't get enough of animated mice and rats. Universal has lined up an all-star cast to led their pipes to "The Tale of Despereaux," an adaptation of the Newberry Medal-winning...Tags: Dustin Hoffman, Movies, Cinema Industry, Mike Johnson (football, guard), Academy Awards
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Florida theme parks have some wild plans
special correspondentIf new attractions are sprouting up all over Central Florida's theme parks, it surely must be springtime. Each year, the parks prepare themselves to entice visitors with openings and novelties at every corner. Here is some of what's on tap for 2003: Walt...Tags: Movies, Theme Park Vacations, Tourism and Leisure, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Terrorism
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The Real Blonde
FOR THE TIMESFriday February 27, 1998 Flash! The fashion industry is a skin-deep, sexist, reality-distorting business that perpetuates false expectations among men and objectifies women. This just in, too: Television soap operas are facile melodramas...Tags: Movies, Kathleen Turner, Arts and Culture, Elizabeth Berkley, Matthew Modine
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Anastasia
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday November 21, 1997 In the topsy-turvy world of feature animation, the best news about "Anastasia" would be bad news anywhere else. Every aspect of what's on the screen, from attractive lovers to campy villains and too cute animal sidekicks, is...Tags: Movies, David Newman, Family, Angela Lansbury, Prince (music artist)
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Dream for an Insomniac
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday June 19, 1998 Tiffanie DeBartolo's "Dream for an Insomniac" proves to be a snooze that seems more play than movie but would probably be only marginally better on stage than screen. It's an overly talky yet under-characterized romantic...Tags: Movies, Entertainment, Ione Skye, Michael Landes, Jennifer Aniston
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My Favorite Martian
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday February 12, 1999 "My Favorite Martian" lands on the big screen with a thud, but if Disney is lucky, this may not matter much to children, who could be captivated by the clever special effects, or to diehard fans of the popular TV series of...Tags: Movies, Donald Petrie, The Walt Disney Co., Jeff Daniels, Michael Lerner
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Let the shows begin
By all appearances, the broadcast television networks finally got the message that audiences are hungry for original programming even during summer months. What's more, they've learned to do it with relatively inexpensive programming. Just look at the...Tags: Merlin (tv program), Carol Kane, Married...With Children (tv program), Fox Broadcasting Company, Dennis Farina
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Fall spotlight on movies
- denotes a movie to watch. "Lost Souls" (director: Janusz Kaminski). More devilish doings, with Winona Ryder trying to save the world from the Satanic invasion of Ben Chaplin'sbody. The director is Spielberg's cinematographer and a local Columbia...Tags: Scott Hicks, Bing Crosby, Carol Kane, World Series, Max von Sydow
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Rock review, Screeching Weasel at the House of Blues
Tribune Rock CriticScreeching Weasel's Ben Weasel stood with legs splayed, straddling the microphone stand, and leaned into a sea of 1,300 faces at House of Blues over the weekend with stop-me-if-you-dare directness. "You're still getting old," he shouted, "and we become...Tags: Punk (genre), Petroleum Industry, Death, Jeff Kelly, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (movie)
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Congestion ahead
The period from Thanksgiving through New Year's Day is the busiest moviegoing time of the year. To take advantage of this annual rush to the theaters -- as well as to draw maximum attention to Oscar-aspiring films -- the studios cram many of their high-...Tags: Bebe Neuwirth, Scott Hicks, Carol Kane, John Irving, Bill Murray
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We won't want for wide-screen choices
Yes, this summer you'll have the chance to see a lot of movies, even more than last year, as the studios try to build on last summer's record-breaking grosses while the multiplexes provide more and more screens for them to do so. Have at it. As always,...Tags: Steven Spielberg, Theresa Russell, Mel Gibson, Michael Myers, Winona Ryder
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Strong villians make for bolder 'Trek'
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Excuse Patrick Stewart if he sounds a bit envious of those bad eggs who befoul his "Star Trek" universe while his heroic Capt. Jean-Luc Picard mops up after them. Like most sci-fi, fantasy and action franchises, "Star Trek" often...Tags: Movies, Cinema Industry, Star Trek (movie, 2009), Science Fiction (genre), James Kirk
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