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Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor dies at 96; erudite British travel writer
British travel writer Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor, who tramped across Europe in his teens and captured a German general in Nazi-occupied Crete during World War II, died in Britain on Friday. He was 96.
Leigh Fermor had arrived in Britain on...Tags: Lord Byron, Greece, World War II (1939-1945), John Murray, Adolf Hitler
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Review: 'Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show' at Old Globe
Culture MonsterCharlotte Stoudt reviews the Old Globe's revival of 'Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show'... -
New in paperback: The pioneers of the police procedural, Iraq by way of Homer and the Crusades through Muslim eyes
"Immoveable Feast" by John Baxter (Harper Perennial) Baxter, the film critic and biographer of Spielberg, Buñuel and others, fell in love and moved from Los Angeles to Paris some years back, from whence he has dispatched a series of fluent, witty and...Tags: Stranger Than Fiction, U.S. Army, Wallace Stevens, Health and Safety at School, Iraq
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DVD Review: 'Despair'
With all due respect to Stanley Kubrick's excellent “Lolita,” Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1978 English-language version of Vladimir Nabokov's “Despair” remains the greatest big-screen Nabokov adaptation. (Hiring Tom Stoppard to...Tags: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, DVDs, Stanley Kubrick, Blu-ray Discs, Tom Stoppard
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Cleopatra's Second Husband
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday December 1, 2000 "Cleopatra's Second Husband," a diabolically clever psychological suspense movie, arrives today, just now getting an L.A. theatrical release after scattered bookings elsewhere. It marks an assured and daring dramatic...Tags: Movies, Migraine, Bitty Schram, Entertainment, Documentary (genre)
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5 films that are pre 'Austin Powers' spy comedies or spoofs
1. THE LADY VANISHES (Alfred Hitchcock; 1938) 4 stars Trains are perfect settings for murder-mysteries and thrillers, as Hitchcock's "The Lady Vanishes" proves -- with Michael Redgrave and Margaret Lockwood as lover-sleuths, Paul Lukas as a suave...Tags: Jeremy Kemp, Michael Redgrave, Carol Reed, Val Kilmer, William Holden
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Reviews: 'Gene Siskel Center's Stranger Than Fiction Program'
Tribune staff reporterIf you don't believe film can change the world, you haven't seen "The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till." In 1955, Chicago's 14-year-old Till was savagely beaten to death for whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. His accused murderers were...Tags: Movies, 60 Minutes (tv program), Studs Terkel, Stranger Than Fiction, Documentary (genre)
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'A Letter to True'
Times Staff WriterIn the documentary "A Letter to True," filmmaker Bruce Weber crafts a cinematic epistle to the youngest member of his family of golden retrievers. An undeniably odd film, this ode to pooches is more than just a dog calendar come to life. It is a relaxed...Tags: Movies, Julie Christie, Chet Baker, Dog (animal), Cinema Industry
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