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Holly Golightly's enduring appeal
The Associated PressThe scene that made it excusable to wear a tiara to breakfast: Audrey Hepburn, gowned in Givenchy black with long gloves, fat pearls and oversized sunglasses. She peers through a Tiffany's window with Danish and coffee in hand. Having breakfast on the...Tags: Fiction, Candy, Manhattan (New York City), Washington Post Co., Frank Sinatra
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Beatles lyrics often based on real people
The Associated PressMany famous Beatles tunes are based on real people and actual events. John Lennon and Paul McCartney frequently turned to their childhood, their family -- and even their pets -- for inspiration. Here are some examples: ƒo "A Day in the Life": The first...Tags: Music, John Lennon, Road Accidents, The Beatles, Paul McCartney
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Trash-hungry public mad at Christie for being mad
Mariah Fredericks is author of 'In the Cards: Life,' a novel for young adults to be published next month.My, my . . . so many wronged wives in the headlines! We had barely sunk into the delightful muck of the Christie Brinkley trial when Cynthia Rodriguez stole the front page by announcing that husband A-Rod had been studying Kabballah, and who knows what...Tags: Alex Rodriguez, Woody Allen, Celebrity Mothers, O.J. Simpson, Hillary Clinton
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'The Axe in the Attic': Filmmakers' self-pity mars Katrina story
Chicago Tribune reporterIn Hurricane Katrina, Lucia Small ("My Father the Genius) and Ed Pincus ("Black Natchez") found the perfect storm on which to train their individual specialties. Small's previous documentary exposed the damage to her family's relationships wreaked by...Tags: Woody Allen, Natural Disasters, Cinema Industry, Movies, Disasters
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'How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken' by Daniel Mendelsohn
How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken
Essays
Daniel Mendelsohn
Harper: 456 pp., $26.95
HERE, among the flight of winged darts that pierce the critical essays of Daniel Mendelsohn:
Quentin Tarantino is "incapable of saying anything about...Tags: Theater, Gays and Lesbians, Euripides, Lyme Disease, Snow White
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Woody Allen reflects on 'Vicky Christina Barcelona,' love and his life
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTHE ONLY place Woody Allen ever really wants to be is in his bed. "My spot on the bed is my spot in the world," he explains. It's where he watches baseball games, and reads, and where he writes, usually in the morning, because if he starts at night, he...Tags: Theater, Dustin Hoffman, Music Theater, Robert De Niro, Literature
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Perverted Or Persecuted? Roman Polanski's Complex Case
Los Angeles TimesRoman Polanski. You can start a heated conversation just uttering his name. He has led a life so large that it's often chopped down to a few phrases: Oscar-winning director of such film classics as "Chinatown," "Tess" and "The Pianist." Survivor of the...Tags: Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Marina Zenovich, O.J. Simpson, David Wells, Sharon Tate
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... and why he should stay home
President Bush's announcement that he will attend the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics came in the wake of brutal crackdowns in Tibet and during a week when seven peacekeepers were murdered in the Darfur region of Sudan, where China continues to...Tags: Barack Obama, Government, National Government, John McCain, Human Rights
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'Be Kind Rewind'
gene.seymour@newsday.comIn the first place, well, I mean, come on ... a video store? In 2008? The very concept of "Be Kind Rewind" threatens to leave us scratching our heads and wondering at the outset whether writer-director Michel Gondry is indulging yet again in the kind of...Tags: Sigourney Weaver, Jack Black, Danny Glover, Movies, Mos Def
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Cambodia thwarts Farrow
Cambodian police blocked Mia Farrow from holding a genocide memorial ceremony Sunday at a Khmer Rouge prison, at one point forcefully pushing her group away from a barricade. Farrow -- on a tour to call attention to the humanitarian crisis in Darfur and...Tags: Genocide, Massacres, Charity
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'Rosemary's Baby' is as scary as ever
Sentinel Movie Critic"Awful things happen in every apartment house," Rosemary Woodhouse intones in Rosemary's Baby. And she should know. The film that became a cultural touchstone and the punchline to a million "spawn of Satan" jokes is a little quaint now, with its '60s...Tags: Florida Film Festival, Roman Polanski, Roger Moore, Paramount, Movies
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'Be Kind Rewind' (video rental comedy starring Jack Black and Mos Def)
Tribune movie criticThe whimsy gets sticky in "Be Kind Rewind," writer-director Michel Gondry's latest. But it'd be wrong to dismiss the film outright. Gondry's misses are more interesting than most filmmakers' successes. Previously, among others, Gondry made the...Tags: Charlie Kaufman, Google Inc., Danny Glover, Jack Black, Kate Winslet
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