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From The Baltimore Sun archives: Andy Griffith -- Not just a face in the crowd
Baltimore Sun reporterNOTE: This is a 2007 story from The Baltimore Sun's archives. Andy Griffith, 81 a week from tomorrow, confides that "when my wife, Cindy, and I go someplace, and I don't want to be recognized, she says, 'Don't talk!'" Hearing him boom across the phone...Tags: Ceremonies, Andy Griffith, College Sports, Pies and Tarts, Entertainment
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'Brando' shows us what a ferocious contender he was
Sun Movie CriticImagine Marlon Brando in his Mark Antony toga from Julius Caesar, astride the worlds of classical and modern acting like the Colossus of Rhodes. And then re-imagine him magnificent in ruins, still inspiring generations of actors with his emotional and...Tags: Clark Gable, Cinema Industry, Marlon Brando, Suicide, Edward Norton
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Female Oscar hosts
The EnvelopeHilary Clinton is running for president, and Ellen DeGeneres is hosting the Academy Awards. These two things are not exactly equivalent--after all, we've never had a female president, while the Academy Awards has had a female host. One. Whoopi...Tags: Academy Awards, Cinema Industry, Ellen Burstyn, Bob Hope, Warren Beatty
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What's with Mel's bloody porn?
RICHARD SCHICKEL is a film critic for Time and the author of many books, including "Elia Kazan: A Biography."MOVIES ARE, in their nature, violent. Every shot in every film begins with the director calling "action," and more often than not — more often, certainly, than in real life — someone gets hit, stomped, blown away or otherwise seriously maimed....Tags: Errol Flynn, Social Issues, Mel Gibson, Abusive Behavior, Death
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Double your viewing pleasure
Times Staff WriterIf you're new to Los Angeles or too young to remember revival houses, the New Beverly Cinema may not be on your radar. Located on Beverly Boulevard, a block west of La Brea, it's an old-school, single-screen movie theater dedicated to thematic and auteur-...Tags: Matthew Modine, Wallace Beery, Gabriel Byrne, John Goodman, Roman Polanski
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A master Kazan and rare revivals
Times Staff WriterThe Los Angeles County Museum of Art's four-week Elia Kazan retrospective continues Friday and Saturday with the director's 1954 masterwork, "On the Waterfront," as well as the rarely revived "Panic in the Streets," "Boomerang!" and "Viva Zapata!" "Panic...Tags: Dana Andrews, Academy Awards, Lew Ayres, Victor Fleming, Cinema Industry
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Reaching for the Star
Times Staff WritersIn a case full of intrigue, it coulda been a contender for biggest mystery. Tucked inside last week's federal grand jury indictment of gumshoe-to-the-stars Anthony Pellicano was an allegation that one of the private eye's associates illegally tried to...Tags: Rocky Balboa (fictional character), Marlon Brando, Sylvester Stallone, Justice System, Prosecution
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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: Academy Awards, Daniel Day-Lewis, Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant, Warren Beatty
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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: Academy Awards, Behavioral Conditions, Cinema Industry, Pearl Jam (music group), Gaming
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Movie review: 'The Beautiful Country'
Tribune movie critic3 stars (out of four) It's good to see an American movie that takes chances. "The Beautiful Country," a saga of emigration from Vietnam to America set in 1990, rises to such heights of human emotion and spiritual intensity in its last 15 minutesan...Tags: Cinema Industry, Tim Roth, Houston, International Military Interventions, Politics
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The self-confidence man
Schickel reviews movies for Time and is a contributing writer to Book Review. He is the author of many books, including the forthcoming "Elia Kazan: A Biography."Arnold Schwarzenegger never wanted to be an actor. He says so on Page 128 of "Fantastic," Laurence Leamer's dully dutiful biography. He wanted to be rich. He wanted to be famous. He wanted to be powerful. He thought he could grope women with impunity,...Tags: Politics, Literature, Elections, Biography (genre), Entertainment
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'East of Eden' and 'Rebel Without a Cause'
Times Staff Writer"East of Eden," directed by Elia Kazan from Paul Osborn's adaptation of the John Steinbeck novel, and Nicholas Ray's "Rebel Without a Cause," screen at the Nuart this week in a 50th anniversary double feature representing two-thirds of James Dean's...Tags: Julie Harris, Natalie Wood, Nicholas Ray, Hospitals and Clinics, Sal Mineo
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