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No ordinary villain: Heath Ledger creates iconic joker worthy of Oscar
Of The Associated PressJack Nicholson's Joker was a blast. Heath Ledger's Joker is as dark and anarchic a figure as Randle McMurphy in ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,'' the role that brought Nicholson his first Academy Award. Ledger's performance in the Batman tale ''The...Tags: Spencer Tracy, MySpace, Gary Oldman, Cinema Industry, Peter Finch
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In last role, Heath Ledger nails Joker's psyche: the pleasure of pain
The Associated PressJack Nicholson's Joker was a blast. Heath Ledger's Joker is as dark and anarchic a figure as Randle McMurphy in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," the role that brought Nicholson his first Academy Award. Ledger's performance in the Batman tale "The...Tags: Spencer Tracy, MySpace, Gary Oldman, Academy Awards, Cinema Industry
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Getting Mugabe out
'Only God will remove me." With this public vow, Zimbabwe's strongman president, Robert Mugabe, officially ended the campaign for the presidential runoff election that is to be held on Friday. The campaign had already turned brutal, with Mugabe's...Tags: National Government, Mobutu Sese Seko, Elections, Government, Political Candidates
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Jews' faith journey leads from Uganda to L.A. and back
The music was distinctly African, driven by pulsing drums and lively melodies. But the lyrics were in Hebrew, sung by a diminutive rabbi with coal-black skin and a yarmulke as colorful as its history. The high-spirited conga-line sashaying through...Tags: Religious Leaders, Judaism, Bible, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), New York
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Movie Review: 'Street Kings'
It's not easy being Det. Tom Ludlow ( Keanu Reeves). Still grieving over his recently deceased wife, he wanders the streets of Los Angeles in an alcoholic haze, shooting first, planting evidence next and answering questions later. This should be enough to...Tags: Television, Abel Ferrara, John Wayne, New York, Assault
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Suspense-less 'Street Kings' lacks twists and turns
Sun Movie Critic(C+) Street Kings is like a sideshow shooting gallery that wants to award you a Ph.D. in sociology instead of a stuffed toy or 10 free shots. It would be easier to take as gory, lowdown fun if it weren't giving you the third degree in more ways than one....Tags: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Clint Eastwood, Edmund Wilson, Movies, Keanu Reeves
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MOVIES
PREMIUM CABLE "THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND" *** 7 p.m., HBO A fictional Scottish doctor (James McAvoy) flukes into a job as personal physician and adviser to Ugandan president and charismatic monster Idi Amin (Forest Whitaker). MPAA rating: R ---------...Tags: Movies, Forest Whitaker
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Pros and cons of 'The Great Debaters'
Sun movie critic(B-) An optimistic movie set during the Great Depression, the fact-based The Great Debaters coarsens its inspirational story and powerful history with movie devices that date to the 1930s. Director Denzel Washington uses the cliffhanging climaxes and...Tags: Demonstration, Robin Williams, Jermaine Williams, Colleges and Universities, Movies
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Telluride Film Festival unveils slate
The 2007 Oscar awards season has officially begun.
The Telluride Film Festival, the Colorado celluloid fete that serves as an intimate family reunion for cinephiles and a launch pad for specialty-film Oscar campaigns, unveiled its 34th annual lineup this...Tags: Kent Jones, Paul Thomas Anderson, Martin Scorsese, Abbas Kiarostami, Jennifer Jason Leigh
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Mugabe: a tyrant from the start
As Zimbabwe's president, Robert Mugabe, presides over what might be the most rapid disintegration yet of a modern nation-state, it has become de rigueur for journalists, politicians and academics to offer what has become a near-universal analysis: Mugabe,...Tags: National Government, News Media, Guerrilla Activity, Elizabeth II, Central Intelligence Agency
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