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Obama, the night the stars came out
The Swampby Mark Silva First Lady Michelle Obama sat next to "the Boss'' last night. Seated on her other side at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington was the president of the United States, there to......Tags: Michelle Obama, Government, Jack Black, Mel Brooks, Joe Biden
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Toronto Film Festival Day 2 recap: The Master's domain!
Here's a Day 2 recap from the Toronto International Film Festival. Everybody sees a different slate of movies each day here. Friday went this way: After the gamer-oriented slaughter of “Dredd 3D,” the fanciful and tricksy theatrics of director...
Tags: Film Festivals, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Arts and Culture, Anna Karenina (movie), The Master (movie)
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'The Master' offers a cinematic world unlike any other
Already open in New York and Los Angeles and going into general release Friday, writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson's strange, audacious drama "The Master" evokes a feverish state of mind more than a conventional movie, though its story can be...
Tags: Film Festivals, Kenneth Branagh, World War II (1939-1945), Arts and Culture, Saturday Night Live (tv program)
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'Living' plays like character-driven indie film
If your moviegoing tastes lean toward the modestly budgeted independent film, especially those small, sad stories about underachievers and their prosaic-but-tough lives, often signaled by a setting in a cold, second-tier city, or by the casting of the...Tags: Laura Linney, Celebrities, Mark Ruffalo, Arts and Culture, Alzheimer's Disease
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Looking ahead to the Tony Awards: An off year for musicals, but 'Once' deserves to win
NEW YORK — What with "Ghost,""Lysistrata Jones" and other wearying disappointments, the 2012-13 Broadway season hardly will go down as a banner year for new American musicals. Indeed, should the best-musical Tony Award go, at Sunday night's...
Tags: Alan Menken, David Alan Grier, Nice Work If You Can Get It (musical), Andrew Garfield, James Corden
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Feeling the absence of an everyman in 'Death of a Salesman' on Broadway
In one of the pivotal scenes in "Death of a Salesman," the great Arthur Miller drama from 1949, Willy Loman, a single-company traveling salesman of some 36 years standing, must beg for his job from his old boss' son Howard, whom he remembers as a baby...Tags: Broadway Theater, Customs and Tradition, Fran Kranz, Goodman Theatre, Arts and Culture
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RedEye's 2013 Oscar predictions
For context about predictions of major entertainment events, Duff Goldman from “Ace of Cakes” correctly predicted the result of this year’s Super Bowl. NFL experts did not. Likewise, making Oscar predictions can be a bit ridiculous, as...Tags: David O. Russell, Jennifer Lawrence, Lincoln (movie, 2012), National Football League, Robert De Niro
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Predictions: Golden Globes 2013--movies
No matter who wins or loses Sunday, the 2013 Golden Globes ceremony obviously will be awesome because Tiny Fey and Amy Poehler are hosting. Really: That should be enough to make even the most awards show-averse movie/TV fans tune in. Yes, there will...Tags: Helen Mirren, Frankenweenie (movie), John Hawkes, Rachel Weisz, Jack Black
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Oscar nominations: 'Lincoln' leads Academy Award contenders with 12
With a conspicuous diss of Kathryn Bigelow, the un-nominated director of “Zero Dark Thirty,” the Academy Awards nominations were announced Thursday morning. “Zero Dark Thirty” was one of nine films given the best picture...
Tags: Michael Haneke, Ang Lee, David O. Russell, Awards and Prizes, Denzel Washington
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On New York stages, a year full of letdowns
The year 2012, as Queen Elizabeth II might have said, was quite the annus horribilis on Broadway. Especially after the leaves started to turn. Consider the less-than-regal disappointments. "The Anarchist," the polemical new play by David Mamet, closed...Tags: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (movie), New Year's Day, Nice Work If You Can Get It (musical), A Streetcar Named Desire (movie), Jesus Christ Superstar (musical)
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Surprises and snubs from the 2013 Golden Globe nominations
I told myself I wouldn’t get worked up over the Golden Globe nominations this morning, but here we go again. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association—an anonymous group of freelancers much, much smaller than the Academy—really booted...
Tags: Rock of Ages Corporation, Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Ewan McGregor, Elections, ParaNorman (movie)
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Spielberg's 'Lincoln' leads Golden Globe nominations with seven
The nominees for the 70th annual Golden Globe Awards were announced Thursday by Jessica Alba, Megan Fox and Ed Helms. Steven Spielberg's epic on the 16th president, "Lincoln," stood out in the film categories with seven Golden Globe nominations, followed...
Tags: Alain Boublil, The Girl (movie), Frankenweenie (movie), Rachel Weisz, Parks and Recreation (tv program)
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