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Quick Takes: 'Finding Dory' to set sail
Disney is plunging back into familiar waters, announcing a November 2015 sequel to "Finding Nemo" titled "Finding Dory." Enthusiasts of the 2003 finned favorite will recall Dory as the friendly, slightly amnesiac tang voiced by Ellen DeGeneres, who'll...Tags: Entertainment Events, Capitol Records, James Mason, The Boston Globe, Finding Nemo (movie)
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‘John Dies at the End’: Paul Giamatti, Don Coscarelli on cult cinema
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - latimes.comIf this were a scene from the new movie “John Dies at the End,” the waiter serving breakfast to actor ...... -
PASSINGS: Turhan Bey
Turhan Bey, 90, an actor whose exotic good looks earned him the nickname of "Turkish Delight" in films with Errol Flynn and Katharine Hepburn before he left Hollywood for a quieter life in Vienna, died Sept. 30 in the Austrian capital after a long...
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Tony Martin dies at 98; singer-actor in Hollywood musicals
Tony Martin, one of the last of the big-name singer-actors from the golden age of Hollywood musicals, has died. He was 98. Martin, who toured for years with his wife, dancer-actress Cyd Charisse, died of natural causes Friday at his home in Los Angeles,...
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Around Town: Happy 85th to Grauman's Chinese Theatre
24 FramesOne of Hollywood' most venerable movie palaces, Grauman's Chinese Theatre, is celebrating its 85th birthday this year. And as part of the theater's celebrations, the Chinese is offering a "25 Cent Movie Mondays" series. The first movie screening this... -
Has News of the World scandal has put cloud over James Murdoch?
Company TownThere is a scene in the John Huston classic "The Maltese Falcon" in which Sydney Greenstreet's character Gutman has to choose between his right-hand man Wilmer or toss him to the cops so he can continue on with his quest...... -
Himan Brown dies at 99; pioneer symbolizes 'an entire era of dramatic radio entertainment'
Himan Brown, the pioneer radio producer and director of "Grand Central Station," "Inner Sanctum Mysteries" and other popular shows of the 1930s and '40s who returned to the airwaves three decades later with " CBS Radio Mystery Theater," has died. He was...Tags: Orson Welles, Colleges and Universities, Death, Drama (genre), Radio
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Wednesday's highlights: Sean faces a moral dilemma on the season finale of 'Nip/Tuck'
Show TrackerClick here to download TV listings for the week of Dec. 13 - 19, in PDF format This week's TV Movies DO NO HARM: Sean (Julian McMahon) is asked to perform surgery on a prison inmate (Eric Stonestreet) in the...... -
'Hidden Talent: The Emergence of Hollywood Agents' by Tom Kemper
![Hollywood agents, that most despised of human specimens, of which I was one, are as indispensable as the rabies vaccine, which kills as easily as it cures. Although in one form or another agents, as the middlemen brokers of human talent, have existed since the dawn of 19th century mass entertainment, they are a nearly perfect metaphor for a late-blooming capitalist economy. They don't make anything except spit and hot air. Or, as author Tom Kemper writes, giving it an academic polish, "agents serve in the commercial fabrication of individuality," selling "personality [as] a commodity" including, especially, their own commission-hungry personalities.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-12/51249799-23155918-187104.gif "Hollywood agents, that most despised of human specimens, of which I was one, are as indispensable as the rabies vaccine, which kills as easily as it cures. Although in one form or another agents, as the middlemen brokers of human talent, have existed since the dawn of 19th century mass entertainment, they are a nearly perfect metaphor for a late-blooming capitalist economy. They don't make anything except spit and hot air. Or, as author Tom Kemper writes, giving it an academic polish, \"agents serve in the commercial fabrication of individuality,\" selling \"personality [as] a commodity\" including, especially, their own commission-hungry personalities.")
Hollywood agents, that most despised of human specimens, of which I was one, are as indispensable as the rabies vaccine, which kills as easily as it cures. Although in one form or another agents, as the middlemen brokers of human talent, have existed...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Sam Jaffe, History, Vivien Leigh, Barbara Stanwyck
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'Last Words' by George Carlin
George Carlin was stand-up comedy's transformational man. He went through it time and again through the decades, first as a young hipster hungry to fit into the showbiz life, then slowly finding his voice and a roomful of laughs as a counter-culture...Tags: Gaming, Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Jerry Seinfeld, U.S. Supreme Court
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Stuart M. Kaminsky dies at 75; prolific mystery writer
Stuart M. Kaminsky, a writer of impressive range who created four distinctive detectives for series set in Los Angeles, Chicago, Florida and Moscow, has died. He was 75.
Kaminsky, who joined the elite of his craft in 2006 when the Mystery Writers of...Tags: John Huston, Obituaries, Colleges and Universities, Northwestern University, Errol Flynn
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Friday's TV Highlights: âThe 2010 Scripps National Spelling Bee' on ABC
Show TrackerClick here to download TV listings for the week of May 30 - June 5 in PDF format This week's TV Movies Weekly TV Listings can also be downloaded here TO THE LETTER: Contestants hope to follow in the footsteps......
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