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OFF THE WALL
FANTASTIC FLESH. From the secret skills of silent frightmeister Lon Chaney to today's high-tech appearance artists, it's all there in the new hour "Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX" (10 p.m., Starz). Film clips illustrate a century of freaky...Tags: Lon Chaney, Quentin Tarantino
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Fergie shares her 24/7 life
Los Angeles Daily NewsEven a singer-actress-designer has to get her house in order. And that's what Stacy Ferguson is doing ... one yard of flooring at a time. "After this, I'm going to meet with carpeting people," says Ferguson, known to the world as Fergie. "My stepdad is...Tags: Brentwood, Hacienda Heights, Fergie, Television, Music
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The many faces of Mickey Rourke
Mickey Rourke's career has gone through some remarkable transformations in the last two decades. He's gone from being a promising young boxer to a bad-boy movie star, from a failed pro boxer to a coulda-shoulda-woulda Hollywood has-been. But it's not...Tags: Boxing, Film Festivals, Charles Bukowski, Wrestling, Bantamweight
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Abu Dhabi channels more cash to Hollywood
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersFurthering the links between the United Arab Emirates and Hollywood, a venture controlled by the government of Abu Dhabi is launching a production company with a $1-billion-plus fund to make movies and digital content in partnership with three as-yet-...Tags: Game Playing, George Clooney, Cinema Industry, Los Angeles, DreamWorks Animation SKG Incorporated
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MRC, Shyamalan Working On Their Night Movies
Zap2It.comMRC, already facing the challenge of resurrecting The CW's Sunday night lineup, is now tackling M. Night Shyamalan's career. According to Variety, the "Sixth Sense" filmmaker and Media Rights Capital are forming Night Chronicles, a financing/production...Tags: Cinema Industry, Movies, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, M. Night Shyamalan
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Comic-Con in San Diego: Get your geek on
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIT'S THE Cannes of Capes, the World's Fair for Fanboys, the ultimate Bazaar of the Bizarre. Comic-Con International gets underway today at the San Diego Convention Center and 125,000 fans will attend this frothy celebration -- and hard sell -- of pop...Tags: Cinema Industry, Hayden Panettiere, Jennifer Connelly, Batman, Dwayne Johnson
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'Speed Racer': Matrix directors don't make you feel the need for this Speed
VarietyWith its thinly developed narrative, dully functional dialogue, paramount devotion to family cohesion, and somewhat cheesy, albeit expensive, CGI-against-green-screen look, Speed Racer reminds you of nothing so much as Robert Rodriguez's Spy Kids movies....Tags: IMAX, John Goodman, Movies, Larry Wachowski, Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida)
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Real estate agents among 11 charged in $14M fraud
tony.destefano@newsday.comBrooklyn federal prosecutors charged 11 people Wednesday in a mortgage fraud scheme that ripped off more than $14 million from banks and mortgage companies using fake buyers, officials said. The 11 defendants include real estate agents, mortgage...Tags: Prosecution, Justice System, Real Estate Agents, Defendants, Real Estate Buyers
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Robert Rodriguez, Rose McGowan Shopping Women's Prison Pilot
Zap2It.comNetworks are getting their first glimpse at "Women in Chains!" a self-explanatory female prison pilot to be directed by Robert Rodriguez and star Rose McGowan. The good folks at AintItCool.com first broke the story that the spec script by Josh Miller and...Tags: Prisons, Josh Miller
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Cooking videos online: Recipes like Mom used to teach
Special to The TimesTWENTY-FIVE years out of restaurant school, I should know how to cut up a mango. But it wasn't until I was noodling around online recently that I finally learned why I make a mess of every one. In a video on iFoods.tv, an Irish chef in a T-shirt used a...Tags: New York, Internet, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Movies, Schools
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Sample sales, sans catfight
Tribune staff reporterMention the words "designer sample sale" to any fashion lover and you'll generally get one of two reactions: eager smile or look of horror. The smilers are responding to prices usually slashed by at least 50 percent on true designer goods. The horror-...Tags: Gucci Group NV, E-Commerce Industry, Inventories, Clothing and Textiles Industry, Sales
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Hollywood's endangered entrepreneurs
THE BIG PICTUREIT'S hard to imagine New Line Cinema without Bob Shaye, its prickly paterfamilias. The company is being absorbed into Time Warner's Warner Bros. film division, with Shaye and most of the employees being cast adrift. Long after he'd sold his company in...Tags: Peter Jackson, 50 Cent, Cinema Industry, Brett Ratner, David Geffen
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