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'Best Years' among best
William Wyler's 1946 The Best Years of Our Lives, a film about veterans returning home from war, changed in ways even they (much less those they left behind) don't fully understand, airs at 5 p.m. today on TCM. The film won a plethora of Oscars, including...Tags: Don Siegel, Academy Awards, Harold Russell, Ron Howard, Death and Dying
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10 books and movies to prep for a trip to Rome
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIf you're planning to visit Rome before you die, it pays to prepare for the experience. Here are 10 books and movies to help you understand what you see in the Roman Forum, at the Vatican and on the Piazza Navona. 1. "The Agony and the Ecstasy" (1961, by...Tags: Derek Jacobi, Audrey Hepburn, Stanley Kubrick, Kirk Douglas, Anita Ekberg
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Actor and NRA leader Charlton Heston dead at 84
LOS ANGELES - Nancy Reagan was heartbroken over Charlton Heston's death. President George W. Bush hailed him as a "strong advocate for liberty," and Sen. John McCain called Heston a devotee for civil and constitutional rights. Even Michael Moore, who...Tags: Earthquakes, Celebrity Mothers, Film Festivals, Michael Moore, Celebrity
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Movies
BASIC CABLE "The Best Years of Our Lives" **** 7 p.m., TCM Almost six decades later, director William Wyler's lengthy but magnificent 1946 drama remains an extremely telling portrait of the effects of war on ordinary citizens. Honored with seven...Tags: Teresa Wright, Dana Andrews, Film Festivals, Harold Russell, Academy Awards
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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: Statue of Liberty, Petroleum Industry, Death and Dying, Armed Forces, Firearms
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'Stop-Loss' underscores how many can't go home again
Sun Reporter(B+) Sgt. Brandon King ( Ryan Phillippe) had been a good soldier, fought the good fight, done everything his Army and his country had asked. He held up his side of the bargain. Stop-Loss, a harrowing, emotional indictment of a war that has divided this...Tags: Ryan Phillippe, Injuries, Hal Ashby, Texas, Armed Forces
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Emmy-winning actor Browne Dies at 81
Times Staff WriterRoscoe Lee Browne, the Emmy-award winning actor with the mellifluous baritone that he used to give voice to roles as varied as Shakespeare's plays and the popular animal film "Babe," died Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 81....Tags: Christianity, New York Shakespeare Festival, Crimes, Folk Music, August Wilson
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'The Good German'
Times Staff WriterThe first scene of Steven Soderbergh's "The Good German," which is set in Berlin at the end of World War II, instantly calls to mind Roberto Rossellini's "Germany Year Zero." The last scene is a dead ringer for "Casablanca." Book-ended between the neo-...Tags: Tobey Maguire, Cate Blanchett, John Galsworthy, Santa Monica, Censorship
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'Home of the Brave'
Special to The TimesAs they near the end of their yearlong tour in Iraq, a group of National Guard soldiers from Spokane, Wash., banter cynically, and one compares the region to a "big pot of …. The more you stir it, the more it smells." "Home of the Brave" promises home...Tags: Veterans Affairs, Curtis Jackson, International Military Interventions, 50 Cent, Sam Adams
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Film Awards Bestowed
From The Times: March 1, 1940
Two English motion-picture players won the highest awards last night from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
They are Vivien Leigh for her performance in "Gone With the WInd," a Selznick International...Tags: Samuel Goldwyn, Greta Garbo, Harold Arlen, Greer Garson, Walt Disney
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'Ben-Hur' Chosen Film of the Year
From The Times: April 5, 1960
"Ben-Hur" last night proved as big an Academy Award winner as it has been on the big screen. Sweeping all before it, its horses, light and dark, its chariots and its filmic makers triumphed in 11 categories for an all-time...Tags: Olivia de Havilland, Yves Montand, Susan Hayward, Fred Astaire, Doris Day
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Movies portray architects wielding halos and daggers
Inman NewsIf you've ever chuckled at how your job is portrayed in the movies, be glad you're not an architect. On film, we're either saints or we're psychos. Judge for yourself: Leading off with some early bad press for the profession is the 1934 horror film "The...Tags: Bela Lugosi, Ayn Rand, Architecture, Charles Bronson, Greer Garson
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