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Remembering Roger Ebert through his books
After surviving a disfiguring bout of cancer, Roger Ebert was felled by the disease Wednesday at age 70. He had announced just days before that a new cancer had been found and that he was going to write, and tweet, a little less. The Pulitzer Prize-...
Tags: Awards and Prizes, Movies, Roger Ebert, Martin Scorsese, I Am Number Four (movie)
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1968 Academy Awards delayed
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Check It Out: Reading up before the Oscars
On Feb. 24, the 85th Academy Awards ceremony will take place at the Dolby (formerly Kodak) Theatre in Hollywood. The show has grown considerably from its humble origins in 1929 as a private banquet for 270 guests at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. This...Tags: Roger Corman, Argo (movie), Movies, Meryl Streep, David Lynch
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Don't Take Any Driving Lessons From the Movies
Nearly 10 years ago, the Motor Press Guild held a dinner at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. There, masters of movie chase scenes and stunt drivers Hal Needham, Jack Gill and Corey Eubanks held a panel discussion on their craft. Film...Tags: Alexander McQueen, Robert De Niro, Movies, Celebrities, Automotive Equipment
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Susan Tyrrell dies at 67; actress an Oscar nominee for 'Fat City'
![Susan Tyrrell, an eccentric, husky-voiced character actress best known for her Oscar-nominated supporting role as a blowsy barfly in director John Huston's 1972 movie "Fat City," has died. She was 67.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-06/70555051-19200914-187105.jpg "Susan Tyrrell, an eccentric, husky-voiced character actress best known for her Oscar-nominated supporting role as a blowsy barfly in director John Huston's 1972 movie "Fat City,\" has died. She was 67.")
Susan Tyrrell, an eccentric, husky-voiced character actress best known for her Oscar-nominated supporting role as a blowsy barfly in director John Huston's 1972 movie "Fat City," has died. She was 67.
Tyrrell died Saturday at her home in Austin, Texas,...Tags: Billie Holiday, Jeff Bridges, Bette Davis, Celebrities, The New York Times
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Charles Higham dies at 81; controversial celebrity biographer
Charles Higham, a poet, critic and prolific celebrity biographer who found political and sexual intrigue in the lives of Hollywood icons such as Cary Grant, Marlene Dietrich and, most controversially, Errol Flynn, died April 21 at his Los Angeles home. He...Tags: U.S. Department of State, The New York Times, Katharine Hepburn, Olivia de Havilland, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Bruce Surtees dies at 74; cinematographer worked with Eastwood and Fosse
![Early in his career as one of Hollywood's top cinematographers, Bruce Surtees became known for his artful use of low-level, moody lighting in films such as Don Siegel's "The Beguiled" and "Dirty Harry" and Bob Fosse's "Lenny."](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-03/68479654-08110513.jpg "Early in his career as one of Hollywood's top cinematographers, Bruce Surtees became known for his artful use of low-level, moody lighting in films such as Don Siegel's "The Beguiled\" and \"Dirty Harry\" and Bob Fosse's \"Lenny.\"")
Early in his career as one of Hollywood's top cinematographers, Bruce Surtees became known for his artful use of low-level, moody lighting in films such as Don Siegel's "The Beguiled" and "Dirty Harry" and Bob Fosse's "Lenny."
Surtees, 74, who received...Tags: Bob Fosse, Movies, Photography, Changeling (movie), Tom Stern
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Erland Josephson dies at 88; Swedish actor, Bergman collaborator
![Swedish actor Erland Josephson, one of fabled director Ingmar Bergman's closest friends and collaborators, known for his portrayals of aloof intellectuals and often Bergman's alter ego in such celebrated films as "Scenes From a Marriage" and "Cries and Whispers," died at a Stockholm hospital Saturday. He was 88.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-02/68401151-26191608-187105.jpg "Swedish actor Erland Josephson, one of fabled director Ingmar Bergman's closest friends and collaborators, known for his portrayals of aloof intellectuals and often Bergman's alter ego in such celebrated films as "Scenes From a Marriage\" and \"Cries and Whispers,\" died at a Stockholm hospital Saturday. He was 88.")
Swedish actor Erland Josephson, one of fabled director Ingmar Bergman's closest friends and collaborators, known for his portrayals of aloof intellectuals and often Bergman's alter ego in such celebrated films as "Scenes From a Marriage" and "Cries and...Tags: Fanny and Alexander (movie), Movies, Celebrities, Parkinson's Disease, The New York Times
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Bert Schneider dies at 78; 'Easy Rider' producer
![Bert Schneider, the iconoclastic producer behind a trio of influential movies — "Easy Rider," "Five Easy Pieces" and "The Last Picture Show" — that captured the rootlessness and discontent of the late 1960s and '70s and became symbols of a new era in Hollywood, has died. He was 78.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-12/66756610-13203841.jpg "Bert Schneider, the iconoclastic producer behind a trio of influential movies — "Easy Rider,\" \"Five Easy Pieces\" and \"The Last Picture Show\" — that captured the rootlessness and discontent of the late 1960s and '70s and became symbols of a new era in Hollywood, has died. He was 78.")
Bert Schneider, the iconoclastic producer behind a trio of influential movies — "Easy Rider," "Five Easy Pieces" and "The Last Picture Show" — that captured the rootlessness and discontent of the late 1960s and '70s and became symbols of a new...Tags: Car Safety Tips and Advice, Movies, Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda
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PASSINGS: Bill McKinney, Socrates
Bill McKinney
Character actor was in 'Deliverance'
Bill McKinney, 80, a character actor who carved out a career playing rough-and-tumble villains, most notably the backwoods man who sexually assaults Ned Beatty's character in the 1972 film "Deliverance,...Tags: John Boorman, Diseases and Illnesses, Bill McKinney, Television, Celebrities
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Peter Falk dies at 83; actor found acclaim as 'Columbo'
![Peter Falk, the gravel-voiced actor who became an enduring television icon portraying Lt. Columbo, the rumpled raincoat-wearing Los Angeles police homicide detective who always had "just one more thing" to ask a suspect, died Thursday. He was 83.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-06/62734419-24121238.jpg "Peter Falk, the gravel-voiced actor who became an enduring television icon portraying Lt. Columbo, the rumpled raincoat-wearing Los Angeles police homicide detective who always had "just one more thing\" to ask a suspect, died Thursday. He was 83.")
Peter Falk, the gravel-voiced actor who became an enduring television icon portraying Lt. Columbo, the rumpled raincoat-wearing Los Angeles police homicide detective who always had "just one more thing" to ask a suspect, died Thursday. He was 83.
Falk,...Tags: John Cassavetes, Colleges and Universities, Movies, Eugene O'Neill, Bing Crosby
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David Zelag Goodman dies at 81; Oscar-nominated screenwriter
![David Zelag Goodman, a screenwriter best known for such 1970s films as the controversial psychological thriller "Straw Dogs" and "Lovers and Other Strangers," a comedy that earned him an Oscar nomination, has died. He was 81.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-09/65067203-27223138-187105.jpg "David Zelag Goodman, a screenwriter best known for such 1970s films as the controversial psychological thriller "Straw Dogs\" and \"Lovers and Other Strangers,\" a comedy that earned him an Oscar nomination, has died. He was 81.")
David Zelag Goodman, a screenwriter best known for such 1970s films as the controversial psychological thriller "Straw Dogs" and "Lovers and Other Strangers," a comedy that earned him an Oscar nomination, has died. He was 81.
Goodman died Monday at an...Tags: Queens (New York City), The Untouchables (movie), Michael York, Movies, Dustin Hoffman
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