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Election movie winners
Is it Tuesday yet? Even the most patriotic of us might be feeling election fatigue this week. Campaigns generally are messy affairs, with stories that keep changing and endings that never seem to come, and the Obama-McCain battle has been no different....Tags: Government, Music Theater, Local Elections, Emma Thompson, Heads of State
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A major reboot at HBO
When Alan Taylor is directing your HBO television pilot, it's usually a sign the program is a lock to get on the air. The Emmy-award winning director has put his imprint on nearly every one of the network's major series, including "The Sopranos," " Sex...Tags: Damages, Government, David Simon, Big Love, True Blood
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Editor's choice
State by State Edited by Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey Ecco, 572 pages, $29.95 This election puts me in a mood for FDR and the WPA. The WPA state guides of the 1930s were intended to "describe America to Americans" and inspired this wonderful collection...Tags: Georgia, Dave Eggers, Illinois, Nebraska, Rhode Island
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Thomas Jane Gets 'Hung'
Zap2It.comHBO has endowed Thomas Jane with the lead role in its comedy pilot "Hung." The "Punisher" star will play a high-school basketball coach who decides his improve his lot in life by using his best asset -- which you can probably figure out from the title of...Tags: Patricia Arquette
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HBO, Jason Schwartzman 'Bored to Death'
Zap2It.comJason Schwartzman is "Bored," and for HBO that's a good thing. The "I Heart Huckabees" and "Rushmore" star has taken the lead role in HBO's comedy pilot "Bored to Death." His casting lifts a contingency on the pilot, according to The Hollywood Reporter....Tags: Satellite and Cable Service
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Directors step up to take their shot at Oscar
THE six nominees for this year's best director Academy Award have made a total of 23 feature films. To put that meager number into perspective, consider this: "The Departed," which finally won Martin Scorsese his directing Oscar last year (on his sixth...Tags: Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Quentin Tarantino, Movies, Peter Jackson
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Thomas Haden Church's choice career
Special to The TimesThomas Haden Church is a man of contradictions. He's gamely appeared in a posh hotel dining room to talk about his new movie, "Smart People," but home on his Texas ranch is clearly where his heart is: His worn long underwear peeks out from a freshly...Tags: Spider-Man, Texas, Celebrity, Kansas, Sarah Jessica Parker
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'Paris Je T'aime'
gene.seymour@newsday.com"Paris, je t'aime" is one of those multi-short, multi-star, multitasking projects that almost always crash on takeoff because they take on too much weight for relatively little substance. While this omnibus of 18 short films in different Parisian...Tags: Willem Dafoe, Elijah Wood, Wes Craven, Ethan Coen, Ben Gazzara
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Diablo Cody inks out her husband
Things move awfully fast in Hollywood during awards season.
At Monday night's screening of "Juno," screenwriter Diablo Cody – she of the storied blogger/stripper past, heavy awards buzz, new studio deals aplenty, EW's Smart List and a breathless...Tags: New York Times, Johnny Depp, Amazon.com Inc., Diablo Cody, Academy Awards
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'Grey's Anatomy' Star Sandra Oh's Divorce Final
Zap2It.comSandra Oh, whose character on "Grey's Anatomy" is still nursing a broken heart, has finalized her divorce in real life. The actress and "Sideways" writer-director Alexander Payne are finally done with the divorce process now that their finances are...Tags: Jim Taylor, Divorce, Celebrity, Adam Sandler, Movies
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Sean Penn named director of year
The EnvelopeSean Penn will be honored as Director of the Year at the 19th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival for "Into The Wild." Previous winners of the festival's director award include Alejandro González Iñárritu for "Babel," Anthony Minghella for...Tags: Marion Cotillard, Film Festivals, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, California)
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'Paris, Je T'Aime'
Times Staff WriterNew York may be a perennial movie character and Los Angeles a backdrop, but for elegiac representations of itself, Paris beats them both. While no other city can boast such a long-term, intimate connection with the movies, like so many cinematic icons,...Tags: Nick Nolte, Movies, Natalie Portman, Steve Buscemi, Gus van Sant
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