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Oscar screenings: endangered species?
Times Staff WriterThere was a time, not so long ago, when an invitation to see a movie at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences theater in the heart of Beverly Hills was a sure sign of industry clout. But if this season's academy screenings are any indication,...Tags: Unions, Career and Workplace, Natural Resources, Wildlife, Arts and Culture
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Mice Are Nice For 'Despereaux' Voices
Zap2It.comFirst, animated ants were everywhere. Suddenly it seems that filmmakers can't get enough of animated mice and rats. Universal has lined up an all-star cast to led their pipes to "The Tale of Despereaux," an adaptation of the Newberry Medal-winning...Tags: Stanley Tucci, Tim Burton, Ciaran Hinds, Comedy (genre), Tracey Ullman
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Writers, Studios Were Ready to Make a Deal
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersUltimately, the very people who sell words for a living didn't need any to convey to Hollywood's studios that there would be no strike this year by TV and film writers. It was May 2, the day the Writers Guild of America's contract with studios expired in...Tags: Unions, Career and Workplace, ABC (tv network), Contracts, DVDs
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Thrown from her own horse?
![Jane Sindell woke up Tuesday morning to a congratulatory phone message from Ron Meyer, president and chief operating officer of Vivendi Universal Entertainment. The studio's "Seabiscuit," on which she was a producer, had landed a best picture Oscar nomination.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2004-01/11201337.jpg "Jane Sindell woke up Tuesday morning to a congratulatory phone message from Ron Meyer, president and chief operating officer of Vivendi Universal Entertainment. The studio's "Seabiscuit,\" on which she was a producer, had landed a best picture Oscar nomination.")
Times Staff WriterJane Sindell woke up Tuesday morning to a congratulatory phone message from Ron Meyer, president and chief operating officer of Vivendi Universal Entertainment. The studio's "Seabiscuit," on which she was a producer, had landed a best picture Oscar...Tags: Barry Levinson, Vivendi Universal, Trials, Culture, Arts and Culture
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For a few films, box office bonanza
Although the abbreviated awards season reduced the number of moviegoing weekends between the Golden Globes and the Academy Awards, "Mystic River," Clint Eastwood's story of three friends and the legacy of childhood trauma, is one of a handful of movies...Tags: Sofia Coppola, New York Film Festival, Celebrities, Documentary (genre), Peter Jackson
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Pleasantville
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday October 23, 1998 Today's world, teenage David is told in school, is not a user-friendly place. The job market is shrinking, the chance of getting AIDS rising, and global drought and famine are practically here. So is it any wonder that he...Tags: Reese Witherspoon, Tobey Maguire, Steven Soderbergh, Death, Don Knotts
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'Seabiscuit'
Life, it's been truly said, has more imagination than we do, and the astonishing story of Seabiscuit proves that absolutely.
No novelist or screenwriter would dare come up with the phenomenal incidents and flabbergasting twists of fate that marked the...Tags: Documentary (genre), Clark Gable, PBS (tv network), Tobey Maguire, Arts and Culture
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Summer of same
Tribune movie reporterThe sequels and franchise flicks scored big last summer, so what do we get? More of the same this year. Check out the titles, and you might conclude that this is the year of the colon. But don't be fooled by the amount of noise generated by the highest-...Tags: Tara Reid, Mandy Moore, Nick Stahl, Pixar Animation, Rachel Griffiths
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'Rings,' sure, but surprises galore
![Sweeping epics, a gritty crime drama and an offbeat love story set in Japan grabbed Academy Award nominations for best picture Tuesday with "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" the likely favorite in this year's Oscar race with 11 nominations.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2004-01/11168078.jpg "Sweeping epics, a gritty crime drama and an offbeat love story set in Japan grabbed Academy Award nominations for best picture Tuesday with "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King\" the likely favorite in this year's Oscar race with 11 nominations.")
Times Staff WritersSweeping epics, a gritty crime drama and an offbeat love story set in Japan grabbed Academy Award nominations for best picture Tuesday with "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" the likely favorite in this year's Oscar race with 11 nominations....Tags: Career and Workplace, Comedy (genre), Immigration, Naomi Watts, Diane Keaton
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Drama in 2003
Against the Ropes Boxing manager Jackie Kallen is the real-life inspiration for this fictional story of a fighter (Omar Epps) and his handler (Meg Ryan). With Tony Shalhoub, Tim Daly, Kerry Washington. Directed by Charles S. Dutton. Paramount, March...Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, Gary Sinise, Albert Finney, Mira Sorvino, Mandy Moore
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'Owning Mahowny'
Times Staff WriterRichard Kwietniowski's "Owning Mahowny" is not a perfect film but is a perfect fit for Philip Seymour Hoffman. He plays a seemingly ordinary young Toronto banker with a head for numbers good enough to impress his superiors into promoting him to...Tags: Death, Casino and Gambling Industry, Lotteries, Jason Priestley, Entertainment
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Library Opens to High-Spirited Crowds
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterLos Angeles' Central Library threw a big opening day party Sunday and--judging by the jam-packed reading rooms, the elbow-to-elbow hallway traffic and the block-long lines of people waiting to get in--it looked as if everybody came. They came in...Tags: Los Angeles Police Department, Family, University of Southern California, Richard Riordan, San Diego (San Diego, California)
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