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Astronomer's frontman lives on steady diet of inspiration
Special to the Chicago TribuneCountless authors struggle with writer's block, often spending untold hours staring at blank computer screens, filling trash cans with crumpled legal sheets and, as Nicolas Cage's screenwriter demonstrates in "Adaptation," bargaining with themselves....Tags: Nicolas Cage, Old Town (Chicago, Illinois), Johnny Cash, Bertolt Brecht, Astronomy
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Live: Tom Waits
Times Pop Music CriticPHOENIX -- The sprawling, brawling concert Tom Waits gave here Tuesday, opening his Glitter and Doom tour with two nights at the city's grand old Orpheum, found its central image, unsurprisingly, in a hat. This wasn't just any of the countless porkpies...Tags: Theater, Elvis Presley, Louis Armstrong, Tom Waits, Popular Music
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'Redbelt' complex? Yes, it's Mamet
(B) Peer pressure is tough, especially when it's pervasive, grown-up and institutionalized. In samurai movies, as in Westerns, the warrior is often faced with a choice between individual morality and fealty to the tribe. Individual morality tends to...Tags: Corruption, David Mamet, Sony Corp., Movies, Corporate Crime
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'Redbelt'
Times Movie CriticPeer pressure is tough, especially when it's pervasive, grown-up and institutionalized. In samurai movies, as in westerns, the warrior is often faced with a choice between individual morality and fealty to the tribe. Individual morality tends to prevail...Tags: Corruption, David Mamet, Movies, Corporate Crime, Tim Allen
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Film Noir Great Samuel Fuller Book's Theme
Courant Staff WriterWhen Lisa Dombrowski was an undergraduate at Wesleyan University in 1992, she took a class in film noir and arranged a screening of the Samuel Fuller classic "Shock Corridor." By the time the film was over, Dombrowski was so tense she was sitting in a...Tags: Organized Crime, Quentin Tarantino, Clothing and Textiles Industry, Wesleyan University, Samuel Fuller
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'Wristcutters: A Love Story'
jan.stuart@newsday.comThe suicidal characters of Goran Dukic's road comedy dwell together in a mirthless afterlife that looks very much like waking life, if all bright colors were washed away and the landscape were strewn with detritus. A recent addition to the populace is...Tags: Tom Waits, Movies, Patrick Fugit, Manhattan
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Movie review: 'Delirious'
Special to the Tribune3 stars (out of four) Writer-director Tom DiCillo takes the same approach to his films as he has to his career: There's a general theme, but the execution is all over the place. A former cinematographer for Jim Jarmusch (on "Permanent Vacation" and...Tags: Gina Gershon, Movies, Music Box Theatre, Steve Buscemi, Cinema Industry
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Movie review: 'Factotum'
Tribune movie critic3 stars (out of four) "Factotum," starring Matt Dillon and Lili Taylor in two of their best film performances, is a good movie about the L.A. underbelly, as recalled by an expert: Charles Bukowski. Adapted and directed by Norwegian filmmaker Bent Hamer...Tags: Marisa Tomei, Movies, Charles Bukowski, Ernest Hemingway, Barbet Schroeder
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VMAs lowdown
Times Staff WriterThe 2006 MTV Video Music Awards are over, and I feel a little dirty, as one does after a party that seemed pretty fun the night before. But that's nothing new. For most of its 22 years, the music channel's annual fete has been a wicked pleasure at best,...Tags: Metal and Mineral, Jack Black, Al Gore, David Bowie, Dance
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Without smoking, films lose some fire
THE PORTRAIT photographer Marion Ettlinger once told me that the worst thing to ever happen to her art form was the demise of smoking. A cigarette, after all, not only gives a subject something to do with his hands, it seems to provide an uncanny cure for...Tags: John Cassavetes, Peter Bogdanovich, Virginia, Movies, Photography
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