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'Lola Montes' (3 1/2 stars!) stars Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Oskar Werner
Tribune criticLike its heroine, "Lola Montes" (1955) has been through a lot. In the digitally buffed restoration, aching with CinemaScope splendor, director Max Ophuls' swan song has, in effect, found the fulfillment continually eluding Lola herself, no matter how many...Tags: Franz Liszt, Music Theater, Orson Welles, Theater, New York
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George Hamilton talks about his juicy new memoir, 'Don't Mind If I Do'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTHE TANNEST man alive isn't so bronze these days. As George Hamilton opens the door of his tony Wilshire Corridor condo, his Super Swarthiness appears on the pale side, with even a hint of freckles on his face. What happened? Is tanning no longer part...Tags: Cary Grant, David Niven, Susan Kohner, Movies, George Hamilton
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Not all Hollywood tales are satire
An agent so afraid of all his clients that his stomach rumbles like Vesuvius. A superstar hired for an action film who shows up looking bearded and burly, like Steve McQueen as Dr. Stockmann in An Enemy of the People. A cutting-edge director who banks his...Tags: Butch Cassidy, Steve McQueen, Barry Levinson, What Just Happened? (movie), Sean Penn
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'What Just Happened' stars Robert De Niro, Bruce Willis, Catherine Keener
Chicago Tribune criticIf relaxation were an automatic cinematic virtue, we'd have the comedy of the year in director Barry Levinson's "What Just Happened." Small, mild, easy to watch and easier to forget, this adaptation of producer Art Linson's Hollywood memoirs has the...Tags: Barry Levinson, Sean Penn, Movies, Robin Wright Penn, Stanley Tucci
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A salute to Leslie Caron
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFive decades ago, Leslie Caron had no inkling that "Gigi" would become a legendary movie musical whose legacy is going strong today. She remembers it well. Caron was 26, a top star at MGM and mother of 3-month-old Christopher, when she flew to Paris the...Tags: Santa Monica, Gene Kelly, Music, Culver City, Maurice Chevalier
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B.B. King, Liza Minnelli at Hollywood Bowl
Special to The TimesAs the summer heat and a sense of nostalgia permeated the air, the Hollywood Bowl kicked off its 87th season Friday night with a stirring, fireworks-enlivened tribute to three new inductees into the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame. All -- flutist James...Tags: James Galway, Judy Garland, Classical Music, Music, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California)
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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: Buster Keaton, Cary Grant, Alfred Hitchcock, Bernard Herrmann, Neiman Marcus
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A supreme season
Times Staff WriterFor the last few years, Hollywood has become littered with the carcasses of Broadway sensations that died on the big screen. Remember "Rent"? "Phantom of the Opera"? "The Producers"? Among the few exceptions are "Chicago" and now "Dreamgirls." The...Tags: Beverly Hills, Diana Ross, Whitney Houston, James Brown, Lauryn Hill
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Holly-cons: in the closet?
Today, Andrew Breitbart and David Ehrenstein ponder the plight of Tinseltown conservatives. Yesterday, they attempted to define Hollywood values. Wednesday, they discussed the role filmmakers should and do play in the domestic political debate, and...Tags: George Bush, Executive Branch, Civil Unrest, Illnesses, Mel Gibson
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'Miracle' Maker William Gibson Reflects On Writing And Life In Theater As 'Jonah's Dream' Opens
The Hartford CourantWalking up the stone path to writer William Gibson's comfortable, modest and slightly rundown home at the end of a dirt road in the Massachusetts Berkshires, I don't know quite what to expect. Gibson, who wrote such hit plays as ``Two for the Seesaw,''...Tags: Lillian Gish, Golda Meir, Theater, Broadway, Depression
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'Histoire(s) du Cinéma'
Special to The TimesAnyone who has even a passing familiarity with the films of Jean-Luc Godard would not be surprised that the eternal enfant terrible of France's New Wave has turned his survey of the cinema of the 20th century into one long Godard movie. Indeed, his...Tags: Cyd Charisse, Martin Scorsese, Fritz Lang, Howard Hughes, Jean-Luc Godard
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Movie review: The Producers'
Tribune arts critic1˝ stars (out of four) Here's some grim news, especially if Mel Brooks holds a place in your personal ethos of funny and a mediocre movie musical is like a stake through your heart. "The Producers" on screen, as a musical, does not work. It is not very...Tags: Adolf Hitler, Mel Brooks, Theater, Movies, Broadway
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