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    Dec 27, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. Bill Murray's take on FDR in 'Hyde Park on Hudson'

    TELLURIDE, Colo. — Actors are used to pressure, but the task before Bill Murray in "Hyde Park on Hudson" was more than a little stressful.
    TELLURIDE, Colo. — Actors are used to pressure, but the task before Bill Murray in "Hyde Park on Hudson" was more than a little stressful. Director Roger Michell said that if the "Ghostbusters" and "Groundhog Day" veteran didn't want to star as...

    Tags: Wes Anderson, Silver Linings Playbook (movie), Film Festivals, Entertainment, Roger Michell

    2. Dec 7, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. 'Hyde Park on Hudson' doesn't illuminate FDR, critics say

    "Hyde Park on Hudson," this award season's less flashy presidential portrait, stars Bill Murray as Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the time of a visit by England's King George VI (Samuel West) and Queen Elizabeth (Olivia Colman) in 1939 to drum up international support on the eve of World War II.
    "Hyde Park on Hudson," this award season's less flashy presidential portrait, stars Bill Murray as Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the time of a visit by England's King George VI (Samuel West) and Queen Elizabeth (Olivia Colman) in 1939 to drum up...

    Tags: Entertainment, Roosevelt, The Wall Street Journal, Bill Murray, Franklin Delano Roosevelt

    3. Dec 7, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. Review: Bill Murray shines as FDR in 'Hyde Park on Hudson'

    When Ronald Reagan was asked, as he periodically was, whether his experience as an actor had helped him to be an effective president, he'd genially respond that he didn't know how anybody could do the job without having been an actor. He was, Reagan biographer Lou Cannon believes, kidding on the square, and "Hyde Park on Hudson" amusingly demonstrates how important performance was for another head of state.
    Los Angeles Times Film Critic
    When Ronald Reagan was asked, as he periodically was, whether his experience as an actor had helped him to be an effective president, he'd genially respond that he didn't know how anybody could do the job without having been an actor. He was, Reagan...

    Tags: Entertainment, Comedy (genre), Roger Michell, England, Bill Murray

    4. Aug 30, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Telluride Film Festival lineup: 'Hyde Park,' 'Iceman,' 'Argo'

    Movie fans trekking to Telluride, Colo., for the resort town’s annual film festival this weekend are set to see some of the fall’s most anticipated performances, including Bill Murray as FDR in “Hyde Park on Hudson,” Michael Shannon as family man and freelance assassin in “The Iceman,” and Ben Affleck as a CIA agent in “Argo.”
    Movie fans trekking to Telluride, Colo., for the resort town’s annual film festival this weekend are set to see some of the fall’s most anticipated performances, including Bill Murray as FDR in “Hyde Park on Hudson,” Michael...

    Tags: Noah Baumbach, Dennis Quaid, Michael Haneke, Film Festivals, Uma Thurman

    5. Mar 8, 2013 |Story| Zap2It

  5. 'Hyde Park on Hudson'

    Rather than merely doing an impersonation, Bill Murray makes a surprisingly credible Franklin Delano Roosevelt in director Roger Michell's ("Notting Hill") portrait of the president during a weekend visit from British royalty (Samuel West, Olivia Colman)...

    Tags: DVDs, Laura Linney, Roger Michell, Bill Murray, Blu-ray Discs

    6. Dec 13, 2012 |Column| RedEye

  6. 'Hyde Park on Hudson' review: Makes 'Lincoln' look like 'Skyfall'

    <strong>*1/2 (out of four)</strong>
    *1/2 (out of four) President Franklin D. Roosevelt (Bill Murray) drives his fifth cousin Daisy (Laura Linney) to an isolated field. He puts her hand on his thigh and unfastens his pants. You know where this is going. Daisy must be awfully good with...

    Tags: Macy Gray, Laura Linney, Colin Firth, Roger Michell, England

    7. Dec 13, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  7. Murray is the anchor, but plot adrift in 'Hyde Park on Hudson' ★★

    The music&rsquo;s the best thing about the peculiar, demurely prurient &ldquo;Hyde Park on Hudson,&rdquo; starring Bill Murray as Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Laura Linney as his spinster fifth cousin, Daisy Suckley. Setting the scene, and the mood, for this anecdotal account of FDR&rsquo;s pre-war sexual escapades one weekend in 1939, composer Jeremy Sams soaks the movie in a sly and charming recurring theme, a <span class="italic" style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;">habanera </span>rather like a buttoned-down variation on the famous aria from Bizet&rsquo;s &ldquo;Carmen.&rdquo;
    The music’s the best thing about the peculiar, demurely prurient “Hyde Park on Hudson,” starring Bill Murray as Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Laura Linney as his spinster fifth cousin, Daisy Suckley. Setting the scene, and the mood,...

    Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Entertainment, PG Rated Movies, Roger Michell, Roosevelt

    8. Dec 27, 2012 |Story| Daily Pilot

  8. Reel Critics: Not a big 'Reach,' but fast-paced fun

    Tom Cruise already has a successful action movie franchise in the "Mission: Impossible" films. But he makes a serious bid to start up a similar action series as "Jack Reacher," a hard-boiled operative in the mold of Jason Bourne. Jack lives off the...

    Tags: Entertainment, Robert Duvall, Police Investigations, Rosamund Pike, Hugh Jackman

    9. Jun 8, 2012 |Story| Tribune Media Services

  9. 'Book of Mormon' secures West End berth: Tuner to play at Prince of Wales

    Variety
    LONDON -- Broadway favorite "The Book of Mormon" has locked down a West End berth for 2013, one of several widely anticipated moves in the West End's legit winter 2012/13 season. Produced in the West End by Anne Garefino, Scott Rudin and Sonia Friedman...

    Tags: Mormonism, Anna Friel, Christianity, Religion and Belief, Arts and Culture

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