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Chris Cooper: Not content with clandestine
![HERE is how Chris Cooper knows he is doing his job well: Someone approaches him in the grocery store, gives him that don't-I-know-you? squint and says, "Did we go to school together?" Probably not, Cooper says, but you might know me from films. "Nooo," is the invariable answer. "Are you sure we didn't go to school together?"](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2007-02/27823109.jpg "HERE is how Chris Cooper knows he is doing his job well: Someone approaches him in the grocery store, gives him that don't-I-know-you? squint and says, "Did we go to school together?\" Probably not, Cooper says, but you might know me from films. \"Nooo,\" is the invariable answer. \"Are you sure we didn't go to school together?\"")
Times Staff WriterHERE is how Chris Cooper knows he is doing his job well: Someone approaches him in the grocery store, gives him that don't-I-know-you? squint and says, "Did we go to school together?" Probably not, Cooper says, but you might know me from films. "Nooo," is...Tags: Politics, FBI, Celebrities, Chris Cooper, Death
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'Good Night, and Good Luck'
!["Good Night, and Good Luck" couldn't be more unlikely, more unfashionable — or more compelling. Everything about it — its look, its style, even its sound — stands in stark opposition to the trends of the moment. Yet by sticking to events that are half a century old, it tells a story whose implications for today are inescapable.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2006-01/19841176.jpg ""Good Night, and Good Luck\" couldn't be more unlikely, more unfashionable — or more compelling. Everything about it — its look, its style, even its sound — stands in stark opposition to the trends of the moment. Yet by sticking to events that are half a century old, it tells a story whose implications for today are inescapable.")
Times Staff Writer"Good Night, and Good Luck" couldn't be more unlikely, more unfashionable — or more compelling. Everything about it — its look, its style, even its sound — stands in stark opposition to the trends of the moment. Yet by sticking to events...Tags: Politics, George Clooney, Patricia Clarkson, Death, Television
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'Street Fight'
Times Staff WriterA refreshing shift from the red state-blue state paradigm that has marked most U.S. political documentaries since 2000, Marshall Curry's sharp-eyed, Oscar-nominated "Street Fight" maps the no-holds-barred battle between two African American Democrats...Tags: Riots, Thriller (genre), New Jersey, Elections, Bars and Clubs
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John Sayles, novelist, seeks a binding agreement
![For 40 minutes last month he held them spellbound, reading about America in 1898. John Sayles didn't just give the crowd a taste of his new novel, "Some Time in the Sun" -- he performed a comedy about tabloid newsboys in New York, playing 26 characters with thick, period accents.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-05/47117089-25144213.jpg "For 40 minutes last month he held them spellbound, reading about America in 1898. John Sayles didn't just give the crowd a taste of his new novel, "Some Time in the Sun\" -- he performed a comedy about tabloid newsboys in New York, playing 26 characters with thick, period accents.")
For 40 minutes last month he held them spellbound, reading about America in 1898. John Sayles didn't just give the crowd a taste of his new novel, "Some Time in the Sun" -- he performed a comedy about tabloid newsboys in New York, playing 26 characters...Tags: Damon Runyon, William Randolph Hearst, Civil Rights, Philippines, Theodore Roosevelt
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Men With Guns
FOR THE TIMESFriday March 13, 1998 When John Sayles was out promoting his critically acclaimed and darn near commercial "Lone Star" a couple of years ago, he was inevitably asked what he intended to do next. He said he was writing a script with a political...Tags: Death, Movies, Travel, Health and Safety at School, Plastic Surgeons
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Limbo
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday June 4, 1999 Writer-director John Sayles' "Return of the Secaucus Seven" helped launch the current American independent film movement in 1980, and now "Limbo," his 12th and latest feature, reminds us what true independence means. Moving...Tags: Fishing, Puerto Rico, Juneau, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Alaska
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Ride With the Devil
TIMES FILM CRITICWednesday November 24, 1999 It's been decades since the phrase "Bleeding Kansas" and the dark figure of pro-Confederate raider William C. Quantrill, mentor to outlaws Frank and Jesse James and Cole Younger, were familiar on-screen presences. But...Tags: Ang Lee, Gavin O'Connor, Career and Workplace, Death, Crimes
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'Sunshine State'
Times Staff WriterJohn Sayles has always been interested in the world, and the world has been pleased to return the compliment, supplying the writer-director with meaty situations that make for meaningful cinema. During the past several years, Sayles' films have evolved...Tags: Alaska, Angela Bassett, Sony Corp., Entertainment, Bill Cobbs
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Santitos
TIMES STAFF WRITERMonday January 31, 2000 "Santitos" is pure enchantment, a beguiling tale of love, faith and self-discovery told in a colorful, effortless folkloric style by Alejandro Spingall. It's from a script by Maria Amparo Escandon that she developed from...Tags: San Diego (San Diego, California), Death, Movies, Entertainment, Hospitals and Clinics
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Girlfight
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday September 29, 2000 "Girlfight's" first image tells you everything, pulling you into what turns out to be a powerful and empathetic melodrama with feminist underpinnings. Eighteen-year-old high school senior Diana Guzman (Michelle...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Michelle Rodriguez, Death, Movies, Karyn Kusama
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The 6th Day
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday November 17, 2000 Hollywood, which has been cloning action-adventure movies for years, has gotten around to making an action-adventure movie about cloning. It's called "The 6th Day," and whom does it star? Arnold Schwarzenegger. Twice. ...Tags: Michael Rooker, John Wayne, Roger Spottiswoode, Death, Family
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Movie review: 'Tell Them Who You Are'
Tribune movie critic3 stars (out of 4) Haskell Wexler, now 80, is one of the great cinematographers of the American cinema, an Oscar-winning master ("Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," "Bound for Glory") and avowed left-wing social activist. Mark S. Wexler, born in 1958,...Tags: Terrence Malick, Norman Jewison, Conrad L Hall, Civil Unrest, Entertainment
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