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Oscar showdown
Mark: Hey, Michael, I don't know about you, but I'm far more comfortable predicting the Oscar nominees than picking the winners. Reason No. 1: Predicting the winners becomes a combination of making ridiculous apples-kumquats comparisons (was Adrien...Tags: Bill Clinton, Politics, Comedy (genre), England, Michael Jordan
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'Chicago' Has Hollywood Saying, 'Hey, Kids, Let's Put on a Show!'
Times Staff WriterShoved into the shadows by the omnivorous quest to sate the youth market, the old-fashioned movie musical took another giant step back into the spotlight Tuesday as the Broadway song-and-dance story "Chicago" captured a leading 13 Academy Award...Tags: Crimes, Walt Disney, Business Trips, Trips and Vacations, Arts and Culture
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Applegate is 'Sweet' but lacks confidence
Tribune theater criticWith a sweet but tentative performance from Christina Applegate in the title role — an underplaying lamb surrounded by musical comedy wolves — the wan revival of "Sweet Charity," continuing through next weekend at the Cadillac Palace Theatre, never...Tags: Palace Theater, Charity, Central Park, Cy Coleman, Neil Simon
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'Chicago'
![Ever since she landed in Hollywood a couple years back, the Welsh-born actress Catherine Zeta-Jones has been playing the part of an old-fashioned star with a vengeance. She made a splash in silly (but lucrative) entertainments like "The Mask of Zorro" and "Entrapment" in which she confidently flaunted her lush physicality, only to turn around and flex her acting chops with a supporting role in Steven Soderbergh's "Traffic." Few moments in that film were as shocking as the image of the then-hugely pregnant actress seated behind the wheel of a luxury SUV screaming obscenities into a cell phone at her personal contract killer. Here was a star who really acted like one.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2002-12/6005578.jpg "Ever since she landed in Hollywood a couple years back, the Welsh-born actress Catherine Zeta-Jones has been playing the part of an old-fashioned star with a vengeance. She made a splash in silly (but lucrative) entertainments like "The Mask of Zorro\" and \"Entrapment\" in which she confidently flaunted her lush physicality, only to turn around and flex her acting chops with a supporting role in Steven Soderbergh's \"Traffic.\" Few moments in that film were as shocking as the image of the then-hugely pregnant actress seated behind the wheel of a luxury SUV screaming obscenities into a cell phone at her personal contract killer. Here was a star who really acted like one.")
Times Staff WriterEver since she landed in Hollywood a couple years back, the Welsh-born actress Catherine Zeta-Jones has been playing the part of an old-fashioned star with a vengeance. She made a splash in silly (but lucrative) entertainments like "The Mask of Zorro" and...Tags: Music Theater, Queen Latifah, Crime, Law and Justice, Theater, John Kander
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Marshall and Daldry: Stage is set for an Oscar face-off
Special to The TimesHollywood's annual orgy of awards-giving is already upon us, and the two men whose films are early favorites -- "Chicago" director Rob Marshall (eight Golden Globe nominations) and "The Hours" director Stephen Daldry (seven) -- have convened in...Tags: Arts and Culture, Music Theater, Nicole Kidman, Queen Latifah, Celebrity Parents
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Taking another look at Oscar nominees
Tribune movie criticLast Tuesday's Oscar nominations were both exciting and intriguing -- and only intermittently outrageous. But they remind us that Academy Award races are usually taken seriously for the wrong reasons (their possible commercial effects) and not seriously...Tags: Crimes, Peter Jackson, Howard Hawks, Richard Wagner, Arts and Culture
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On a note of surprise
![In an evening filled with raw emotion, stunning surprises and even a little '60s-style peace protests thrown in for good measure, "Chicago," the Roaring '20s musical morality tale, won the Oscar for best picture Sunday evening at the 75th Academy Awards.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2003-03/7119595.jpg "In an evening filled with raw emotion, stunning surprises and even a little '60s-style peace protests thrown in for good measure, "Chicago,\" the Roaring '20s musical morality tale, won the Oscar for best picture Sunday evening at the 75th Academy Awards.")
Times Staff WritersIn an evening filled with raw emotion, stunning surprises and even a little '60s-style peace protests thrown in for good measure, "Chicago," the Roaring '20s musical morality tale, won the Oscar for best picture Sunday evening at the 75th Academy Awards....Tags: Iraq, Arts and Culture, World War II (1939-1945), Michael Caine, Richard Dreyfuss
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