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Take a walk among the stars -- dead and alive -- at Universal Studios
Sentinel Staff WriterSeveral months ago, I was at Universal Studios and thought, "One day I'm going to be bored enough to come out here and survey the stars in the sidewalk." That day was yesterday, when I went to the Hollywood area of the theme park and took stock. There...Tags: Fred MacMurray, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Mitchum, George Burns, Michael Landon
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Crossing This Line Could Cost Gibson Deals
Zap2It.comMel Gibson is rich enough to finance his own movies, including the 2004 blockbuster "The Passion of the Christ" and the upcoming release "Apocalypto." But although riches can buy a certain freedom from creative interference, no man is an island in the...Tags: Harry Potter (fictional character), The Passion of the Christ (movie), ABC (tv network), Woody Allen, Social Issues
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They stoked the star-maker machine
Special to The TimesWHAT is it about the public's obsession with stars? The media has been enthusiastically covering Hollywood for 100 years, and today's incessant, Internet-fueled celebrity "news" is omnipresent. The distribution methods have been dramatically accelerated,...Tags: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Crime, Law and Justice, Academy Awards, Jules Dassin, Mass Media
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Some real eye-openers
Times Staff WriterThe UCLA Film & Television Archive's Festival of Preservation is at it again. Taking over the James Bridges Theater in the campus' Melnitz Hall today through Aug. 19, the 13th preservation event is once more showing the widest and most exciting variety of...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Romance (genre), Orson Welles, Fred MacMurray
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'Psycho' Scribe Dies at 84
Zap2It.comJoseph Stefano, who wrote the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller "Psycho" and was the influential first-season producer-writer of the 1960s science-fiction anthology TV series "The Outer Limits," has died. He was 84. Stefano, who...Tags: Martin Sheen, Anthony Quinn, Jessica Walter, Martin Landau, Sophia Loren
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Long shots, sharp shooters and sneak attacks
Julie Christie, the certified icon and 1965 Oscar winner, has been in town making the awards season rounds thanks to her starring turn in Sarah Polley's "Away From Her."
The notoriously press shy actress turned up for a few Q&As, with co-star Gordon...Tags: Entertainment, Adrien Brody, Cinema Industry, Lauren Bacall, Music
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Making a splash, then quick dash
Tribune staff reporterIf Chad Hutchinson has a role model these days, it should be Virgil Carter. The parallels abound. In 1968, Carter, like Hutchinson on Sunday, was the fourth quarterback of the season for the struggling Bears. He came out of nowhere (in Carter's case,...Tags: Gale Sayers, Football, Wrigley Field, Bart Starr, Dick Butkus
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1960s teen idol Sandra Dee dies at 62
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSandra Dee, the blond all-American girl-next-door whose star turns as "Gidget" and "Tammy" made her a teen idol in the 1960s, a status reinforced by her Hollywood marriage to pop singer Bobby Darin, died Sunday. She was 62. Dee died at Los Robles...Tags: Gina Lollobrigida, Jean Simmons, Bobby Darin, Newspaper and Magazine, Entertainment
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'Spider-Man'
Times Staff Writer"Spider-Man" may look like an action comic come to life, but its best feature is its romance comic heart. It's that rare cartoon movie in which the villain is less involving than the love story. Like any celebrity biography, "Spider-Man" is more...Tags: Spider-Man (fictional character), James Franco, Tim Burton, James Dean, Romance (genre)
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Whatever a spider can?
- Watch the trailer for "Spider-Man." The scene: Debris and horror raining down behind them, a well-dressed couple clutch each other and stumble from the devastated World Trade Center. They look up to see a famous hero, a man dressed in scarlet and...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Terrorism, Willem Dafoe, Entertainment, CNN (tv network)
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Film fest feast
CHICAGO LESBIAN AND GAY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (July 25-Aug. 4) After a year's hiatus, the Lesbian and Gay Festival is back in a new time slot (moved up from November). The hope is that this earlier time will eliminate the problem of many of the best...Tags: Hearing Impairment, Chicago International Film Festival, Documentary (genre), Museum of Natural History, Forest Whitaker
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5 films starring Robert Redford
1. BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (George Roy Hill; 1969) 3 1/2 stars One western that nearly everyone likes is this affable, picaresque, elegiac tale of two charming outlaws on the run: Paul Newman's feisty Butch Cassidy and Robert Redford's...Tags: Marvin Hamlisch, Alan J Pakula, Sting, John Houseman, Butch Cassidy
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