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'Psycho' Scribe Dies at 84
Zap2It.comJoseph Stefano, who wrote the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller "Psycho" and was the influential first-season producer-writer of the 1960s science-fiction anthology TV series "The Outer Limits," has died. He was 84. Stefano, who...Tags: Martin Sheen, Television, Sally Field, Entertainment, Science
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Getting the vote out for 'Bobby'
The EnvelopeFor a movie that has grossed only $11 million, been panned by half the nation's film critics and is now almost gone from the local megaplexes, one might think that "Bobby" faces an insurmountable climb if it is to capture Academy Awards attention. But...Tags: Martin Sheen, MGM Inc., Lainie Kazan, Academy Awards, Golden Globe Awards
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No Surprises at the End, or Anywhere Else
TIMES FILM CRITIC"The Majestic" isn't. Rather it's "The Film That Wasn't There," a derivative, self-satisfied fable that couldn't be more treacly and simple-minded if it tried. And it tries, oh, how it tries. Director Frank Darabont ("The Shawshank Redemption" and "The...Tags: David Ogden Stiers, Jim Carrey, PG Rated Movies, The Shawshank Redemption (movie), Laurie Holden
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Complete list of Primetime Emmy nominations
Nominees in all categories for the 56th annual Primetime Emmy awards by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences: 1. Animated program (for programming less than one hour): "Futurama: The Sting," Fox; "Samurai Jack: The Birth of Evil," Cartoon Network;...Tags: Justin Kirk, Anne Heche, David Hyde Pierce, Angela Lansbury, 24 (tv program)
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The X-Files
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday June 19, 1998 Who hasn't walked into a movie late and tried desperately to catch up with the plot, to make sense of what's on the screen? For those not washed in the blood, that's what it's like to watch "The X-Files" movie. Except instead of...Tags: Television, Gillian Anderson, Stranger Than Fiction, Entertainment, Chris Carter (baseball)
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Rounders
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday September 11, 1998 Likable Matt Damon, that most appealing of young actors, is making a career out of working against expectation and playing characters Americans are least at ease with: geniuses. In "Good Will Hunting," Damon was a...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, John Malkovich, Famke Janssen, Entertainment, Education
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EDtv
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday March 26, 1999 Like the television medium it genially satirizes, "EDtv" is a grab bag that's both amusing and frustrating. Simultaneously inspired and contrived, clever and crude, it's an eye-candy riff on a substantial topic, ambitious for...Tags: Woody Harrelson, Television, Elizabeth Hurley, Alan Greenspan, Satellite and Cable Service
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Sleepy Hollow
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday November 19, 1999 "Heads Will Roll" is more than a clever tag line for Tim Burton's "Sleepy Hollow." It's a bemused truth-in-advertising warning from a director who's told interviewers, "I've always wanted to make a movie where one of the...Tags: Casper Van Dien, Tim Burton, Michael Gambon, Christina Ricci, Jeffrey Jones
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Ready to Rumble
FOR THE TIMESFriday April 7, 2000 "Loser!" "Would a loser have two tickets to Monday Night Nitro, live from Cheyenne?" "Yes." There you have it, folks. I wanted to like "Ready to Rumble." Really. I think David Arquette is the thinking man's...Tags: David Arquette, Diamond Dallas Page, Academy Awards, Sports, Sid Vicious
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'Movies About Movies: A Look Back in Angles'
LMPWhile most banks supply their customers with free checking, drive-thru services or the occasional toaster oven, for the past 27 years LaSalle Bank at Irving Park Road and Cicero Avenue, on the Northwest Side, has been offering a far more esoteric premium:...Tags: Tim Burton, Billy Wilder, LaSalle Bank, Irving Park, Documentary (genre)
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Silver Images Film Festival
LMPIn a film industry obsessed with youth and beauty, the elderly often wind up with the short end of the reel. If they are not being portrayed as mean or infirm, then they're inevitably sweet and a bit out of it. It's the rare film that paints older...Tags: Kidnapping, Documentary (genre), Entertainment, Kris Kristofferson, Crimes
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Movie review, 'Shanghai Ghetto'
With "Shanghai Ghetto," we are introduced to a little-known historic adventure - one that brought Jews from Germany to China - with a big emotional payoff. In the 1930s, German Jews who feared the Nazis' rise to power desperately sought ways to escape...Tags: Judaism, Germany, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Nazi Party, Music Box Theatre
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