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A native of Rochelle, Ill., the actress Joan Allen graduated from Northern Illinois University. A Tony Award winner, she has been working in films since 1985 and has been nominated for an Oscar three times. Her films include "The Bourne Ultimatum," "The Upside of Anger," "The Bourne Supremacy," "The Notebook," "The Contender," "Pleasantville," "Face/Off" and "Peggy Sue Got Married."
A native of Rochelle, Ill., the actress Joan Allen graduated from Northern Illinois University. A Tony Award winner, she has been working in films since 1985 and has been nominated for an Oscar three times. Her films include "The Bourne Ultimatum," "The Upside of Anger," "The Bourne Supremacy," "The Notebook," "The Contender," "Pleasantville," "Face/Off" and "Peggy Sue Got Married."
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Hail to the chiefs
Special to NewsdayIt's just days till the election, and there are still many undecided voters out there. Blame Hollywood. Filmmakers have spoiled us with fictional presidents who show guts and gravitas while a comet hurtles toward Earth . . . or aliens invade . . . or...Tags: Glenn Close, Wesley Snipes, Will Smith, William Shatner, Kurt Russell
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Quick Takes
Damages sought in Nazi art seizure An 82-year-old Holocaust survivor and his family are suing the German government over an extensive art collection, including paintings by El Greco and Peter Paul Rubens, seized by the Nazis and sold at auction during...Tags: Adolf Hitler, Jeremy Irons, Alfred Stieglitz, Movies, Georgia O'Keeffe
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Jeremy Irons speaks plainly, if elegantly
As a kid, living on the Isle of Wight off the southern coast of England, Jeremy Irons played cowboys and Indians and watched "The Cisco Kid" on television. I'm hearing this as I sit with my recorder in a suite at Toronto's Royal York hotel, across from...Tags: Glenn Close, Isle of Wight (Isle of Wight, Virginia), Barbet Schroeder, Sean Connery, Jeremy Irons
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Movies: Recent openings
Here are selected capsule reviews of movies in current release. Babylon A.D. * PG-13. 1:25. Vin Diesel isn't the whole problem with this gritty sci-fi road picture in the "Children of Men" mold, with Diesel playing a mercenary hired to escort a waif...Tags: Disasters, Don Cheadle, Bangkok Dangerous (movie), Wanted (movie), Traitor (movie)
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Movie capsules
Here are selected capsule reviews of movies in current release. Babylon A.D. * PG-13. 1:25. Vin Diesel isn't the whole problem with this gritty sci-fi road picture in the "Children of Men" mold, with Diesel playing a mercenary hired to escort a waif...Tags: Disasters, Don Cheadle, Philip Roth, Bangkok Dangerous (movie), Wanted (movie)
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Box office
Tropic Thunder *** $14.6 million $86.9 million 3 weeks Rated R Running time 107 minutes What it's about A failing action star ( Ben Stiller, above), a drug-addicted comic ( Jack Black) and a celebrated Australian actor ( Robert Downey Jr.)...Tags: Babylon (Suffolk, New York), Don Cheadle, Traitor (movie), Indiana Jones, Jack Black
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Reviews: Durang's 'Beyond Therapy,' 'Bette and Boo'
linda.winer@newsday.comAfter a weekend spent careening around the demented funhouse of two Christopher Durang revivals, I feel giddy with the joy of contradictory emotions: strong but needy women, big boys who do cry, and wild non-sequiturs that, somehow, seem less weird and...Tags: Bay Street Theater, Thomas Hardy, Olympia Dukakis, Theater, Katie Finneran
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'Death Race'
rafer.guzman@newsday.comParents, here's the truth. This weekend, your 14-year-old boy may claim to be seeing a Saturday matinee of " The Rocker," rated a mild PG-13, but he is assuredly planning to sneak into "Death Race," rated R. And who could blame him? Filled with weaponized...Tags: Ian McShane, Prisons, Television, Tyrese, Movies
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'Trumbo'
Special to NewsdayGiven Hollywood's congenital negligence toward writers, Dalton Trumbo is far more famous for having been on the House Un-American Activities Committee's blacklist than he would have been for all the scripts he wrote, co-wrote or adapted (among them,...Tags: Paul Giamatti, Nathan Lane, Liam Neeson, John Anderson, Michael Douglas
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Movie Tells Fascinating Tale Of Screenwriter 'Trumbo'
Los Angeles Times" Trumbo" is an unconventional film about an unconventional man. Part documentary, part expertly staged readings, it focuses on the unquiet life and unforgettable words of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, someone who, as his son puts it, never had to go...Tags: Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Liam Neeson, Ring Lardner Jr., Trumbo (movie)
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'Death Race': Gory fun in winner's circle
Chicago Tribune criticNothing in director Paul W.S. Anderson's schlock drawer—not "Mortal Kombat," not "Event Horizon," not "Resident Evil," not "Alien vs. Predator"—prepares you for the peppy, good-time nastiness that is "Death Race." It's a loose remake of "Death...Tags: Weaponry, Wanted (movie), Movies, Metal and Mineral, Vehicles
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'Death Race' remake all about hoods, classy chassis
Orlando SentinelOf all the Z-movies in the Roger Corman catalog, they had to remake Death Race 2000. The original Death Race, with its murderous road rally drivers who take down pedestrians for points, seemed darkly prophetic when it came out in 1975. Paul W.S....Tags: Weaponry, Movies, Roger Moore, Video Games, Vehicles
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