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Fantasia's Not-So-Perfect 'Fairy Tale'
Zap2It.com"My life looks like a fairy tale in many ways, but you have to remember that life is not a fairy tale. I'm the American Idol ... but I can't even read a fairy tale to my 4-year-old daughter." In her best-selling 2005 memoir, "Life Is Not a Fairy Tale,"...Tags: Television, Entertainment, Viola Davis, Sexual Assault, Patti LaBelle
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Devine Intervention for ABC's Prophet Pilot
Zap2It.comLoretta Devine, seen occasionally on "Grey's Anatomy" as the Chief's estranged wife, is angling for a more regular gig on ABC. The "Waiting to Exhale" star has signed on to the network's pilot "Eli Stone," where she'll star opposite Jonny Lee Miller ("...Tags: James Pickens Jr., Six Feet Under (tv program), Science, James Woods, Jonny Lee Miller
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'Punks'
Times Staff WriterThe only thing punk about "Punks," a groundbreaking black gay male romantic comedy, is its cheesy trailer that suggests it's primarily a drag performance film. In fact, it is terrific entertainment, full of wit and energy, alternately hilarious and...Tags: Comedy (genre), Entertainment, Romance (genre), Diana Ross, Bars and Clubs
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In 'I Am Sam,' Skillful Players Embrace a Heartfelt Family Tale
TIMES STAFF WRITER"I Am Sam" is a warm, hard-to-resist story of a mentally challenged single father fighting to retain custody of his 7-year-old daughter. It's the kind of skilled heart-tugger that opens at this time of year, both to qualify for the Oscars--Sean Penn as...Tags: Giorgio Armani, Laura Dern, Entertainment, Lawyers, Starbucks Corp.
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Down in the Delta
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday December 25, 1998 Unflinchingly, "Down in the Delta" goes straight to the heart with its powerful story of a young Chicago woman who finds redemption by returning to her ancestral roots in rural Mississippi. In adding feature-film...Tags: Restaurants, Entertainment, Alfre Woodard, Family, Slavery
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Urban Legends: Final Cut
SPECIAL TO THE TIMESFriday September 22, 2000 The coolest single element in the walk-don't-run horror sequel "Urban Legends: Final Cut" may be its atmospheric setting, the actual rural campus of Trent University, in Peterborough, Ontario. With blocky poured-concrete...Tags: Entertainment, Genres, Arts and Culture, Brain, Hart Bochner
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'Kingdom' shines
2 1/2 stars Screenwriters, who can be awfully formulaic about these things, call it the "gang's all here" approach to storytelling. Find an event that requires all the principal members of a clan to get together. (Baptisms and weddings are good; holidays...Tags: Comedy (genre), Jada Pinkett Smith, Entertainment, Gang Activity, Cedric the Entertainer
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In a word...
A "love-hate" relationship exists between African-American actor Chi McBride and the "N-word," the vilest epithet for his race. "I go through periods in my life where I use the word, and I go though periods in life where I swear the word off completely,...Tags: Schools, Spike Lee, Entertainment, Culture, Black History
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Movie review, 'I Am Sam'
Some actors can rise above their movies; some are so good, they elevate the entire picture. In "I Am Sam," Sean Penn plays a mentally disabled Los Angeles Starbucks employee named Sam Dawson, a gentle, loving single father with the mind of a 7-year-old....Tags: Entertainment, Lawyers, Drama (genre), Starbucks Corp., Sean Penn
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A Winter Wonderland At The Movies
Courant Film CriticWith kindly and wicked monsters already on hand, and wizards young and old in the wings, fantasy rules in a holiday season shadowed by persistent mourning and pervasive fears. What better time for flying brooms and an all-powerful ring? The end-of-year...Tags: Jim Belushi, Todd Field, Emma Watson, Romance (genre), Genres
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'King's Ransom'
Times Staff Writer"King's Ransom" is one of those movies you suspect was built from the title up. Somewhere in a pitch meeting someone must have piped up: "I know. We'll have a guy named 'King' and he gets kidnapped, see? So there's a 'ransom'! 'King's Ransom,' get it?...Tags: Comedy (genre), Nicole Parker, Spike Lee, Entertainment, Kidnapping
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Movie review: 'Woman, Thou Art Loosed'
TRIBUNE STAFF REPORTER1 ½ stars (out of 4) Contrary to the similar title, "Woman, Thou Art Loosed" isn't a sequel to the Coens' "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" Instead, it's a TV-movie-caliber polemic based on preacher T.D. Jakes' best-selling seminar, novel and stage play of...Tags: Entertainment, Sexual Assault, Arts and Culture, Crime, Law and Justice, Debbi Morgan
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