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Oscars by the Numbers
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Around Town: Oscar fever hits the Academy, American Cinematheque
24 FramesFilm screenings and festivals: With the Academy Awards on Sunday evening, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the American Cinematheque are presenting seminars and symposiums leading up to the big event.... -
Ian Abercrombie dies at 77; actor played Elaine's boss on 'Seinfeld'
Ian Abercrombie, 77, the British character actor who played Elaine's demanding boss, Mr. Pitt, on "Seinfeld," died Thursday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, said his friend Cathy Lind Hayes. He suffered complications of kidney failure and...Tags: Star Wars (movie), U.S. Army, Jean Cocteau, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ian Abercrombie
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Peter Falk dies at 83; actor found acclaim as 'Columbo'
Peter Falk, the gravel-voiced actor who became an enduring television icon portraying Lt. Columbo, the rumpled raincoat-wearing Los Angeles police homicide detective who always had "just one more thing" to ask a suspect, died Thursday. He was 83.
Falk,...Tags: Syracuse, Bing Crosby, Movies, Clinton (Middlesex, Connecticut), Frank Capra Jr.
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PASSINGS: George Green, David Pressman, Robert Hollister, Laurie Hoyt
George Green Lyricist and songwriter George Green, 59, who wrote lyrics for some of John Mellencamp's biggest hits, as well as songs for Barbra Streisand and others, died Sunday in Albuquerque of a rapid-forming lung cancer, his wife, Kathryn, told...Tags: Albuquerque, U.S. Army, Lita Ford, Missing Persons, Higher Ground (movie)
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Appreciation: Peter Falk, 1927-2011
Show TrackerJust one more thing. Peter Falk, who died Friday at age 83, was an actor of great and invisible skill who played many parts over a five-decade career. He was a late bloomer but quickly embraced on the stage and...... -
Nathan Lane to make his Eugene O'Neill debut in Chicago
Culture MonsterNthan Lane and Brian Dennehy will star in a production of Eugene O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh" at Chicago's Goodman Theater.... -
Quiz: Who won consecutive Academy Awards?
Gold DerbyIf last year's Academy Award champ Jeff Bridges ("Crazy Heart") triumphs next February for starring, just like John Wayne, in "True Grit," he'll become one of the few stars to nab consecutive Oscars. Some famous past examples: Luise Rainer ("The Great... -
'Something Wicked' brings a darker Disney to the ArcLight on Monday
The Hero Complex"Something Wicked This Way Comes" (8 p.m. Aug. 2, ArcLight Hollywood) Something special this way comes -- and it begins Monday at the ArcLight Hollywood. Fourteen films spanning five decades of Disney will be screened this month at three theaters...... -
Jim Bellows dies at 86; legendary editor of L.A. Herald Examiner
Jim Bellows, a legendary editor who built a career resuscitating underdog big-city newspapers from Los Angeles to New York and helped turn Tom Wolfe and Jimmy Breslin into stars, has died. He was 86.
Bellows, a longtime resident of Brentwood, died...Tags: Republican Party, John Hay, Bob Dylan, Red Smith, Vietnam War (1955-1975)
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Bowled over by Christmas
For the family of a college football coach, a white Christmas was an ominous sign. It meant we were home for the holidays after a losing season, not at a bowl game in some sunny clime. A white Christmas often came with a pink slip for Dad and the entire...Tags: Education, Holidays, Finance, Golf, Pittsburgh Steelers
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'Warren Oates: A Wild Life' by Susan Compo
Many a great film director is tethered artistically to a trusted actor: John Ford had the Duke, Fellini had Mastroianni and Scorsese had De Niro.
For Sam Peckinpah, the volatile maverick who reinvented the western as a hyperviolent, nihilistic...Tags: Harry Dean Stanton, Celebrities, Steve McQueen, Peter Falk, Terrence Malick
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