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'Sleuth'
![In the 1972 film "Sleuth," a hammy chamber piece based on a play by Anthony Shaffer, a young hairdresser named Milo Tindle (Michael Caine) arrives at the costume- and prop-stuffed manse of aging crime novelist Andrew Wyke (played with cuckoo brio by Laurence Olivier), who greets him as "the man who wants to marry my wife." In the remake, Jude Law plays Tindle, and Caine, who plays Wyke, greets him as "the man who's . . . my wife." Tindle chokes on his Scotch but the gleam in his eye could light a stadium. "She's . . . me," he replies, with the mock disingenuousness of a smart-alecky fifth-grader. In this battle royal between sex and money, there's no trace of the initial decorum of the original, which had Milo painfully lay out his humble origins and polish his bootstrap bona fides for Wyke's inspection. This time, the cat-and-mouse game is played by a couple of weasels. Which is a lot more like it.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2007-10/33158617.jpg "In the 1972 film "Sleuth,\" a hammy chamber piece based on a play by Anthony Shaffer, a young hairdresser named Milo Tindle (Michael Caine) arrives at the costume- and prop-stuffed manse of aging crime novelist Andrew Wyke (played with cuckoo brio by Laurence Olivier), who greets him as \"the man who wants to marry my wife.\" In the remake, Jude Law plays Tindle, and Caine, who plays Wyke, greets him as \"the man who's . . . my wife.\" Tindle chokes on his Scotch but the gleam in his eye could light a stadium. \"She's . . . me,\" he replies, with the mock disingenuousness of a smart-alecky fifth-grader. In this battle royal between sex and money, there's no trace of the initial decorum of the original, which had Milo painfully lay out his humble origins and polish his bootstrap bona fides for Wyke's inspection. This time, the cat-and-mouse game is played by a couple of weasels. Which is a lot more like it.")
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIn the 1972 film "Sleuth," a hammy chamber piece based on a play by Anthony Shaffer, a young hairdresser named Milo Tindle (Michael Caine) arrives at the costume- and prop-stuffed manse of aging crime novelist Andrew Wyke (played with cuckoo brio by...Tags: Personal Service, Michael Caine, Kenneth Branagh, Agatha Christie, Jude Law
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STEPPENWOLF STEPPIN' OUT
Deanna Dunagan was Broadway-bound and she was not happy.
It was mid-October and she was due to leave in a week for New York, where she would reprise her acclaimed performance as Violet Weston, the pill-addicted, cancer-stricken monster of a mother at the...Tags: Comedy (genre), John Malkovich, Gary Sinise, Philip Bosco, Joan Allen
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Le Clezio -- who's he?
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIf the selection of French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio as the 2008 Nobel literature laureate has anything to tell us, it's that Horace Engdahl means what he says. Last week, Engdahl, the Swedish Academy's permanent secretary, called American...Tags: Sarah Palin, Gao Xingjian, Dining and Drinking, Pearl S. Buck, Nobel Prize Awards
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Pinter's the Clue to the Riddle of 'Sleuth's' Return
Zap2It.comRemaking "Sleuth" seems unnecessary, really. Anthony Shaffer's endlessly circulated stage thriller was filmed in 1972 by Joseph L. Mankiewicz in a prestige project featuring Laurence Olivier as the mystery writer and Michael Caine as the hairdresser who...Tags: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Personal Service, Michael Caine, Kenneth Branagh, Chicago Tribune
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F. Scott Fitzgerald on film and television
F. Scott Fitzgerald's magical short story "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" was a hard sell during the early days of the Roaring '20s, when magazines were hungering for one of the author's more down-to-earth flapper stories. "Benjamin Button" was a...Tags: Francis Ford Coppola, Playhouse 90 (tv program), Brad Pitt, Academy Awards, Robert De Niro
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Branagh Will Direct 'Sleuth' Remake
Zap2It.comThe long-rumored remake of "Sleuth," featuring Jude Law and Michael Caine, appears ready to move forward with Kenneth Branagh at the helm. According to Variety, Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter has written a new adaptation of Anthony Shaffer's two-...Tags: Michael Caine, Jude Law, Kenneth Branagh, Crime, Law and Justice, Nobel Prize Awards
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Notes on a chameleon
![Cate Blanchett considered her venti decaf nonfat latte. "Things are so big in America," she said. Four young studio publicists had squabbled over who would have to fetch this mega coffee for her. "What should I do with this? Hit someone over the head?" Her New York press day in December for "Notes on a Scandal" could have been worse. "I don't have cancer," she said when proffered pity. But she was locked in an ugly suite on the 12th floor of the Regency Hotel on Park Avenue, when she'd rather have spent that time with her two young children.](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2007-01/27289649.jpg "Cate Blanchett considered her venti decaf nonfat latte. "Things are so big in America,\" she said. Four young studio publicists had squabbled over who would have to fetch this mega coffee for her. \"What should I do with this? Hit someone over the head?\" Her New York press day in December for \"Notes on a Scandal\" could have been worse. \"I don't have cancer,\" she said when proffered pity. But she was locked in an ugly suite on the 12th floor of the Regency Hotel on Park Avenue, when she'd rather have spent that time with her two young children.")
Special to The TimesCate Blanchett considered her venti decaf nonfat latte. "Things are so big in America," she said. Four young studio publicists had squabbled over who would have to fetch this mega coffee for her. "What should I do with this? Hit someone over the head?"...Tags: Upper East Side, Lauren Bacall, Bill Nighy, Cate Blanchett, Men's Health
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Law, Caine Team Up for 'Sleuth' Remake
Zap2It.comJude Law, who starred in the "Alfie" remake, will take on another of Michael Caine's previous film roles, this time teamed with Caine himself. The British actors have signed on to star in Kenneth Branagh's remake of the 1970s thriller "Sleuth." The...Tags: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Comedy (genre), Sony Corp., Jude Law, Kenneth Branagh
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'Sleuth': So many back-and-forth machinations
![SIMON HALFON, producer of the remake of the thriller "Sleuth," insists that star Jude Law isn't obsessed with roles made famous by Michael Caine -- although it may appear the younger man is moving down the veteran actor's repertoire.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2007-09/32351859.jpg "SIMON HALFON, producer of the remake of the thriller "Sleuth,\" insists that star Jude Law isn't obsessed with roles made famous by Michael Caine -- although it may appear the younger man is moving down the veteran actor's repertoire.")
SIMON HALFON, producer of the remake of the thriller "Sleuth," insists that star Jude Law isn't obsessed with roles made famous by Michael Caine -- although it may appear the younger man is moving down the veteran actor's repertoire.
Three years ago, Law...Tags: Michael Caine, Kenneth Branagh, Jude Law, New York, Crime, Law and Justice
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Mark Rylance breathes life into 'Boeing-Boeing'
![IN THE "Say what?" department, this statement ranks up there: "If Camoletti had written a tragedy of this quality, he'd be up there with Pinter."](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-06/39627731-05113807.jpg "IN THE "Say what?\" department, this statement ranks up there: \"If Camoletti had written a tragedy of this quality, he'd be up there with Pinter.\"")
Special to The TimesIN THE "Say what?" department, this statement ranks up there: "If Camoletti had written a tragedy of this quality, he'd be up there with Pinter." Few people could get away with comparing Marc Camoletti, the French playwright of the creaky '60s sex...Tags: The Other Boleyn Girl (movie), Comedy (genre), Boeing Co., William Shakespeare, Drama (genre)
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'A Voyage Round John Mortimer' by Valerie Grove
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterJune 25, 2008 Emotionally, William Butler Yeats was a 19th century man, and so his famous dictum that the creative soul must seek "perfection in the life or in the work" once seemed not only practical but also wise. What would the arch-poet have made,...Tags: Book, Literature, Adultery, Sex Pistols (music group), Brideshead Revisited (movie, 2008)
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'Fahrenheit 451' burns in flashes
![It is the curious power of books that they seem to read us as much as we read them; a single sentence can shift our lives forever. That uncanny connection fuels fascism -- and ultimately liberation -- in <a href="http://theguide.latimes.com/performing-arts/fahrenheit-451-event">"Fahrenheit 451,"</a> now staged by author Ray Bradbury's own Pandemonium Theatre Company at the <a href="http://www.fremontcentretheatre.com">Fremont Centre Theatre</a>. The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer has adapted his classic 1953 novel for the stage, and half a century later, it hasn't lost the power to chill.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-07/40678983-03153557.jpg "It is the curious power of books that they seem to read us as much as we read them; a single sentence can shift our lives forever. That uncanny connection fuels fascism -- and ultimately liberation -- in <a href="http://theguide.latimes.com/performing-arts/fahrenheit-451-event\">\"Fahrenheit 451,\"</a> now staged by author Ray Bradbury's own Pandemonium Theatre Company at the <a href=\"http://www.fremontcentretheatre.com\">Fremont Centre Theatre</a>. The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer has adapted his classic 1953 novel for the stage, and half a century later, it hasn't lost the power to chill.")
It is the curious power of books that they seem to read us as much as we read them; a single sentence can shift our lives forever. That uncanny connection fuels fascism -- and ultimately liberation -- in "Fahrenheit 451," now staged by author Ray...Tags: Ray Bradbury, Nike, Inc., Pulitzer Prize Awards, South Pasadena, Pasadena (Los Angeles, California)
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