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Bam! Splat! Getting soaked in Bangkok
Special to The TimesBoom! "What was that?" I asked as the needle-nosed long-tail boat shuddered. "I dunno," my friend Lane said with a shrug. "Maybe we hit something." I turned to ask our boat pilot, but he was no longer manning the motor. He was flat on the deck,...Tags: Travel, Trips and Vacations, Thailand, Bangkok (Thailand)
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Spielberg's 'Napoleon'-- get ready for 'The Best Movie Ever Made'
Liz Smith"Just consider it your Moon Shot!" This is the advice offered by stunning actress Stockard Channing to her longtime friend, the gifted Holland Taylor, as the latter preps to portray the late Ann Richards at Lincoln Center on Thursday, March 7. The...Tags: Cate Blanchett, Freida Pinto, Erin Burnett, Lincoln (movie, 2012), John Huston
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The story of the Oscars
While it's true that there's only so much anyone can say about the Oscars, remember it can be said again and again. As a reader (and writer), I know by now that there are 10 abiding Oscar stories. Here they are, all in a single article: The history...
Tags: Jennifer Lawrence, Les Miserables (movie), Alfred Hitchcock, Greta Garbo, Museum of Modern Art
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DVD Review: 'Lawrence of Arabia' looks great on Blu-ray
David Lean's 1962 “Lawrence of Arabia” is one of the most universally praised films ever made, and deservedly so. Nominated for 10 Oscars, winner of seven (including Best Picture), it has only grown better with time. The few aspects that might...
Tags: Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., David Lean, Blu-ray Discs, Lawrence of Arabia (movie), Academy Awards
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'Wake in Fright' Features Beer-Fueled Debauchery and the Grinding Misery of Being Broke
Wake in Fright Directed by Ted Kotcheff. Showing Jan. 27 – 29 at Cinestudio, 300 Summit St., Hartford, (860) 297-2463, cinestudio.org A lager-soaked nightmare under the searing outback sun, the 1971 Australian thriller Wake in Fright...
Tags: Film Festivals, Entertainment, Movies, Cannes Film Festival
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Playing the Oscar game
It's time to play one of our favorite yearly games at Times Community News: Can You Outguess the Features Editor? And no, that's not a rhetorical question. You probably can. Last year, incurable Oscar junkie that I am, I challenged readers to beat my...
Tags: Jennifer Lawrence, Les Miserables (movie), Beasts of the Southern Wild (movie), Anna Paquin, Lincoln (movie, 2012)
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Stage Preview: A pared-down 'Pygmalion'
Lance Davis, the co-founder and artistic director of Parson's Nose, a theater company now based in Pasadena, recalls the time that a nervous potential audience member phoned the company's reservation line and asked, “Are you doing the real...
Tags: George Bernard Shaw, Television Industry, Arts and Culture, Jayne Meadows, Treat Williams
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Advanced tech in 'Laurence' restoration: New incarnation of Lean's epic shows digital assets, liabilities
VarietyFor the Sony Pictures Entertainment pros behind the new 4k digital restoration of "Lawrence of Arabia," which will be shown in 630 theaters for one day only on Thursday before being released on Blu-ray Nov. 13, the unveiling will be the result of more...Tags: David Lean, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., Martin Scorsese, Blu-ray Discs, Elia Kazan
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Peter O'Toole -- Retired? Maybe, but I remember him well!
Liz Smith"RETIREMENT IS the ugliest word in the English language,' said Ernest Hemingway. Hmmm, well, Hemingway found another way out of the grind. I HAVE ALWAYS been impressed with Peter O'Toole, that brilliant, vivid and glamorous actor. Now he has hung up his...Tags: Ernest Hemingway, Dana Delany, Rachel Roy, Michael Winterbottom, Freida Pinto
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Peter O'Toole retires from acting after 53 years
Pop2itLegendary actor Peter O'Toole is calling it quits after 50 years of acting and a string of memorable performances including "Lawrence of Arabia," "The Lion in Winter" and "Goodbye, Mr. Chips."... -
Prometheus
VarietyA mission to uncover the origins of human life yields familiar images of death and devastation in "Prometheus." Elaborately conceived from a visual standpoint, Ridley Scott's first sci-fier in the three decades since "Blade Runner" remains earthbound in...Tags: Charlize Theron, Ridley Scott, Entertainment, Movies, Michael Fassbender
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Would-be epic ends up not covered in 'Greater Glory' ✭ 1/2
"For Greater Glory" is a meandering, malnourished epic of a forgotten Mexican civil war, the one after the Mexican revolution that made Pancho Villa famous. This period piece, partly financed by the Catholic Knights of Columbus, is about the Cristeros...
Tags: Mexico, Ruben Blades, Republican Party, Wars and Interventions, Christianity
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