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NOW PLAYING: A guide to art house and 2nd run films
•indicates a capsule review from Chicago Tribune archives. ♦indicates a film that is not reviewed, but of interest. BACinema Beverly Arts Center 2407 W. 111th St. 773-445-3838 beverlyartcenter.org •'Brideshead Revisited' ** 1/...Tags: Michael Keaton, Geena Davis, Clark Gable, Roman Polanski, Music Box Theatre
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The early years of David Lean, at UCLA
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterDon't expect to see any of David Lean's lavish epics such as "The Bridge on the River Kwai," "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Doctor Zhivago" at UCLA Film & Television Archive's retrospective of the Oscar-winning British director. The festival, which marks the...Tags: Jonathan Pryce, John Huston, Ray Harryhausen, Theater, Herman Melville
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Director's never-ending passion: Introducing kids to theater
Sentinel Theater CriticThe day before Gene Columbus went to interview about a job at Orlando Repertory Theatre, a photo turned up in his mail. It was of a teenager, "this skinny, black-haired boy," in the costume of Sleeping Beauty's Prince. The time was the late 1950s; the...Tags: Elvis Presley, Barbra Streisand, Theater, Cinderella, Florida
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Debbie Reynolds packing up her movie treasures
Special to the Chicago TribuneThe word "unsinkable" has been applied to Debbie Reynolds—referring to her Oscar-nominated role in the 1964 musical "The Unsinkable Molly Brown"—so many times that it's almost a cliche to still use it to describe her. But what other...Tags: Audrey Hepburn, Oakbrook Terrace, Judy Garland, Movies, Frank Sinatra
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Keira Knightley May Be New 'Fair Lady'
Zap2It.comColumbia Pictures is reportedly set to remake the classic musical "My Fair Lady" as a star vehicle for Keira Knightley. According to Variety, Duncan Kenworthy ("Love Actually") and London theater giant Cameron Mackintosh, with CBS Films, rights-holder to...Tags: Keira Knightley, Audrey Hepburn, Movies, Music, Film Festivals
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'Home' by Julie Andrews
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterJULIE ANDREWS' early life wasn't exactly Dickensian. It was, however, filled with trauma, drama and colorful -- often tragic -- characters. In her immensely readable "Home: A Memoir of My Early Years," the Oscar-winning actress, star of such...Tags: New York, Theater, Robert Goulet, Broadway, Walt Disney
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Review: 'Pictures at a Revolution' by Mark Harris
Special to NewsdayPICTURES AT A REVOLUTION: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood, by Mark Harris. Penguin Press, 490 pp., 27.95. At first glance, the premise of "Pictures at a Revolution" - an in-depth look at the making of the five films nominated for the...Tags: Jane Fonda, Celebrity, Dustin Hoffman, Film Festivals, Academy Awards
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Channeling Audrey
TRIBUNE MOVIE CRITICShe was thin, swan-necked with wide-set eyes and chiseled cheeks. And taller than you'd think--5 feet 7 inches. No style icon, with the exception of Jackie Kennedy, has been so deconstructed. Her winsome appeal is timeless, So take from Audrey what you...Tags: Audrey Hepburn, Vincente Minnelli, Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, Photography
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International house of Oscar
Until "No Country for Old Men" took the final two awards of the evening, it was beginning to look like the U.S. was "No Country for Oscar Winners."
In an Oscar convocation with the least xenophobic results in years, the Kodak Theatre seemed more like a...Tags: Diane Keaton, Jon Stewart, Michael Moore, International Relations, Ethan Coen
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80TH ACADEMY AWARDS
TRIBUNE CRITICA pulp thriller with a controversial dangler of an ending and a title taken from William Butler Yeats, "No Country for Old Men" swaggered into Hollywood's Kodak Theatre on Sunday, took aim at the swells assembled for the 80th Academy Awards and muttered:...Tags: Jerome Robbins, Jon Stewart, Roberto Benigni, Ethan Coen, Julie Andrews
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'Fair Lady' with heart in right place
TRIBUNE CRITICWhen Trevor Nunn staged his brilliant revisionist revival of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's "My Fair Lady" in London in 2001, he managed a remarkable balancing act. He kept the bravura musical stagings, the London color, the witty contretemps and...Tags: Audrey Hepburn, Theater, Broadway, Palace Theater, Music
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Deborah Kerr, 86; star of 'From Here to Eternity' and 'The King and I'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterDeborah Kerr, the acclaimed British actress whose versatile talent and refined screen persona made her one of Hollywood's top leading ladies in the 1950s in films such as "From Here to Eternity," "The King and I" and "An Affair to Remember," has died. She...Tags: Audrey Hepburn, Broadway, Wendy Hiller, Edward Albee, Fred Zinnemann
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