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Jeannie Berlin, JoBeth Williams join 'Other Desert Cities' cast
The Los Angeles premiere of "Other Desert Cities" by Jon Robin Baitz is to feature Jeannie Berlin, JoBeth Williams and Robin Weigert. The actors are joining the previously announced Justin Long and Robert Foxworth in the comedy about a wealthy family...
Tags: Robert Foxworth, Justin Long, Other Desert Cities (play), Judith Light, Lincoln Center
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'You will like this movie better if you see it next year'
Good news: We won’t have to see Baz Luhrmann’s take on “The Great Gatsby” without the kind of elaborate 3-D effects and pop music soundtrack F. Scott Fitzgerald surely would have wanted. Sure, Luhrmann’s (“Moulin...
Tags: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Academy Awards, The Hangover (movie), Tobey Maguire, Joel Edgerton
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'Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close': Post-9/11 film milks viewer emotions with impunity -- 1 1/2 stars
!["Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" transforms the carnage and unruly grief of Sept. 11, 2001, known to its preteen Upper West Side Manhattan protagonist as "The Worst Day," into an occasion for interborough healing and emotional encounters of the cheapest kind. If actors this good cannot overcome their material, then we can only say: Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock … Max von Sydow, Zoe Caldwell, Viola Davis, Jeffrey Wright, John Goodman… thanks for your honest efforts in the service of a fundamentally dishonest weepie.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/column/2012-01/67457425-18092338.jpg ""Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close\" transforms the carnage and unruly grief of Sept. 11, 2001, known to its preteen Upper West Side Manhattan protagonist as \"The Worst Day,\" into an occasion for interborough healing and emotional encounters of the cheapest kind. If actors this good cannot overcome their material, then we can only say: Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock … Max von Sydow, Zoe Caldwell, Viola Davis, Jeffrey Wright, John Goodman… thanks for your honest efforts in the service of a fundamentally dishonest weepie.")
"Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" transforms the carnage and unruly grief of Sept. 11, 2001, known to its preteen Upper West Side Manhattan protagonist as "The Worst Day," into an occasion for interborough healing and emotional encounters of the...Tags: Upper West Side, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Viola Davis, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (movie), Entertainment
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Movie review: 'Margaret'
![If you know Gerard Hopkins' Victorian-era poem "Spring and Fall," a reflection on the loss of innocence addressed to a young child named Margaret, you have a clue about what writer-director Kenneth Lonergan is getting at in "Margaret." This contemporary lament, starring Anna Paquin, seems partly inspired by the poem, though Hopkins is but one of many literary references scattered about.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-09/65113748-29174158.jpg "If you know Gerard Hopkins' Victorian-era poem "Spring and Fall,\" a reflection on the loss of innocence addressed to a young child named Margaret, you have a clue about what writer-director Kenneth Lonergan is getting at in \"Margaret.\" This contemporary lament, starring Anna Paquin, seems partly inspired by the poem, though Hopkins is but one of many literary references scattered about.")
If you know Gerard Hopkins' Victorian-era poem "Spring and Fall," a reflection on the loss of innocence addressed to a young child named Margaret, you have a clue about what writer-director Kenneth Lonergan is getting at in "Margaret." This contemporary...Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Career and Workplace, Anna Paquin, Matt Damon, Laura Linney
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Jake Gyllenhaal to star in off-Broadway play
Jake Gyllenhaal is set to star in an off-Broadway play from the Roundabout Theatre Company. The Oscar-nominated actor will appear in the ensemble comedy-drama "If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet" by British playwright Nick Payne. Gyllenhaal has...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Anna Paquin, George Clooney, Jake Gyllenhaal, London Theatre
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Anna Paquin on the unlikely resurrection of 'Margaret'
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Around Town: Anime and the real Mae
24 FramesThe American Cinematheque gets highly anime-ted with its "Castles in the Sky: Miyazaki, Takahata and the Masters of Studio Ghibli" retrospective, which begins Thursday at the Aero in Santa Monica with a new 35-millimeter print of Hayao Miyazaki’s... -
Gehry-designed New York theater to open with $25-million gift
Culture MonsterFrank Gehry's next building, the new home of New York's Signature Theatre, will open Tuesday. It's being named the Pershing Square Signature Center following a hedge fund's $25 million gift announced Thursday.... -
'Rango,' 'Margaret' head back into movie theaters Friday
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L.A. Theatre Works moving to Sundays on KPFK-FM
Culture MonsterLoLos Angeles Theatre Works is changing radio stations in its hometown. Starting March 25, the radio-play series will begin broadcasting on KPFK-FM (90.7) each Sunday at 8 p.m. The show will be leaving KPCC-FM (89.3), which it has called home since 2002..... -
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All's Faire in Love
A college football star has to make up for his many absences by working at a Renaissance fair, where he falls for an aspiring actress. With Christina Ricci, Owen Benjamin, Cedric the Entertainer and Matthew Lillard. Written...Tags: Fox Broadcasting Company, Bennett Miller, Elena Anaya, Dennis Quaid, Family
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'Margaret' review: An enthralling, choppy, two-and-a-half-hour drama from 2005
RedEye movie critic*** (out of four) A good way to tell when a movie’s been on the shelf for a while: when it’s set in the present and characters go to a theater where “Roll Bounce” and “Flightplan” are playing. Held since 2005 due to...Tags: Sydney Pollack, Drama (genre), Anna Paquin, Anthony Minghella, Matt Damon
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