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Visual effects workers miffed after Oscar speech cut-off
Workers in California's beleaguered visual effects industry were left fuming Monday after a speech by Oscar-winning supervisor Bill Westenhofer was cut short -- by the ominous music of "Jaws." Westenhofer, who led the team at Rhythm & Hues that won a...
Tags: Ang Lee, Life of Pi (movie), Companies and Corporations, Culture, Career and Workplace
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Oscars 2013: Seth MacFarlane could've learned from Clint Eastwood
So where's Clint Eastwood when you need him? Sure, he hijacked Mitt Romney's convention with his bizarre soliloquy, a man and his chair. But the moment was spontaneous, surprising and captivating in the can't-turn-away fashion of an impending train...
Tags: Argo (movie), Netflix Inc., Movies, DVDs, Seth MacFarlane
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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: Groucho Marx, Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Barbara Stanwyck, Citizen Kane (movie), Golden Globe Awards
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'Argo' producer scours for the next stranger-than-fiction story
Hunched over a desk in his spartan Westwood apartment, David Klawans squints at his computer monitor and knits his brow in concentration. "I'm perusing," he says. His eyes dart between headlines almost indecipherable on a Web page displaying about 800...
Tags: Argo (movie), Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., Iran, Personal Service, Kanye West
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Alan Sepinwall touts the newfound legitimacy of TV
When Alan Sepinwall was hired as a TV critic just out of college in 1996, he had no way of knowing he was about to witness “a big bang of sorts,” as he puts it in his new book "The Revolution Was Televised: The Cops, Crooks, Slingers and...
Tags: Authors, Reviews, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (tv program), Satellite and Cable Service, Lost (tv program)
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WEDDING: McDonald -- Myers
The patio at the Country Club of Boyne was decorated with arrangements of yellow and white flowers for the Friday, Aug. 17, wedding of Kasey McDonald and Grant Myers, both of Los Angeles, Calif. Large yellow poms hung from shepherd's hooks surrounding...
Tags: Weddings, Chad, Michigan State University, Movies, Marriage
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'Universal 100th Anniversary Collection'
Universal Pictures has been celebrating its century-long milestone all year, and as that period nears its end, the studio releases a mammoth collection of many of the top films that mark its history thus far. The titles range from "All Quiet on the...
Tags: To Kill a Mockingbird (movie), All Quiet on the Western Front (movie), Schindler's List (movie), Back to the Future (movie), Blu-ray Discs
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PASSINGS: Ron Taylor, Mario Armond Zamparelli, Anne Shaw Price
Ron Taylor Filmed shark for 'Jaws' Ron Taylor, 78, an Australian marine conservationist who helped film some of the dramatic underwater footage used in the classic shark thriller "Jaws," died Sunday at a Sydney hospital after battling leukemia....
Tags: Movies, Steven Spielberg, Howard Hughes, Science and Technology, Sydney (Australia)
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New book tries to explain the roots of hypochondria
What do Andy Warhol, Howard Hughes and Woody Allen have in common with Chicago drive-time disc jockey Roe Conn? They all are — or were — hypochondriacs. But they're not alone. Due to our increased access to medical information, we are...
Tags: Northwestern University, Symptoms, Movies, Health and Safety at School, Woody Allen
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Good practical joke
BerlinWhen we moved here in 1979, there were only a few homes in the "Evergreen Development." Though the streets were gravel, they were borough dedicated.They formed a squared circle, out of the normal traffic flow. Bob and Linda and their two children lived...Tags: Arts and Culture, Movies, Science and Technology, Sculpture, Arts
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Oscar-Winning Producer Richard Zanuck Dies at 77
KTLA NewsLOS ANGELES -- Richard Zanuck, the Oscar-winning producer of "Driving Miss Daisy," the blockbuster "Jaws" and several Tim Burton films, including "Alice in Wonderland," has died. Zanuck died Friday in Los Angeles of a heart attack at the age of 77....Tags: Tim Burton, Richard Zanuck, Movies, Steven Spielberg, David Brown
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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: Tim Burton, Patton (movie), Richard Zanuck, Elizabeth Taylor, Orson Welles
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