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The Art of War
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday August 25, 2000 It seems an odd question to propose about a gifted actor whose name is above the title in a major studio release, but seeing "The Art of War" makes you want to raise your hand and ask: "Whatever happened to Wesley Snipes?" ...Tags: Wesley Snipes, New Year's Day, Politics, James Hong, Julie Newmar
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Space Cowboys
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday August 4, 2000 It's called "Space Cowboys," but it ought to be "Space Codgers." The story of a quartet of "Leisure World aviators" who want to prove they won't be old and in the way in outer space, this is a mostly genial film that gets as...Tags: Paul Newman, James Cromwell, Space Programs, Andrew Lazar, Christianity
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Panic
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday April 20, 2001 "I'm not middle-aged," Alex says, aghast and wounded at the thought, but indeed he is. More than that, he's having a classic midlife crisis, and no wonder. It would be bad enough that Alex hates his job, it would be worse...Tags: Neve Campbell, Andrew Lazar, Career and Workplace, Cinema Industry, David Cooper
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'Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within'
Times Film CriticIt's 2065 and Dr. Aki Ross of "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within" is having a recurring vision. "Every night the same dream, the same strange planet," she marvels. "What are they trying to tell me?" How about, "Get into another film and do it now."...Tags: Alec Baldwin, James Woods, Plastic Surgeons, Video Games, Gaming
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Comfort in crisis
Tribune Movie CriticIn times of war and trial, America has found relief and solace at the movies. They've rallied us, eased our fears, attacked our enemies, soothed our worries and, most of all, raised our spirits. No doubt they will again, even in the aftermath of last...Tags: Robert Altman, Peter Lorre, Mary Pickford, Morocco, Family
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Complete list of Golden Globe nominees
Complete list of nominees for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Golden Globe Awards, to be presented Jan. 19: Motion pictures Picture, drama: "About Schmidt," "Gangs of New York," "The Hours," "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers," "The...Tags: Larry David, Stephen Daldry, Television Industry, Tony Shalhoub, Adam Sandler
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Wilmington's winners
Perhaps we expect too much from the first year of a movie millennium. Already, there are complaints -- as there are each year, no matter how the movies are finally judged -- about 2000. And yet I think 2000 was a 12-month span of films that will be...Tags: Robert Altman, Philip Kaufman, Wolfgang Petersen, Television Industry, Mel Gibson
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John 'Jack' Agnew dies at 88; his World War II unit inspired 'The Dirty Dozen'
Associated PressJohn "Jack" Agnew, one of the original members of a U.S. Army unit that operated behind enemy lines in World War II and is often credited with having loosely inspired the novel and movie "The Dirty Dozen," died of heart disease Thursday at a hospital in...Tags: U.S. Army, Ernest Borgnine, World War II (1939-1945), Charles Bronson, Documentary (genre)
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5 films about aliens invading Earth
1. THE THING (FROM ANOTHER WORLD) (Christian Nyby-Howard Hawks: 1951) 4 stars THE THING (John Carpenter: 1982) 3 1/2 stars If 1951's "Day the Earth Stood Still" is the great liberal '50 alian invasion movie, the 1951 "The Thing" by director Nyby and...Tags: Philip Kaufman, Don Siegel, Leonard Nimoy, Richard Dreyfuss, John Carpenter
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A 'toon life
NewsdayIn January 1938, Radio City Music Hall opened the biggest movie hit of its five-year life. The reviews, while glowing, barely mentioned a word about the star. Adriana Caselotti, a lyric soprano from an operatic immigrant Italian family, was little known...Tags: Sarah Jessica Parker, Jon Lovitz, James Woods, Laura Nyro, Mel Gibson
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Not much art
Special to the TribuneRemember the good old days when big-budget action thrillers best exemplified by the James Bond movies were fueled and driven by an evil genius who longed for world domination? It says something about the paucity of imagination and the lowered...Tags: Wesley Snipes, Trade Agreements, Arts, Crime, Law and Justice, Death
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And the winners are...
Meryl Streep received the supporting actress Golden Globe on Sunday for her role as a fictionalized version of author Susan Orlean in the comedy "Adaptation." "Oh my God, I've just been nominated 789 times and I was getting so settled over there for a...Tags: Meryl Streep, Cinema Industry, Nicolas Cage, Blindness (movie), Drama (genre)
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