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Saturday's TV Highlights: The Kentucky Derby on NBC
Show TrackerClick here to download TV listings for the week of May 2 - 8 in PDF format This week's TV Movies THEY'RE OFF! Dublin trains for the 136th Run for the Roses. Coverage begins with a special at 11 a.m....... -
Imagine that: Dede Allen, Hollywood's greatest film editor, died Oscarless
The Big PictureWhen I read the obituaries earlier this week paying tribute to Dede Allen, who died Saturday at 86 after pretty much revolutionizing the art of film editing, I got to wondering -- how many Oscars did she win in her...... -
Thursday's TV Highlights: “Rookie Blue” on ABC.
Show TrackerClick here to download TV listings for the week of Aug. 1 - 7 in PDF format This week's TV Movies Weekly TV Listings can also be downloaded here COLLARED: Richard Denison, left, and Gregory Smith in the new episode...... -
Book review: 'Talking to Girls About Duran Duran' by Rob Sheffield
Talking to Girls About Duran Duran
One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut
Rob Sheffield
Dutton: 274 pp., $25.95
I hate the '80s. I'm not saying I hate the days of my youth, but I hate burnished nostalgia for an era in which I just...Tags: Bars and Clubs, Music, Culture, Dining and Drinking, Teen-agers
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John Hughes High School reunion
John Hughes' film message is simple: The kids are all right.
His young heroes were certainly confused, frustrated and angry, but they ultimately proved steely enough to triumph over the often cruel peer pressure and stifling confinement of suburban life....Tags: Academy Awards, Macaulay Culkin, Film Festivals, Molly Ringwald, August (movie)
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Hughes was a master of light, right notes
Film CriticFilmmaker John Hughes burned brightest in the '80s, when he defined teen angst in terms of the caste system of the suburban high school experience, a thread that others would pick up again and again. His films were talky, in a good way. Like the kids...Tags: Bars and Clubs, Francis Ford Coppola, Macaulay Culkin, Death, Molly Ringwald
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'Square Pegs' fits right in
Times Television CriticA comedy about kids that was not made for kids but was not not made for kids, "Square Pegs" premiered on CBS in the fall of 1982; a quarter of a century later, it has come to DVD in its surprisingly modest, 19-episode entirety. But 9 1/2 hours is time...Tags: Sarah Jessica Parker, Francis Ford Coppola, Everybody Hates Chris (tv program), Sylvester Stallone, DVDs and Movies
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She's sweet 16 and smart as a whip. Ouch.
SHE TURNED 16 the other day, and I can hardly spit out the words. Sixteen. As in 16 candles. As in sweet (and sour) 16. As in the .416 (or so) batting average she racked up for her school softball team. As in the 16 bucks I gave her for the movies. As...Tags: MySpace, Sports, Katharine Hepburn, Softball
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Ned Tanen dies at 77; former president of Universal, Paramount
Ned Tanen, a highly regarded former president of Universal Pictures and Paramount Pictures in the 1970s and '80s who presided over hits such as "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial" and "Top Gun," has died. He was 77.
Tanen, whose credits as an independent...Tags: Sherry Lansing, Steven Spielberg, Mass Media, Cinema Industry, Armed Forces
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In 'Four Christmases,' Seth Gordon explores a season's gratings
To some, it might seem a bit of a stretch for the director of an odd and obscure documentary about the '80s arcade game Donkey Kong to become the man in charge of the big-budget holiday-season comedy " Four Christmases," starring Vince Vaughn and Reese...Tags: Documentary (genre), Film Festivals, Cinema Industry, Travel, Vince Vaughn
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Creepy Times at Claremont High
A former student at Claremont High has a word for what Jeremy Iversen did to his classmates: "Creepy." It's an interesting word to keep in mind as Iversen makes the TV talk show rounds this week in an effort to sell America on the notion that his book,...Tags: Social Issues, Students, People, Books, Religion and Belief
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