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Mary Tyler Moore had Dick Van Dyke a little nervous [Video]
Ministry of GossipMary Tyler Moore had Dick Van Dyke a bit nervous when it came to the lifetime achievement award she got at the 2012 SAG Awards on Sunday night. Mary Tyler Moore would certainly pick him, Dick Van Dyke said, but ... she waited a couple of weeks to do it...... -
Theater review: 'Laurel and Hardy' at the Falcon Theatre
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Honorary Oscars going to four 'extraordinary' men
Gold DerbyOn Wednesday, the motion picture academy announced the four honorees to be feted at the second annual Governors Awards on Nov. 14. Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola is to receive the Thalberg Award while film historian Kevin Brownlow, French auteur Jean-... -
Critic's Notebook: Judd Apatow's 'Undeclared' comes to IFC
Show TrackerIts re-airing of the divine high-school comedy "Freaks & Geeks" having concluded, IFC will now begin airing "Freaks" producer Judd Apatow's subsequent TV project, the 2001 college-set "Undeclared." (Back-to-back episodes of its single season air Fridays... -
Marriage In The Movies: A Look At Hollywood's Phantom Genre
The Hartford CourantJeanine Basinger has been happily married for 45 years, so she knows a lot about how to make a marriage work. Basinger, the founder and director of the Film Studies Department at Wesleyan University in Middletown, also knows a lot about marriage movies,...Tags: Genres, Family, Joanne Woodward, Marriage, Advertising
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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: Passover, Richard Burton, Ricky Gervais, Golden Globe Awards, The Grapes of Wrath (movie)
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When movie costumes become fashion trends
Los Angeles Times Fashion CriticDeborah Nadoolman Landis has worked as a costume designer on more than 20 films over the last 40 years. Along the way, she has created several looks that have crossed into popular culture and become fashion trends. Here are a few anecdotes, in her own...Tags: John Landis, Indiana Jones (fictional character), Tom Selleck, Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford
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National Film Registry selects 25 films for preservation
A gripping western, a beloved holiday film, a 115-year-old movie capturing a famous boxing match, a memoir of a Holocaust survivor and a visionary science-fiction thriller in which Keanu Reeves utters the word “whoa” are among the 25 films...
Tags: Documentary (genre), Library of Congress, Ivan Dixon, Arts and Culture, Culture
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Chuck McCann Is Back With 'Let's Have Fun' Reunion In NJ
@pix11mageeAnyone who grew up in the 1960s in the New York area knows the face and voice of Chuck McCann. McCann, along with officer Joe Bolton, Captain Jack Mccarthy, Bozo the clown and Gloria Okon created PIX 11's super successful children's tv programming....Tags: Laurel, Queens (New York City), Bozo the Clown (fictional character)
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Don Knotts, star of 'The Andy Griffith Show,' dead at 81
Times Staff WriterDon Knotts, the saucer-eyed, scarecrow-thin comic actor best known for his roles as the high-strung small-town deputy Barney Fife on the 1960s CBS series "The Andy Griffith Show" and the leisure-suit-clad landlord Ralph Furley on ABC's '70s sitcom "Three'...Tags: Health, Television, Edgar Bergen, Gary Ross, Primetime Emmy Awards
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City Lights: 'Hey, Martha' stories still worth telling
A former editor of mine sometimes referred to what he called a "Hey, Martha" story. That was his term for a story with an offbeat or amusing twist. In other words, if an old couple were rocking on their front porch while the husband read the paper, he...
Tags: Woody Allen, Yosemite National Park, Muscular Dystrophy, Brian Jones, The Rolling Stones (music group)
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'Death at a Funeral'
Chicago TribuneDeath at a Funeral" is lethal farce, combining hints of "The Lavender Hill Mob," doses of Joe Orton and a smidgen of the Farrelly brothers' scatology in its mix. It's sillier but funnier than "Knocked Up," the summer's other notable comedy. Plopped on...Tags: Television, Health, Chicago Tribune, Death, Drugs and Medicines
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