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'Epic Movie'
![According to Webster's, a "spoof is "a light humorous parody." By that definition, writers-directors Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer's latest stab at the genre, "Epic Movie," is anything but.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2007-01/27615486.jpg "According to Webster's, a "spoof is \"a light humorous parody.\" By that definition, writers-directors Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer's latest stab at the genre, \"Epic Movie,\" is anything but.")
Special to The TimesAccording to Webster's, a "spoof is "a light humorous parody." By that definition, writers-directors Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer's latest stab at the genre, "Epic Movie," is anything but. While "Epic Movie" portends to skewer blockbusters such as...Tags: Johnny Depp, Jayma Mays, Adam Campbell, Crimes, Kal Penn
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Tom Hanks toys with 'Major Matt Mason'
Zap2It.comMove over, G.I. Joe: Major Matt Mason may be making a comeback. Tom Hanks, who went to the moon in 1995's "Apollo 13," is orbiting a live-action movie based on the moon-based major, according to Variety. Created during the lunar excitement of the 1960s,...Tags: Angels & Demons (movie), Toys, Hasbro Inc., Action (genre), Movies
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Will Smith Tops Forbes' Most Bankable List
Zap2It.comIn today's economy, Tinseltown insiders are looking at Will Smith as the best business investment on the big screen. The "Hancock" star was voted the most bankable actor on the inaugural Forbes Star Currency survey that asks entertainment industry...Tags: You Don't Mess With the Zohan (movie), Will Smith, Wanted (movie), Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep
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'Company' Man
![When actors take a role, they'll often sketch out a backstory for their characters to help them figure out why they do the things they do. No such legwork was necessary, though, for Alfred Molina's latest role in TNT's miniseries "The Company."](http://www.zap2it.com/media/alternatethumbnails/story/2007-08/31581335.jpg "When actors take a role, they'll often sketch out a backstory for their characters to help them figure out why they do the things they do. No such legwork was necessary, though, for Alfred Molina's latest role in TNT's miniseries "The Company.\"")
Zap2It.comWhen actors take a role, they'll often sketch out a backstory for their characters to help them figure out why they do the things they do. No such legwork was necessary, though, for Alfred Molina's latest role in TNT's miniseries "The Company." "The...Tags: John Le Carre, Central Intelligence Agency, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Companies and Corporations, Spider-Man (fictional character)
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Welcome to movie phones
Earlier this year, cellphone giant Nokia and Sony Pictures announced that South Africans who bought new Nokia smartphones would receive a memory card loaded with a copy of "The Da Vinci Code"—the movie, that is, not the book. The memory card had less...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Alcoholic Beverages, Gaming, Cell Phones, DVDs and Movies
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12 reasons to go to the movies this year
Sentinel Movie CriticWill the world really end in 2012, as the Maya predicted? Or will it end Nov. 13, when Roland Emmerich's movie 201 2 opens? Will The Vatican survive the Da Vinci Code sequel, Angels & Demons (May 15)? Will a rebooted Star Trek (May 8) still show its...Tags: Meryl Streep, Robin Wright, Robert Downey Jr., The Wolf Man (movie, 2009), Roland Emmerich
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'Spider-Man 3' Smashes Worldwide Records
Zap2It.comThe worldwide opening for this 'Spider' was hardly itsy-bitsy. You name the box office record and "Spider-Man 3" probably destroyed it over the course of its opening days of release. In the United States, "Spider-Man 3" had a $148 million three-day...Tags: Spider-Man (fictional character), Crime, Law and Justice, Crimes, Sony Corp., Death
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The knight who would be king
![THERE'S not a word in "King Lear" about any "Queen Lear," but Ian McKellen takes the stage nonetheless wearing two wedding rings, ones few in the audience will notice. Sir Ian simply had an epiphany as he prepared to take on the great Shakespearean role for the first time -- that the aged king likely had had two wives, the first bearing him his eldest daughters, now so plotting and duplicitous, and the second giving him sweet Cordelia, the youngest. McKellen imagined a more detailed back story for that second marriage too, one that has the beloved second Queen Lear having died in childbirth, and now their girl is about the same age she was then, putting all these complex feelings in the recesses of the king's mind -- and Sir Ian's -- as they make their grand entrance and for 3 1/2 hours become one and the same tragic figure.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2007-10/33138117.jpg "THERE'S not a word in "King Lear\" about any \"Queen Lear,\" but Ian McKellen takes the stage nonetheless wearing two wedding rings, ones few in the audience will notice. Sir Ian simply had an epiphany as he prepared to take on the great Shakespearean role for the first time -- that the aged king likely had had two wives, the first bearing him his eldest daughters, now so plotting and duplicitous, and the second giving him sweet Cordelia, the youngest. McKellen imagined a more detailed back story for that second marriage too, one that has the beloved second Queen Lear having died in childbirth, and now their girl is about the same age she was then, putting all these complex feelings in the recesses of the king's mind -- and Sir Ian's -- as they make their grand entrance and for 3 1/2 hours become one and the same tragic figure.")
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTHERE'S not a word in "King Lear" about any "Queen Lear," but Ian McKellen takes the stage nonetheless wearing two wedding rings, ones few in the audience will notice. Sir Ian simply had an epiphany as he prepared to take on the great Shakespearean role...Tags: Minority Groups, New Zealand, Weather Reports, Ian McKellen, Labor Legislation
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January 27
Times Staff WriterAfter almost a year in Paris, my French has stalled, I fear. I'm not much better than when I got here, partly because I work in English. This was brought home to me at a house party in the country, which was like a weekend of intensive language...Tags: England, Tom Hanks
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A few good words about a 122-year-old public servant
Sun StaffSince 1882, librarians at Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Free Library have catered to millions of inquiring patrons, digging up information on subjects from hang-gliding to archaeology to veterinary medicine to theology. Those who tap the library's resources,...Tags: Enoch Pratt Free Library, HBO (tv network), Television, Dan Brown , Dr. Seuss
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'Constantine'
![In "Constantine," Keanu Reeves plays a kind of INS agent on the border between this mortal coil and the eternal hereafter. Part detective, part border cop, part exorcist, John Constantine (no relation to the emperor who secured the power of the Christian church in the Roman Empire) spends his days extracting demons from little girls and making quick jaunts to hell.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2005-02/16339671.jpg "In "Constantine,\" Keanu Reeves plays a kind of INS agent on the border between this mortal coil and the eternal hereafter. Part detective, part border cop, part exorcist, John Constantine (no relation to the emperor who secured the power of the Christian church in the Roman Empire) spends his days extracting demons from little girls and making quick jaunts to hell.")
Times Staff WriterIn "Constantine," Keanu Reeves plays a kind of INS agent on the border between this mortal coil and the eternal hereafter. Part detective, part border cop, part exorcist, John Constantine (no relation to the emperor who secured the power of the...Tags: John Ashcroft, Rachel Weisz, Bars and Clubs, Crimes, Gavin Rossdale
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'National Treasure'
Times Staff WriterIs it even possible anymore to make a Jerry Bruckheimer-style movie with a straight face? Can we absorb another army-of-one rogue hero, another blindingly beautiful blond love interest with a PhD, another pile-driving musical score accompanied by...Tags: Easter, Urban Outfitters Incorporated, Jon Turteltaub, Nicolas Cage, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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