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To Live and Die in LA
On the Mets beatWell, Anaheim, actually, which is not LA. Not by a longshot, regardless of what the Angels want to believe with that whole Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim nonsense. But I needed a headline for this entry and I'm a little......Tags: Omar Minaya, Dean Stockwell, John Turturro, Major League Baseball, New York Mets
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'Hollywood Under Siege' by Thomas R. Lindlof
Special to The TimesJuly 24, 2008 There are moments in cultural history, notes Thomas Lindlof in a phrase typical of his fluent but never fussy prose, "of gathered tension." Such a moment came with the 1988 release of Martin Scorsese's "The Last Temptation of Christ," an...Tags: Salman Rushdie, Ku Klux Klan, Nikos Kazantzakis, Rob Johnson, Values
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'Anamorph'
(3 STARS) ANAMORPH (R). There aren't many police-procedural/serial-killer thrillers that can claim painter Francis Bacon, camera obscura and Pope Innocent as plot devices, or for that matter anamorphosis - the technique of hiding one picture inside...Tags: Francis Bacon, John Anderson, Manhattan (New York City)
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Ferrara has fled New York, but he still taps its energy
Special to The TimesAbel Ferrara's new film, "Chelsea on the Rocks," represents a kind of homecoming for the Bronx-born director and longtime chronicler of the New York City underbelly. Ferrara, best known for urban tales of damnation such as "Bad Lieutenant" and "King of...Tags: Mel Gibson, Nicolas Cage, Cannes Film Festival, Milos Forman, Janis Joplin
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'Fugitive Pieces,' 'Swimming in Auschwitz,' 'The Favor,' 'A Walk into the Sea' and more
Hopscotching time on film is never easy, but Canadian writer-director Jeremy Podeswa handles it with skill and care in "Fugitive Pieces," his lovely, absorbing adaptation of Anne Michaels' lauded novel about a circumspect writer haunted by his traumatic...Tags: Swimming, David Fincher, Crimes, John Cale, Cinema Industry
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'Anamorph,' 'The Favor' and 'A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory'
An unoriginal modus operandi
If David Fincher was able to graduate from the grime-chic surface thrills of "Se7en" to the personal, obsessive mastery of "Zodiac," then surely filmmakers can consider serial killers over and done with. But no, here comes...Tags: Los Angeles, David Fincher, Crimes, West Hollywood, John Cale
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'Paris Je T'aime'
gene.seymour@newsday.com"Paris, je t'aime" is one of those multi-short, multi-star, multitasking projects that almost always crash on takeoff because they take on too much weight for relatively little substance. While this omnibus of 18 short films in different Parisian...Tags: Wes Craven, John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Elijah Wood, Alexander Payne
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'Mr. Bean's Holiday'
gene.seymour@newsday.comThat Rowan Atkinson has gotten so much mileage out of his rubbery, convulsive and gibberish-prone character Mr. Bean strongly suggests that there is an abiding hunger for sustained physical comedy in the movies. If "Mr. Bean's Holiday" does nothing more...Tags: Beach Vacations, Movies, Rowan Atkinson
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'Spider-Man 3'
Los Angeles TimesA rumored $250 million is riding on whether sand, venom, a goblin and a mysterious black tar-like substance from outer space can keep a high-flying movie franchise soaring. Considering that they'll be filtered through "Spider-Man's" proven mix of angst,...Tags: Kirsten Dunst, Lon Chaney, Health Treatments, Tobey Maguire, Sam Raimi
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Made in Maryland
Absolute Power (1997)
Clint Eastwood stars as the sensitive thief who can save the entire American political system from complete corruption. Too bad he wasn't around during the Reagan administration. Eastwood discovers presidential corruption during...Tags: Mount Vernon Place, Lukas Haas, Lloyd Bridges, Nathan Lane, Tom Cruise
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'Heroes' Cheerleader Catches 'Fireflies'
Zap2It.comHayden Panettiere is joining yet another large ensemble cast for her latest film project. The "Heroes" actress and four other actors -- Willem Dafoe ("Spider-Man"), Ioan Gruffudd ("Fantastic Four"), Shannon Lucio ("The O.C.") and George Newbern ("...Tags: Ioan Gruffudd, Emily Watson, Julia Roberts, NBC, Spider-Man
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Fast-Paised review: 'Mr. Bean's Holiday'
Stupid and oblivious nincompoop Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) is back to frolic in Paris after winning a trip out of London in a raffle. After he's responsible for separating a kid from his Cannes Film Festival-judge dad, Bean slowly and incompetently helps...Tags: Stepan Company, Cannes Film Festival, Film Festivals, Movies, Rowan Atkinson
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