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'Promised Land' review: There will be what exactly?
**1/2 (out of four) Oh, commerce and integrity. Can't you two ever get along? Five years after Daniel Day-Lewis, his mustache and his oil derricks wreaked havoc in early 20th century California, star/co-writer Matt Damon and “Promised Land&...
Tags: Energy Resources, Frances McDormand, John Krasinski, Promised Land (movie), Gus van Sant
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Predictions: Golden Globes 2013--movies
No matter who wins or loses Sunday, the 2013 Golden Globes ceremony obviously will be awesome because Tiny Fey and Amy Poehler are hosting. Really: That should be enough to make even the most awards show-averse movie/TV fans tune in. Yes, there will...
Tags: Christoph Waltz, Kathryn Bigelow, Yemen, Jack Black, Celebrities
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Oscar nominations: 'Lincoln' leads Academy Award contenders with 12
With a conspicuous diss of Kathryn Bigelow, the un-nominated director of “Zero Dark Thirty,” the Academy Awards nominations were announced Thursday morning. “Zero Dark Thirty” was one of nine films given the best picture...
Tags: Michael Haneke, Entertainment, Christoph Waltz, Kathryn Bigelow, Denzel Washington
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Movie awards: Unusual joins usual
More cinema awards. The Los Angeles Film Critics Circle has a reputation for sometimes picking unusual choices. This year, the critics honored "Amour" (picture and female actor Emmanuelle Riva), "The Master" (director P.T. Anderson, actors Joaquin...
Tags: The Perks of Being a Wallflower (movie), The Hour (tv program), Mad Men (tv program), The Master (movie), Celebrities
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Thoughts while (not) watching 'Downton Abbey'
South Bend TribuneIdle thoughts while pretending not to watch “Downton Abbey” with my lovely wife: - After a three-day visit with our older son and his family in Evansville, Ind., just after Christmas, can you believe that I’ve shoveled more snow down...Tags: Cate Blanchett, Entertainment, Les Miserables (movie), Holidays, Celebrities
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Movie awards, TV spoilers, local theater
Well, it'll be a while before we get to see the film that was voted best picture of 2012 by the New York Film Critics Circle on Monday: Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty," which deals with the hunt for O. bin Laden. It doesn't open in wide circulation...
Tags: Silver Linings Playbook (movie), Entertainment, John Goodman, Mad Cow Theater, Kathryn Bigelow
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Animal House
WASHINGTON -- On Wednesday night, senators took a break from the hard work of rescuing the nation's finances. They summoned Daniel Day-Lewis and Steven Spielberg, ordered in popcorn, and watched the movie "Lincoln." After Thursday night's debacle in the...
Tags: MSNBC (tv network), Entertainment, Parties and Movements, Eric Cantor, Interior Policy
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Gov. Jerry Brown could learn a lesson from 'Lincoln'
SACRAMENTO — The movie "Lincoln" should be required viewing for all elected chief executives from president to mayor, and especially for California's governor. Especially our governor because California has so many perplexing, polarizing...
Tags: Regional Authority, Democratic Party, Entertainment, Tommy Lee Jones, Parties and Movements
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McManus: What would Lincoln do?
In the rest of the country, it may be just another movie, but in Washington, Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" has become a political Rorschach test. It seems as if every pundit in the capital has gone to see the masterful biopic about our 16th president,...
Tags: Democratic Party, Entertainment, U.S. Senate, David Brooks, Slavery
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Predictions: 2013 Oscar nominees
This Thursday brings my annual morning of being excited and nervous and telling myself I won’t yell at the TV. And then doing it anyway. That’s right, it’s the Oscar nominations, for a change announced before the Golden Globes, not...
Tags: Michael Haneke, Helen Mirren, Judi Dench, Christoph Waltz, Denzel Washington
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3 Oscar-worthy performances
I'm pretty sure we can account for three of the best-male-actor nominees when the Academy Awards lists come out on Jan. 10. I've just seen a trio of excellent performances: Denzel Washington in "Flight," Daniel Day-Lewis in "Lincoln" and John Hawkes in...Tags: Entertainment, John Goodman, Fargo (movie), Jack Black, Orlando Museum of Art
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Amid conflict, a time to give thanks
Leonard PittsHe had lost a son many years before, the boy barely more than a toddler when he died. Now another son was dead and grief sat on him like the shawl that draped his shoulders as he rattled around the big, cold house. His wife was emotionally troubled and...Tags: Steven Spielberg, Geography, Abraham Lincoln, Human Interest, The Miami Herald
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