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An exacting director survives Cannes' mercurial nature
Wednesday night seems so long ago; here at the Cannes Film Festival, now halfway through its fantastic paces, it's a hundred films ago. On May 16 "Moonrise Kingdom,"director Wes Anderson's fable of young love and various eccentrics, on a fictional island...
Tags: Moonrise Kingdom (movie), Fantastic Mr. Fox (movie), Bruce Willis, Arts and Culture, Edward Norton
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'Battleship' Runs Aground at U.S. Box Office, But it's No 'John Carter'
Reuters"Battleship" May 20 (TheWrap.com) - may have hit the box office shoals, but it's no "John Carter." Universal's big-budget sea saga loosely based on a children's board-game -- with some invading aliens thrown in -- docked with a thud at the domestic box...Tags: Rihanna, Arts and Culture, Entertainment, Taylor Kitsch, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc.
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'Snow White and the Huntsman' director wanted real feeling at its core
MARLOES SANDS, Wales — Nearly a hundred soldiers on horseback sprinted across the beach here last fall, dodging arrows and catapulted fire balls. Despite many casualties, the charging "Snow White and the Huntsman" army was determined to storm the...
Tags: Mirror, Mirror (movie), Kick-Ass (movie), Drive (movie), Arts and Culture, Snow White (fictional character)
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Review: Tricky dynamics in Alison Bechdel's 'Are You My Mother?'
Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama Alison Bechdel Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 290 pp., $22 First things first: If you haven't read "Fun Home," Alison Bechdel's 2006 family memoir in comic form, drop everything and get a copy right away. In its pages,...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Alice Miller
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Book review: 'Bring Up the Bodies' is a compelling re-creation
Bring Up the Bodies A Novel Hilary Mantel Henry Holt: 432 pp., $28 Hilary Mantel's novel about the Tudor political puppet-master supremo Thomas Cromwell, "Wolf Hall," winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize for fiction, was so richly packed with character...
Tags: Anne Boleyn, London (England), Science and Technology, Arts and Culture, England
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On Sunday: Bechdel's mom, Theroux's Africa and Mantel's Cromwell
Jacket CopyOn Sunday: Alison Bechdel's mom, Paul Theroux's Africa and Hilary Mantel's Cromwell.... -
'Hemingway & Gellhorn': Love is a battlefield in the HBO movie
Most writers can only daydream about meeting — in the flesh — the characters they've imagined. But for Ernest Hemingway, one afternoon in Key West, Fla., it came close to actually happening. One day when the writer was in his mid-30s,...Tags: Key West, Barbara Stanwyck, Arts and Culture, Lauren Bacall, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Keillor walks mean streets for laughs
South Bend TribuneFans of the NPR radio program "A Prairie Home Companion" know Guy Noir. The program is a radio sketch comedy and musical show that plays in front of a live audience, mostly at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minn., but also at locations around the...Tags: Arts and Culture, Dashiell Hammett, Radio, Health, Garrison Keillor
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'Chicago Fire' trailer includes Rahm Emanuel cameo, Kerry Wood releasing children's book, John Mayer spotted at Jake Melnick's
The three minute trailer for the upcoming NBC drama “Chicago Fire” features firefighters battling flames in a collapsing building, a firefighter receiving a “Pulp Fiction”-like needle through the chest, and two people sucking...
Tags: Chicago Cubs, Arts and Culture, New York City, NBC (tv network), Apple iTunes
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Review: 'Going Down' a familiar Hollywood tale
The allure of stardom brings model-handsome wannabe Adam (Matthew Ludwinski) to Hollywood — and down some dubious moneymaking side roads into gay pornography and escorting — in writer-director Casper Andreas' cautionary showbiz tale "Going...
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Sexy Novels On The Market Right Now
PIX11.comPopular blog "Smart Bitches Trashy Books" Sarah Wendell gives us a rundown of sexy romance novels that put "Fifty Shades" to shame. Paperback and digital: Bared to You by Sylvia Day - all the emotional intensity of 50 Shades, with incredible characters...Tags: Arts and Culture, Romance (genre)
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Bookmark: Cover hides what's really inside
Her publisher surely meant well, but the cover of Anne Tyler's new novel "The Beginner's Goodbye" (Knopf) is all wrong. The cover — a pair of elegant cups and saucers displayed against a doily-white background — might reasonably be...Tags: William Trevor, Fiction, Ghost (movie), Pulitzer Prize Awards, Arts and Culture
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