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Battlefield Earth
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday May 12, 2000 Â Â Â Â Â "Battlefield Earth" is set in the year 3000, but stuck in the 1970s--and not in any hip, retro way. Â Â Â Â Â As taken from L. Ron Hubbard's 1982 novel, in the year 2000 aliens called the Psychlos conquered Earth. The Psychlos are...Tags: Entertainment, Fiction, Movies, Science Fiction (genre), Civil Unrest
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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: Diane Keaton, Emmanuelle Seigner, Celebrities, Thriller (genre), New Year's Day
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The big night, as Julia might have seen it
Dear Diary: Well, it's over! Award? Check. Speech? Nailed it. And the whole time I kept thinking about you. You, Diary, me and you and this moment. The world can just not need Julia for a second. People yelling at me ("Julia, how does it feel?"), people...Tags: Billy Crystal, Julia Roberts, Bob Dylan, Steve Martin, Celebrities
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Classical review, Fulcrum Point does H.K. Gruber's "Frankenstein!!"
Thematic programming for new music concerts generally are more highbrow than Performing Arts Chicago and Fulcrum Point's "I Married a Monster," featuring H.K. Gruber's signature work, "Frankenstein!!" as the prelude to a showing of the classic horror...Tags: Monsters (legendary creatures), John Wayne, Field Museum of Natural History, Children, Superman (fictional character)
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Theater review, 'E.A. Poe: The Fever Called Living'
A jumbled series of half-truths and hyperbole plagued the life of 19th Century American Gothic horror master Edgar Allan Poe. He perpetrated bizarre myths, and his erratic behavior led to several scandalous biographies following his death from an...Tags: Agatha Christie, Fiction, Charles Dickens, Usher, Edgar Allan Poe
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'E.A. Poe' fails to illuminate the dark soul of the master of horror
Special to the TribuneA jumbled series of half-truths and hyperbole plagued the life of 19th Century American Gothic horror master Edgar Allan Poe. He perpetrated his own bizarre myths, and his erratic behavior led to several scandalous biographies following his death from...Tags: Agatha Christie, Fiction, Charles Dickens, Usher, Edgar Allan Poe
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Record review, Michael Jackson's 'Invincible'
Tribune rock criticConsider the chest-thumping album titles: "Thriller," "Bad," "Dangerous," "HIStory." Now there is "Invincible" (Epic), Michael Jackson's first album in six years, out Tuesday. Jackson is once again insistently trying to sell us something about his...Tags: Quincy Jones, Lauryn Hill, R. Kelly, OutKast (music group), Macy Gray
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And the loser is...
The EnvelopeNo one is likely to mention Allan Carr from the stage of the Kodak Theatre tonight. If the 77th annual Academy Awards ceremony includes a film montage of previous shows, chances are that the one he produced won't be among them. But make no mistake, he...Tags: Disasters, Movies, Doris Day, Rob Lowe, Merv Griffin
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Animated shorts are long on interest, storytelling
Sentinel Movie CriticA toddler is holding a red balloon that suddenly springs to life. Again and again, it hits the child on the head. Next, it wraps its string around the kid's neck and begins to strangle him. Then the balloon lifts him high in the sky and drops him....Tags: Movies, Entertainment, Edward Gorey, Fencing, Cartoons
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Key Dates in the History of Sears, Roebuck
_1886: Richard W. Sears, a railroad station agent who sells coal as a side job, buys unwanted watches from jeweler and founds R.W. Sears Watch Co. in Minneapolis. * 1887: Moves company to Chicago and places newspaper ad for watchmaker, hires Alvah C....Tags: Sears Holdings Corp., Sears, Roebuck and Co., Companies and Corporations, New Products, Hoffman Estates
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'House of Wax' and 'Nobody Wants Your Film'
Times Staff WriterRelated to the 1953 Vincent Price film in name, embalming technique and Warner Bros. pedigree only, the new "House of Wax" is a dreary, predictable tale of hormone-driven young people who take a shortcut off a Louisiana highway only to find themselves...Tags: Peter Dinklage, Movies, Entertainment, Paris Hilton, Elisha Cuthbert
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'Saw'
Times Staff WriterYou can always count on a serial killer for some memorable lessons in righteous living. No other type of cinematic villain is so didactic, so fundamentalist in his values, so committed to life coaching. It takes an intolerant ideologue with a black-and-...Tags: Marilyn Manson, Sex, Dario Argento, Cary Elwes, David Fincher
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