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Muere cineasta Jesus Franco
Málaga — El director de cine español Jesús Franco, que recibió el Goya de Honor de la Academia de Cine en 2008 y trabajó en Hollywood con actores como Christopher Lee y Klaus Kinski murió esta semana en su hogar en Málaga tras sufrir un derrame...Tags: Klaus Kinski, Christopher Lee
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The man behind the people who know the story behind 'The Shining'
You know the Calumet Baking Powder cans in Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining"? You know — the Calumet Baking cans? Lining the pantry of the film's Overlook Hotel? No, no: The baking cans behind all the carnage! Right, those baking cans. What's that,...
Tags: James Joyce, Entertainment, Stanley Kubrick, Movies, Film Festivals
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Donald Richie dies at 88; interpreted Japan for the West
Donald Richie, an American expatriate in Japan who became that country's preeminent Western interpreter, explaining its culture — from cinema to Zen to tattoos — in books and essays that illuminated the author's psyche as much as that of his...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Newspaper and Magazine, Museum of Modern Art, Igor Stravinsky, World War II (1939-1945)
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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...Tags: Museum of Modern Art, David Letterman, Deborah Kerr, Robert Altman, Stanley Donen
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Midweek Madness keeps that special holiday feeling flowing
For your Midweek Madness drollery, I have -- yes -- once again gone to the SCTV well, this time to pull up a holiday-theme gem. You may thank me later. Here's the attempted filming of promo for a 'Liberace' Christmas Special with a very temperamental...Tags: Holidays
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Tim Burton reflects on ‘Frankenweenie’ box office, plots his next step
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesIt was only Wednesday, but sitting at a small table in the restaurant at the Chateau Marmont, Tim Burton looked ...... -
When H.G. Wells met Orson Welles, Or: How typos lead to neat things
The strangest part of this story may be that in the middle of World War II, 74-year-old British author H.G. Wells took a train to Texas to speak to a meeting of the United States Brewers Assn. I can't quite figure out why he was tapped to speak there;...
Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Authors, Google+, Fiction, Radio Industry
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Revolution on the screen, on the ground in 'I Am Cuba'
From 1964, a time when the world seemed ready to accommodate 33 revolutions per minute, the film "I Am Cuba" boasts some single-take shots so boggling, the following phrases showed up in my notebook: "How did they do that? A three-story-high tracking shot...
Tags: Steven Soderbergh, Francis Ford Coppola, Terrence Malick, Entertainment, Martin Scorsese
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Steve Schapiro, a fly on the wall — with a camera
Steve Schapiro wants to photograph President Barack Obama, and there is little doubt that he will one day do so. In his lengthy and star-studded career, he has photographed so many famous and influential people that one can almost believe he has Zelig-...
Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Satchel Paige, Johnny Depp, Ringo Starr, Arts
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'Not Fade Away' like a Rolling Stone ★★★
"That pianola sure brings back memories," says Orson Welles, entranced by Marlene Dietrich's bordello background music in "Touch of Evil." A few moments of this scene pop up on somebody's television in "Not Fade Away," the wry feature film debut by...
Tags: Music, David Chase, Dean Martin, Touch of Evil (movie), Bob Dylan
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What to read in 2013
January Insane City by Dave Barry (Putnam) The Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist's first solo adult novel in more than a decade is a typically absurdist comic story about everything — and then some — that goes wrong for Seth and his friends en...Tags: Roger Clemens, Phil Jackson, The Boston Globe, Entertainment Events, Artie Shaw
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Review: 'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey' lacks a certain ring
From an artistic point of view, star Mary Pickford famously said, "It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talking instead of the other way around." Likewise, it would have been better all around if Peter Jackson's "Lord of...Tags: Arts and Culture, Mary Pickford, Andy Serkis, Guillermo Del Toro, Entertainment
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