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Fast-Paised review: 'Factotum'
Writer-director Bent Hamer adapts Charles Bukowski's novel "Factotum," in which Bukowski's fictional alter-ego Henry Chinaski (Matt Dillon) moves from job to job and woman to woman as he indulges in his main interests: gambling, drinking and writing. Lili...Tags: Marisa Tomei, Lili Taylor, Entertainment, Charles Bukowski, Matt Dillon
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'Lisa Picard Is Famous'
For The TimesThe mockumentary is the most fragile of jests, an esoteric pop-movie charade that is self-destructing at the very moment it has come of age. Christopher Guest virtually invented the form with "This Is Spinal Tap," but even as he refined this collegiate...Tags: Entertainment, Edgar Bergen, Spike Lee, Griffin Dunne, Mira Sorvino
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'Uptown Girls'
Times Staff WriterThere is something unnerving about watching Brittany Murphy portray a kooky, klutzy daughter of a deceased rock legend in "Uptown Girls." Director Boaz Yakin has her constantly going over the top and flailing about in all directions in a misguided attempt...Tags: Jesse Spencer, MGM Inc., Coney Island, Entertainment, Marley Shelton
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'The Chateau'
Times Staff WriterWith "The Chateau," writer-director Jesse Peretz comes up with enough fresh twists to the ugly American vs. surly French confrontation to sustain this delightfully bittersweet culture-clash comedy. If what's funny is frequently hilarious, then what's...Tags: Paul Rudd, Entertainment, Donal Logue, Death, Arts and Culture
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'Undisputed'
Times Staff WriterWalter Hill's "Undisputed," a boxing/prison picture as smart as it is brawny, shows what seasoned Hollywood pros can still accomplish without pretensions and overwhelming special effects. "Undisputed" is a compelling entertainment because of Hill and co-...Tags: Michael Rooker, Entertainment, Master P, Wesley Snipes, Walter Hill
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Movie review, 'Just a Kiss'
Tribune staff reporterMen are only as faithful as their options, or so comedian Bill Maher philosophized. Post-feminist thought, in a world of equality, would suggest that the same is true of women. Director Fisher Stevens' "Just a Kiss" delves into both assumptions without...Tags: Marisa Tomei, Entertainment, Ron Eldard, Sarita Choudhury, Bill Maher
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Movie review, 'Undisputed'
Walter Hill makes action and crime movies that are always smart and good-looking but often a little artificial. His latest, "Undisputed," takes place in the same noirish wonderland -- half hip and tough, half cartoonish -- that we often see in Hill...Tags: Miramax Films, Entertainment, Wesley Snipes, Walter Hill, Drama (genre)
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Movie review, 'Pinero'
Movies have always been drawn to writers and artists as subjects. Yet few film biographies of artists are truly successful. Unlike musicians, whose art is inherently based in performance, writers are quickly reduced to souls sweating and fretting over...Tags: Joseph Papp, Mandy Patinkin, Entertainment, Benjamin Bratt, Crime, Law and Justice
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'Just a Kiss'
Times Staff Writer"Just a Kiss" starts, fittingly enough, with a kiss and the words that go with it. "This is going to be one of those terrible mistakes you can't take back," says the man. Adds the woman, "Is there any other kind?" As beginnings go, this is not bad, but...Tags: Marisa Tomei, Entertainment, Ron Eldard, Sarita Choudhury, Theater
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'Pinero'
Times Staff WriterPlaywright-poet-actor Miguel Pinero was a volatile mix of drug-addicted, streetwise crook and impassioned artist who gave early voice to New York's oppressed Puerto Rican community, celebrating its rich traditional culture while protesting the ravages and...Tags: Joseph Papp, Michael Irby, Literature, Entertainment, Career and Workplace
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Movie review: 'Uptown Girls'
Chicago Tribune Movie Writer2 stars (out of 4) The true measure of a star may be her ability to transform pap into froth. Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock and Reese Witherspoon established their leading-lady credentials by elevating otherwise mundane material in "Pretty Woman," "While...Tags: Jesse Spencer, Julia Roberts, Entertainment, Upper East Side, Chicago Tribune
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Nina Takes a Lover
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday May 5, 1995 "Nina Takes a Lover"--but even though she's played by Laura San Giacomo it's hard to care one way or another. Writer-director Alan Jacobs, in his feature debut, takes us into a self-enclosed world only to inhabit it with...Tags: Laura San Giacomo, Journalism, Arts and Culture, Michael O'Keefe, Photography
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