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St. Pat descends for a little blarney
Time again for the Get Serious! Spotlight on the News, at it shines our last remaining old 100-watt bulb on the man responsible for that green food coloring in your beer today, the man who puts the "go Bragh" in "Erin": Saint Patrick! "Thanks. It's...Tags: New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, Barry Fitzgerald, Victor McLaglen, Republic of Ireland
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Altman, Pacino and Hope and Crosby among weekend highlights
An early film by Robert Atman, a sneak preview of Al Pacino as Phil Spector and a Bob Hope and Bing Crosby "Road" picture double bill are among the highlights this weekend. The UCLA Film & Television Archive's Festival of Preservation offers a rare...
Tags: Phil Spector, Jonathan Demme, David Mamet, Steven Spielberg, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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In search of 'The Searchers' and the history behind the western
The bigger the fight between a screenwriter and a director, the better the picture. It's an arrant generalization but not necessarily an errant one. Look at Budd Schulberg's battles with "On the Waterfront," or Robert Towne's over the ending of...
Tags: Authors, On the Waterfront (movie), University of Texas at Austin, Chinatown (movie), John Wayne
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Oscars 2013: Follow the Academy Awards live on Twitter
The 85th Academy Awards are hours away, but social media is abuzz with winner projections, potential Oscar snubs and fashion faux pas. For film buffs and casual onlookers following the awards on a second screen, you can get access from the scene on...
Tags: Lincoln (movie, 2012), Celebrities, Steven Spielberg, Life of Pi (movie), Amour (movie)
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Oscars 2013: Get your play-at-home ballot here
Looking for an Oscars 2013 play-at-home ballot? Look no further — you've found a shareable version, packed with additional info about who and what you'll be voting on. Click here to get the ballot, explore a bit before you mark your choices and...
Tags: Daniel Day-Lewis, Celebrities, Movies, Entertainment Events, Academy Awards
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The story of the Oscars
While it's true that there's only so much anyone can say about the Oscars, remember it can be said again and again. As a reader (and writer), I know by now that there are 10 abiding Oscar stories. Here they are, all in a single article: The history...
Tags: Preston Sturges, Passover, Steven Spielberg, Alan Arkin, Marlene Dietrich
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'The Searchers' by Glenn Frankel falters in its portrayal of Native Americans
Oh, America and its Westerns! For as long as America has been making itself, it has been just as busy manufacturing its meanings, and Westerns have evolved as the dominant artistic medium in which America has gone about its noble and complicated work....
Tags: Authors, Entertainment Events, John Wayne, The Washington Post, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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Oscars 2013: Watch live video coverage Sunday — but first, catch up
The 85th Academy Awards are getting closer, and the big question on Oscar watchers' minds is whether "Argo" will sweep this awards season, capping off its run with a best picture win for Ben Affleck's drama about the Iranian hostage crisis. But there'...
Tags: The Master (movie), Celebrities, Entertainment Events, Academy Awards, David O. Russell
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Sundance 2013: David Gordon Green, back after 'Pineapple Express'
PARK CITY, Utah — “It’s been awhile,” director David Gordon Green said as we shook hands on Sunday. Indeed it had. It was, in fact, 10 years almost to the day since I’d interviewed Green at the Sundance Film Festival, and...
Tags: Danny McBride, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., Colorado Avalanche, Emile Hirsch, Jonah Hill
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Community column reports the latest from the Masons in Cecil and Harford
Susquehanna Lodge No 130 A.F. & A.M. from Havre de Grace held an open installation at the Mt. Ararat Lodge room in Bel Air last week. The Grand Officers of the Grand Lodge of Maryland lead by the Most Worshipful Grand Master Gerald E. Piepiora presided...Tags: Scott Padgett, Christianity, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Severna Park, Religion and Belief
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Theater review: ' 'Tis Pity' still shocks after nearly 400 years
Before Quentin Tarantino, Martin McDonagh and all the other sadistic bad boys of film and theater, there was the 17th century dramatist John Ford testing his audience's tolerance for perverse blood sport. In his most popular play, " 'Tis Pity She's a...
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Oscar nominations 2013: 'Lincoln' leads field; surprises, snubs seen
Only in Hollywood could a tiny, low-budget tale of a little girl named Hushpuppy who lives in the bayou take on a historical epic by master filmmaker Steven Spielberg about the 16th president’s struggle to end slavery and the Civil War. But...
Tags: Helen Hunt, Lincoln (movie, 2012), Wreck-It Ralph (movie), Celebrities, Philip Seymour Hoffman
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