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'American Masters: You Must Remember This -- The Warner Bros. Story'
Times Television CriticWarner Bros. Studio turns 85 this year, an anniversary now marked by two of the most recognizable symbols of success, High Hollywood style: a No. 1 summer blockbuster -- "The Dark Knight" -- and a long, thoughtful PBS biopic. The three-part “You...Tags: Netflix Inc., James Cagney, Heroes, Rin Tin Tin, Consumer Electronics Industry
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'Enter Laughing,' exit roaring
amNew York theater critic"So Long, 174th Street" is the best musical you've never heard of. Based directly on Carl Reiner's 1958 semi-autobiographical memoir "Enter Laughing," which became a hit play and film, it's a great coming-of-age story during the Depression about David...Tags: Celebrity Mothers, Michael Tucker, Music Theater, Carl Reiner, Theater
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Eric Rohmer retrospective at LACMA
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterOne of the fathers of France's New Wave -- he was editor of the seminal "Cahiers du Cinema" from 1956 to 1963 -- Eric Rohmer made his first film in 1959 and just recently completed a movie at the age of 88. Known for his wry, cerebral comedies dealing...Tags: Cinema Industry, Bernardo Bertolucci, Film Festivals, Venice, Billy Wilder
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A troupe's bold beginning
Special to The SunA new Severna Park-based theater troupe is making an impressive debut with a high-caliber production of an over-the-top and overlooked musical. Standing O Productions' founder, Ron Giddings III, took on a challenge with the 1978 show On the Twentieth...Tags: Film Festivals, David Thompson, Annapolis, Celebrity, Music
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Felines rule the catwalk
The catwalk really was a catwalk on Thursday. Show cats dressed in everything from an Elvis costume to a sequined satin dress were poised to strut their stuff at New York's famed Algonquin Hotel. The feline fashion show was to unfold in the dining...Tags: New Jersey, Dorothy Parker, Long Island, New York, Animals
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'American Eve' by Paula Uruburu
American Eve
Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the "It" Girl and the Crime of the Century
Paula Uruburu
Riverhead Books: 388 pp., $27.95
BY THE time she was 16, Evelyn Nesbit was the face of her age, a stunning beauty with a "heart-...Tags: Madison Square Garden, Santa Monica, Stanford White, Joan Collins, Clara Bow
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Sean Hayes lists Hancock Park home for almost $9 million
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSean Hayes, who played Jack McFarland in the NBC sitcom "Will & Grace," must have gotten word that the housing slump hasn't hurt sales in the upper tiers of the market. He has listed his Hancock Park home at close to $9 million, according to area real...Tags: Banking, Van Heflin, Death and Dying, Furniture, Real Estate Agents
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Burton & Depp: Partners in crime
PERCHED together on a couch in a London hotel room, both suffering from the flu, Tim Burton and Johnny Depp make for a brilliant comic double act, sharing jokes, finishing one another's thoughts, laughing like naughty schoolboys, goading each other into...Tags: Boris Karloff, Studios, Tim Burton, Barry Manilow, Lon Chaney
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Witherspoon Close to 'Midnight'
Zap2It.comUniversal Pictures is looking to remake the 1939 comedy "Midnight" as a starring and production vehicle for Reese Witherspoon. "Little Miss Sunshine" Oscar winner Michael Arndt will write the adaptation for producers Stuber/Parent and for Witherspoon's...Tags: Claudette Colbert, Film Festivals, Billy Wilder, Don Ameche, Lasse Hallstrom
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Show time at the Wilder
Times Staff WriterThe UCLA Film & Television Archive's new venue, the Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum, officially opens Friday with a screening of the Oscar-winning 1960 Wilder classic "The Apartment." Two days later, the archive kicks off its "Art of Light"...Tags: Cinema Industry, Butch Cassidy, Anna Magnani, Robert De Niro, Santa Monica
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'Incantato'
Times Staff WriterPupi Avati's "Incantato" (Enchanted) is a poignant love story, laced with tenderness and gentle humor and told with the warmth of Italian movies in their seductively good-natured mode. It is a lovely period piece, leisurely paced and resonant with a...Tags: Colorado, Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia), Movies
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Drew Barrymore's father dies at 72
John Drew Barrymore, the sometimes troubled heir to an acting dynasty and absent father of movie star Drew Barrymore, died Monday. He was 72. "He was a cool cat. Please smile when you think of him," Drew Barrymore said in a statement issued by her...Tags: Celebrity Mothers, Beverly Hills, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Drew Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore
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