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West Michigan man lands role in ``The Dark Knight''
The Muskegon ChronicleSettling into the realities of a Chicago actor's life, Andy Luther figured it was just another audition. The 1991 North Muskegon High School graduate's agent sent Luther to the office of a Chicago cable television company, to read for something called...Tags: Film Festivals, Academic Progress, Navy Pier, Batman, Richard J. Daley
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Posthumous performances
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe Academy Awards are more than six months away, but already the late Heath Ledger is being touted as a shoo-in for a supporting actor nomination for his terrifying performance as the Joker in "The Dark Knight." Ledger died in January of an accidental...Tags: Film Festivals, Jada Pinkett Smith, Culture, Universal Orlando, Batman
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Does Ledger have shot at the Oscar?
Sentinel Movie CriticThe buzz started before the first reviews of The Dark Knight leaked out. The Gold Derby's Tom O'Neil was one of the first to suggest it, back in March. If Heath Ledger's turn as The Joker in the last film he finished before he died was as good as his...Tags: Film Festivals, Jack Palance, Movies, Batman, Heath Ledger
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No ordinary villain: Heath Ledger creates iconic joker worthy of Oscar
Of The Associated PressJack Nicholson's Joker was a blast. Heath Ledger's Joker is as dark and anarchic a figure as Randle McMurphy in ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,'' the role that brought Nicholson his first Academy Award. Ledger's performance in the Batman tale ''The...Tags: Film Festivals, Political Candidates, Culture, Tilda Swinton, Batman
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Heath Ledger aces Joker, prompts Oscar buzz
Associated PressJack Nicholson's Joker was a blast. Heath Ledger's Joker is as dark and anarchic a figure as Randle McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the role that brought Nicholson his first Academy Award. Some critics and fans say that Ledger's...Tags: Film Festivals, Political Candidates, Academy Awards, Ceremonies, Culture
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In last role, Heath Ledger nails Joker's psyche: the pleasure of pain
The Associated PressJack Nicholson's Joker was a blast. Heath Ledger's Joker is as dark and anarchic a figure as Randle McMurphy in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," the role that brought Nicholson his first Academy Award. Ledger's performance in the Batman tale "The...Tags: Film Festivals, Political Candidates, Culture, Tilda Swinton, Batman
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Author and wife of critic Tynan
Tribune NewspapersLOS ANGELES — Elaine Dundy, a novelist, biographer, journalist and memoirist who wrote about her turbulent marriage to legendary critic Kenneth Tynan and their life among the rich and famous, died May 1 at her Los Angeles home. She was 86. The...Tags: Tennessee Williams, Laurence Olivier, Celebrity Mothers, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Heart Disease
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'Michael Clayton' proves Oscar's love of ensembles
jan.stuart@newsday.comJodie Foster, picking up her best actress Oscar for "The Silence of the Lambs," credited the actor whose murderous Hannibal Lecter gave her the sparring partner of her career. "The reason I'm here ...," she said with gratitude to Anthony Hopkins,...Tags: Film Festivals, Marion Cotillard, Johnny Depp, George Clooney, Beatrice Straight
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SCREEN SCENE: LaGrange Park miner digs for celluloid gold -- plus a guide to art house and 2nd run films
Tribune staff reporterThink of David Kalat as Indiana Jones--only without the whip. It's an apt description because, like Indy, Kalat is a seeker of lost treasure, a champion of the forgotten. Only instead of museum artifacts, film historian Kalat and his LaGrange Park DVD...Tags: Jane Fonda, Roald Amundsen, South Dakota, George Clooney, Manhattan
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'Harry Potter' Star Goes Nude, Tortures Horses on Broadway
Zap2It.comYoung " Harry Potter" fans will have to skip over Daniel Radcliffe's next performance. The British lad will take off his glasses and much more for his American nude debut in the revivial of "Equus," Peter Shaffer's disturbing psychodrama. The play,...Tags: Peter Shaffer, Fiction, Movies, Harry Potter, Richard Burton
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