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Restored 'Lola Montès' coming to West L.A., Pasadena
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMax Ophüls' 1955 "Lola Montès" revolves around the life and many loves of a beautiful courtesan and dancer, now destitute, who is forced to relive her exploits nightly at a low-rent circus in America. The poignant final scene finds Lola sitting in a...Tags: Los Angeles, Peter Ustinov, Celebrity, Movies, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California)
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'Blindness' stars Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Alice Braga
Chicago Tribune criticGoing into "Blindness" you wonder: How will the filmmakers depict what's described in the novel as "a milky sea" of nothingness from the characters' disoriented point of view? The answer provided by this stern allegory imagines just that—a sea of...Tags: Sexual Assault, Assault, Theft, Gael Garcia Bernal, Jose Saramago
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Blind people plan protests of movie, saying 'Blindness' paints them in worst possible light
Associated Press WriterBALTIMORE (AP) _ Blind people quarantined in a mental asylum, attacking each other, soiling themselves, trading sex for food. For Marc Maurer, who's blind, such a scenario — as shown in the movie "Blindness" — is not a clever allegory for a...Tags: Walt Disney Co., Fernando Meirelles, Disasters, Julianne Moore, Movies
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Organization for the blind protests movie
The Associated PressBlind people quarantined in a mental asylum, attacking each other, soiling themselves, trading sex for food. For Marc Maurer, who's blind, such a scenario — as shown in the movie "Blindness" — is not a clever allegory for a breakdown in...Tags: Fernando Meirelles, Disasters, Julianne Moore, Movies, Jose Saramago
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Is 'Killshot' another Weinstein Co. misfire?
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTHE "KILLSHOT" collaboration certainly looked intriguing on paper: John Madden, the director of best picture winner "Shakespeare in Love," adapting a colorful crime novel by Elmore Leonard, the author of "Get Shorty" and "Out of Sight," with Quentin...Tags: Quentin Tarantino, Sydney Pollack, August, Elmore Leonard, Anthony Minghella
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PASSINGS
Charles A. O'Brien Former state deputy atty. gen. Charles A. O'Brien, 83, a former California deputy attorney general who narrowly lost the 1970 election for attorney general to Evelle Younger, died Sept. 3 at his home in Danville, Calif., after a period...Tags: Lawyers, Los Angeles, Justice System, Pennsylvania, Political Candidates
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Europe's five-tiniest countries add up to one big attraction
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIf you can identify the five smallest countries in Continental Europe you get a gold star. If you know where they are on the map, you should be on "Jeopardy." And if you have visited them you don't get anything else; you have already been rewarded. The...Tags: Clothing and Textiles Industry, State Budgets, Clint Eastwood, Cinderella, Colonial Williamsburg
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New York Film Festival's 12 best bets
amNewYork movie criticLast year's New York Film Festival gave us 'No Country For Old Men' and 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.' This year, the festival, now in its 46th year, offers a crop of equally enticing and sobering movies. On the slate are 28 films from 18 countries,...Tags: Steven Soderbergh, New York, Los Angeles, New York Weather, Clint Eastwood
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Monaco, capital of the French Riviera
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMy friend Polly Platt loves Monaco, a silver slipper of a country on a little shelf of the French Riviera not much bigger than Monte Carlo, its capital. But she also attended the wedding of Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier III here in 1956, the social event...Tags: Cinderella, Clint Eastwood, Grace Kelly, Imperial and Royal Matters, Rentals
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On this date: Sept. 20
1870: The Papal States came under the control of Italian troops. 1884: The Equal Rights Party was formed. 1946: The first Cannes Film Festival premiered. 1958: The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was stabbed in the chest by an apparently deranged woman....Tags: NBC, Movies, Martin Luther King Jr., Film Festivals
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From war zone to red carpet
PRISTINA, Kosovo — In life and by design, Krenare Rugova takes chances. "I came back and I renewed the idea of fashion," the petite clothing designer said briskly as she ironed one dress and then stitched by hand the collar of a full-skirted cotton...Tags: Family, Maine, New York, Banking, Movies
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