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Actress Janet Leigh Dies at 77
Times Staff WriterJanet Leigh, the actress who turned the mundane act of getting clean in a shower into one of cinema's most enduring images of gore and horror, died Sunday with her family at her bedside. She was 77. The actress' husband, Robert Brandt, and her daughters,...Tags: Halloween, James Stewart, Movies, Alfred Hitchcock, Errol Flynn
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Leigh Made 63 Movies, 3 of Them Classics
Times Staff WriterJanet Leigh made 63 movies in 53 years — three of them classics. From 1958 to 1962, she had a sort of dark trilogy, playing an icy, unsettling and alienated woman, a cynically tragic ur-feminist. She always seemed wounded. As an imperiled wife...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Death, Frank Sinatra, Crimes
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Selection Sunday is exciting but will never top the NFL Draft
"Selection Sunday." It's got a nice ring, but don't get too cocky, basketball fans. Granted, you have one of the two best non-sporting sporting events (in which no scoring happens), but you will never touch the first day of the NFL Draft. But you...
Tags: Dwight Howard, Joe Buck, Baseball, Services and Shopping, Robin the Boy Wonder (fictional character)
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“Bates Motel” series delves into the past of “Psycho” killer
Channel Guide MagazineBates Motel on A&E premieres Monday, March 18, at 10pm ET. This modern-day prequel to Alfred Hitchcock’s genre-defining film Psycho comes from executive producers Carlton Cuse (Lost) and Kerry Ehrin (Friday Night Lights) and intends to give... -
'Hitchcock'
Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren are typically credible as legendary "master of suspense" Alfred Hitchcock and his wife, Alma, in director Sacha Gervasi's docudrama, but the bigger interest is the movie's detailing of the complications - financial and...Tags: Helen Mirren, Blu-ray Discs, Movies, Scarlett Johansson, Alfred Hitchcock
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Meet the man behind 'Psycho'
“Hitchcock” opens Friday at the Capitol Theatre. Showings are at 7:30 each night. Admission is $8, or $6 for Capitol Cinema members. “Hitchcock” is rated PG-13 and runs 128 minutes. “Anna Karenina” finishes its run...
Tags: Helen Mirren, Movies, Scarlett Johansson, Alfred Hitchcock, Jessica Biel
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Ann-Margret: The eternal kitten (with a whip) celebrated in Hollywood
Liz Smith"WHY DO you think you're such a smoky something, when you're so nothing painted blue?" Every disreputable film fan knows that line. It is one of Ann-Margret's many out-of-space utterances in 1964's black-and-white juvenile delinquent saga, the luridly...Tags: Entertainment Events, Claudette Colbert, Blu-ray Discs, Tina Turner, Movies
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TCA: A&E's 'Bates Motel' digs new 'Psycho' roots: Cuse, Ehrin preview re-imagining of Hitchcock classic at panel
VarietyAbove: Actors Vera Farmiga and Freddie Highmore speak onstage during the 'Bates Motel' panel discussion at the A&E Network portion of the 2013 Winter TCA panel. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images) In tackling "Bates Motel" for A&E Network, exec...Tags: Anthony Perkins, Alfred Hitchcock, Freddie Highmore, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Vera Farmiga
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Long good-byes and longer movies
It's that time in our program to stop and remember the folks we lost this year. •Actors: Peggy Ahern, 95, and Jack Hanlon, 96 ("Our Gang" kids); Dimitra Arliss ("The Sting"), 79; R.G. Armstrong, 95; Luke Askew, 80; Zina Bethune, 66; Turhan Bey, 90;...
Tags: Frank Cady, Frank Pierson, Gary Collins, Paul Shaffer, Tony Scott
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Advice for approaching DVD kiosk
As a relatively broke college student, Chicago-based writer Rob Christopher didn't have the cash to rent movies from a video store. Instead, he sought out his local library and discovered not only a repository of films vast enough to satisfy his tastes...
Tags: Meek's Cutoff (movie), Steven Seagal, Redbox, Movies, Chicago Tribune
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Separated At Birth: Mitt and Rock
Blogging with Bill WhiteI don’t write nearly enough Separated at Birth blog posts, and although I’m scheduled for some kind of Movie List today, I decided to give that a twist by asking you to propose the film and TV actors who most...... -
Danger! Heartbreak dead ahead! Music to Taylor Swift's ears?
Liz Smith"HE WILL definitely break her heart!" That's what an "insider" says about the current relationship between country music sensation Taylor Swift and Harry Styles, one of the cutest members of the boy band "One Direction." Well, Taylor is probably...Tags: Billie Holiday, Fanny Brice, One Direction (music group), Frances Farmer, Frosty the Snowman (fictional character)
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