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Film critic Peter Rainer reflects on a 30-year career
Peter Rainer, noted Christian Science Monitor film critic, Bloomberg News columnist and reviewer for NPR's FilmWeek, reflects upon his three-decade career in "Rainer on Film: Thirty Years of Film Writing in a Turbulent and Transformative Era." Rainer,...
Tags: Entertainment, Soups, Al Jazeera English (tv network), Full Metal Jacket (movie), American Beauty (movie)
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Allan Graf's latest sport? Stunts in movies
It may seem surprising that Allan Graf — the baseball coordinator, stunt coordinator and second-unit director for Warner Bros.' Jackie Robinson biographical drama "42" — first made his name on the gridiron. But that's precisely why Graf was...
Tags: Entertainment, 42 (movie), Los Angeles Dodgers, Chicago Bears, Baseball
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Watching '42' with children: Is the language too much for them?
The surprise box office success of the uplifting Jackie Robinson biographical film "42" suggests that audiences are ready for a PG-13-rated movie filled with coarse, racially charged language. It also raises questions about whether children should see it,...
Tags: Racism, Entertainment, 42 (movie), Los Angeles Dodgers, Baseball
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Review: Pleasing '42' has Jackie Robinson's number
"God built me to last," Jackie Robinson says at one point in "42," and, thankfully, his remarkable story is built the same way. It would have to be to survive the full-dress Hollywood biopic treatment it gets in this film, which is unabashedly subtitled...
Tags: National League, Racism, Entertainment, 42 (movie), Los Angeles Dodgers
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Jackie Robinson's widow says '42' hits home
NEW YORK — Above all else, Rachel Robinson remembers the kissing. When the taunts at the ballpark grew too fierce and the naysayers too loud, her husband, Jackie, would come home to their Brooklyn apartment and the couple would try to block out...
Tags: New York Mets, Entertainment, National League, Los Angeles Dodgers, Shame (movie)
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'42' director: I didn't soft pedal racially charged language
Brian Helgeland, writer and director of the Jackie Robinson biographical film "42," expected his new movie would get an R rating from the Motion Picture Assn. of America. After all, the film, which was produced by Legendary Pictures and is being...
Tags: Entertainment, Racism, 42 (movie), Los Angeles Dodgers, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc.
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Oscars 2013: Hairstyles, the long and the short of it
Sunday night's 85th Academy Awards style was, as Times fashion critic Booth Moore pointed out, all about extremes. While Moore was referring to the complete red carpet looks -- the gowns, the jewels and the like -- one might have come to the same...
Tags: Entertainment, Entertainment Events, Reese Witherspoon, E! Entertainment Television, Inc., Charlize Theron
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For '42,' actor had to please Jackie Robinson's No. 1 fan
When Chadwick Boseman was cast as Jackie Robinson in the race-themed baseball drama "42," he was immediately confronted by someone with personal knowledge of the renowned ballplayer: the late athlete's widow, Rachel Robinson. "The first thing she said...
Tags: Entertainment, Los Angeles Dodgers, Christopher Meloni, Harrison Ford, Baseball
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Bigelow and Affleck snubs roil critics! Big win for Warner Bros.
After the coffee. Before getting my Golden Globes outfit together. The Skinny: Normally I welcome the weekend, but since I'll spend much of this weekend at the TV Press Tour in Pasadena it won't feel like a break. Oh, well, there are worse things in...
Tags: Kathryn Bigelow, Gangster Squad (movie), Organized Crime, Television, Superman (fictional character)
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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: Entertainment, Emma Stone, Josh Brolin, Gangster Squad (movie), Anthony Mackie
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Review: 'Gangster Squad' runs through its ammo to no avail
The new crime thriller "Gangster Squad," with its swell cast led by Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Sean Penn and Emma Stone, tries to capture mob-infested Los Angeles circa 1949, when Hollywood glam ruled the Strip, wiseguys took aim with tommy guns and...
Tags: Crazy, Stupid, Love. (movie), GQ, Emma Stone, Entertainment, Josh Brolin
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San Francisco literary festival Litquake just keeps growing
You can't throw a New Yorker magazine in San Francisco without hitting a writer. This fog-bound city might be more famous for steep hills and sourdough, but step inside one of its many independent bookstores and coffeehouses and you'll find more...Tags: Fine Arts, Entertainment, Fiction, Arts, Chelsea Handler
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