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Movie review, 'The Cat's Meow'
You'd expect a fallen-from-grace filmmaker and Hollywood historian such as Peter Bogdanovich to be attracted to such Hollywood-skewering material as "The Cat's Meow." The story is a speculative version of a real-life scandal: the murder of a guest...Tags: Eddie Izzard, Crime, Law and Justice, Peter Bogdanovich, Dan Aykroyd, Periodicals
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Healthy fall crop
OK, 2001 hasn't been the greatest movie year so far, but fall tends to be the season on which top-10 lists are built. The next few months look especially crowded thanks in part to the studios having rushed movies into production in preparation for the...Tags: Chris Tucker, Pam Grier, Todd Field, Hayden Christensen, James Gandolfini
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The glitter, the glamour, the war
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersHollywood's new buzzword is "appropriate." That's appropriate as in "respectful," "subdued" and "sober," not to be confused with "somber," which has yet to be invited to the Oscars. Will Smith, who was scheduled to be a presenter at this year's...Tags: Joan Rivers, Iraq, Eyewear, Saddam Hussein, Entertainment
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Movie review: 'Home on the Range'
Chicago Tribune Movie Critic2 stars (out of 4) Can you make an epic Western - even a cartoon comedy Western with tongue firmly in cheek - work for audiences when your central characters aren't gunfighters and cowboys but instead gunfighters and cows? Maybe. But not this time....Tags: Comedy (genre), Czech Republic, Floods, Disasters and Accidents, Entertainment
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'Seed of Chucky'
Times Staff WriterIn the chintzy-looking gore-bore "Seed of Chucky," Jennifer Tilly, playing herself, defines hell as ending up on a celebrity feud show in a worm-eating contest with Anna Nicole Smith. Compared to this movie that fate doesn't sound half-bad. It opens in...Tags: Richard Holland, Romania, Anna Nicole Smith, Redman, Hannah Spearritt
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Movie review: 'Seed of Chucky'
Tribune Newspapers1 star (out of 4) Little tip for Don Mancini, creator of Chucky the killer doll, and writer-director of "Seed of Chucky": Don't make jokes about Ed Wood -- the "worst director in the history of Hollywood" -- if you can't do better. Mancini has made a...Tags: Eminem, Toys, Entertainment, Toy Industry, Julia Roberts
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'Dancing at the Blue Iguana'
Times Staff Writer"Dancing at the Blue Iguana" goes backstage at one of those flashy strip clubs that dot the arid industrial neighborhoods of the San Fernando Valley to reveal as much of the hearts and souls of the strippers as they do of their bodies. The film was...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Elias Koteas, Dining and Drinking, Entertainment, Celebrity Parents
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House Arrest
FOR THE TIMESWednesday August 14, 1996 For their parents' 18th anniversary, siblings Grover and Stacy Beindorf have prepared a highlights tape of the couple's life together, beginning with shots from their festive wedding and blue Hawaiian honeymoon, and...Tags: Police Arrests, Christopher McDonald, Wallace Shawn, Entertainment, Caroline Aaron
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Bound
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday October 4, 1996 "Bound" starts with a deceptive image of a young woman gagged and tied up--an image that first-time directors Larry and Andy Wachowski return to frequently as attraction grows between two women in a Chicago apartment house....Tags: Dino De Laurentiis, Academy Awards, Don Davis, Joe Pantoliano, Sicilian Mafia
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Bird of Prey
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday October 4, 1996 Director Temistocles Lopez and his actors try hard to lift "Bird of Prey," said to be the first privately financed Bulgarian-American co-production, above the routine, but succeed only by a couple of notches. More than...Tags: Death, Richard Chamberlain, Entertainment, Sofia (Bulgaria), Lesley Ann Warren
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Liar Liar
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday March 21, 1997 Maybe Jim Carrey will never make a great film. Maybe he's fated to star in substandard vehicles that couldn't get to public access cable without his help. Maybe a lot of things, but the truth is, so what? For as "Liar...Tags: Sex, Comedy (genre), Brian Grazer, James Brown, Lon Chaney
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