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NATION: 'Jeffersons' neighbor Paul Benedict, 70
BOSTON - Paul Benedict, the actor who played the English neighbor Harry Bentley on the sitcom "The Jeffersons," has died. He was 70. Benedict was found dead Monday on Martha's Vineyard, and his brother, Charles, said authorities were still investigating...Tags: Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino
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Benedict, actor in 'The Jeffersons,' dies at 70
The Associated PressPaul Benedict, the actor who played the English neighbor Harry Bentley on the sitcom "The Jeffersons," has died. He was 70. Benedict was found dead Monday on Martha's Vineyard and his brother, Charles, said authorities were still investigating the...Tags: Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino
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Paul Benedict, who played Harry Bentley in 'The Jeffersons,' dies at 70
BOSTON (AP) — Paul Benedict, the actor who played the English neighbor Harry Bentley on the sitcom "The Jeffersons," has died. He was 70. Benedict was found dead Monday on Martha's Vineyard and his brother, Charles, said authorities were still...Tags: Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino
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Lips finally become film stars
The Associated PressSeven years in the making, the Flaming Lips' new "Christmas on Mars" is a lo-fi feat of obsession and endurance. The sci-fi movie — which frontman Wayne Coyne calls "a freakout" — was created with amateur compulsiveness, patched together on...Tags: Oklahoma, John Lennon, Oklahoma City, Movies, Miles Davis
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Romney, GOPers lick wounds on cruise
The Swampby Jim Tankersley Winners, we all know from a lifetime of post-Super Bowl commercials, go to Disneyland. Losers, at least in this election cycle, apparently go to the Caribbean. As the Associated Press' David McFadden reports: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico......Tags: Executive Branch, Newspaper and Magazine, Government, John McCain, Florida
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The real laughs on CNN don't come from D.L. Hughley
As if Coopie, Wolfie, Dobbsie and CNN's other kazoos weren't funny enough, "the most trusted name in news" now has comedian D.L. Hughley holding down an hour of interviews and sketches before a laugh track-like studio audience on Saturday nights.
Hughley...Tags: Arkansas, Baptist, Television, TiVo Inc., Barack Obama
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Election movie winners
Is it Tuesday yet? Even the most patriotic of us might be feeling election fatigue this week. Campaigns generally are messy affairs, with stories that keep changing and endings that never seem to come, and the Obama-McCain battle has been no different....Tags: Katharine Hepburn, Netflix Inc., Frank Sinatra, Ivan Reitman, Emma Thompson
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It's Craig, Daniel Craig
With the newest James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, opening in theaters in two weeks, now may be a good time to revisit the film that introduced the first blond Bond, Daniel Craig. Released just two years ago, Casino Royale (4:30 p.m., Showtime)...Tags: Casino and Gambling Industry, Quantum of Solace (movie), Sean Connery, Steven Spielberg, Tourism and Leisure
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Hathaway, Daly, and Jackson's non-partisan plea: Vote
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe participant list reads like a list of actors from the red carpet at the Oscars. Except, of course, for the Muppets. The online video by Creative Coalition, a nonprofit, nonpartisan public advocacy group, features celebrities such as Anne Hathaway,...Tags: Oliver Stone, Wars and Interventions, Academy Awards, Los Angeles, Wine, Beer, and Spirits
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"W."
Special to NewsdayOliver Stone doesn't do comedy, intentionally. But perhaps he should: The half-baked, hayseed "Hamlet" he's created in " W." -- his very speculative biopic about our current president -- feels alive only when it ventures into the comically absurd....Tags: George Bush, John Anderson, James Cromwell, Oliver Stone, Movies
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'W' a prime candidate for Oliver Stone
Special to NewsdayFor the first 113 of the 232 years that a United States of America has existed, there wasn't anything called cinema. So movies about Washington, Lincoln or the peccadilloes of Grover Cleveland weren't really an option -- not, at least, while the men...Tags: George Bush, James Cromwell, Will Ferrell, Oliver Stone, Ellen Burstyn
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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: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Oliver Stone, The Spirit (movie), Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Demme
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