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Really winging it
Times Staff Writer"Hey, it's 'Oprah,' " Bill Murray said, spotting the camera crew from Oprah Winfrey's talk show backstage at the Oscars. The crew was shooting segments to be seen on "Oprah" this week. And backstage wasn't a bad place to be Sunday night if you were...Tags: Oprah Winfrey, Television, Jude Law, Francis Ford Coppola, Johnny Depp
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'The Forgotten'
Times Staff WriterIf you've seen the trailer for "The Forgotten," you've seen a woodland cabin explode and a federal agent get sucked into the sky as if by some kind of cosmic Dustbuster. In other words, you've probably already gathered that "The Forgotten" is more than...Tags: James Horner, Alfre Woodard, Death, Plastic Surgeons, Science
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'America's Sweethearts'
Times Film CriticCompared to them, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford were poseurs, Elizabeth Taylor and Eddie Fisher flashes in the pan. Truly, madly, deeply, Gwen Harrison (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and Eddie Thomas (John Cusack) are "America's Sweethearts." Hollywood's...Tags: Health, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Alan Arkin, Eddie Fisher, Elizabeth Taylor
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'Christmas With the Kranks'
Times Staff WriterAre people serious when they say Hollywood is out of touch with Middle America? Because Columbia Pictures, it appears, is dreaming of a red-state Christmas this year. Adapted by Chris Columbus from John Grisham's "Skipping Christmas," and directed by...Tags: Julie Gonzalo, Holidays, Jamie Lee Curtis, Family, Erik Per Sullivan
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Roberts cements status as a Hollywood force
Times Staff WriterFor many in Hollywood, Julia Roberts' Oscar victory is a coronation long overdue. As longtime executive Joe Roth said, As an actress she holds more clout than any woman since Shirley Temple. She is the first female star to earn a salary on a par with...Tags: Garry Marshall, Walt Disney, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, Celebrities
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Houseguest
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday January 6, 1995 "Houseguest," a rowdy fish-out-of-water comedy, is as good-natured as its big, beefy star, comedian Sinbad. His Kevin Franklin is a Pittsburgh dreamer steeped in get-rich-quick schemes but now dangerously in debt to a local...Tags: Paul Ben-Victor, Movies, PG Rated Movies, Ivy League, Comedy (genre)
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Heavyweights
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday February 17, 1995 Is it politically correct these days to be fat and proud or thin and proud? Disney's new kidpic "Heavyweights" plays it both ways: It says it's fine to be chubby and then goes ahead and makes all the usual chubby...Tags: Armed Forces, Judd Apatow, Bill Clinton, Walt Disney, Jerry Stiller
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Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventures of Pecos Bill
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday March 24, 1995 If a good children's film is supposed to open the eyes of its young audience, then the somewhat misleadingly titled "Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventures of Pecos Bill" is mighty good. It's not made with any special feeling...Tags: Catherine O'Hara, Stephen Lang, The Walt Disney Co., Patrick Swayze, Schindler's List (movie)
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While You Were Sleeping
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday April 21, 1995 The amiable, methodically inoffensive "While You Were Sleeping" opens with a woman's honey-colored childhood memories of her deceased father but, even when the memories have faded into the present day, the honey continues to...Tags: Health, Romance (genre), Michael Rispoli, Bill Pullman, Family
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The Golden Globes Finally Get Some Respect
The 52nd Golden Globe Awards hadn't even started, and stars ranging from Tom Hanks and Hugh Grant to Jodie Foster and Ellen DeGeneres were slowly making their way down the heaving line of press photographers when a limousine caught fire in front of the...Tags: Sherry Lansing, Rosie Perez, Diana Ross, Golden Globe Awards, Sharon Stone
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