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'The King's Speech' might get a post-Oscars nominations re-edit
The challenge now is making "The King's Speech" into the lingua franca. With a dozen Oscar nominations under its belt, the movie's executive producer and distributor Harvey Weinstein is ready to unleash a new marketing strategy that aims to rope in...Tags: Human Interest, United Kingdom, Drama (genre), Movies, Entertainment
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10 books and movies to prep for a trip to Rome
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIf you're planning to visit Rome before you die, it pays to prepare for the experience. Here are 10 books and movies to help you understand what you see in the Roman Forum, at the Vatican and on the Piazza Navona. 1. "The Agony and the Ecstasy" (1961, by...Tags: Rome (Italy), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Stanley Kubrick, Fiction, Entertainment
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Tours and cruises in Australia, Britain and Australia
Special to The Los Angeles TimesARGENTINA With the tango, a dramatic turnDance the night away at the Hilton Buenos Aires with its Totally Tango package designed for travelers who want to immerse them- selves in this dance of passion. Info: Hilton Buenos Aires; 011-54-11-4891-0101,...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Carlos Gardel, Entertainment, Science, Dancing
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About something, or much ado about nothing?
Anyone who struggled through Shakespeare in high school might find some glee in picturing the Bard as a rude, uneducated, drunken lout who never actually penned his literary masterpieces. Well, that’s according to one theory put forth by the new...Tags: Arts and Culture, Drama (genre), England, Movies, Entertainment
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'Anonymous' bashes the Bard in quest for comedy
"Anonymous" is not shy about naming names. It contends that the 37 plays attributed to William Shakespeare, who died in 1616, actually were written by the Earl of Oxford, who died in 1604.
As this story has it, the barely literate commoner Shakespeare...Tags: Arts and Culture, Ben Jonson, Movies, England, Entertainment
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Anonymous" Shakespeare como un fraude
Anonymous ***
Durante mucho tiempo se ha especulado sobre la existencia e identidad de William Shakespeare, figura cumbre de la literatura universal.
La película Anonymous busca dar respuesta a preguntas que han originado debates, libros, tratados e...Tags: Ben Jonson, Rhys Ifans, Roland Emmerich, Vanessa Redgrave, William Shakespeare
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PASSINGS: Margaret Tyzack
Margaret Tyzack
British actress on stage, screen and television
Margaret Tyzack, 79, a British actress perhaps best known to American audiences for her roles in the acclaimed BBC television series "The Forsyte Saga" and "I, Claudius," died Saturday in...Tags: Arts and Culture, UNESCO, Journalism, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Paris (France)
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Movie review: 'There Be Dragons'
Intriguing title aside, the mythical fire-breathers in "There Be Dragons" are strictly metaphorical. In both ambition and approach, "Dragons" echoes Roland Joffe's career-defining early work as he brings sweeping production values to overtly Christian...Tags: Civil Unrest, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Movies, Entertainment, Quantum of Solace (movie)
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The Production: How 'The King's Speech' found its voice
It's a peculiar person — if not an unabashed sadist — who takes pleasure in someone's stuttering, particularly at a public event. Yet when filmmaker Tom Hooper heard that Colin Firth couldn't stop stammering while accepting an acting honor for...Tags: Arts and Culture, England, Internists, Health, Entertainment
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Movie review: 'The King's Speech'
It takes two, it always takes two.
Though romantic couples get the attention, some of the most memorable movie pairings, from Marlon Brando and Rod Steiger in "On the Waterfront" to Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon as "Thelma & Louise," feature same gender...Tags: Marlon Brando, Guy Pearce, Rod Steiger, Drama (genre), John Adams
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Charles Dickens speaks to 21st century's hard times
To the jaded Holden Caulfield in "The Catcher in the Rye," he was the guy responsible for "all that David Copperfield kind of crap." In "The Wire," he's the obsession of a philistine, prize-obsessed editor who can't stop drawing glib parallels between...Tags: Casino and Gambling, Harry Potter (fictional character), Poverty, Fantasy (genre), Jane Austen
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'Underworld: Rise of the Lycans'
It takes a few minutes to get the mind and the eyes around the fact that, yes, that's the great Brit-thespian Michael Sheen, impersonator of Tony Blair ("The Deal," "The Queen") and David Frost ( "Frost/Nixon") transforming into a werewolf in "Underworld:...Tags: Social Issues, Werewolf (supernatural entities), Movies, Michael Sheen, Entertainment
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