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Nice-Matin is handed Jolie scoop
The world's entertainment press tripped over themselves, making embarrassing errors along the way, as they fought to be first to report the biggest celebrity story of the year: the birth of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt'...Tags: Whoopi Goldberg, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Nicole Kidman, Marion Cotillard, Medical Specialization
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Bursting the AP bubble
I'M AN AP DROPOUT. When classmates in my Advanced Placement U.S. history course take the AP exam Friday, I won't be with them. When they pick up their pencils and start filling in those little bubbles, I'll be reading the words of George Kennan, Lillian...Tags: Midway, University of Chicago, Wars and Interventions, Albert Einstein, History
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Carly Simon: Coming around again with 'This Kind of Love'
![CARLY SIMON isn't the first name you'd expect to find on a list of classic-rock superstars who keep tabs on " American Idol." "I tune in whenever I get a chance," she says in that signature dusky voice. "How could I not, when this season Brooke White sang 'You're So Vain' and did such a nice job on it, and Carly [Smithson] was named after me?"](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-05/39358070-30181833.jpg)
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterCARLY SIMON isn't the first name you'd expect to find on a list of classic-rock superstars who keep tabs on " American Idol." "I tune in whenever I get a chance," she says in that signature dusky voice. "How could I not, when this season Brooke White sang...Tags: James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, National Government, Government, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California)
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For Scott Rudin, there will be quality
THE BIG PICTURESCOTT RUDIN met one of the key role models for his life when he was a teenager. In the early 1970s, when other kids were playing guitar, shooting hoops or just seeing how long their hair could grow, the 15-year-old Rudin spent his days working for theater...Tags: Film Festivals, Wes Anderson, Ethan Coen, Music Industry, Sony Corp.
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'Osage County' a blast of truth and sin
Tribune theater criticGiven his lip-smacking relish for the agonizing unpeeling of familial pain, it's doubtful that Tracy Letts will be declared the official playwright of the state of Oklahoma any time soon. The Sooners already gave their hearts to that romantic 1943 musical...Tags: Quentin Tarantino, Oklahoma, Michigan, Family, Weston (Broward, Florida)
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'August' more intense as it opens on Broadway
Tribune theater criticMaybe the prolonged and confounding stagehands strike had Deanna Dunagan and Amy Morton all corked up and ready to burst. Maybe they're mindful that Broadway's cavernous Imperial Theatre housed "Les Miserables" for 13 years and is best suited to the...Tags: Oklahoma, Family, John Malkovich, Broadway, Theater
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Power of 'Atonement'
Sun Movie Critic(A) The magnificent Atonement, like Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour, depicts what Hellman called "the power of a lie." Then it ripples into a panorama that encompasses so much more. The meanness that ruins innocents and tears families apart seems to...Tags: Bob Dylan, Keira Knightley, Vanessa Redgrave, Greenwich Village, Medical Staff
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Spate of recent films take scribes at their words on writing process
Special to the TribuneMovies have long been fascinated by the writer's life. Unlike other art forms -- dancing, say, or even painting, which also has had its share of screen depictions, from "Lust for Life" to "Pollack" -- there's no easy way to dramatize a writer writing. The...Tags: Keira Knightley, Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Fonda, Brian Morton, Sexual Assault
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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: John Frankenheimer, Film Festivals, Vanessa Redgrave, Academy Awards, Jane Fonda
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True stories and other modern-day fantasies
Special to The TimesWE live in a time when reality has evidently trumped fiction. The novel loses readers, as narrative nonfiction and memoirs gain in popularity. Reality television, once derided as a fad, is apparently here to stay. Young people abandon the so-called old...Tags: James Frey, Political Candidates, News Media, Invention and Innovation, Newspapers
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