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Celebrity briefs
Britney and Justin still share one bond: Madonna. In separate appearances, Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake performed Thursday night during Madonna's show at Dodger Stadium. The former pop power couple did not take the stage together, and it wasn't...Tags: Drew Barrymore, Same-Sex Marriage, Celebrity, Anne Baxter, Theater
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Linda Winer: The sad decline of Off-Broadway
linda.winer@newsday.comWhere's Off-Broadway? This is not a trick question, like the one about how to get to Carnegie Hall. You see, most theatergoers, after a few visits, know where to find what we know as Broadway - the nearly 40 playhouses that line and, more often, adjoin...Tags: Celebrity, Theater, Edward Albee, Manchester Community College, Broadway
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'Lakeview Terrace'
rafer.guzman@newsday.comEarly in Neil LaBute's thriller " Lakeview Terrace," a tightly wound Los Angeles cop, Abel Turner ( Samuel L. Jackson), approaches the car of his new neighbor, a white-collar white guy named Chris Mattson (Patrick Wilson). Turner is amused to hear that...Tags: Fires, Lakeview (Chicago, Illinois), Los Angeles, National Lampoon Incorporated, Michael Keaton
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Fall movies bring climate change
rafer.guzman@newsday.comAs fall descends on the local multiplex, and brightly colored superhero flicks turn to muted dramas, you might notice a slight change in mood from last autumn. Back then, Hollywood made a bid for relevance by focusing on the war in Iraq and its...Tags: George Clooney, Eddie Izzard, Family, Mad Men (tv program), Keira Knightley
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Skeletons tumble out of the closet in 'Razorback' at Theatre Theater
A crime thriller heavily laced with violence and cruelty, John Pollono's "Razorback" is a trendy new black comedy for a post-"Sopranos" mind-set. Fine performances in a handsomely staged premiere production from Rogue Machine show much promise in a script...Tags: Celebrity, Lenny Bruce, Theater, David Lynch, Literature
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Neil LaBute: Making films without apology
Chicago Tribune reporterWhen playwright Neil LaBute broke through in the film world with his 1997 low-budget hit "In the Company of Men," here's how the business worked: Studios sought out new talent and would work these filmmakers into their plans. Now, as LaBute noted...Tags: Taylor Hackford, David Mamet, Theater, Fires, Sam Shepard
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Movie review: Lakeview Terrace -- 4 stars out of 5
Orlando Sentinel Movie CriticLakeview Terrace is a slow-burn thriller punched up by the hot-button issues it is built on. Well acted and tautly directed, it's a movie whose juice is its realism, the easily recognizable situation, the paranoia that any homeowner can identify with....Tags: Samuel L. Jackson, Movies, Lakeview (Chicago, Illinois), Roger Moore
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Movie Review: 'Lakeview Terrace'
" Lakeview Terrace" is a slow-burn thriller punched up by the hot-button issues it is built on. Well acted and tautly directed, it's a movie whose juice is its realism, the easily recognizable situation, the paranoia that any homeowner can identify with....Tags: Samuel L. Jackson, Movies, Lakeview Terrace (movie), Lakeview (Chicago, Illinois), Roger Moore
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In 'Lakeview Terrace,' Samuel Jackson delivers tense drama
VarietyBearing notable similarities to a well-publicized recent case in which a black Los Angeles police officer was accused of serially harassing neighbors — particularly interracially married ones — Lakeview Terrace delivers fairly tense and...Tags: Prosecution, Samuel L. Jackson, Law Enforcement, Lakeview (Chicago, Illinois), Los Angeles
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'Lakeview' actress Kerry Washington draws from real life
Chicago Tribune reporterKerry Washington picks up her delicate cup filled with hot tea and takes a long, slow sip of her honey-sweetened concoction. The actress reminisces that her grandmother used to have afternoon tea everyday at 4 p.m.—a break that Washington is...Tags: Celebrity, Homes, Samuel L. Jackson, Movies, Barack Obama
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'Lakeview Terrace': stars Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Wilson, Kerry Washington
Chicago Tribune criticHere, I think, is the film that director Neil LaBute and screenwriters David Loughery and Howard Korder thought they had with " Lakeview Terrace." In a sleepy middle-class suburb east of Los Angeles, a tightly wound widower and LAPD officer, played by...Tags: Fires, Samuel L. Jackson, Movies, Wildfires, Will Smith
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'Lakeview Terrace' descends into crude racial territory
Lakeview Terrace starts out mixing social burlesques and melodrama and ends up one more failed thriller about men behaving badly - and stupidly.
Interracial couple Chris and Lisa Mattson (Patrick Wilson and Kerry Washington) move to an L.A. suburb and...Tags: Samuel L. Jackson, Movies, Lakeview (Chicago, Illinois)
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