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Steve Landesberg dies; comic actor played intellectual detective on sitcom 'Barney Miller'
Steve Landesberg, a comic actor who played the intellectual Det. Arthur Dietrich in the long-running ABC sitcom " Barney Miller," has died. He was believed to be 74.
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Steve Landesberg: In the Dec. 21 LATExtra section,...Tags: Max Gail, Jason Segel, Abe Vigoda, Ron Glass, Entertainment
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Colin Quinn Brings Broadway Solo Show To New Haven's Long Wharf
The Hartford CourantColin Quinn admits that he — as the old pop song goes — "don't know much about history" But that doesn't stop the comedian from expounding on the epic blunders of empires throughout the course of time, as seen through the eyes of a "regular...Tags: Music Theater, Times Square, Park Slope, History (tv network), Dave Chappelle
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Airport Security Scans: What Would Your Doctor Do?
CNNI was in the security line at an airport a few months ago when I watched a fellow passenger do something I'd never seen done before: He dissed the scan. "I'd like to opt out," he said, as a security agent went scurrying for a male agent to give this...Tags: Education, Columbia University, Science and Technology, University of Texas at Austin, Neurosurgery
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Fast-Paised review: 'World Trade Center'
Director Oliver Stone takes a narrow look at 9/11 through the real experiences of John McLoughlin (Nicolas Cage) and Will Jimeno (Michael Pena), Port Authority officers who were rescued from under the World Trade Center rubble. The cast includes Maria...Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Politics, Death, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Oliver Stone
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Movie review: 'World Trade Center'
Tribune movie critic2½ stars (out of four) From the stars-and-stripes palette of its very first shot, a simple bedroom interior focusing on a digital clock's crimson numerals against an indigo background, the Oliver Stone film "World Trade Center" wields a simple, blunt...Tags: Michael Phillips, Oliver Stone, Iraq, Drama (genre), Movies
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'World Trade Center'
Times Staff WriterIt's taken the Hollywood system five years to come up with a major motion picture about what happened at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, but if you think that time was used for thoughtful introspection and careful analysis about the best way...Tags: Politics, Regional Authority, Hallmark Greeting Card, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Oliver Stone
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Late-night TV king Johnny Carson dies
Los Angeles TimesJohnny Carson, who in three decades as host of "The Tonight Show" became one of America's most influential entertainers as well as one of television's most powerful figures, died Sunday. He was 79. His nephew, Jeff Sotzing, a former producer of "The...Tags: Dick Cavett, Milton Berle, Retirement, Bob Hope, Movies
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Showtime in Branson: So who needs hip anyway?
Tribune staff reporterChicago audiences thought Gene Wilder's line in that 1974 movie was hilarious. There's a real good chance Jim Stafford, if he saw the film, didn't laugh at all. And let's be clear about this: Whatever Jim Stafford is—singer, songwriter, comedian,...Tags: Petula Clark, Mel Brooks, Andy Williams, Wayne Newton, Music Theater
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Retelling a Timeworn Love Story
Times Staff Writer"Kate & Leopold," a flawed time-travel love story, benefits from Meg Ryan's reliable perkiness and establishes Australia's Hugh Jackman as a potent romantic leading man. These and other pluses, however, cannot overcome the film's inability to come alive...Tags: Hugh Jackman, Meg Ryan, Movies, Brooklyn Bridge, Liev Schreiber
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Independence Day
TIMES FILM CRITICTuesday July 2, 1996 "Independence Day" is the Hollywood version of raising the dead. Its frankly spectacular special effects revive a genre that has slept with the fishes since the 1950s, the "Keep watching the skies" epics of destructive alien...Tags: Gaming, Bill Pullman, Movies, Judd Hirsch, Will Smith
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Lolita
TIMES FILM CRITICWednesday July 22, 1998 When towering Abraham Lincoln met tiny Harriet Beecher Stowe, or so the story goes, he peered down at the woman whose "Uncle Tom's Cabin" had inflamed the North against slavery and said, "So this is the little lady who...Tags: Frank Langella, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Death, Abraham Lincoln, Peter Sellers
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What Dreams May Come
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday October 2, 1998 Some movies are so cloying and simplistically sentimental they could rouse the Grinch in a saint. "What Dreams May Come" is a hymn to enduring romance off-putting enough that playing the old rock anthem "Love Stinks" at top...Tags: Gaming, Ghost (movie), Death, Annabella Sciorra, Ingmar Bergman
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