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Theater: Merry Christmas, Dr. Watson
Ara Barlieb, director of The Crowded Kitchen Players, needed a Christmas play four years ago. Since time was crucial, he adapted three Sherlock Holmes stories -- ''A Study in Scarlet,'' ''The Adventure of the Speckled Band'' and ''The Adventure of the...Tags: Bethlehem (Northampton, Pennsylvania), Christmas, Religious Festivals, Theater, New York
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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: Twilight (movie), Festive Event, Theater, Jonathan Pryce, Billy Wilder
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NOW PLAYING: A guide to local art house and 2nd run films
NOW PLAYING •indicates a capsule review from Chicago Tribune archives. ♦indicates a film that is not reviewed, but of interest. BACinema Beverly Arts Center 2407 W. 111th St. 773-445-3838 beverlyartcenter.org •'The Right Stuff' **...Tags: Rob Reiner, Fred Savage, Chuck Yeager, Sam Shepard, University of Chicago
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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: Ben Gazzara, Prosecution, Justice System, Witnesses, Marlene Dietrich
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'Best Years' among best
William Wyler's 1946 The Best Years of Our Lives, a film about veterans returning home from war, changed in ways even they (much less those they left behind) don't fully understand, airs at 5 p.m. today on TCM. The film won a plethora of Oscars, including...Tags: John Wayne, Damon Wayans, Don Siegel, Jim Carrey, Fredric March
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'Star Wars' empire still strong
Sun movie critic(B-) Lucasfilm's new feature-length cartoon, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, has a light heart and a spring in its step. It's not exactly thrilling, and it doesn't cover much new ground. But young audiences will lap it up like ice cream, and its good humor and...Tags: Cartoons, George Lucas, Defense, Christopher Lee, Star Wars (movie)
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'Hellboy II' star Ron Perlman has a hard-earned cigar
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterHis face is a triptych of granite-like features. When the camera focuses on Ron Perlman, it captures, with clarity, the sum of his distinguished parts -- the lantern jaw, the deep-set eyes and the high, square forehead. Perlman is 6 feet 2, which...Tags: Guillermo Del Toro, Selma Blair, Christian Bale, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Movies
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10 books and movies to prep for a trip to Rome
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIf you're planning to visit Rome before you die, it pays to prepare for the experience. Here are 10 books and movies to help you understand what you see in the Roman Forum, at the Vatican and on the Piazza Navona. 1. "The Agony and the Ecstasy" (1961, by...Tags: Derek Jacobi, Vincent van Gogh, Charlton Heston, Marguerite Yourcenar, Marcello Mastroianni
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Largo gets new lease on life at the old Coronet
Special to The TimesJON BRION'S last night at Largo was epic. The singer-songwriter's free-for-all Fridays at the tiny Fairfax Avenue nightclub had been drawing capacity crowds for more than a decade, but his May 2 show was historic: his final turn before owner Mark Flanagan...Tags: Galileo Galilei, Charlie Chaplin, Theater, Festive Event, Betty Grable
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'Lost' art tells of a love lost
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterHe was a celebrated painter and political agitator who put revolution before art. She was a twentysomething poet, dazzled by her charismatic suitor, David Alfaro Siqueiros, one of the leading Mexican muralists who audaciously combined public art and...Tags: Metal and Mineral, Katharine Hepburn, Indigenous People, Defense, Arts
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A retreat charges on
Times Staff WriterIn the summer of 1955, "Stravinsky scarcely moved from Wetherly Drive," writes Stephen Walsh in the newly published second volume of his biography of the composer. Stravinsky scarcely moved because his arthritis was acting up and because he had music to...Tags: Charles Chaplin, Milton Babbitt, Festive Event, Los Angeles, Ravi Shankar
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Movie review: 'Undertow'
TRIBUNE MOVIE CRITIC3˝ stars (out of 4) David Gordon Green's "Undertow"--which stars Jamie Bell and Josh Lucas as a fugitive boy and his devilish uncle--is a contemporary Southern Gothic movie thriller, true to its roots but also true to our time. Easily, violently, Green's...Tags: Philip Glass, Hunting, James Agee, Jamie Bell, Natural Resources
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