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Movie gangsters so bad they're good
One hundred and one years ago, D.W. Griffith gave us "The Musketeers of Pig Alley," often credited as the first gangster film, and once sound came in, nothing hooked movie audiences during the early 1930s more reliably than Edward G. Robinson or James...
Tags: Jacques Audiard, World War II (1939-1945), Scarface (movie), David Mamet, Organized Crime
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'Gangster Squad' a fusillade of bullets and cliches ★★
A triumph of production design but a pretty dull kill-'em-up otherwise, the post-World War II-set "Gangster Squad" comes from the director of "Zombieland," Ruben Fleischer. It's clear Fleischer, who also made "30 Minutes or Less," hadn't worked through...
Tags: World War II (1939-1945), David Mamet, Emma Stone, Organized Crime, Robert Patrick
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Giorgio Armani's niece Roberta has star power of her own
Los Angeles Times Fashion CriticThere are few designers working today who have had as big an influence on fashion as Giorgio Armani. Founding his company in Milan in 1975, he modernized the suit, giving it a relaxed, soft silhouette, and created a daytime uniform of power and...Tags: Bobby Shriver, Celebrities, Million Dollar Baby (movie), Tom Cruise, The Help (movie)
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Deirdre Capone softens a notorious icon
What's in a name? If you're a Chicagoan and your surname is Capone, everything. There is perhaps no more notorious name associated with the city (except perhaps Gacy, or for a time, Bartman). Growing up, Deirdre Marie Capone lived what she calls a "shame-...
Tags: St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1929), Boardwalk Empire (tv program), Folklore and Mythology, Newspaper and Magazine, Organized Crime
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Al Capone's descendants get Chicago-based reality TV series
RedEyeProving once again that anything can be made into a reality TV series, REELZ Channel announced Wednesday that Al Capone's descendants will be the centerpiece of a new docuseries. "The Capones" will debut this fall and stars Dom and Dawn Capone, owners of...Tags: St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1929), Road to Perdition (movie), Organized Crime, The Chicago Code (tv program), Restaurant and Catering Industry
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PASSINGS: Cliff Osmond
Cliff Osmond, 75, a character actor who was a regular presence in director Billy Wilder's comedies of the 1960s and '70s and appeared in dozens of TV series into the 1990s, died Dec. 22 of pancreatic cancer at his home in Pacific Palisades, said his...
Tags: Dartmouth College, The Front Page (movie), Bob Newhart, Jack Lemmon, Entertainment
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'Gangster Squad' a stylish but shallow noir tale, critics say
Taking its name and inspiration from a real LAPD operation that battled organized crime during the 1940s and '50s, the new film "Gangster Squad" dramatizes the story of Sgt. John O'Mara (played by Josh Brolin) and his squad's crusade against the...Tags: L.A. Confidential (movie), The New York Times, Chinatown (movie), Emma Stone, Los Angeles Police Department
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Dann Cahn dies at 89; editor on 'I Love Lucy'
Using a newly developed editing machine that he dubbed the "three-headed monster," Dann Cahn pioneered multi-camera editing on sitcoms in the 1950s while helping to craft a classic, "I Love Lucy." "Lucy" broke ground in television by employing three...
Tags: Lucille Ball, Newspaper and Magazine, Hal Roach, NBC (tv network), I Love Lucy (tv program)
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Interview: It'll take Superman to pull Michael Shannon away from theater
What does Oscar-nominated actor and former Evanston Township High School student Michael Shannon plan on doing as the most high-profile film of his career, "Man of Steel" — which co-stars Russell Crowe, Amy Adams, Kevin Costner and, in the role of...
Tags: Man vs. Wild (tv program), Jason Terry, Boston Celtics, World Wrestling Entertainment Inc., Boardwalk Empire (tv program)
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On Theater: Shakespeare goes to Chicago with 'Much Ado'
Mounting a Shakespearean play can challenge even professional companies, and colleges revive them chiefly as educational projects. Rarely does a community theater tackle the classical — and ancient — verbiage from the 16th-century works of the...
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PASSINGS: George Murdock, Charles 'Skip' Pitts
George Murdock
Character actor often played the 'heavy'
George Murdock, 81, a veteran character actor who had a recurring role as Lt. Scanlon on the television sitcom "Barney Miller" and played God in the 1989 film "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier,"...Tags: Music Industry, Celebrities, Obituaries, Battlestar Galactica (tv program), Albert King
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Kevin Costner forges new frontiers with Modern West
Kevin Costner, a superstar for two dozen years, hasn't had a big film hit in years. But overseas and out of camera sight, he's been renewing connections with international fans — as a singer.
Releasing CDs in Europe while performing on three...Tags: Superman (fictional character), Music Industry, Entertainment Events, Vocal Music (genre), Los Angeles Times
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