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L.A. Opera enlists David Cronenberg, William Friedkin and Woody Allen
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIN DIRECTOR David Cronenberg's 1986 movie "The Fly" -- remember "Be afraid. Be very afraid"? -- scientist Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum) commits a fatal error when he combines his own genes with those of a common housefly. At Los Angeles Opera these days,...Tags: Classical Music, Music Theater, Ceremonies, Julie Taymor, Jeff Goldblum
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Diddy Catches Up With 3 Of His Acts; Brooke Shields On 'Project Runway'
Diddy does things his way. So instead of simply trying to make new stars out of unknowns each season in "Making the Band" (MTV, 9 p.m.), he sometimes sticks with the stars he created the previous season, continuing their stories as he tries to extend...Tags: Gillian Anderson, Bigfoot, Theater, Music Theater, NBC
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'Hollywood Under Siege' by Thomas R. Lindlof
Special to The TimesJuly 24, 2008 There are moments in cultural history, notes Thomas Lindlof in a phrase typical of his fluent but never fussy prose, "of gathered tension." Such a moment came with the 1988 release of Martin Scorsese's "The Last Temptation of Christ," an...Tags: Wages and Pensions, Aidan Quinn, Rob Johnson, Salman Rushdie, Paul Schrader
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'Juno' Star Floating on 'Eyre'
Zap2It.comOscar nominee Ellen Page may be set to star in the latest adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre." This new incarnation of the endlessly filmed novel has been written by Moira Buffini and would be produced by Alison Owen ("The Other Boleyn Girl") of...Tags: Movies, Drew Barrymore, Charlotte Bronte, William Hurt, Film Festivals
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Domingo, the unstoppable
Times Staff WriterEven with dozens of singers onstage, with the Great Wall of China itself represented among the sets at the Metropolitan Opera, Plácido Domingo's entrance immediately makes him seem like the biggest, loudest thing up there. It helps that he's singing...Tags: Cinema Industry, Music Theater, Classical Music, Costa Mesa, Values
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Hepburn, Streisand Tie for Actress
From The Times: April 15, 1969
A glittering new setting, a vivid new format, a satisfactory quota of surprises and a solid triumph for the solid musical "Oliver" all marked the 41st running of the Academy Awards Monday night.
The first Oscar night to be...Tags: Cinema Industry, Celebrity, Stanley Kubrick, Music Theater, Academy Awards
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Liz's True Loves
Joseph V. Amodio is a freelance writer.When Elizabeth Taylor bumped into Britain's Princess Margaret years ago at a wedding, the royal was rather stunned by Taylor's ring - a grandiose diamond worthy of Stonehenge, and utterly vulgar in the opinion of the princess. "Why don't you try it on?"...Tags: Celebrity, Taj Mahal, Family, Hobbies, Movies
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Columbus Day Parade Steps Off Without Mayor
Staff WriterThere were marching bands, vintage Alfa Romeos and waving Italian flags -- but no mayor -- at the Columbus Day Parade on Monday. Mayor Michael Bloomberg kept his word, staying away from the annual event that celebrates Italian-American culture because...Tags: Holidays, Celebrity, Family, Festive Event, Executive Branch
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'Callas Forever'
Times Staff WriterFranco Zeffirelli gets to honor his old friend in 'Callas Forever.' It took director Franco Zeffirelli a quarter of a century to figure out how best to pay homage on screen to his longtime friend and colleague, opera legend Maria Callas, who died at 53 in...Tags: Celebrity, Joan Plowright, Movies, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Fanny Ardant
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Movie review: 'Callas Forever'
2 stars (out of 4) Sometimes it's best to let sleeping divas lie. "Callas Forever" is based on an unrealized idea by director Franco Zeffirelli to film his close friend and colleague, legendary opera singer Maria Callas, performing her signature roles...Tags: Theater, Music Theater, Classical Music, Joan Plowright, Jeremy Irons
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Movie review: 'The Passion of the Christ'
Chicago Tribune Movie Critic2-1/2 stars (out of 4) "The Passion of the Christ" — Mel Gibson's serious, often brutally powerful film on the last 12 hours of the life of Jesus — is a passionate but gruesomely physical picture. But it's a subject that needs more spirituality and...Tags: Cinema Industry, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Peter Jackson, Sylvester Stallone, Values
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Bard on board
Associated PressWilliam Shakespeare wrote a dozen plays about Renaissance Italy, but never planted a buskin there. Yet the Bard looms large, both culturally and commercially, in Venice and Padua, Verona and Mantua, indeed most everywhere in the valley of the Po. Going...Tags: Natural Resources, Galileo Galilei, Natural Science, Tom Sawyer, Festive Event
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