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Oscars 2013: Daniel Day-Lewis wins best actor for 'Lincoln'
Daniel Day-Lewis won the lead actor Oscar for his portrayal of Abraham Lincoln in Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" on Sunday night at the 85th Academy Awards. Day-Lewis, 55, becomes the first actor to win three lead Oscars. Katharine Hepburn won four in the...
Tags: Jack Nicholson, Movies, Bradley Cooper, Entertainment Events, Screen Actors Guild
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'American Idol' recap, Country stars (and total bombs) in Charlotte
We're in Charlotte, and if you weren't a country music fan before tonight, chances are you just might be buying your first country CD in the morning. Recapping tonight's show was a bit challenging. We may have heard all of 10 auditions that really had...
Tags: American Idol (tv program), Media Industry, Whitney Houston, Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson
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Al Pacino and his 'Stand Up Guys' among the stars slotted for CIFF
With its founder Michael Kutza nearing his half-century mark as leader, the Chicago International Film Festival announced its 48th edition slate Thursday. Heavily concentrated, as it has been in recent years, at the downtown AMC River East 21 multiplex,...
Tags: Movies, Festive Events, Iran, Chicago International Film Festival, Holy Motors (movie)
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Chicago International Film Festival gets a digital face-lift
The biggest changes afoot in this year's Chicago International Film Festival (CIFF), the 48th edition, are on the screen, yet they're not part of the programming. As the worldwide cinema industries push actual film — meaning celluloid — into...
Tags: Reality (movie), Steppenwolf Theatre, Rome (Italy), Festive Events, Holy Motors (movie)
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‘Princess Bride’ sequel? Inconceivable! says writer William Goldman
Hero Complex - movies, comics, fanboy fare - latimes.comNEW YORK — Twenty-five years after “The Princess Bride” first stormed theaters, director Rob Reiner, writer William Goldman and cast ...... -
Ang Lee's 'Life of Pi' gets mixed reviews after opening New York Film Festival
Pop2itThe consensus from early reviews is that Ang Lee's "Life of Pi" is visually gorgeous, but there's some difference of opinion on other aspects of the film.... -
A perilous journey for 'Life of Pi' director Ang Lee
The critics and reporters assembled to watch the new “Life of Pi” a few weeks ago weren't expecting a filmmaker introduction, but in stepped the ever-soft-spoken Ang Lee to inform them that this had been his hardest film to make and that...
Tags: Movies, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, James Schamus, Quentin Tarantino
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For the record
Nobel Prize: The headline on an article in the Oct. 9 Section A about the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine said that the award went to two stem cell researchers. One winner, Dr. Shinya Yamanaka, is a stem cell researcher, but Sir John Gurdon is not....Tags: Awards and Prizes, Medical Research, John Gurdon, Nobel Prize Awards, Mervyn Dymally
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For film fest, is 'good enough' good enough?
Is the Chicago International Film Festival good, good enough or not quite that? This is the question. This is the question to be asked of any festival, every perennial cultural mainstay in every city. It's the way to keep us all honest, whatever dog we...
Tags: Cinema Industry, Festive Events, Chicago International Film Festival, Christopher Walken, Al Pacino
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The Writing Life: Sandi Tan switches genres for 'The Black Isle'
Sandi Tan's past is teeming with ghosts. The Pasadena-based filmmaker-turned-novelist isn't a "seer" herself — she's a self-described scaredy-cat and doesn't particularly enjoy supernatural books and movies — but her childhood in Singapore...
Tags: Movies, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Book, Authors, David Lynch
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Denzel Washington movie 'Flight' to debut at New York Film Fest
“Flight,” starring Denzel Washington as a pilot who saves almost all his passengers after a nearly miraculous crash landing, will be the closing night film at the New York Film Festival, organizers announced Thursday. Directed by Robert...
Tags: Movies, Festive Events, John Goodman, Melissa Leo, Arts and Culture
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The art of inspiration
Inspiration is a fragile thing — an infant's frank gaze, a thought-provoking conversation, the last book you read. We spoke to three women in the world of fine arts about what moves them to create. Claire Sherman: It's all in the experiment...
Tags: Wicker Park, Christianity, David Foster, Fine Arts, Arts and Culture
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