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Egyptian Theatre to host best-films festival
You now have no excuse not to have seen some of the greatest classics of film. No more mumbling vague generalities in conversations with your cinéaste friends, then scrambling to catch up with the DVDs, because this weekend the American Cinematheque is...Tags: World War II, Danny Kaye, Bing Crosby, Irving Berlin, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California)
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'A Century Ago: The Films of 1908,' 'West Side Story,' the Three Stooges and Rudy Ray Moore
A whole new generation of innovative filmmakers, such as D.W. Griffith, Émile Cohl and Max Linder, began pushing the envelope of the still-fledgling medium of motion pictures a century ago.
On Monday, several of those films from the silent era that...Tags: Gus van Sant, Natalie Wood, Milk (movie), Movies, Jerome Robbins
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Jackman claws his way to top
Hugh Jackman has achieved legendary success on stages in his native Australia as well as America and England, playing everyone from Curly the singing cowboy in Oklahoma! togay entertainer Peter Allen in The Boy from Oz. On screen, he's taken a shot at...Tags: Culture, Oklahoma, Harry Houdini, Henrik Ibsen, Andrew Lloyd Webber
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'The Touch,' directed by Ingmar Bergman, tonight at the Billy Wilder Theater
"The Touch" is Ingmar Bergman's orphan film.
The celebrated, late Swedish director's only project in English, it's a gut-wrenching relationship drama from 1971 starring Elliott Gould, who was as hot then as the entire cast of "Twilight" is now, and...Tags: Twilight (movie), Barbra Streisand, Movies, Film Festivals, Ingmar Bergman
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The magnetic Tyrone Power
It's been 61 years since Coleen Gray starred opposite Tyrone Power in the celebrated film noir "Nightmare Alley," but her memories of the legendary actor are as clear as if they had worked together yesterday.
"He had an aura about him," recalled Gray,...Tags: Celebrity, Festive Event, Piper Laurie, Tyrone Power Sr., Movies
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'Attack of the Giant Screen' at the Aero
It's a bit of a monster bash this weekend as the American Cinematheque presents the Attack of the Giant Screen festival at the Aero Theatre. The fun starts this evening with 1954's Los Angeles-centric "Them!" and 1957's "The Giant Claw." On tap for...Tags: Iron Man (movie), Tropic Thunder (movie), Los Angeles, Danny Boyle, Movies
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William Claxton was a cool guy with a camera
It's been a tough few weeks for West Coast geniuses. Still reeling from the death of David Foster Wallace, I was startled to see that photographer Bill Claxton passed away on Oct. 11, the day before his 81st birthday. In the nearly 20 years I've been...Tags: Sonny Rollins, Jazz Music, Benny Carter, Echo Park, John Coltrane
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Edie Adams
Edie Adams has died. The singer and actress who won a Tony Award for bringing Daisy Mae to life on Broadway and who played the television foil to her husband, comedian Ernie Kovacs, was 81. Adams died Wednesday in a Los Angeles hospital from pneumonia...Tags: Milton Berle, Bob Hope, California, Television Industry, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California)
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Releases this week
The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown, $26.99). Attorney Mickey Haller gets his biggest case yet: the defense of a prominent studio executive accused of murdering his wife and her lover. Lion Among Men by Gregory Maguire (HarperCollins,...Tags: Laurence Olivier, George Hamilton, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Michael Connelly, Amazon.com Inc.
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The early years of David Lean, at UCLA
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterDon't expect to see any of David Lean's lavish epics such as "The Bridge on the River Kwai," "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Doctor Zhivago" at UCLA Film & Television Archive's retrospective of the Oscar-winning British director. The festival, which marks the...Tags: Jonathan Pryce, Charles Laughton, Twilight (movie), Rex Harrison, Movies
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Court's in session
It's law night on Turner Classic Movies, as five of Hollywood's most celebrated legal eagles are showcased in an evening of programming that shouldn't raise objections from anyone. The proceedings commence at 5:15 p.m. with Otto Preminger's Anatomy of...Tags: Witnesses, Charles Laughton, Alfred Hitchcock, Justice System, Tyrone Power Sr.
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Review: "The Film Club" by David Gilmour
daniel.bubbeo@newsday.comTHE FILM CLUB, by David Gilmour. Twelve, 225 pp., $21.99. A few pages into "The Film Club," the smart, new memoir by Canadian film critic David Gilmour, it becomes clear that if he ever saw any of MGM's squeaky-clean "Andy Hardy" movies while growing up,...Tags: James Dean, Jack Nicholson, Gary Cooper, Movies, Elaine May
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