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Readers share ratings, quibbles
The awards season has run its course. It's always a relief to see it in the rearview mirror. Even the winners feel that way. Many of the award-winners qualifying for very goodness and even greatness fed an ongoing debate about historical fiction on...
Tags: Movies, Les Miserables (musical), Steven Spielberg, Arts and Culture, Art Institute of Chicago
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Black and white and 'Blue' catch the attention
CANNES, France -- Paradox! This is how it goes here: Just as the weather deigns to become a thing of sun-splashed French Riviera wonder, the 66th Cannes Film Festival responds with an 8:30 a.m. world premiere of "Nebraska," director Alexander Payne's...
Tags: Movies, Ryan Gosling, Steven Spielberg, Arts and Culture, Jeremy Renner
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Oscars speeches: Honestly sincere, or expertly faked?
Los Angeles looks lush. But as often noted, it is actually an arid wasteland where nothing but artifice and self-interest sprouts naturally. That's the cynical, archetypal reading. For instance, two thirds of the way into Nathanael West's cynical,...
Tags: Anne Hathaway, Steven Spielberg, Celebrities, Les Miserables (movie), David O. Russell
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Cannes Film Festival: Steven Spielberg heads jury
“We’re always sitting in personal private judgment of the films we see,” Steven Spielberg said Wednesday, in Wednesday’s Cannes Film Festival press conference introducing this year’s nine-person jury headed by Spielberg....
Tags: Movies, Michael Haneke, Steven Spielberg, Arts and Culture, Academy Awards
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Nate Silver: In Hollywood, 'Nobody knows anything'
Predictability and the arts-and-entertainment world have an uneasy relationship. Predictability is a given — like the mouthfeel of a Big Mac — when it comes to, say, the punch lines on "Two and a Half Men" or the beats of your average...
Tags: Two and a Half Men (tv program), Django Unchained (movie), Steven Spielberg, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Arts and Culture
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'United in Anger': Documentary explores history of AIDS fight ★★★
We've arrived at a rich and instructive political moment. The president and his adversaries continue to negotiate an uneasy driving lesson to avoid plunging off the fiscal cliff while saving face. Moviegoers are turning out in heartening numbers for...
Tags: How to Survive a Plague (movie), Movies, Steven Spielberg, Food and Drug Administration, Entertainment
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Bishop visits Sharpsburg church
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Sharpsburg welcomed Bishop Ralph Dunkin of the West Virginia-Western Maryland Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to its worship service April 21. Bishop Dunkin joined Pastor Karen Erskine Valentine and...
Tags: Marketing, Movies, Ocean City, Steven Spielberg, Mount Vernon
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Oh, How I Miss Joan Rivers' Bad Manners On The Red Carpet
The Hartford CourantI attended the Academy Awards this year, as I usually do. For the record I was wearing a gray T-shirt and a pair of plaid flannel pajama bottoms from the Ocean State Job Lot collection. I looked fabulous, at least that's what the person doing the...Tags: Entertainment Events, Movies, Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Entertainment
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The Oscars telecast's rocky road
Last night's Oscars were like an emotional roller-coaster at a terrible amusement park--beginning wth Seth MacFarlane's as-bad-as-feared monologue, the show rarely rose above painful and hit few peaks. Allow us to relive some of the night's best and worst...
Tags: Jennifer Hudson, Django Unchained (movie), Steven Spielberg, Channing Tatum, Music
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Along the Abraham Lincoln spectrum
Opening this week, Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" is the latest screen incarnation of the 16th U.S. president's life, in this case the final few months of that substantial life, with the Civil War near the end and the passage of the 13th Amendment...
Tags: Movies, Steven Spielberg, Benjamin Walker, Government, Daniel Day-Lewis
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Overlooked screenplays this Oscar season
In 1945 Raymond Chandler wrote a screed against Hollywood, and Hollywood screenwriting, for the Atlantic Monthly. "An industry with such vast resources and such magic techniques should not become dull so soon," said the man who later characterized his...
Tags: Movies, Django Unchained (movie), Steven Spielberg, Chicago Tribune, Scientology
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RedEye's 2013 Oscar predictions
For context about predictions of major entertainment events, Duff Goldman from “Ace of Cakes” correctly predicted the result of this year’s Super Bowl. NFL experts did not. Likewise, making Oscar predictions can be a bit ridiculous, as...
Tags: Django Unchained (movie), Steven Spielberg, National Football League, Christoph Waltz, Daniel Day-Lewis
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