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BASIC CABLE "The Body Snatcher" *** 5:30 p.m., TCM Two decades before directing "The Sound of Music," Robert Wise helmed this spooky tale of a hansom cabdriver (Boris Karloff) in 19th Century Scotland who loots graves to supply a doctor (Henry Daniell)...Tags: Saddam Hussein, Robert Wise Jr., Bela Lugosi, Movies
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'Hellboy' Ron Perlman relishes niche as a modern-day Lon Chaney
Of The Associated PressHollywood's modern man of a thousand faces, Ron Perlman, never minded hiding behind rubber masks and mounds of makeup early in his career. Perlman, who reprises his title role as a wisecracking demon turned superhero in ''Hellboy II: The Golden Army,''...Tags: Guillermo Del Toro, Selma Blair, Linda Hamilton, Movies, Lon Chaney
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'Hellboy' buries himself in roles
The Associated PressHollywood's modern man of a thousand faces, Ron Perlman, never minded hiding behind rubber masks and mounds of makeup early in his career. Perlman, who reprises his title role as a wisecracking demon turned superhero in "Hellboy II: The Golden Army,"...Tags: Guillermo Del Toro, Selma Blair, Marlon Brando, Film Festivals, Cinema Industry
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Director loves his demons
The worst monsters in your most terrifying dreams probably would run and hide from the creatures Guillermo del Toro puts on a movie screen. Del Toro, creator of the visionary fairy tale "Pan's Labyrinth," offers a universe of otherworldly creations in...Tags: Defense, Manhattan, Guillermo Del Toro, Selma Blair, Cinema Industry
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Last act for Hollywood memorabilia
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThey are packing up Old Hollywood and moving it to Newbury Park. That's where about 3 million film studio publicity stills, 50,000 original movie posters and 20,000 vintage fan magazines will be stored until they are auctioned off six months from now....Tags: Periodicals, Celebrity, Cinema Industry, Auction Service, Elizabeth Taylor
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'Hollywood Chinese' traces roles of Asians
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIt really wasn't all that long ago Hollywood thought audiences wouldn't pay money to see a movie with an Asian lead. So producers would cast non-Asian actors -- replete with yellow-face makeup -- in these roles. In fact, Luise Rainer won a best actress...Tags: David Henry Hwang, Joan Chen, National or Ethnic Minorities, Celebrity, Ang Lee
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Will they become show stoppers?
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWITH this year's Oscars still in jeopardy and the Golden Globes a televised disaster, Sunday's Screen Actors Guild Awards finally delivered the goods: top-notch stars, outrageous gowns and self-congratulatory speeches. But the nationally televised...Tags: Television, Sally Field, Government, Celebrity, Julie Christie
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Hazel Court, 82; horror film 'scream queen,' passes
Hazel Court, an English beauty who co-starred with the likes of Boris Karloff and Vincent Price in popular horror movies in the 1950s and '60s, has died. She was 82. Court died Tuesday at her home near Lake Tahoe from a heart attack, her daughter,...Tags: Television, Heart Disease, Alfred Hitchcock, Los Angeles, Ojai
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High-Art Slasher Film? Must Be By Tim Burton
Zap2It.comTim Burton had already traipsed through China, scouting locations for his next big cinematic event, "Ripley's Believe It or Not!" starring Jim Carrey, when Paramount halted preproduction on the film. Burton describes himself as "pretty devastated" by the...Tags: Martin Scorsese, Celebrity, Cinema Industry, Tim Burton, Music
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From airboards to scoots, these snow toys fly
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSnowboarders, take note: Your days in the limelight are over. Just as you once shoved two-plankers off the slopes with your insane rail spins and half-pipe jumps, a new generation of downhill rebels is ready to return the favor. You are yesterday's news....Tags: Wars and Interventions, Baby Products, Games, and Toys, Toys, Half Pipe Snow Boarding, Snowbiking
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