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HBO Plays Ball with Will Ferrell
Zap2It.comWill Ferrell and Adam McKay are going "East Bound and Down" with HBO. The premium-cable network has picked up a comedy series from Ferrell and McKay's production company, Gary Sanchez, about a washed-out ballplayer who returns to his hometown and takes...Tags: Television, Satellite and Cable Service, Will Ferrell
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'Deadwood' Star 'East Bound' with HBO
Zap2It.com"Deadwood" co-star John Hawkes is hanging his hat at HBO again, signing on to a comedy pilot produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay. Katy Mixon ("The Quiet") and Andrew Daly ("School for Scoundrels," "Reno 911!") have also joined the show, called...Tags: Will Ferrell, Schools
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Author Kurt Vonnegut Dies at 84
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterKurt Vonnegut, an American cultural hero celebrated for his wry, loonily imaginative commentary on war, apocalypse, technology, materialism and other afflictions in "Slaughterhouse-Five" and other novels, has died. He was 84. One of the last of a...Tags: Tom Wolfe, John Irving, Engineering, Anthropology, Tennessee
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What's playing: summer movie calendar
MAY 13 A Hole in One Drama. The idea: A young woman considers a lobotomy to solve her problems in 1953. With: Michelle Williams, Meat Loaf, Bill Raymond. Writer-director: Richard Ledes. So? Extreme solution Kicking and Screaming Sports comedy. The idea:...Tags: Jennifer Connelly, Helena Bonham Carter, Nick Nolte, Luc Besson, Dave Foley
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'Gangster' Gang Adds Rappers, Gugino
Zap2It.comWhen your film is directed by Ridley Scott and features Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe, the project probably won't lack for star power. In addition to those two Oscar-winning actors, the cast of Scott's "American Gangster" has expanded in the past...Tags: Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe, Denzel Washington, Celebrity, Organized Crime
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Allison Benedikt's Top 10 of 2005
Tribune staff reporterFirst things first: I did not love 10 movies this year. I leave it up to you to decide who to blame for that. There were many films I wanted to love but didn't ("Shopgirl," "Jar-head," "Walk the Line," "Wedding Crashers"), many I liked more than expected...Tags: Matthew Vaughn, Ang Lee, Ed Harris, Guy Ritchie, Heath Ledger
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Summer movies release schedule
The Associated PressRelease dates are tentative, and some films play in limited release. Late April: ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM: The corporate train wreck unfolds through insider interviews and company video and audio tapes. THE GAME OF THEIR LIVES: An outgunned...Tags: Tyrese, Jessica Alba, Assault, Jennifer Connelly, Nick Nolte
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Movie reviews: 'Me and You and Everyone We Know' and 'Heights'
Tribune staff reporter"Me and You and Everyone We Know" 3 ½ stars (out of four) "Heights" 2 ½ stars (out of four) We are all alone. We e-mail our cubicle mates instead of talking. We screen calls. We watch reality TV. Reality weddings, if we're being honest. We wear...Tags: Jesse Bradford, Glenn Close, New York, George Segal, Photography
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'Me and You and Everyone We Know'
Times Staff WriterMoments before dousing his hand with lighter fluid and setting it afire in front of his sons' bedroom window, Richard (John Hawkes), a department store shoe salesman in the midst of a reluctant divorce, walks into their room and asks, "Do I look well to...Tags: Movies
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Identity
STAFF WRITER(R). Dark and stormy night, desolate motel, stranded travelers drop dead one by one. A number of very reputable actors (including John Cusack, Ray Liotta and Rebecca De Mornay) give heart and soul to a patently absurd thriller that has the good sense to...Tags: John Cusack, Cinema Industry, Movies, Clea DuVall, Rebecca de Mornay
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'A Slipping-Down Life'
Times Staff WriterWhen writer-director Toni Kalem finally set upon making her dream project — a film adaptation of the 1970 Anne Tyler novel "A Slipping-Down Life" — six years ago, she made two fortuitous decisions. First, she added about a decade to the age...Tags: Anne Tyler, Toni Kalem, Film Festivals, Jim Morrison, Music
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Movie review: 'Hardball'
Tribune movie reporter2 stars (out of 4) The point of a movie like "Hardball," aside from generating easy-to-cheer-along sports moments, is to build bridges between cultures, as represented here by a white Chicago ticket scalper/problem gambler, played by Keanu Reeves, and...Tags: Drug Trafficking, Crimes, Keanu Reeves, Chicago Bulls, Baseball
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