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Happy Birthday! Sept. 11: Moby's 43, Ludacris is 31
Brian De Palma, director, 68 Virginia Madsen, actress, 47 Moby, musician, 43 Harry Connick Jr., singer, 41 Jon Buckland, Coldplay guitarist, 31 Ludacris, rapper, 31Tags: Virginia, Moby, Coldplay, Harry Connick Jr.
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A Muppets holiday
Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear and the rest of the Muppets will help NBC celebrate the holidays this year. The network has announced its holiday-specials lineup for this year, and it's a little bigger than usual. The Muppet special, titled Letters to...Tags: Roxann Dawson, Kristy McNichol, Music Industry, Virginia, Moby
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SCREEN SCENE: Pseudo-doc packs a wallop
Chicago Tribune reporterIf Robert Altman had directed "The Bad News Bears," it might look something like "Johnny Dodgeball." The improv-laced sports mockumentary, directed by Winnetka's D.P. Carlson, follows the inept Chicago Superdawgs as they attempt to storm the second...Tags: Cinema Industry, Gene Siskel, Movies, Al Pacino, Jean-Luc Godard
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'Tropic Thunder' brings issues about cinema and race back to the fore
Special to The TimesWHAT IS going on in the zeitgeist when an African American is poised to become president and Robert Downey Jr. is in blackface? In the new comedy " Tropic Thunder," Downey plays actor Kirk Lazarus, a Russell Crowe-ish Aussie who is cast as a black soldier...Tags: Dustin Hoffman, Sean Penn, Bill Murray, Will Smith, Method Man
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TVEye: 'Gone Country'; 'Outsider's Inn'; 'Swingtown'
Say what you will about the unilateral decisions of its host John Rich, but "Gone Country" (CMT, 10 p.m.) consistently entertains. Tonight's second season includes Jermaine Jackson, Irene Cara, Sebastian Bach, " American Idol" castoff Mikalah-Gordon,...Tags: Jeff Johnson, Sebastian Bach, NBC, Television Industry, Popular Music
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Los Angeles Film Festival: Art-house fare shares a forum with blockbusters.
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterRODENT lovers and rat rights activists, consider yourselves warned. In the surrealistically violent action blockbuster "Wanted" -- which premieres at the Los Angeles Film Festival on Thursday and arrives in theaters June 27 -- several thousand rats are...Tags: Cinema Industry, Arts, Tribeca Film Festival, Fiction, Al Pacino
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The Iraq war movie: Military hopes to shape genre
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThere's a war going on, and Army Lt. Col. J. Todd Breasseale has a mission. But it's far removed from the captured Iraqi palace where he was once stationed. He fights his war now from an office on Wilshire Boulevard lined with movie posters chronicling...Tags: Cinema Industry, Wars and Interventions, Mental Illness, Armed Forces, Movies
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Will Spielberg take a walk on the wild side?
Special to The TimesSteven Spielberg, who at 22 was hired by Universal to a long-term contract, started out his career as the teacher's pet of the Movie Brat generation. With the unveiling of his first Indiana Jones escapade in 19 years today at Cannes, he's proffering yet...Tags: Cinema Industry, Philip Kaufman, Philip K Dick, George Stevens Jr., George Lucas
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PREMIUM CABLE "The Untouchables" **** 7 p.m., Cinemax Sean Connery won the best supporting actor Oscar for his work in this 1987 drama as Jim Malone, the Irish cop who helps federal agent Eliot Ness in his quest to take down crime lord Al Capone. But...Tags: Al Capone, David Mamet, Sean Connery, Movies, Kevin Costner
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Snubbed by Oscar, but beloved
OK, so Angelina, Denzel and Keira didn't get asked to the Oscar prom. They shouldn't shed too many tears over their absence from this year's nominations.
After all, they're in very good company. From Humphrey Bogart ("The Maltese Falcon") and Marilyn...Tags: Alfred Hitchcock, Anne Bancroft, Bill Murray, Ingrid Bergman, James Cagney
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Ex-skater Bowman found dead at motel
The Associated PressU.S figure skating champion Christopher Bowman pleased fans and fellow skaters with his flair on the ice. But he was also known for his off-the-ice struggles with drugs and alcohol and other personal problems. Now the 40-year-old former skating champ...Tags: National Football League, Major League Baseball, Crimes, Winter Olympics, Freedom of the Press
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U.S. films flood Cuban festival
Associated PressWashington's trade embargo bars almost all Americans from coming to Cuba -- but it can't keep U.S. films out. Twenty-one full-length U.S. movies and 22 experimental American shorts were shown as part of Havana's international film festival, which ran...Tags: Karl Marx, Festive Event, Migration, Movies, Interior Policy
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