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Thursday’s Highlights: 'Up All Night' on NBC
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Movie Review: 'Fast Five'
Who knew that the best place to put Vin Diesel would be between the Rock and a hard place? The spot has never been tighter, or righter, and the testosterone never higher than in the hot jacking action of "Fast Five."
Going mano a mano with Diesel's Dom,...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justin Lin, Robin Hood, Jordana Brewster, Dwayne Johnson
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'Maison Close' sells to further territories: TV France Intl.'s Rendez-Vous kicks off
VarietyBIARRITZ -- Gaul's France Televisions Distribution has closed major sales on "Hotel Paradis: A House of Ill Repute," Canal Plus' upscale costume drama series helmed by Mabrouk El Mechri ("The Cold Light of Day"). Skein's first season was picked up by...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Companies and Corporations, France, Luc Besson, DVDs
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La Cucaracha
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday April 23, 1999 Scarcely a convincing moment unfolds in the truly terrible "La Cucaracha," a misguided attempt to tell the old story of the despondent gringo who goes south of the border to find himself and hits the skids before finally...Tags: Eric Roberts, Death, Movies, Entertainment
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Women
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday September 17, 1999 Luis Galva~o Teles' "Women" ("Elles") is a woman's film of the old-fashioned variety, affording good roles for five internationally renowned actresses who portray middle-aged women, longtime friends who sustain one...Tags: Movies, Celebrities, Cinema Industry, Entertainment, Television Industry
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An Unflagging, Flag-Waving Flyboy
TIMES FILM CRITICIt may look like a little like him, but that's definitely not Tom Cruise on the poster for "Behind Enemy Lines." The confusion, though, is understandable, given a film that might as well be called "Top Gun Goes to Bosnia." Hotshot flyboys rule one more...Tags: John Moore, Cinema Industry, Armed Forces, David Keith, Tom Cruise
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One Man's Hero
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday September 24, 1999 "One Man's Hero" is a deeply felt and engrossing period epic that not only presents the Mexican War of 1846-1848, in which Mexico lost more than half its territory to the U.S., from the losers' point of view, but also...Tags: Mexico, U.S. Army, Mark Moses, John Ford, Zachary Taylor
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5 films about or based on real-life moviemakers
1. SUNSET BOULEVARD (Billy Wilder; 1950) 4 stars In this classic backstage Hollywood movie, Gloria Swanson and Erich Von Stroheim play characters modeled on themselves: aging screen-silent diva Norma Desmond and her ex-director turned butler Max Von...Tags: John Huston, Tim Burton, Chicago Tribune, William Holden, Orson Welles
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Desperado
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday August 25, 1995 The story behind "El Mariachi," Robert Rodriguez's first film, is the kind of Hollywood tale Hollywood likes to tell. A young movie-struck writer-director takes $7,000 earned as a medical research subject and makes a picture...Tags: Sex, Crime, Law and Justice, Death, Drug Trafficking, Antonio Banderas
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