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If you've had enough politics ...
Sick of the election? It's OK, we understand. On Tuesday, check out these decidedly non-political events recommended by Tribune critics: Rock: A "Better Dead Than Red" celebration will offer breaks for election-night TV coverage in between—and...Tags: Green Mill, Ted Nugent, 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, Charles Bronson, Gerald Ford
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Film Adaptations Of 'The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn'
Among the adaptations of "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" on film: "Huckleberry Finn," 1920, silent film with Gordon Griffith "Huckleberry Finn," 1931, with Jackie Coogan, Junior Durkin, Mitzi Green, Jane Darwell "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,"...Tags: Harvey Korman, Richard Kiley, Merle Haggard, Elijah Wood, John Carradine
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Spring awakening
linda.winer@newsday.comHowever the wind blows, theatergoers know it's spring when Broadway gets crazy with openings. Whatever the calendar says about the year's end, commercial theater will be observing New Year's Eve on May 7 - the last night to open eligible shows before the...Tags: Reese Witherspoon, Off-Broadway Theater, John Malkovich, Morgan Freeman, Mike Nichols
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'The Life of Reilly' (Charles Nelson Reilly's one-man show)
Tribune movie criticCharles Nelson Reilly died last May, but for years before he died, people would gape at him at the grocery store, giving him that look that says: You're alive?!? And: Oooo, what's his name, again? Bronx-born into a melodrama-rich family, a more astute...Tags: NBC, New York, Jack Lemmon, Movies, North Hollywood (Los Angeles, California)
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Hail to the chiefs, as played by . . .
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAmericans usually celebrate the likes of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy on President's Day. But rarely are the less stellar commanders in chief ever mentioned, such as William Henry Harrison -- who caught a...Tags: Liam Neeson, Film Festivals, Thomas Jefferson, Hillary Clinton, William Henry Harrison
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Hidden gems for the holidays
Special to the Tribune"It's a Wonderful Life," "White Christmas," "Miracle on 34th Street," and "A Christmas Story" quickly come to mind when lists of the most popular holiday films are mentioned. So, too, "A Charlie Brown Christmas," "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and "How...Tags: Bethlehem (Lehigh, Pennsylvania), Barbara Stanwyck, Stan Laurel, Christmas, Bethlehem (Northampton, Pennsylvania)
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Leaving art out of history
How did George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" reflect both the Jewish and African American experience in America? Why was Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises" so influential for modern fiction and journalism? What was Abstract Expressionism, and why did...Tags: Ernest Hemingway, Clint Eastwood, Gene Kelly, Saul Bellow, Marilyn Monroe
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Technicolor thriller in academy screening lineup
Times Staff WriterMost films produced in Technicolor during the late 1930s and early '40s were musicals, historical epics or period melodramas — but that all changed with 1945's juicy psychological thriller "Leave Her to Heaven." Leon Shamroy won a cinematography...Tags: Vanessa Redgrave, Ronald Colman, Melville, New York, Film Festivals
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Not a brooder, and yet...
STAFF WRITERAcopy of Maureen Dowd's latest screed, "Are Men Necessary?" lies open in Gabriel Byrne's dressing room. The actor, a dashing, black-haired, blue-eyed, pensive sort with many artistic interests and talents, shouldn't need any reassuring. But he obviously...Tags: Vanessa Redgrave, Johnny Depp, Photography, Miranda Richardson, Broadway
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'All the President's Men' -- Two-Disc Special Edition
Zap2It.comOf the wave of paranoid thrillers that hit theaters in the 1970s -- like "The Conversation" or "Three Days of the Condor" or "The Parallax View" -- "All the President's Men" was among the best. Every bit as breathless, pulse-pounding and twisted as its...Tags: Freedom of the Press, Government, Washington Post Co., Film Festivals, William Goldman
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'Annie Hall' Named Best Film
Times Staff WriterFrom The Times: April 4, 1978 Diane Keaton, Richard Dreyfuss and "Annie Hall" won top honors in the 50th annual Academy Awards ceremonies Monday at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion of the Los Angeles Music Center. Vanessa Redgrave and Jason Robards were...Tags: Mark Hamill, Roger Christian, Film Festivals, Theater, Awards and Prizes
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Hollywood Bio Hazards
From Moses to Malcolm X, Virginia Woolf to Loretta Lynn, historic figures have been showing up on the big screen since the early days of silent film. This year, by nominating six biographical pictures for Oscars — including three for best picture &#...Tags: Bedford (Bedford, Virginia), Al Capone, Liam Neeson, Clint Eastwood, Film Festivals
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