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It's an Oscar-centric weekend at the academy and Cinematheque
With the 85th Academy Awards taking place Sunday at the Dolby Theatre, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the American Cinematheque are presenting Oscar-related programs that shine the spotlight on nominees in various fields. Actor...
Tags: Amour (movie), Budd Boetticher, Jeanne Moreau, David Mamet, Tony Richardson
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Jeanine Basinger examines movie marriage in 'I Do and I Don't'
Jeanine Basinger's "I Do and I Don't: A History of Marriage in the Movies" (Alfred A. Knopf: 432 pp., $30) is a breezy, fun excursion into Hollywood's presentation of matrimony, from the earliest days of cinema through the modern era. But rather than...
Tags: Lauren Bacall, Crime, Law and Justice, Paul Weitz, Audrey Hepburn, Ernest Hemingway
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A Second Look: 'Postman Always Rings Twice' films are noir standard
A lean, mean tale of adultery and murder, James M. Cain's bestselling, once-scandalous 1934 novel "The Postman Always Rings Twice" is often considered a central text of noir fiction. It also has proved an eternally popular and durable template for the...
Tags: Luchino Visconti, Barbara (movie), Double Indemnity (movie), DVDs, David Mamet
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Around Town: Return to 'Brokeback Mountain'
24 FramesOscar-winning director Ang Lee and producer James Schamus will be on hand at the Film Independent at LACMA screening Thursday evening at the Leo S. Bing Theater of their seminal 2005 drama "Brokeback Mountain."... -
Film Independent announces lineup for Los Angeles Film Festival
24 Frames"Magic Mike," Steven Soderbergh's dramatic comedy set in the world of male strippers, will have its world premiere as the closing night program of the Los Angeles Film Festival next month. The film, which stars Matthew McConaughey and Channing Tatum,... -
Harry Morgan, 1915-2011: An appreciation
Show TrackerHarry Morgan, who died Wednesday at age 96, could command your attention while still seeming quite ordinary. That was Harry Morgan's particular magic.... -
Around Town: Foreign films and Spencer Tracy
24 FramesThe week's lineup includes Golden Globe foreign language nominees, a comedian's film festival and a sneak preview of the new action thriller "The Grey."... -
Peter Falk dies at 83; actor found acclaim as 'Columbo'
Peter Falk, the gravel-voiced actor who became an enduring television icon portraying Lt. Columbo, the rumpled raincoat-wearing Los Angeles police homicide detective who always had "just one more thing" to ask a suspect, died Thursday. He was 83.
Falk,...Tags: Eva Le Gallienne, Celebrity Parents, Prosecution, Colleges and Universities, Frank Capra Jr.
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Did Mickey Cohen really own Slapsy Maxie's nightclub?
24 FramesAnother tale from "The Gangster Squad": Who really owned Slapsy Maxie's nightclub?... -
Book review: 'Robert Redford: The Biography' by Michael Feeney Callan
Special to the Los Angeles TimesIn Michael Feeney Callan's fawning new biography, we get plenty of the actor, director and environmentalist we already know but only a tantalizing, too-brief glimpse of a young man we almost never hear about: Charles Robert Redford Jr., Angeleno. From...Tags: Don Drysdale, William Goldman, Richard Harris, Sports, Michael Ritchie
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Book review: 'Familyhood'
Los Angeles TimesI was so ready to dismiss this little book as the musings of a sitcom quipster with not much to add to the national discourse — when, during one of those insufferably long children's birthday parties, another dad began to rant about many of the same...Tags: Glenn Miller, Donna Reed, Entertainment, Book, Television
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Liz Taylor and Richard Burton fought over everything: Even who was more Jewish!
The Big PictureHaving seen all the sultry, sabra-like photos of her as a young actress, I always assumed that Elizabeth Taylor was just another Jewish star who'd changed her name so she could more easily cross over into Middle America, sort of......
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