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Ira Glass and WBEZ Chicago venture into the movie biz
One of the first things you notice during the opening credits of "Sleepwalk with Me" is a producing acknowledgment that reads simply: "In association with WBEZ Chicago's This American Life." Chicago's largest public radio station is in the movie...
Tags: MTV (tv network), Aubrey Plaza, Comedy (genre), Safety Not Guaranteed (movie), Michael Phillips
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Hollywood legend Dick Zanuck: a princeling who earned his stripes
When Dick Zanuck and I had lunch last month, it would’ve been impossible to imagine that the veteran producer would be gone six weeks later. Zanuck, who was 77 when he died Friday at his home in Beverly Hills, looked at least a decade younger and...
Tags: Lobbying, Richard Zanuck, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., Politics, Walter Hill
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Richard Zanuck dies at 77; Oscar-winning producer
One day in 1962, the Hollywood legend Darryl F. Zanuck turned to his 27-year-old son, Richard, seeking advice. Whom, the elder Zanuck asked, should he appoint head of production of 20th Century Fox, which had fallen on hard times and was losing...
Tags: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (movie), Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Zanuck, Road to Perdition (movie), Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.
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Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies
In a world more to his liking, Gore Vidalmight have been president, or even king. He had an aristocrat's bearing — tall, handsome and composed — and an authoritative baritone ideal for summoning an aide or courtier. But Vidal made his...
Tags: William Wyler, Politics, Culture, White House, Talk Shows (genre)
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Vertigo replaces Citizen Kane as the greatest film of all-time
KIAHIn case you haven't heard, there is a new top dog when it comes to the greatest movies of all time. Sight and Sound's list has Alfred Hitchcock's psychological thriller "Vertigo" replacing Orson Welles classic "Citizen Kane." For 50 years, "Citizen...Tags: Thriller (genre), Alfred Hitchcock, Citizen Kane (movie), Vertigo (movie)
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Cannes 2012: Actor Norman Lloyd remembers Hitchcock, Renoir
24 FramesAt a recent event at the Cannes Film Festival, actor Norman Lloyd reflected on his life's work and his famous collaborators, including Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock and Jean Renoir.... -
New TV series raise the style bar
Los Angeles Times Fashion CriticIt's the throwback '60s style as much as the story lines that has made "Mad Men" a success. The AMC series, which enters its fifth season in 2012, ushered in a ladylike trend in fashion that has reverberated all the way to the Paris runways and inspired a...Tags: Fashion Shows, 2 Broke Girls (tv program), Alexander Wang, Sex and the City (tv program), Chloe
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Veracruz proposes lesser charges for Twitter terrorism suspects
La PlazaThe state of Veracruz in Mexico wants to change its penal code to apply a lower charge against the jailed Twitter and Facebook users accused of terrorism for spreading unconfirmed rumors of an attack on local schools (link in Spanish). A proposed change... -
Charles Higham dies at 81; controversial celebrity biographer
Charles Higham, a poet, critic and prolific celebrity biographer who found political and sexual intrigue in the lives of Hollywood icons such as Cary Grant, Marlene Dietrich and, most controversially, Errol Flynn, died April 21 at his Los Angeles home. He...Tags: Charles Champlin, Charles Laughton, Unrest, Conflicts and War, World War II (1939-1945), Fiction
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"Great Old Old Broad" Series: Eartha Kitt
Hartford CourantLast Sunday's screening at New Haven's Lyric Hall of the documentary "Broads,"that features salty, outspoken interviews with actresses of a certain age remind me of some of my own favorite interviews of like-minded dames. I began my "Great Old Broad"...Tags: Ann-Margret, Politics, Bars and Clubs, Boomerang (tv network), White House
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Patricia Medina dies at 92; Briton was '50s Hollywood leading lady
Patricia Medina, a British-born actress whose Hollywood career as a leading lady in the 1950s spanned the talking mule comedy "Francis" and Orson Welles' crime-thriller "Mr. Arkadin," has died. She was 92.
Medina, the widow of actor Joseph Cotten, died...Tags: Romance (genre), Alan Ladd, England, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Karl Malden
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Cannes 2012: Festival turns 65 with a lineup heavy on U.S. titles
24 FramesOpening Wednesday night with Wes Anderson's oddly endearing “Moonrise Kingdom,” the Cannes Film Festival is celebrating its 65th anniversary this year and marking that milestone by embracing all kinds of opposites: old and young, dramatic...
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