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Roger Ebert career highlights, on page and screen
Roger Ebert's passing Thursday at age 70 leaves behind a staggering body of work: He reviewed as many as 285 movies a year, spent decades as a fixture on TV and published 17 books. Following are but a few highlights from his prolific career. Ebert began...
Tags: Journalism, Awards and Prizes, The Silence of the Lambs (movie), Faye Dunaway, Patrick Goldstein
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Remembering Roger Ebert through his books
After surviving a disfiguring bout of cancer, Roger Ebert was felled by the disease Wednesday at age 70. He had announced just days before that a new cancer had been found and that he was going to write, and tweet, a little less. The Pulitzer Prize-...
Tags: Awards and Prizes, Twitter, Inc., Entertainment, Charles Champlin, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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David O. Russell’s latest turn: New England city politics
24 FramesDavid O. Russell, director of "The Fighter," looks to direct the Buddy Cianci biopic; the Rhode Island mayor's story will be produced by Robert De Niro... -
PASSINGS: Charles Napier, Kenneth Dahlberg, Joel DiBartolo
Charles Napier
Character actor usually played the heavy
Charles Napier, 75, a prolific character actor whose granite jaw and toothy grin earned him tough-guy roles in movies like "Rambo: First Blood Part II," died Wednesday at Bakersfield Memorial...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, The A-Team (movie), Entertainment, Sylvester Stallone, Jaws (movie)
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Tura Satana dies at 72; actress starred in 'Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!'
Tura Satana, an actress who gained cult status for her role in the 1965 Russ Meyer movie "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!," died Friday of heart failure at a hospital in Reno.
Satana's death was confirmed by her manager, Siouxzan Perry, who said Satana was...Tags: Entertainment, Human Interest, Television, John Waters, Chicago Sun-Times
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The Morning Fix: Fewer Starz on Netflix. More gripes about Time Warner Cable's iPad app.
Company TownAfter the coffee. Before kicking myself for not replacing my Timberlands. The Skinny: Of all the places I've lived, (Detroit, New Jersey, New York and Washington, D.C) none have rain like Los Angeles. I don't mean those other cities have...... -
Theater review: 'Show Your Face!' at REDCAT
Culture MonsterA snowsuit speaks volumes in âShow Your Face!,â REDCATâs object-puppet show from Sloveniaâs Betontanc and Latviaâs Umka.LV theater companies. This toddlerâs sky blue winter onesie endures estrangement and torture at the hands (literally) of... -
Friday's TV Highlights: The ALMAs salute Latinos in the arts
Show TrackerEMCEES: George Lopez and Eva Longoria Parker host 'The 2009 ALMA Awards' at 8 p.m. on ABC. SERIES Guiding Light: This long, long, long-running soap opera exits the airwaves after 70-plus years on radio and television (2 p.m. CBS). Bump!...... -
President Predicts Budget Surplus!
The Daily MirrorIn his State of the Union Address, President Eisenhower predicts a $4-billion budget surplus ($28.7 billion USD 2008) Eisenhowerâs State of the Union Address runs over three pages and I doubt many people will read the entire speech, but Iâm posting it... -
Lucha VaVoom and Cirque Berzerk are L.A.'s theater of the odd
Don't be fooled by her riding crop, her past career as a porn-film costumer or her penchant for punk rock and Russ Meyer flicks. Take all that away, and Rita D'Albert is a nice Jewish girl from Flushing, Queens, who adores Gilbert and Sullivan operettas...Tags: Theater, Entertainment, Death, Film Festivals, Ursula Andress
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A book find from Roger Ebert
Jacket CopyFilm critic Roger Ebert used to be heard all the time; he was on TV as one of the original hosts of "At the Movies," showed up regularly at film festivals and taught at the University of Chicago. Opinionated, informed...... -
Found objects: Going gaga over Jason Mecier's 'junky' celebrity portraiture
Brand XThe intricately rendered celebrity portraits constructed by San Francisco-based artist Jason Mecier intend not merely to capture the look of his subjects, but their true essence. He often achieves this by using items once owned by them in his mosaics. But...
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