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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala dies at 85; Oscar-winning screenwriter
For years, people who read Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's novels assumed she was born in India. She wrote about swamis, social climbers, duplicitous landlords and other characters from the Indian bourgeoisie who inevitably found themselves colliding with...
Tags: Germany, Arts and Culture, Asthma, John Schlesinger, Ismail Merchant
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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, award-winning author and screenwriter, dies at 85
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, a novelist and screenwriter whose long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions yielded two Academy Awards for her work on the films “A Room With a View” and “Howards End,” has died. She was 85....
Tags: Ismail Merchant, Paul Williams, Manhattan (New York City), Awards and Prizes, Academy Awards
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Richard Robbins dies at 71; film composer had 2 Oscar nods
Richard Robbins, the composer who created memorable scores for such films as "A Room With a View," "Howards End" and "The Remains of the Day" during a quarter-century collaboration with director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant, has died. He was...
Tags: Roseland, Venice International Film Festival, Parkinson's Disease, Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham Carter
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L.A. Times launches free Indie Focus film series at Laemmle NoHo
The L.A. Times is expanding its events for movie lovers with a new, free Indie Focus Screening Series at the Laemmle NoHo 7 theaters starting Aug. 22 with “Robot & Frank.” Starring Oscar nominee Frank Langella as an aging jewel thief who...
Tags: Lynne Ramsay, Arts and Culture, Jim Jarmusch, Gregg Araki, Fatih Akin
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Theater review: 'A Room With a View' at the Old Globe
Culture Monster"A Room With a View," a musical adaptation of E.M. Forster's 1908 novel, has its world premiere at the Old Globe.... -
Disney geeks out, plots 'theater domination' for 'Prince of Persia'
Company TownProducer Jerry Bruckheimer had never been to a fan boy convention before. But, suddenly last month he found himself the center of attention at Wonder-Con in San Franciso's Moscone Center, where nearly 5,000 comic book aficionados waited in long lines........ -
DVD Review: The City of Your Final Destination
Frankly My Dear - Orlando SentinelThat label “Merchant/Ivory” still has some cachet, years after the death of the producer third of the team of director James Ivory, screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and producer Ismail Merchant. Ivory, the director, is 82, and writer... -
'Lost': Hiroyuki Sanada reveals what he was thinking when Dogen kicked Sayid's butt
Show TrackerLet’s get it out of the way quickly. The answer to the question we all want to ask is: “I can’t. I’m sorry about that. This is ‘Lost.’ I would tell you, but I can’t.” Is Dogen really dead? Of...... -
Paul Newman's Top 15 Movies
![Paul Newman may be a beloved movie icon to those of us older than, say, 40. But many of the nation's younger moviegoers may have seen only one Newman movie in their lives: "Cars," in which he provides the voice to the old racer Doc Hudson.](http://www.courant.com/media/alternatethumbnails/story/2008-09/41635747-29043755.jpg "Paul Newman may be a beloved movie icon to those of us older than, say, 40. But many of the nation's younger moviegoers may have seen only one Newman movie in their lives: "Cars,\" in which he provides the voice to the old racer Doc Hudson.")
Courant Staff WriterPaul Newman may be a beloved movie icon to those of us older than, say, 40. But many of the nation's younger moviegoers may have seen only one Newman movie in their lives: "Cars," in which he provides the voice to the old racer Doc Hudson. They don't...Tags: Arthur Penn, Arts and Culture, Comedy (genre), Robert Redford, Robert Wise
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'The White Countess'
![Directed by James Ivory, produced by Ismail Merchant and finished shortly before Merchant's death in May, "The White Countess" marks the final work in a collaboration that spanned 40 years. The screenplay was written by novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, whose novel "The Remains of the Day" was adapted in 1993 by longtime Merchant-Ivory collaborator Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, and is set in the Shanghai of 1936 and '37, on the brink of the Japanese invasion.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2005-12/21061715.jpg "Directed by James Ivory, produced by Ismail Merchant and finished shortly before Merchant's death in May, "The White Countess\" marks the final work in a collaboration that spanned 40 years. The screenplay was written by novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, whose novel \"The Remains of the Day\" was adapted in 1993 by longtime Merchant-Ivory collaborator Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, and is set in the Shanghai of 1936 and '37, on the brink of the Japanese invasion.")
Times Staff WriterDirected by James Ivory, produced by Ismail Merchant and finished shortly before Merchant's death in May, "The White Countess" marks the final work in a collaboration that spanned 40 years. The screenplay was written by novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, whose...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Social Issues, Emma Thompson, Ralph Fiennes, Lynn Redgrave
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Stiff Upper Lips
FOR THE TIMESFriday August 27, 1999 Those austere, handsomely mounted Edwardian-era films with their green lawns, golden skies and repressed emotions--yes, I'm a little sick of them, too. Why has it taken so long for a movie like "Stiff Upper Lips" to get made?...Tags: David Lean, Genres, Emma Thompson, Peter Ustinov, Entertainment
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Cotton Mary
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday March 17, 2000 "Cotton Mary," which takes us to the Malabar Coast in South India in 1954, is the third feature in the last seven years to be directed by Ismail Merchant, the producing half of the distinguished filmmaking team he formed with...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Marlon Brando, India, Greta Scacchi, Merle Oberon
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