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Dan Brown's 'Inferno' has heat but no warmth
Some years ago, I was on a book reviewing panel when someone in the audience asked what we, the panelists, thought of "The Bridges of Madison County," which was then a fixture on bestseller lists. We hemmed and hawed, tried to talk around the question,...
Tags: Tom Hanks, The Da Vinci Code (movie), Viral Diseases and Infections, Science and Technology, Entertainment
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‘Oz the Great and Powerful’ and the art of the opening title sequence
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesDisney has released the opening title sequence for Sam Raimi's $200-million fantasy “Oz the Great and Powerful” online, and before ...... -
Hong Kong Film Festival: A film that deals with memory (and Macau)
HONG KONG -- There is a moment in “The Last Time I Saw Macau” -- which plays Wednesday at the Hong Kong International Film Festival and is being distributed in the United States this summer by Cinema Guild -- in which the camera captures the...Tags: Film Festivals, Josef von Sternberg, Movies, Festive Events, UNESCO
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'Animal Inside Out' is Body Worlds' take on beasts and birds
The last time the Body Worlds people displayed at the Museum of Science and Industry, in a 2011 exhibition showing the development and decline of the human corpus, they included, with seeming incongruity, an ostrich. The flightless — and, in...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Environmental Issues, Charles M. Schulz, The Godfather (movie), Conservation
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Oscars 2013: An 'Argo' night at Academy Awards
For the second straight year, the movie business fell for itself. "Argo" — in which a Hollywood producer and makeup artist help engineer the rescue of six Americans from Iran — won the top prize at the 85th Academy Awards, one year after the...
Tags: Ang Lee, Music, Celebrities, Human Interest, Robert De Niro
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'Skyfall's' Sam Mendes won't direct next Bond movie
Sam Mendes wasn’t exactly quoting a James Bond title — “Never Say Never Again” — but it does appear that the filmmaker behind the highest-grossing 007 movie won’t be back in the Bond director’s chair any time...Tags: Michael Wilson, Skyfall (movie), Sam Mendes, Jon Stewart, Jack the Giant Slayer (movie)
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‘Oz the Great and Powerful’: Michelle Williams on Glinda inspiration
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesIn both L. Frank Baum’s “Oz” novels and Victor Fleming’s 1939 movie “The Wizard of Oz,” Glinda the Good Witch ...... -
Adele to sing for James Bond again?
Call him the spy who (really) loved her. A week after Adele's "Skyfall" became the first James Bond theme to win the Academy Award for original song, producers for the spy-film franchise have drafted Adele to sing for the next Bond movie, as well,...Tags: Skyfall (movie), Adele (music artist), Music Industry, Music, Jimi Hendrix
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Oscars 2013: James Bond overshadowed by Adele, Bassey
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesThe Oscars managed to pay tribute to the 50th anniversary of the James Bond film series without a single Bond ...... -
Oscars 2013: 'Argo,' actors Day-Lewis, Lawrence win
Being snubbed might have been the best thing to happen to Ben Affleck. His film “Argo” took the best picture Oscar on Sunday night at the 85th Academy Awards — more than a little solace, perhaps, for being snubbed in the directing...
Tags: Movies, Human Interest, Anna Karenina (movie), There Will Be Blood (movie), Brave (movie)
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James Bond tribute: No Bonds, but Berry and Bassey
There were no Bonds, but there was Bassey and Berry, making the Academy Awards telecast's tribute to the James Bond movies one of the more memorable (tolerable?) moments of this year's show. Halle Berry, who played Bond girl Jinx opposite Pierce Brosnan...
Tags: Sean Connery, Daniel Craig, Timothy Dalton, George Lazenby, Pierce Brosnan
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Oscars 2013: Adele, Shirley Bassey save the Oscars
If British spy James Bond can't be called upon to save the mishandling of pop music by the 2013 Oscars, producers did at least book the next best thing: Shirley Bassey. The vocalist, now in her 70s, has defined what has now become a genre, Bond music. A...
Tags: Jennifer Hudson, Music, Culture, Entertainment, Scarlett Johansson
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