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Classic Hollywood: Doctors, lawyers invade TV in '61
Every fall the broadcast networks unveil their new series — some will become hits, a lot more will disappear in a nanosecond. The same was true 50 years ago, though the TV universe was a lot smaller.
In 1961, there were only three networks —...Tags: Showtime (tv network), Circuses, Shirley Booth, The Bob Newhart Show (tv program) , Nat Hiken
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From the Vaults -- '13 Rue Madeleine'
The Daily MirrorRobert “Bob” Sharkey (James Cagney) and Charles Gibson (Walter Abel) discuss the incoming class of American secret agents in “13 Rue Madeleine.” One of their students is a Nazi spy! After a longwinded exposition, the 1947 film &#... -
Saturday's Highlights 'Jon Lovitz Presents' on Showtime
Show TrackerClick here to download TV listings for the week of April 24 - 30 in PDF format TV listings for the week of April 24 - 30 in PDF format (from latimes.com/entertainment/news/tv) Weekly TV Listings and more can be found...... -
'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...Tags: Crimes, William Morris, Jack Palance, Vivien Leigh, Peter Lorre
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'Ben-Hur: 50th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition'
Zap2ItOne of the top Oscar winners in movie history, director William Wyler's classic - boasting the most famous chariot race ever filmed - gets a major home-video relaunch. Charlton Heston (who earned his own Academy Award for the epic) has the title role,...Tags: Documentary (genre), G Rated Movies, William Wyler, Blu-ray Discs, DVDs
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'The Day the Earth Stood Still'
In one eye and out the other, the sullen remake of "The Day the Earth Stood Still" airlifts certain story details straight from its source material. For example, the robot known as Gort resembles the metallic, helmet-headed being of the 1951 original,...Tags: Documentary (genre), Death, Robert Wise, Chicago Tribune, Keanu Reeves
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Top winners from 1950
denotes winner Performance by an actor in a leading role Louis Calhern as Oliver Wendell Holmes in THE MAGNIFICENT YANKEE MGM Jose Ferrer as Cyrano de Bergerac in CYRANO DE BERGERAC Stanley Kramer Productions; UA William Holden as Joe Gillis in...Tags: George Sanders, Edmund Gwenn, Judy Holliday, Celeste Holm, Jeff Chandler
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5 films from the golden era of film noir
1. HIGH SIERRA (Raoul Walsh; 1941) 4 stars This savage, melancholy thriller shows an aging outlaw (Humphrey Bogart as Mad Dog Earle) trying to pull his last heist with professionalism while surrounded by incompetents, hotheads, double-crossers, John...Tags: Crimes, John Huston, Death, Robert Wise, Raoul Walsh
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