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Newport Beach and L.A. Children's Film Festival among highlights
The TCM Classic Film Festival, which takes place Thursday through Sunday in Hollywood, isn't the only high-profile fest this weekend. The 14th annual Newport Beach Film Festival kicks off Thursday evening at the Edwards Big Newport with the West Coast...
Tags: The Iceman (movie), Jim Rash, AnnaSophia Robb, Arts and Culture, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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'I'll Eat You Last' chronicles Sue Mengers' old Hollywood
A Hollywood striver in the 1970s would have learned oodles from Sue Mengers — how to woo a client, sass a studio exec, host a dinner party, smoke a joint. And, had she pulled up a seat in Mengers' Beverly Hills living room one particularly gloomy...
Tags: Red (movie, 2010) , Skyfall (movie), Sidney Lumet, SoHo, Entertainment Events
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In search of 'The Searchers' and the history behind the western
The bigger the fight between a screenwriter and a director, the better the picture. It's an arrant generalization but not necessarily an errant one. Look at Budd Schulberg's battles with "On the Waterfront," or Robert Towne's over the ending of...
Tags: John Ford, Authors, Rentals, Otto Preminger, University of Texas at Austin
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Steve Schapiro's photos in 'Then and Now' offer a mix of emotions
When photographer Steve Schapiro first arrived on the Lower East Side set of "The Godfather" in 1971, there were rumors floating around that Marlon Brando was not well. Moving closer to the action, he noticed an old man in an overcoat and hat talking to...
Tags: Marlon Brando, Arts, Jane Fonda, Arts and Culture, Jodie Foster
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Richard Collins dies at 98; onetime blacklisted screenwriter
Richard Collins, a screenwriter during the McCarthy era who was blacklisted for several years before he cooperated with the Communist-hunting House Un-American Activities Committee, died Thursday in Ventura. The onetime Communist Party member was 98...
Tags: Politics, Television, Marion Davies, Edward Dmytryk, Bob Hope
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'Gangster Squad' a stylish but shallow noir tale, critics say
Taking its name and inspiration from a real LAPD operation that battled organized crime during the 1940s and '50s, the new film "Gangster Squad" dramatizes the story of Sgt. John O'Mara (played by Josh Brolin) and his squad's crusade against the...
Tags: Ryan Gosling, Gangster Squad (movie), Los Angeles Police Department, Emma Stone, Josh Brolin
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Justin Bieber pays $6.5 million for Calabasas home
The price that first-time homeowner Justin Bieber paid for his new digs in Calabasas has wended its way into the public record: $6.5 million.
Set on 1.3 acres in a gated community, the 10,000-square-foot main house is described as "transitional French"...Tags: The A-Team (movie), Bars and Clubs, Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated, Arts and Culture, Dining and Drinking
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PASSINGS: Uan Rasey, Hanan Porat
Uan Rasey Trumpet player in 'Chinatown' and other films Uan Rasey, 90, a first-call trumpet player for MGM and other studio orchestras best known for his evocative solo in Roman Polanski's 1974 film "Chinatown," died Sept. 26 at Kaiser Permanente...Tags: Television, Unrest, Conflicts and War, West Bank, MGM Inc., Singin' in the Rain (movie)
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Movie review: 'Rango'
A marvelous mash-up of Old West and newfangled, "Rango" rewrites the animation playbook with its eye-popping critters and varmints, and its hero's tale (tail?) of a chameleon desperate for a SAG card and a town desperate for a sheriff. What fun.
In a...Tags: Hans Zimmer, Human Interest, Star Wars (movie), Gore Verbinski, Alfred Molina
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Broadway: Bette Midler serves up Hollywood dish in 'I'll Eat You Last'
NEW YORK — Almost none of us would have been invited to one of the famous parties at Sue Mengers' swishy pad in "The Hills of Beverly." Those networking opportunities — wherein Faye Dunaway could get cast in "Chinatown" between appetizer and...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Theater, Arts and Culture, Entertainment, Broadway Theater
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The story of the Oscars
While it's true that there's only so much anyone can say about the Oscars, remember it can be said again and again. As a reader (and writer), I know by now that there are 10 abiding Oscar stories. Here they are, all in a single article: The history...
Tags: John Ford, Fred Astaire, Avatar (movie), Marlon Brando, Passover
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