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Pre-inaugural books on civics for history geeks
You’re not necessarily a history geek if you shed a tear during Steven Spielberg’s excellent biopic “Lincoln,” which relates the struggle to pass the 13th Amendment to the Constitution and forever outlaw slavery. However, you are...
Tags: Rick Moody, Martin Luther King Jr., Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon
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Two new Tony Kushner books: 'Lincoln' script and revised 'Angels'
"Lincoln" has been a big hit in movie theaters, and on Jan. 22 Tony Kushner's screenplay for Steven Spielberg's film will arrive in book form, to be followed in late February by another new Kushner book -- the revised script for "Angels in America," the...
Tags: Drama (genre), AIDS, Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan, Arts and Culture
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Spielberg's 'Robopocalypse' delayed
Steven Spielberg's plan to follow up "Lincoln" with an expensive robot-led rebellion is on hold. The director has nixed plans for this spring to start shooting "Robopocalypse," an adaptation of the bestselling novel about a futuristic society in which...
Tags: Lincoln (movie, 2012), DreamWorks Animation SKG Incorporated
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Oscar nominations: Our final predictions
Four score and seven years ago (OK, it wasn't that long ... it just feels that way), we began trudging down the path that on Thursday will yield a fresh slate of Oscar nominees. Who will be among the names called at the crack of dawn? Our final...
Tags: The Paperboy (movie), Flight (movie), Robert De Niro, Marion Cotillard, Ang Lee
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Critics' Choice Movie Awards: The complete nominations list
"Lincoln" earned a record-breaking 13 nominations for Broadcast Film Critics Assn.'s Critics' Choice Movie Awards. It received nominations for best film, director for Steven Spielberg, actor for Daniel Day-Lewis, supporting actress for Sally Field,...
Tags: Leslie Mann, Marion Cotillard, Paul Williams, Channing Tatum, Daniel Craig
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'Zero Dark Thirty' hunts for Bin Laden -- and more
In 2008, the screenwriter Mark Boal sought an appointment with a retired special-forces operator. Boal was researching a movie about the fruitless search for Osama bin Laden in the caves of Tora Bora six years before, and he wanted insight into how U.S....
Tags: Movies, Documentary (genre), Stanley Kubrick, U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security, Politics
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Academy announces documentary feature shortlist
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Monday its shortlist of 15 documentary feature finalists and, as always, the roll was as notable for its omissions as for its actual titles. Notably absent were such critically and commercially...
Tags: Detropia (movie), Movies, Documentary (genre), Searching for Sugar Man (movie), Epidemics and Plagues
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Governors Awards: Jeffrey Katzenberg's phone skills revealed
They all talk about the phone calls — Will Smith, Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks. What binds them is the relentless prodding they’ve all received from Hollywood’s most bullish fundraiser, Jeffrey Katzenberg. At the fourth-annual...
Tags: Movies, Michael J. Fox, Al Franken, Christopher Nolan, Fiscal Cliff
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On-stage drama rules the Golden Globes
An unpredictable Hollywood awards season took a few more sharp curves at the Golden Globes: Jodie Foster gave a dramatic and at times cryptic speech, former President Clinton put in a surprise appearance, and all that on-stage drama upstaged the movies in...
Tags: Movies, Jodie Foster, Ang Lee, The Artist (movie), Ben Affleck
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In a hurry-up world, 'The Hobbit', 'Lincoln' take their sweet time
You can fly from Los Angeles to Seattle in less time than it takes to watch "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey." Elite runners can finish a marathon faster than the total time of "Django Unchained." And you can roast and carve your Christmas turkey...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Holidays, Rise of the Guardians (movie), Netflix Inc., Media Industry
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Seth MacFarlane plans to have college kids deliver Oscars
This post has been updated. See note below for details.Seth MacFarlane, host of the forthcoming Oscars ceremony, has big plans for the event--and it involves college kids. MacFarlane was the surprise lecturer at Professor Denise Mann's Overview of Contemporary Film History course at UCLA on Wednesday,...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Movies, Killing Them Softly (movie), Les Miserables (musical), Teachers
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No ‘Robopocalypse’ for Spielberg as director nixes movie plans
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - latimes.comIt must have seemed like a dream come true for Daniel H. Wilson when filmmaker Steven Spielberg scooped up the ......
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