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'Les Miserables' aims to hit high note in history of film musicals
This story has been updated. See below. Few things are more carefully choreographed than a movie musical, but director Tom Hooper wanted to steep his big-screen adaptation of "Les Misérables" in some gritty reality. So he took a page from Ridley Scott's...Tags: Human Interest, Anthony Perkins, Music, Alain Boublil, Eric Fellner
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For 'Les Miserables' fans, it's a spectacular dream
A theater fan can cycle through a litany of apprehensions about the new film adaptation of "Les Miserables." The lead, Jean Valjean, is portrayed by Hugh Jackman, an actor with Broadway chops but whose best-grossing films involve mutants, penguins and...Tags: Theater, Holidays, Apple iPhone, Music, Music Theater
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Oscar nominations: 'Les Miserables' scores eight nods
After it opened in New York in 1987, the Broadway production of "Les Miserables" garnered eight Tony Awards, including best new musical. Twenty-five years later, the movie version of the beloved epic has scooped a total of eight Academy Award nominations,...
Tags: Theater, Alain Boublil, Steven Spielberg, Entertainment, Anne Hathaway
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Reel Critics: Not a big 'Reach,' but fast-paced fun
Tom Cruise already has a successful action movie franchise in the "Mission: Impossible" films. But he makes a serious bid to start up a similar action series as "Jack Reacher," a hard-boiled operative in the mold of Jason Bourne. Jack lives off the...Tags: Helena Bonham Carter, Robert Duvall, Sacha Baron Cohen, Police Investigations, Tom Cruise
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'Zero Dark Thirty' named best 2012 film by National Board of Review
"Zero Dark Thirty," Kathryn Bigelow's drama about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, was named the best film of the year Wednesday by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. The movie, set to open in limited release Dec. 19, took home two other...
Tags: Human Interest, Wreck-It Ralph (movie), Looper (movie), The Perks of Being a Wallflower (movie), Argo (movie)
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Review: Bill Murray shines as FDR in 'Hyde Park on Hudson'
Los Angeles Times Film CriticWhen Ronald Reagan was asked, as he periodically was, whether his experience as an actor had helped him to be an effective president, he'd genially respond that he didn't know how anybody could do the job without having been an actor. He was, Reagan...Tags: England, Laura Linney, Bill Murray, Ronald Reagan, Elizabeth Wilson
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On-stage drama rules the Golden Globes
An unpredictable Hollywood awards season took a few more sharp curves at the Golden Globes: Jodie Foster gave a dramatic and at times cryptic speech, former President Clinton put in a surprise appearance, and all that on-stage drama upstaged the movies in...
Tags: Academy Awards, Argo (movie), Django Unchained (movie), Quentin Tarantino, Tina Fey
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With four films in awards contention, Fox Searchlight has a plan
It's not unusual for a specialty film label to juggle multiple contenders going into awards season. But it's pretty rare to be pushing the majority of your releases in a single year. That's the situation Fox Searchlight is in as four of its seven 2012...Tags: Winter's Bone (movie), Slumdog Millionaire (movie), Golden Globe Awards, Anthony Hopkins, Entertainment
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At 'Les Miserables' debut, a director who likes love and loathes lip-synching
NEW YORK -- Ever since Victor Hugo unleashed his five-volume novel on a politically minded France 150 years ago, "Les Miserables" has been generating tears and admirers across several forms of media. On Friday at Lincoln Center, Oscar winner Tom...Tags: Sacha Baron Cohen, Politics, Argo (movie), Gladiator (movie), Music
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Movies for everyone this winter
It's getting cold out there, and what better way to keep warm than by cozying up for a flick at your local cinema? This season, there is no shortage of quality films to watch, whether you're looking for something escapist, such as Peter Jackson's...
Tags: Django Unchained (movie), Ewan McGregor, Josh Duhamel, Jude Law, Catherine Zeta-Jones
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High hopes, low notes for film world's NC-17 rating
In the late '80s a thunderbolt of inspiration struck Jack Valenti, longtime chief of the Motion Picture Assn. of America: What if his organization got rid of the X rating, besmirched by years of misappropriation by hard-core exploitation films, and...Tags: Matthew McConaughey, Blue Valentine (movie), Todd Solondz, Quentin Tarantino, Martin Lawrence
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Chinese porcelains bringing high prices
Chinese porcelains of past centuries are selling for very high prices today. There are many types. Some we identify by the color - like celadon (pale-green glaze) or blue and white (blue decoration on white porcelain, including varieties called Canton...Tags: England, Economy, Business and Finance, Companies and Corporations, Movies, London (England)
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