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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: Entertainment Events, Touch of Evil (movie), The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Guillermo Del Toro, Academy Awards
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10 things you might not know about North Korea
North Korea is an international pariah, a bandit state, the "Hermit Kingdom." It's also a net exporter of news: North Korea announced Friday that it had detained an American citizen for "hostile acts against the republic." And a rocket launch this month...
Tags: United Nations, Ri Sol Ju, The Wall Street Journal, Kim Il Sung, Dominican Republic
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Dann Cahn dies at 89; editor on 'I Love Lucy'
Using a newly developed editing machine that he dubbed the "three-headed monster," Dann Cahn pioneered multi-camera editing on sitcoms in the 1950s while helping to craft a classic, "I Love Lucy." "Lucy" broke ground in television by employing three...
Tags: Obituaries, The Pentagon, Game Shows, Desi Arnaz, Comedy (genre)
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Mel Shaw dies at 97; Disney design artist
While playing polo on the fields of Southern California in the late 1930s, Mel Shaw met Walt Disney and was soon playing on his team, the Donald Ducks, that took on the president of Mexico's personal team in 1938 — and won. "He called me a wild...
Tags: NBC (tv network), Television Industry, Animation (genre), World War II (1939-1945), The Fox and the Hound (movie)
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Milos Forman to receive Directors Guild's highest tribute
Milos Forman, 80, will receive the Directors Guild of America's Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Achievement in Motion Picture Direction at the 65th annual DGA Awards on Feb. 2. The ceremony will be held at Hollywood & Highland's Ray Dolby...
Tags: Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, Entertainment Events, Taylor Hackford, Academy Awards
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Our favorite Martians: The red planet, a pop culture history
Hero Complex - movies, comics, fanboy fare - latimes.comAfter traveling 352 million miles, NASA‘s Curiosity rover is rolling into history amid the rust-colored ridges of Mars. But pop culture and the arts ...... -
Best Movie Ever
Blogging with Bill WhiteToday is scheduled for a movie list, but I had a very short week, and I decided to change things up. Instead of a full-scale list, I’ll throw out a question: What do you think was the best movie ever?...... -
Best Movies About Extremely Rich People
Blogging with Bill WhiteToday’s Movie List is the first of two tributes to the 2012 presidential election. The topic is Best Movies About Extremely Rich People. Before all you Mitt Romney or Barack Obama fans start jumping on me, I’ll provide the flip...... -
'Lincoln': A political animal of a different kind ★★★★
"Lincoln" is a grave and surprisingly subtle magic trick, conjuring the past and an almost ridiculously impressive figure in ways that transcend art direction and the right stovepipe hat. Director Steven Spielberg's latest combines the most commonly...
Tags: Tommy Lee Jones, Politics, Gloria Reuben, Republican Party, James Spader
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David Thomson takes a wide view of movies in 'The Big Screen'
Even the most ardent traditionalists have to acknowledge that vast, sweeping changes are at work within the realm of film culture. The very practice of shooting on actual physical film, not to mention running that film through a projector for viewing, has...Tags: Howard Hawks, Jacques Rivette, Francis Ford Coppola, Jean Renoir, Authors
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Gore Vidal dies at 86; iconoclastic author
Gore Vidal was impossible to categorize, which was exactly the way he liked it. The reading public knew him as a literary juggernaut who wrote 25 novels —from the historical "Lincoln" to the satirical "Myra Breckinridge" — and volumes of...
Tags: Politics, Fiction, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Truman Capote, Mystery (genre)
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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: Celebrities, J.J. Abrams, Aubrey Plaza, Errol Morris, Studs Terkel
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