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    Apr 6, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. 'Operation Homecoming'

    The documentary "Operation Homecoming" grew out of a project created by the National Endowment for the Arts to gather writings of all kinds — journals, letters, poetry, fiction, essays — by soldiers who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. As stated in the film, the idea was to "start a new chapter in the long history of war writing," a lineage that stretches from as far back as "The Iliad" to "The Red Badge of Courage," encompassing as well "Dispatches" and "Jarhead."
    Special to The Times
    The documentary "Operation Homecoming" grew out of a project created by the National Endowment for the Arts to gather writings of all kinds — journals, letters, poetry, fiction, essays — by soldiers who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan....

    Tags: Afghanistan, David Letterman, Entertainment, Arts and Culture, Armed Forces

    2. Feb 8, 2007 |Story| Metromix

  2. Fast-Paised review: 'Puccini for Beginners'

    Recently dumped by her girlfriend, writer Allegra (Elizabeth Reaser) creates a love triangle of flexible sexuality by hooking up with college professor Philip (Justin Kirk) and aspiring glass blower Grace (Gretchen Mol). Things get sticky when Allegra...

    Tags: Gretchen Mol, Entertainment, Jennifer Dundas, Education, Julianne Nicholson

    3. Feb 8, 2007 |Story| Metromix

  3. Movie review: 'Puccini for Beginners'

    <b>2&#189; stars (out of four)</b>
    Tribune movie critic
    2½ stars (out of four) Maria Maggenti's "Puccini for Beginners" is pretty clever indie stuff, a sharp-witted romantic comedy that takes the old Woody Allen screwball style and mood and amusingly applies them to a story about tangled gay and straight...

    Tags: Gretchen Mol, Entertainment, Woody Allen, Andie MacDowell, Jennifer Dundas

    4. Feb 11, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Shaping romances from the twists in her life

    THE first film by Maria Maggenti, "The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love," turned the writer-director's own blushing, youthful romantic interlude into a tender, comedic tale. With her second feature, "Puccini for Beginners," Maggenti again draws from the well of her own relationship travails.
    Special to The Times
    THE first film by Maria Maggenti, "The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love," turned the writer-director's own blushing, youthful romantic interlude into a tender, comedic tale. With her second feature, "Puccini for Beginners," Maggenti again...

    Tags: Minority Groups, Gretchen Mol, Entertainment, Woody Allen, Economy, Business and Finance

    5. Feb 9, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. 'Puccini For Beginners'

    Bisexuality certainly increases the geometric possibilities of the romantic comedy, completing its triangles and allowing for quadrangles and other, more amorphous layers of amorous involvement.
    Times Staff Writer
    Bisexuality certainly increases the geometric possibilities of the romantic comedy, completing its triangles and allowing for quadrangles and other, more amorphous layers of amorous involvement. The primary vertex of "Puccini for Beginners," writer-...

    Tags: Gretchen Mol, Entertainment, Woody Allen, Romance (genre), Julianne Nicholson

    6. Mar 15, 2006 |Story| Metromix

  6. Fast-Paised review: Ask the Dust'

    Big question: Italian Arturo Bandini (Colin Farrell, solid here as an old-school leading man) is a writer in Depression-era Los Angeles smitten with Mexican waitress Camilla Lopez (Salma Hayek, making grace sexy and sexiness graceful). Could this couple...

    Tags: Robert Towne, Tom Cruise, Idina Menzel, Colin Farrell, Salma Hayek

    7. Mar 15, 2006 |Story| Metromix

  7. Movie review: Ask the Dust'

    Tribune arts critic
    3 stars (out of four) Some films play a shell game with their own flaws, drawing your eye away from what doesn't work while murmuring: Hang in there. Robert Towne's adaptation of "Ask the Dust," written in 1939 by an unsung master of Los Angeles fiction,...

    Tags: Sophia Loren, Tom Cruise, World War I (1914-1918), Idina Menzel, Entertainment

    8. Aug 11, 2006 |Story| Zap2It

  8. TV Gal Admits to Being Wrong

    Are you all sitting down?
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    Are you all sitting down? I have some bad news. Is everybody ready? I was wrong. I mean I was wrong, wrong, what-has-George Eads-done-to-his-hair? wrong about "Windfall." At first I thought the show was a fun, frothy summer treat. Then I thought it...

    Tags: Literature, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Entertainment, Jeremy Piven, Annabeth Gish

    9. Aug 14, 2006 |Story| Zap2It

  9. The Straight Dope on 'Weeds'

    As "Weeds" spun toward the end of its first season, it looked like pot-selling single mom Nancy Botwin might be OK. She set up a legitimate-looking business as a front to sell her dope, and she met a nice guy named Peter.
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    As "Weeds" spun toward the end of its first season, it looked like pot-selling single mom Nancy Botwin might be OK. She set up a legitimate-looking business as a front to sell her dope, and she met a nice guy named Peter. Then she slept with Peter, and,...

    Tags: Mary-Louise Parker, Television, Entertainment, Showtime (tv network), Death

    10. Mar 9, 2006 |Story| Zap2It

  10. Ask the Dust

    Zap2It.com
    They don't make them like "Ask the Dust" anymore. That might explain what it's taken Robert Towne decades to mount his adaptation of the John Fante novel. The resulting film shows exactly the kind of cinematic craftsmanship you might expect from this kind...

    Tags: Robert Towne, Entertainment, Colin Farrell, Salma Hayek, Academy Awards

    11. Nov 30, 2006 |Story| Metromix

  11. Fast-Paised review: 'Flannel Pajamas'

    Stuart (Justin Kirk) and Nicole (Julianne Nicholson) experience the harsh comedown from meeting to dating to marriage to misery. Big question: If this is just one more movie telling us modern relationships don't work, can "Flannel Pajamas" at least...

    Tags: Julianne Nicholson, Entertainment, Music Industry, Drama (genre), Movies

    12. Nov 30, 2006 |Story| Metromix

  12. Movie review: 'Flannel Pajamas'

    <b>2&#189; stars (out of four)</b>
    Tribune movie critic
    2½ stars (out of four) Love can be a battleground, and, despite its homey-sounding title and gentle, almost nonchalant air, Jeff Lipsky's "Flannel Pajamas" gives us a series of messages from the front. The main characters, Stuart Sawyer (Justin Kirk)...

    Tags: Robert Altman, Entertainment, Health, Wedding Products and Services, Chicago International Film Festival

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