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TODAY'S PICKS
WORLD'S FUNNIEST COMMERCIALS 2008 (9 p.m., TBS) - Kevin Nealon and Susan Yeagley host this annual look at the wackiest spots from around the globe. AMERICA'S GOT TALENT (8 p.m., NBC/4) - Ten of the top 40 contestants perform. DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL...Tags: Joe Clark, Hillary Clinton, Mark Warner, Rocky Balboa, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
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TV: Holiday marathon of favorite episodes
andy.edelstein@newsday.comThe Fourth of July weekend (which seems to be starting today) has traditionally been a time when many TV programmers - presumably in cahoots with the manufacturers of DVRs - give over their schedules to "marathons." That's a nice word to describe hours...Tags: Mike Logan, Family, Ashton Kutcher, Television, Movies
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Movies
BASIC CABLE "Desire Under the Elms" ** 7 p.m., TCM If you only know Burl Ives as a folk singer and Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates, you'll be pleasantly surprised by this 1958 drama based on a play by Eugene O'Neill. Ives gives a chilling but nicely...Tags: Burl Ives, Folk Music, Film Festivals, Movies, Sophia Loren
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'Hancock' plot twist among biggest ever?
A Will Smith movie packs in millions of people over Fourth of July weekend. No surprises there. Yet Smith's "Hancock," the tale of an anti-social boozer who happens to be a superhero, comes with an abrupt plot twist, one that has divided critics and...Tags: Faye Dunaway, Forest Whitaker, Jack Nicholson, Peter Graves, Charlize Theron
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'Prom Night'
The Orlando SentinelThere ought to be a rule, stashed in the Screen Actor's Guild bylaws, that every actor cast as a villain in a slasher film has to watch "Psycho" and write a paper on Anthony Perkins. "Psycho Killers with Character: The Tony Perkins Way." Johnathan...Tags: Jamie Lee Curtis, Tony Perkins, Health and Safety at School, Roger Moore, Television
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Blacklisted Director Jules Dassin Dies at 96
Jules Dassin, the blacklisted American filmmaker who was a master of film noir, directing such classics as "Brute Force," "The Naked City" and "Rififi," died Monday in an Athens hospital. He was 96. The cause of death was not made public. The...Tags: Adolf Hitler, Culture, Burt Lancaster, New York Times, Death and Dying
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'Screwball Holidays' ends year with a laugh
Times Staff WriterThe American Cinematheque's fourth annual "Screwball Holidays" series continues at the Egyptian Theatre tonight with one of Bob Hope's best films, the 1940 comedy-chiller "The Ghost Breakers." Hope and his co-star Paulette Goddard had scored a big...Tags: Public Holidays, Culture, James Mason, Clara Bow, Joel McCrea
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Bug
Zap2It.comWilliam Friedkin's "Bug," based on the play by Steppenwolf's Tracy Letts, is a portrait of escalating horror in modern America, a nightmare that may or may not be taking place in the minds of an emotionally battered couple clasping and rotting together in...Tags: Harry Connick Jr., David Cronenberg, Fiction, William Friedkin, Movies
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'Butterflies Are Free' Star Albert Dies
Zap2It.comActor Edward Albert, star of "Butterflies Are Free" and the son of "Green Acres" star Eddie Albert, has died at the age of 55. The younger actor passed away in his Malibu home on Friday (Sept. 22) of lung cancer, report news sources. Edward Laurence...Tags: California, Television Industry, Death and Dying, Film Festivals, Goldie Hawn
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Alive with more than history
Times Staff WriterIt's been decades since movie studios had movie stars on contract. And you're as likely to stumble across movie filming on a downtown L.A. street as on the Universal Studios back lot these days. But the studios still have that special feel of a gated...Tags: Family, Joan Crawford, Steven Spielberg, Cher, General Electric Company
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Actress Janet Leigh Dies at 77
Associated Press WriterLOS ANGELES -- Janet Leigh, the wholesome beauty whose shocking murder in the classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller "Psycho" was credited with making generations of film fans think twice about stepping into a motel room shower, has died. She was 77. The...Tags: Robert Mitchum, Tony Curtis, Jamie Lee Curtis, Film Festivals, James Stewart
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'Psycho' actress Janet Leigh dies at 77
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterJanet Leigh, the actress who turned the mundane act of getting clean in a shower into one of cinema's most enduring images of gore and horror, died Sunday with her family at her bedside. She was 77. The actress' husband, Robert Brandt, and her daughters,...Tags: Tony Curtis, Jamie Lee Curtis, Film Festivals, James Stewart, Television
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