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The 14th Annual Os-Caro Academy Awards Quiz
Grab a pen and your thinking cap as movie reporter Mark Caro tests your Academy Awards smarts 1. The Academy Awards ceremony has been delayed three times. Which one of the following did not cause a postponement? A. The attempted assassination of...Tags: John Ford, Billy Wilder, Bob Hope, Paddy Chayefsky, John C. Reilly
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'Bus Stop' actress Kim Stanley dies at 76
Times Staff WriterKim Stanley, best known on Broadway in the 1950s for roles including Cherie, the small-town "chantoosie" of William Inge's "Bus Stop," died Monday in Santa Fe, N.M., of uterine cancer. She was 76. Her acting career afforded her memorable turns as a...Tags: Lee Strasberg, Marilyn Monroe, Joshua Logan, William Inge, World War II (1939-1945)
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Movie review: 'Northfork'
Chicago Tribune Movie Critic3 stars (out of 4) "Northfork," an American Gothic fantasy about angels and technology, is the latest film from twins Michael and Mark Polish, who made those droll, slightly precious movies "Twin Falls, Idaho" and "Jackpot." This is by far their best...Tags: John Ford, Marshall Bell, Bodies of Water, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jorge Luis Borges
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Romance on DVD
Sun-SentinelWhen it comes to love and romance, Hollywood knows its stuff. Here are some films we think are just dreamy to start (or end) your Valentine's Day right. Garden State (2004): Zack Braff wrote, directed and starred in this romantic comedy. Braff plays...Tags: Casablanca (Morocco), Laura Linney, DVDs and Movies, Daniel Day-Lewis, Colin Firth
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'Greatest actor of his generation,' Brando dies at 80
Times Staff WritersMarlon Brando, a two-time Oscar winner whose riveting performances transformed acting from a remote craft to a naturalistic art form, has died, the Associated Press announced today. He was 80. An actor's actor whose skill was envied by generations of...Tags: Career and Workplace, University of California, Los Angeles, James Dean, Pauline Kael, James Caan
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Back to abnormal
Sun Movie CriticThink of John Waters as a racy Wizard of Oz. Generations of American storytellers have chronicled provincial misfits and artists leaving their homes and finding their true colors in Los Angeles, New York or San Francisco. But Waters does the reverse,...Tags: Bars and Clubs, Gang Activity, DVDs and Movies, Selma Blair, Comedy (genre)
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Brando revealed the soul of his characters
Sun Movie CriticMarlon Brando's extraordinary emotional intelligence expressed itself in every inch of his body for every second - the phrase "being in the moment" might as well have been coined for him. Of course, other actors in New York and Hollywood had been as...Tags: Career and Workplace, Philip Kaufman, Comedy (genre), James Caan, Romance (genre)
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'Odd Couple' star Tony Randall dies at 84
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTony Randall, the deft comedic actor best known for playing fastidious Felix Unger on the 1970s sitcom "The Odd Couple" during his more than six-decade career on stage, screen and television, has died. He was 84. Randall died in his sleep Monday at NYU...Tags: Fantasy (genre), Ethel Barrymore, Martha Graham, Surgery, Comedy (genre)
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The film that wowed Barry Levinson
Sun Movie CriticWhen Barry Levinson plays host for On the Waterfront at the Senator Theatre Thursday night -- the opening attraction for this year's Maryland Film Festival -- he hopes audiences will feel the same thrill he experienced as a 12-year-old seeing it in 1954...Tags: John Ford, Weddings, Elvis Presley, Gang Activity, Baltimore Orioles
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A Lion in Winter
Sun Movie CriticPart I -- An American hero -- and antihero Beyond anything else, Marlon Brando is the towering original who came out of the Midwest 58 years ago and electrified Broadway and then Hollywood with the visceral excitement and veracity of his acting. He...Tags: Career and Workplace, Justice System, DVDs and Movies, World War II (1939-1945), Pauline Kael
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Now you see him, now you don't
Times Staff WriterIn a pivotal scene in "Walk the Line," the new biopic starring Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash, the maverick country singer goes behind the gray walls of Folsom prison for a 1968 concert that would become a landmark live recording. As he sings about...Tags: Vehicles, Steve Martin, James Dean, Kurt Cobain, Nicole Kidman
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Movie review: 'Tell Them Who You Are'
Tribune movie critic3 stars (out of 4) Haskell Wexler, now 80, is one of the great cinematographers of the American cinema, an Oscar-winning master ("Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," "Bound for Glory") and avowed left-wing social activist. Mark S. Wexler, born in 1958,...Tags: Studs Terkel, Drama (genre), Family, Michael J. Fox, Democratic National Conventions
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