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'The Godfather': The movie you can't refuse
For anyone in America's fabled "movie generation" - men and women who were in college or just out of it when The Godfather came out in 1972 - Francis Ford Coppola's Mafia epic had the impact that Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band had in music or The...Tags: Doris Day, Robert Duvall, Robert De Niro, Assault, Crimes
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Paul Newman dies at 83
Paul Newman the actor, director, race car driver, political activist and philanthropist has died - and a buoyant strain of the American spirit has gone with him. He was 83 when he succumbed to cancer at his home near Westport, Conn., on Friday.
For all...Tags: Celebrity, Theater, Arthur Penn, Charity, Robert Redford
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Carina Chocano: 'Shampoo'
"Shampoo," made in 1975 but set in 1968, the night before Richard Nixon's election to the presidency, was directed by Hal Ashby and written by Robert Towne and Warren Beatty, who may have produced one of the best scripts in the last three decades. The...Tags: Hal Ashby, Personal Service, Richard Nixon, Beauty Products, Warren Beatty
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Oscar Winner Sydney Pollack Dies at 73
Sydney Pollack, the Academy Award-winning director of "Out of Africa" who achieved acclaim making popular, mainstream movies with A-list stars, including "The Way We Were" and "Tootsie," died Monday. He was 73. Pollack, who also was a producer and actor,...Tags: Tony Gilroy, Jessica Lange, Newspapers, Bob Hope, Alfred Hitchcock
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Writers work picket lines as TV shows shut down
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIn an often spirited display of protest playing out on both sides of the country, more than 1,000 screenwriters -- representing "Lost," "The Young and the Restless," "Chinatown" and everything in between -- hoisted picket signs and chanted labor songs...Tags: Holidays, Celebrity, Wages and Pensions, NBC, Consumer Electronics Industry
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Guild sets stage for key talks
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAs some of Hollywood's biggest screenwriters dined on prime rib and salmon in May at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, David Young's mind was on pie. Not the edible kind, but the one full of revenue that Hollywood studios and networks divide up. In Young's...Tags: Los Angeles, CBS Corp., Consumer Electronics Industry, Movies, Television Industry
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10 THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT SCREENWRITERS
the Tribune's foreign/national news editorThe Writers Guild of America went on strike last week, idling wordsmiths for both the small and big screens. Just think of the fun that W.C. Fields, who wrote scripts under such pseudonyms as Mahatma Kane Jeeves and Otis Criblecoblis, might have had...Tags: Bob Newhart, W.C. Fields, Weather Reports, Spike Lee, Labor Disputes
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L.A.: Life that art can't imitate
So Reggie the alligator already has escaped once from his cell at the Los Angeles Zoo. Mark my words: No prison will hold him. He will escape again and steal a Ferrari Enzo. This is what makes writing wild fiction about Los Angeles so hard. L.A. just...Tags: Los Angeles, Natural Resources, Mortgages, Movies, North Hollywood (Los Angeles, California)
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Esotouric tours explores L.A.'s dark side
Times Staff WriterIt was on a bus tour of 100-year-old ghost stories that two L.A. history freaks hit a speed bump on their journey into the city's most obscure corners. "The problem with that tour," says Richard Schave, one of the movers behind a new tour series called...Tags: Charles Bukowski, Los Angeles, H.L. Mencken, New York, Tourism and Leisure
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'Bobby'
Times Staff WriterThe death of Robert F. Kennedy in June 1968 marked the end of a certain type of idealism in American politics. In trying to translate the power of what Kennedy meant to so many people into a compelling film, writer-director Emilio Estevez has exceeded his...Tags: Shia LaBeouf, Hotels and Accommodations, Anthony Hopkins, Demi Moore, Laurence Fishburne
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This town is rated noir
Special to The TimesNOIR is the indigenous Los Angeles form: It was created here, it grew up here and from here it spread, not only as a genre but as a way of looking at life, character and fate. As a framing lens, it's now so powerful that it seems not only to be a strategy...Tags: Orson Welles, Robert Mitchum, Robert De Niro, Corporate Crime, Leimert Park
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Former gambler now in the chips
Special to The TimesScriptland is a new weekly feature on the work and professional lives of screenwriters. * There are few bets with longer odds than making a living as a screenwriter. And then there's Allan Loeb. A compulsive gambler since age 10, he's currently riding...Tags: Celebrity, DreamWorks Animation SKG Incorporated, New York, Halle Berry, Gaming and Lotteries
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