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SERIES The IFC Media Project: In the series premiere, "Taboos," political commentator Tucker Carlson leads discussion of news taboos and issues the media cannot stop discussing. (5 and 8 p.m. IFC). The Biggest Loser: Families: The contestants participate...Tags: Mark Harmon, Law & Order (tv program), The Biggest Loser (tv program), Kevin Costner, Joan Plowright
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AFI program honors Newman, Heston, Ledger and more
After the deaths last year of filmmakers Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni and Edward Yang, and cinematographer Laszlo Kovacs, organizers of the 2007 AFI Film Festival created a "Milestones" programming block to honor them.
"These were the people...Tags: Dundee, Jesse James, Ingmar Bergman, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Sydney Pollack
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'Vicky Cristina Barcelona' is one of Woody Allen's most entertaining films
Sun movie critic(A-) It used to be said that Woody Allen's best movies were about "sex in the head," as if his characters simply had to relax and let it travel through their bodies. In Allen's affectionate, enlightening and, best of all, blissfully entertaining Vicky...Tags: Woody Allen, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Movies, Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz
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'The Wire' loses spark in newsroom storyline
Sun television criticWriting about the past four seasons of HBO's The Wire has been one of the great pleasures of this job. But reviewing the fifth and final season, which begins next Sunday on the premium cable channel, is more of a mixed blessing. It's not that the...Tags: Newspapers, NBC, Values, News Media, Satellite and Cable Service
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Charlton Heston, 84; actor, Oscar winner, played grand figures
Special to The TimesCharlton Heston, the Oscar-winning actor who achieved stardom playing larger-than-life figures including Moses, Michelangelo and Andrew Jackson and went on to become an unapologetic gun advocate and darling of conservative causes, has died. He was 84....Tags: Celebrity Mothers, Lyndon B. Johnson, Orson Welles, Robert Bolt, Central Intelligence Agency
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Six actors in search of the real Bob Dylan
Special to NewsdayThe sun's not yellow, said Bob Dylan, it's chicken. And Bob Dylan? He's not elusive, vague, or mysterious, says director Todd Haynes: He's always been specific and totally in the moment. "Wherever he happened to be, he's nailed himself down thoroughly to...Tags: Theater, Motorcycling, Butch Cassidy, Poetry, Carl Franklin
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Faces are a-changin' in Bob Dylan biography
Sun Movie Critic(C) If any man should be more than the sum of his parts, it's an artist. But Todd Haynes' I'm Not There makes Bob Dylan less than the sum of his parts. It's like a tony art-school parlor game. Haynes, who directed and co-wrote (with Oren Moverman) this...Tags: Christian Bale, Bob Dylan, Music, Abusive Behavior, Carl Franklin
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'Exiled'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterA 1960s western in spirit, director Johnnie To's "Exiled" is set in 1998 Macao on the brink of its hand-over from Portuguese to Chinese rule. The environment creates a sense of quiet desperation for the criminal element looking to make a last big score...Tags: Crimes, Murder, Colorado, Movies, Sergio Leone
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THE BEST OF 2005 MOVIES
STAFF WRITER; Gene SeymourThe heart of the matter is that films from 'Capote’ to 'King Kong’ touched ours. At first glance, 2005 was looking very business-as-usual. You had your prequels ("Batman Begins" and "Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith") and your sequels ("Miss...Tags: Theater, Johnny Cash, Ralph Fiennes, Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), Daniel Auteuil
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The Road: A Novel
Special to The TimesBEFORE a morgue culture determined to hang a tag on every toe, Cormac McCarthy stands defiantly alive and untagged. Born in New England, he came of literary age in the South with 1965's "The Orchard Keeper" and thus was a "Southern writer" in the eyes...Tags: New York, Texas, Cormac McCarthy, Disasters, Los Angeles
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Double-barreled firepower
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIt's one of the most urgent questions facing men of a certain age today, particularly in Latin American countries, a question that strikes at one's core values and affirms one's identity as a soccer-mad, tequila-swigging, red-blooded varon. That question...Tags: Theater, Pedro Almodovar, Louis Malle, Clint Eastwood, Sam Shepard
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Movie review: 'Bullrider'
Tribune movie critic3 stars (out of four) In the bone-crunching world of the professional bull rider--shown in this exciting documentary--a few seconds can mean the difference between victory and defeat, or even life and death. Eight seconds is the measure of time bull...Tags: Injuries, Rodeo, David Jones, Rodeo Bull Riding, Michael Jordan
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