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Norman Corwin dies at 101; radio's 'poet laureate'
Norman Corwin, the legendary writer, director and producer of original radio plays for CBS during the golden age of radio in the 1930s and '40s when he was revered as the "poet of the airwaves," has died. He was 101.
Corwin, a journalist, playwright,...Tags: Carl Sandburg, Lionel Barrymore, Charles Laughton, Humphrey Bogart, Culture
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'Ancient Highway' by Bret Lott
Ancient Highway
A Novel
Bret Lott
Random House: 244 pp., $25
At 14, Earl, a middle child in an enormous brood, knows Texas holds nothing for him. He's fallen in love with "the flickers," as they called 'em in the 1920s, and he's going to make his...Tags: Family, Transportation, Travel, Rose Bowl Flea Market, Nathanael West
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The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday July 17, 1998 Mark Rappaport's "The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender" is more exasperating than provocative in its relentless intent to read male homosexual implications into a wide array of vintage Hollywood--and a couple of European--...Tags: Bob Hope, Entertainment, Dean Martin, Bing Crosby, Movies
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Richard Crenna dies at 76
LOS ANGELES - Richard Crenna, the Emmy award-winning character actor who starred as a lovesick teenager on "Our Miss Brooks" and Sylvester Stallone's Green Beret mentor in the "Rambo" films, has died. He was 76. Crenna, whose credits also included "Wait...Tags: Drama (genre), Entertainment, Pancreatic Cancer, Sexual Assault, Hospitals and Clinics
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Top winners from 1936
denotes winner Performance by an actor in a leading role Gary Cooper as Longfellow Deeds in MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN Columbia Walter Huston as Sam Dodsworth in DODSWORTH Samuel Goldwyn Productions; UA Paul Muni as Louis Pasteur in THE STORY OF LOUIS...Tags: Paul Muni, Gary Cooper, Luise Rainer, Norma Shearer, William Powell
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Top winners from 1940
denotes winner Performance by an actor in a leading role Charles Chaplin as Hynkel, Dictator of Tomania in THE GREAT DICTATOR Charles Chaplin Productions; UA Henry Fonda as Tom Joad in THE GRAPES OF WRATH 20th Century-Fox Raymond Massey as Abraham...Tags: Entertainment, Grapes, Abraham Lincoln, Charles Chaplin, Katharine Hepburn
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Top winners from 1938
denotes winner Performance by an actor in a leading role Charles Boyer as Pepe Le Moko in ALGIERS Walter Wanger; UA James Cagney as Rocky Sullivan in ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES Warner Bros.-First National Robert Donat as Andrew Mason in THE CITADEL MGM...Tags: Billie Burke, Robert Donat, Bette Davis, Charles Boyer, Norma Shearer
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Top winners from 1941
denotes winner Performance by an actor in a leading role Gary Cooper as Alvin C. York in SERGEANT YORK Warner Bros. Cary Grant as Roger Adams in PENNY SERENADE Columbia Walter Huston as Mr. Scratch in ALL THAT MONEY CAN BUY William Dieterle; RKO Radio...Tags: Greer Garson, Mary Astor, Orson Welles, Entertainment, Olivia de Havilland
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Movie review: 'The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi'
Tribune Movie Critic4 stars (out of 4) A masterpiece of wry violence and stylized mayhem, "The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi" turns loose one of Japan's most brilliant film auteurs, Takeshi Kitano, on one of its most enduring pop legends: the movie myth of Zatoichi, the fat,...Tags: Entertainment, Gang Activity, Toshiro Mifune, Movies, Quentin Tarantino
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Supporting or lead role? It's anyone's call
Special to the TimesWhen "Traffic's" Benicio Del Toro beat out Russell Crowe and Tom Hanks for the Screen Actors Guild best-actor award earlier this month, there was a good deal of head scratching. Not that he didn't deserve the award, but if the Academy of Motion Picture...Tags: Tom Cruise, Entertainment, George Burns, Anthony Hopkins, Michael Caine
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Factoids about this year's Oscars
Times Staff WriterTom Hanks isn't the first actor to be nominated for playing a castaway on a deserted island. Dan O'Herlihy was nominated for best actor for playing Daniel Defoe's legendary Robinson Crusoe in Luis Buuel's "The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" (1954).* *...Tags: Anthony Quinn, Roberto Benigni, Willem Dafoe, Elizabeth II, Joan Allen
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Reely good and bad
Tribune staff reporterBaseball may be the national pastime, but Hollywood usually strikes out when it tries to make classic movies about the sport. Few actors have the athletic skills to pull off a lead role as a ballplayer. Even fewer screenwriters have spent enough time...Tags: Sports, Corbin Bernsen, Walter Matthau, Bob Uecker, Sean Penn
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