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A fresh look at Wilder and Chandler
Before Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled L.A. detective Philip Marlowe and his vivid literary prose caught the public's attention, before Billy Wilder's towering position as one of Hollywood's greatest writer-directors, there was a James M. Cain novel...
Tags: Authors, The Lost Weekend (movie), Some Like It Hot (movie), Arts and Culture, The Big Sleep (movie)
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Noir tales and fair illusions in Burbank
So many of life's soupy uncertainties can be settled in or near tiny Toluca Lake, a neighborhood named for a body of water we never see. Ever water-skied on Toluca Lake? Ever caught a bass there, or lay idle on the toasty summer sand? Toluca Lake. An...
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The story of the Oscars
While it's true that there's only so much anyone can say about the Oscars, remember it can be said again and again. As a reader (and writer), I know by now that there are 10 abiding Oscar stories. Here they are, all in a single article: The history...
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The Contenders: 'Southern Wild' screenwriter's heart went against the beat
"Hushpuppy grabs a baby chick and puts it to her ear. A TINY HEARTBEAT. She listens with focused wonder and intensity." —from the "Beasts of the Southern Wild" screenplay Can we please drive a stake through the heart of the Screenwriting 101...
Tags: Sundance Film Festival, Moonrise Kingdom (movie), F. Scott Fitzgerald, Beasts of the Southern Wild (movie), Life of Pi (movie)
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Andy Griffith and the myth of a fair-minded, small-town Southern America in the turbulent '60s
The Baltimore SunAndy Griffith, one of the stars who put CBS on top of the TV world in the 1960s with an easy-going but culturally-packed sitcom that ran for eight seasons during that stormy decade in American life, died Tuesday at 86 at his North Carolina home in Roanoke...Tags: CBS Corp., Mount Airy, Arts and Culture, Henry Fonda, John F. Kennedy Assassination (1963)
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Oscars 2012: 'The Artist' director thanks Billy Wilder very, very much
Sun reporterIn his Oscar acceptance speech, "The Artist" director Michel Hazanavicius said he wanted to thank three people: "Billy Wilder, Billy Wilder and Billy Wilder." Backstage, Hazanavicius was asked why he felt compelled to thank Wilder, the Oscar-winning...Tags: Billy Wilder, Michel Hazanavicius , Entertainment Events, Academy Awards
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Good cast ensures a pretty good time on 'Thin Ice' ✭✭ 1/2
There's something about the frozen Northern Plains, filled with folksy, trusting and righteous Dakotans, Minnesotans and Wisconsinites, that screams "insurance fraud" to screenwriters. The notion that there's nowhere in America quite so honest makes...Tags: Insurance, Entertainment, Movies, Bob Balaban, David Harbour
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The Team: Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio and Armie Hammer
For nearly five decades, J. Edgar Hoover was the face of law enforcement in the U.S., but to most Americans, the longtime Federal Bureau of Investigations director remains an enigma. "J. Edgar," directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Leonardo DiCaprio as...Tags: Armie Hammer, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Movies, Entertainment, Mystic River (movie)
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