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Mark Rylance breathes life into 'Boeing-Boeing'
Special to The TimesIN THE "Say what?" department, this statement ranks up there: "If Camoletti had written a tragedy of this quality, he'd be up there with Pinter." Few people could get away with comparing Marc Camoletti, the French playwright of the creaky '60s sex...Tags: Christopher Marlowe, The Other Boleyn Girl (movie), Entertainment, Boeing Co., Francis Bacon
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Movie review: 'Little Man'
Tribune movie critic1½ stars (out of four) In "Little Man," the Wayans brothers try to take dumb comedy to new heights, but they wind up shrinking the laughs along with one of their main characters, dwarfish criminal Calvin Sims (Marlon Wayans). Following in the wake of...Tags: Infants, Shawn Wayans, Entertainment, Fred Stoller, Steven Bernstein
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Bean
FOR THE TIMESFriday November 7, 1997 Have you met Mr. Bean? Quiet fellow, almost mute, very British in his tweedy appearance, but chronically discombobulated in his manner. He's a man who will get his shirt caught in his zipper just before he's to meet a...Tags: Andrew Lawrence, Entertainment, Tickets, Gramercy, Rowan Atkinson
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Actor Art Carney dead at 85
Los Angeles Times staff writerArt Carney, who won a best actor Oscar for "Harry and Tonto" and originated the role of fussy Felix Unger in "The Odd Couple" on Broadway, but who is best remembered as Jackie Gleason's lovable sewer worker pal Ed Norton on "The Honeymooners," has died....Tags: Television Networks, Jimmy Durante, Crimes, Theater, The Odd Couple (tv program)
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Tommy Boy
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday March 31, 1995 From Fatty Arbuckle and Oliver Hardy to John Candy, hefty guys have always gotten big laughs on the screen, and when Hardy was teamed with spindly Stan Laurel, they became comedy legends. The rowdy, rambunctious, sweet-...Tags: Fatty Arbuckle, Entertainment, Brian Dennehy, Dan Aykroyd, Movies
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Theater reviews, 'Seussical the Musical' at the Cadillac Palace Theatre
Tribune theater criticIn "Seussical the Musical," a Yugo of a show at the Cadillac Palace Theatre, Horton the elephant is cornered by hunters, auctioned off into show-biz slavery and forced to tour with the Circus McGurkus. I'm not suggesting that if Horton were to find...Tags: Entertainment, Luxury Vehicles, Auction Service, Music Theater, Theater
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Movie review: 'The Brown Bunny'
Tribune Movie Critic1 star (out of 4) Vincent Gallo's notorious "The Brown Bunny," the critical black sheep of the 2003 Cannes Film festival, has gotten an undeserved bad rap. Trust me. This is neither the worst movie ever made nor the worst movie in Cannes history--...Tags: Entertainment, James Dean, Robert Rodriguez, Vincent Gallo, Movies
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Great pairings in Hollywood a rarity
Sun StaffAdam and Eve. Romulus and Remus. Romeo and Juliet. Tippecanoe and Tyler, too. Sears and Roebuck. Hard to think of one without the other, isn't it? Is there a chance future generations will think of Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts, stars of "The Mexican,"...Tags: Scott E Thomas, Kristin Scott Thomas, Tom Hanks, Susan Sarandon, Julia Roberts
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Movie review: 'Sweet Land'
Tribune movie critic3 stars (out of four) "Sweet Land" is a sometimes elegiac, sometimes joyous movie about an immigrant couple in the Midwestern farm belt in the 1920s and what happens to them during a time of national conservatism and clannishness. Based on Will Weaver'...Tags: Entertainment, Elizabeth Reaser, Lois Smith, Politics, Movies
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'Elf'
Times Staff Writer"Elf" is an example of the good things that can happen when hipsters do it on the square. The fable of what transpires when a young man raised by elves goes back to investigate his human roots, it manages to be both genuinely sweet and just a teensy bit...Tags: Christmas, Zooey Deschanel, Tom Hanks, Gaming, Mary Steenburgen
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Don Knotts, aka Barney Fife, Dies
Don 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: Anxiety, Crimes, Theater, Television Industry, Music Theater
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Winning locations
Times Staff WritersEven though Los Angeles has been the center of movie making for most of a century, you wouldn't always know it to look at the movies. Elaborate sets, sound stages and backdrops could transform Los Angeles into any place in the world. That Welsh mining...Tags: Julia Roberts, Tatum O'Neal, Woody Allen, Casablanca (Morocco), Sony Corp.
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