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Top winners from 1978
denotes winner Performance by an actor in a leading role Warren Beatty as Joe Pendleton (alias, Leo Farnsworth, Tom Jarrett) in HEAVEN CAN WAIT Dogwood Productions; Paramount Gary Busey as Buddy Holly in THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY Innovisions-ECA Production;...Tags: Ellen Burstyn, Warren Beatty, Entertainment, Maureen Stapleton, Meryl Streep
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Movie review: 'Owning Mahowny'
Chicago Tribune Staff Writer3 stars (out of 4) Very little seems extraordinary about Dan Mahowny. He's a quiet, promising young bank executive in Canada with an adoring girlfriend. He has no criminal record, not even a speeding ticket. It's almost foreshadowing, then, when a...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Richard Dreyfuss, Farrah Fawcett, Lotteries, Entertainment
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Movie review: 'Hellboy'
Chicago Tribune Movie Writer2 stars (out of 4) Ron Perlman is no one's idea of a superhero, which is what makes "Hellboy" interesting. The hulking, chiseled, 53-year old actor is most famous for starring in TV's long-gone "Beauty and the Beast" series, but he's wearing a...Tags: Jeffrey Tambor, Guillermo Del Toro, Karel Roden, Doug Jones, Entertainment
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'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone'
Times Film CriticWhen you spend in the neighborhood of $125 million on the most widely anticipated literary adaptation since "Gone With the Wind," you want to get what you paid for. With "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," Warner Bros. has gotten just what it wanted,...Tags: PG Rated Movies, Entertainment, Chris Columbus, Harry Potter (fictional character), England
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Summer movies release schedule
The Associated PressRelease dates are tentative, and some films play in limited release. Late April: ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM: The corporate train wreck unfolds through insider interviews and company video and audio tapes. THE GAME OF THEIR LIVES: An outgunned...Tags: Tim Robbins, Andy Garcia, Bewitched (tv program), Television, Josh Lucas
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Scare Tactics
Courant Film CriticMore than 30 minutes into "Alien," Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi horror classic, the creature that gives the film its title has not yet had a close-up. In fact, it has not been glimpsed at all. The fact that audiences are pinned to their seats and clutching...Tags: Alfred Hitchcock, Dining and Drinking, Entertainment, Stanley Kubrick, Michael Myers
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Eye On The Perfect Hit?
Courant Film CriticVengeful Siths! Marauding Crusaders! Monster mother-in-laws! Outer-galactic space oddities! Not-so-wild wild animals! Political intrigue! And Allied pigeons! Yes, ladies and gentlemen, tots and tykes, it's spring at the multiplex, and there is, at...Tags: Labor Legislation, Tim Curry, Ben Kingsley, Ashton Kutcher, Robin Williams
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'Plan Colombia: Cashing in on the Drug-War Failure' and 'Hidden Wars of Desert Storm'
Times Staff WriterA pair of hourlong documentaries by husband-and-wife filmmakers Gerard Ungerman and Audrey Brohy tackle U.S. foreign policy head-on in a format more suited to the small screen than the multiplex. "Plan Colombia: Cashing in on the Drug-War Failure" and...Tags: Religious Conflicts, Iraq, Entertainment, Saddam Hussein, National Security
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Wild Bill
FOR THE TIMESFriday December 1, 1995 Walter Hill should have been born 25 or 30 years earlier and become a movie director when Westerns, those featuring the kind of romanticized, dime-novel tales debunked in Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven," were appreciated. ...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Arts and Culture, David Arquette, Ellen Barkin, Frankenstein's Monster (fictional character)
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Dead Man
FOR THE TIMESFriday May 10, 1996 Ever since his "discovery" at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival with the quirky "Stranger Than Paradise," we've been able to count on American independent filmmaker Jim Jarmusch to show us something we haven't seen before. But no one...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Cannes Film Festival, Gabriel Byrne, Iggy Pop, Entertainment
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Rob Roy
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday April 7, 1995 "Rob Roy" is one of those familiar names that everyone's heard but no one can quite place. The nickname (roy means red in Gaelic) of an 18th-Century Scottish Robin Hood named Robert MacGregor whose story was embroidered by...Tags: Eric Stoltz, Arthur Penn, Robert Aldrich, Entertainment, Tim Roth
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