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Blood, Guts, Bullets & Octane
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday April 9, 1999 "Blood, Guts, Bullets & Octane" is a hilarious black comedy in which a pair of luckless, 30ish, small-town car salesmen, driven to desperation, agree to take 48-hour custody of a burgundy 1963 Pontiac Le Mans convertible--in...Tags: Sarah Polley, Vehicles, Johnny Cash, Movies, Entertainment
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'Wicked' Star Menzel Injured in Stage Fall
NEW YORK - Idina Menzel, the Tony-winning star of "Wicked," fell through a trap door during the Saturday matinee of the Broadway musical and cracked a lower rib. The show, a prequel to "The Wizard of Oz," was halted for about 45 minutes while Menzel's...Tags: Idina Menzel, Celebrities, Wicked (musical), Music Theater, Entertainment
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The Wood
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday July 16, 1999 When several years ago a friend told aspiring filmmaker Rick Famuyiwa that he was getting married, the two of them started reminiscing about growing up in the African American middle-class neighborhood of Inglewood (now becoming...Tags: Rick Famuyiwa, The Happiest News!, Minority Groups, Movies, Entertainment
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House on Haunted Hill
TIMES STAFF WRITERMonday November 1, 1999 Humans do so many horrible things to each other in "House on Haunted Hill" that the ghosts don't stand a chance of keeping up, which may explain why the script makes such nitwits of the characters--if the spooks are going...Tags: Cinema Industry, Don Davis, Ali Larter, Movies, Entertainment
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L'Ennui (Boredom)
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday October 15, 1999 Cedric Kahn's relentless "L'Ennui" is such a rigorous exploration of sexual obsession that it proves to be a most demanding film. Virtually devoid of eroticism and sensuality, it depicts with the utmost realism a 17-year-...Tags: Gavin O'Connor, Jonny Lee Miller, Miguel Ferrer, Hugh Laurie, Meryl Streep
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Molly
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday October 22, 1999 "Molly" seems like a TV movie masquerading as a big-screen feature; its saving grace is that it offers Elisabeth Shue a splendid part in the title role. At 28, Molly, who is autistic but highly functional, has lived in an...Tags: Learning Disability, Television, Elisabeth Shue, Public Finance, Movies
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The Way of the Gun
FOR THE TIMESFriday September 8, 2000 Since Quentin Tarantino has been making himself scarce--and Sergio Leone is dead, Howard Hawks is dead and John Woo is on Cruise control--Christopher McQuarrie has decided to fill the enormous void with "The Way of the Gun,"...Tags: James Caan, Nicky Katt, Movies, Assault, Dan Hedaya
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5 films with one-syllable titles
1. "Babe" (Chris Noonan; 1995) 4 stars In 1995, this talking-pig tale was the dark-horse Best Picture nominee in a field that included "Braveheart," "Apollo 13," "Sense and Sensibility" and "Il Postino (The Postman)." Now it stands as the one true...Tags: Documentary (genre), Sarah Polley, Steven Spielberg, The Beatles (music group), Movies
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Fall spotlight on movies
- denotes a movie to watch. "Lost Souls" (director: Janusz Kaminski). More devilish doings, with Winona Ryder trying to save the world from the Satanic invasion of Ben Chaplin'sbody. The director is Spielberg's cinematographer and a local Columbia...Tags: Gavin O'Connor, Spike Lee, Roman Polanski, Diane Keaton, Leos Carax
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Movie review, 'Equilibrium'
Science fiction is a good genre for creating dystopias - visions of nightmarish future societies - but the awful future we see in "Equilibrium" is one we've seen a few times too often. The movie, a mishmash of Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451," George...Tags: George Lucas, Sociology, Science Fiction (genre), Movies, Entertainment
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Movie review, 'Chicago'
Roxie Hart, the dangerous dame played by Renee Zellweger in the movie "Chicago," is supposed to be a typical 1920s Chicago gal: a killer with the face of a cherub. But she's also a girl who wants to sing, dance and be a star-and the movie lets her fulfill...Tags: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Baz Luhrmann, Movies, Sports, Murder
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Bond back on top, heading for record
Associated PressLOS ANGELES"Die Another Day" won another weekend at the box office. The James Bond flick, which debuted at No. 1 two weeks ago, returned to the top spot with $13 million, according to studio estimates Sunday, and it should soon be the all-time Bond box-...Tags: Nicolas Cage, Movies, Thriller (genre), Entertainment, Meryl Streep
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