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Director put soldiers 1st in her film
With "Stop-Loss," director Kimberly Peirce delivers her first film since 1999's "Boys Don't Cry." Peirce, a University of Chicago grad, approaches film like anthropology, and "Stop-Loss" is no different. As more and more soldiers had their Middle Eastern...Tags: Alfred Molina, John Leguizamo, Movies, Illinois, Chicago
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Aliens spawn own genre
The Hartford CourantJust over 50 years ago, the first major movie alien, a giant, murderous carrot, struck terror into the hearts and minds of Cold War America. It was called "The Thing," or "The Thing From Another World," and it scared audiences silly. Now the monsters...Tags: Steven Spielberg, Tim Burton, Movies, Paul Verhoeven, Stanley Kubrick
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5 films that are Stanley Kubrick excursions
1. Dr. Strangelove (1964) 4 stars Kubrick's great end-of-the-world comedy. Writer Terry Southern helped turn what was initially intended as a straight sci-fi thriller into a satiric slapstick nightmare, with Peter Sellers brilliant in a triple role. Also...Tags: Movies, Sterling Hayden, California, Peter Sellers, George C Scott
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Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke dies at 90
Arthur C. Clarke, a visionary science fiction writer who won worldwide acclaim with more than 100 books on space, science and the future, died Wednesday in his adopted home of Sri Lanka, an aide said. He was 90. Clarke, who had battled debilitating post-...Tags: Buzz Aldrin, Coral Reefs, Diseases, Wireless Holdings, Stanley Kubrick
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Decades of science fiction
In addition to "2001" and its sequels, Arthur C. Clarke's best-known books include: •"Childhood's End," 1953 •"The Nine Billion Names of God," 1953 •"The City and The Stars," 1956 •"Rendezvous with Rama," 1973 •"... -
Arthur C. Clarke, 90; scientific visionary, acclaimed writer of '2001: A Space Odyssey'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterArthur C. Clarke, who peered into the heavens with a homemade telescope as a boy and grew up to become a visionary titan of science-fiction writing and collaborated with director Stanley Kubrick on the landmark film "2001: A Space Odyssey," has died. He...Tags: Isaac Asimov, Movies, Television, Books and Magazines, Newspaper and Magazine
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'2001: A Space Odyssey' Author Dies at 90
Arthur C. Clarke, who peered into the heavens with a homemade telescope as a boy and grew up to become a visionary titan of science-fiction writing and collaborated with director Stanley Kubrick on the landmark film "2001: A Space Odyssey," has died. He...Tags: Isaac Asimov, Movies, Television, Books and Magazines, Newspaper and Magazine
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HAL mourns DAD
By David Martin The death of noted science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke has elicited near unanimous praise from fans around the world with one notable exception. Speaking from his hometown of Urbana, Heuristic Algorithmic 9000 (known to his...Tags: Movies, David Martin, Chicago, Stanley Kubrick, Literature
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Hicksville sci-fi writer's novel is a download
caryneve.murray@newsday.comHe is an accountant by training, a science administrator by vocation and a scientist by passion. And now, in this latest tier of his professional evolution, Ben Parris has become a science-fiction novelist by download. "Wade of Aquitaine," the...Tags: Isaac Asimov, Newsday, Mass Media, Literature, Fiction
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Invaders From The Past
Courant Film CriticIt's back to the '50s in "Signs," M. Night Shyamalan's odd, semi-comic science-fiction tale centering on a weirdly sculptured cornfield in Bucks County, Pa., and a lapsed reverend played in shifting moods by Mel Gibson. Recalling "The War of the Worlds"...Tags: M Night Shyamalan, Movies, Bucks County, Literature, Don Siegel
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