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Review: Brad Pitt is smooth, but 'Killing Them Softly' isn't
News reports of economic woes and misbegotten corporate schemes play like a soundtrack in "Killing Them Softly," a moody crime noir starring Brad Pitt as a New Orleans hit man dealing with a down market, bad bets and loose change. Though the notion of...
Tags: Chanel S.A., Richard Jenkins, Movies, Entertainment, Saturday Night Live (tv program)
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'The Artist' is big winner at Academy Awards
The movie of the fewest words spoke the loudest at the Oscars this year.
On an evening suffused with nostalgia, "The Artist," a nearly wordless, black-and-white romance celebrating Hollywood's formative era, won five Academy Awards, including best...Tags: Movies, The Tree of Life (movie), Meryl Streep, Eddie Murphy, Robert Richardson
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Loyola professor helps piece resurgent O's team together
The opening scene of the movie "Moneyball" is a grainy close-up of Johnny Damon batting for the Oakland Athletics. Damon becomes the movie's pivotal point, a primary example of a player paid more than stats say he is worth. That surprised Loyola...
Tags: Buck Showalter, Loyola University Maryland, Teaching and Learning, Sports, Movies
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From page to small screen
Some of the biggest blockbuster movies in the last 10 years are based on books. (That means you, Harry Potter and “The Hunger Games”). But the annual television lineup has always included its share of book adaptations as well, dating back to...
Tags: Television, Jonny Lee Miller, Mad Men (tv program), Dexter (tv program), Authors
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Scrabble at the Bain Center
Activity Pals For single seniors. Get together with others to attend events, shop, go sightseeing, dine out and more. 301-596-6385. The Bain Center 5470 Ruth Keeton Way, Columbia. 410-313-7213. •Acting Up! Tuesdays, 10:30 a.m. A theater club....Tags: Ellicott City, Parkinson's Disease, Lifestyle and Leisure, Medicare, Arts and Culture
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'House of Cards' brings Hollywood to Harford County
Being on TV is nothing new for Baltimore. Think of the recent political dramas like "Game Change" and "VEEP" or earlier crime shows like "Homicide" and"The Wire."
But what's going on within a five-acre area of production offices and massive warehouses...Tags: Television, Harford County, Entertainment, Sociology, Kate Mara
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Don Meyer story headed to silver screen; Producers in town this week
jpapendick@aberdeennews.comHollywood silently came to Aberdeen this week. Moonglow Films producers were scouting locations for a movie about former Northern State basketball coach Don Meyer. After lining up the movie’s talent and finances, they hope to start production this...Tags: Basketball, Sports, Nicole Kidman, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Baseball
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Philip Seymour Hoffman will be in Toronto but not in 'The Master'
Philip Seymour Hoffman will be on the big screen during the Toronto International Film Festival, but it won't be in writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson's highly anticipated film,"The Master," that's said to be a thinly veiled look at Scientology....
Tags: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Film Festivals, The Master (movie), Paul Thomas Anderson, Movies
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The Josh Hamilton Story: From the Baseball Diamond to the Silver Screen?
CW33 NewsJosh Hamilton--baseball superstar and potential box office smash. Actor-director Casey Affleck is earmarked to write and direct the movie about the Ranger sluggers life--from present stardom to checkered past. The Rangers released a statement on behalf...Tags: Josh Hamilton, Ron Washington, Movies, Sports, Entertainment
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Oscars 2012: All eyes on Billy Crystal, Sacha Baron Cohen and, yes, nominees
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIs silence truly golden? Can George Clooney's tears bring Oscar happiness? Will Billy Crystal's yuks play as well as they did eight years ago? And could the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the first time bestow acting statuettes on two...Tags: Movies, Bridesmaids (movie), Aaron Sorkin, Meryl Streep, Max von Sydow
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Christopher Plummer Finally Has Oscar Within Reach
ReutersLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - It's been a long hike from the Austrian Alps to the Hollywood Hills for Christopher Plummer, but the actor best known for playing the steely captain with seven children in "The Sound of Music" looks set to finally win his first...Tags: The Last Station (movie), The Sound of Music (movie), Ingmar Bergman, Beginners (movie), World War II (1939-1945)
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Crashing the Oscars
The Oscars are serious — important people making important, relevant, thought-provoking movies about race, marital relations, horses and Owen Wilson seeing dead Parisians. The dresses and jewelry are beyond fancy. The tuxes are bespoke. Sidney...Tags: Movies, The Tree of Life (movie), Bridesmaids (movie), Meryl Streep, Max von Sydow
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