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'Spun'
Times Staff WriterBack in the 1980s, musician-hipsters like David Byrne and philosopher-hipsters like Jean Baudrillard just couldn't get enough of the coast-to-coast freak show called the United States. In movies like Byrne's "True Stories" and in books like Baudrillard'...Tags: Celebrities, Cinema Industry, David Byrne, David Letterman, Behavioral Conditions
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Drama in 2003
Against the Ropes Boxing manager Jackie Kallen is the real-life inspiration for this fictional story of a fighter (Omar Epps) and his handler (Meg Ryan). With Tony Shalhoub, Tim Daly, Kerry Washington. Directed by Charles S. Dutton. Paramount, March...Tags: Kurt Russell, Gary Ross, Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Literature
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'Bewitched'
Times Staff Writer"Bewitched," which was directed by Nora Ephron and co-written with her sister, Delia, isn't a remake, really. It's a "reimagining," which is a sparkly word for what happens to a beloved TV hit of yesteryear when it's cannibalized by committee. The movie,...Tags: Celebrities, Nicole Kidman, Kristin Chenoweth, Shirley MacLaine, Penny Marshall
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'Slackers'
Times Staff Writer"Slackers," not to be confused with Richard Linklater's innovative 1991 "Slacker," is a standard issue undergrad gross-out comedy notable only for the showy role it provides Jason Schwartzman, well-remembered as "Rushmore's" geeky high school student...Tags: Cameron Diaz, Comedy (genre), Richard Linklater, Devon Sawa, Jason Segel
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Rushmore
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday December 11, 1998 Max Fischer is one strange kid, and "Rushmore," the ode to teenage dementia that is his story, matches him in eccentricity. Like the best filmmakers, director Wes Anderson has an idiosyncratic sensibility, the rare ability...Tags: Wes Anderson, Cinema Industry, Bill Murray, Education, Sports
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'With 'CQ,' Tries to Honor the Family BusinessAnother Coppola Is Heard From
NEWSDAYIf your dad was the genius who made "The Godfather" trilogy and "Apocalypse Now," chances are you'd want to do whatever you could to avoid his shadow. Unfazed, music video director Roman Coppola has chosen to walk in his father's footsteps, albeit in less...Tags: Family, Francis Ford Coppola, Cinema Industry, Jane Fonda, Jeremy Davies
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Movie review, 'CQ'
Young filmmakers find the subject of filmmaking irresistible. Of particular interest to budding auteurs is the conflict between the desire to make the self-indulgent, pretentious "personal" film and working as a hired gun, especially if the project one is...Tags: Comedy (genre), Francis Ford Coppola, Cinema Industry, Jeremy Davies, Movies
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Movie review, 'Royal Tenenbaums'
Director Wes Anderson and actor Owen Wilson have co-written three films, each more ambitious than the last and all inhabiting a world that spins on a different, more delightfully wobbly axis than our own. The filmmakers' trademark characters have...Tags: Comedy (genre), Drug Trafficking, A Charlie Brown Christmas (tv program), Alec Baldwin, Ben Stiller
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Movie review, 'Slackers'
Special to the TribuneNot only is "Slackers" painfully bad, but it's also about as morally unpleasant as a teen sex comedy can be. The first movie from director Dewey Nicks and writer David H. Steinberg, "Slackers" was filmed two years ago and is only now being released. It...Tags: Wes Anderson, Richard Linklater, Crime, Law and Justice, Sony Corp., James King
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Summer Movie Preview
Courant film CriticIt has been suggested that summer has already begun at the cineplexes, with the huge opening for ``The Scorpion King." Whether The Rock has legs as well as arms will be seen. But well before Memorial Day, the traditional start of summer, the long season...Tags: Natalie Portman, Kim Wayans, Gang Activity, ESPN (tv network), George Lucas
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