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Movies look to SXSW for a breakout gig
![Soon after its 1987 founding, <a href="http://www.sxsw.com/">South by Southwest</a> emerged as one of the nation's top showcases for off-the-beaten-track music. Now the festival has turned into a very different kind of launchpad -- for the often raunchy youth-appeal comedies that have become one of Hollywood's biggest profit centers.](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-03/45523989-12103619.jpg "Soon after its 1987 founding, <a href="http://www.sxsw.com/\">South by Southwest</a> emerged as one of the nation's top showcases for off-the-beaten-track music. Now the festival has turned into a very different kind of launchpad -- for the often raunchy youth-appeal comedies that have become one of Hollywood's biggest profit centers.")
Soon after its 1987 founding, South by Southwest emerged as one of the nation's top showcases for off-the-beaten-track music. Now the festival has turned into a very different kind of launchpad -- for the often raunchy youth-appeal comedies that have...Tags: Jodie Foster, Forgetting Sarah Marshall (movie), Film Festivals, Sony Corp., Robert Rodriguez
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Generation XXX
For the TimesA young couple strolls into a cafe in Eagle Rock. Based on appearances—severely angled bird's-nest hairdos dyed in shades of bruise, emblematic tattoos that simultaneously advertise solidarity and defiance, pierced nostrils, lips, eyebrows, faces...Tags: John Waters, Larry Flynt, Todd Solondz, MTV (tv network), Death
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'The Puffy Chair'
Times Staff WriterYou've sat on it. You've slept in it. You've hauled it up stairs and squeezed, twisted and cajoled it through impossibly tight doorways. It's that overstuffed recliner that male relatives refuse to vacate even after the football game is long over or the...Tags: Comedy (genre), Mark Duplass, Travel, Family, Movies
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'Funny Ha Ha'
![You wouldn't know it from watching Hollywood movies in which young people ace glamour jobs while inspiring articulate dreamboats to declare their love in public, but as David Rakoff once wrote, "Youth isn't wasted on the young. It is perpetrated on the young." Exactly how is brilliantly captured by Andrew Bujalski in his debut feature, "Funny Ha Ha," a deceptively simple portrait of a young woman trying to survive her dispiriting entry into adulthood.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2005-06/17846867.jpg "You wouldn't know it from watching Hollywood movies in which young people ace glamour jobs while inspiring articulate dreamboats to declare their love in public, but as David Rakoff once wrote, "Youth isn't wasted on the young. It is perpetrated on the young.\" Exactly how is brilliantly captured by Andrew Bujalski in his debut feature, \"Funny Ha Ha,\" a deceptively simple portrait of a young woman trying to survive her dispiriting entry into adulthood.")
Times Staff WriterYou wouldn't know it from watching Hollywood movies in which young people ace glamour jobs while inspiring articulate dreamboats to declare their love in public, but as David Rakoff once wrote, "Youth isn't wasted on the young. It is perpetrated on the...Tags: Death, Movies, Entertainment, Science and Technology
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The Challenges of Scanning 'A Scanner Darkly'
Zap2It.comFor all of Hollywood's love for Philip K. Dick, filmmakers have only occasionally done right by the prolific writer of speculative fiction. For every "Total Recall" or "Blade Runner" or "Minority Report," there's been an "Imposter" or a "Paycheck."...Tags: Timothy Leary, Philip K Dick, Movies, Fiction, Gaming
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News and Notes from the L.A. Film Festival
![Hollywood, the site of so many blockbusters, is also the home of the annual Los Angeles Film Festival, which champions cinema's more independent cousins. Zap2it will be on hand for all 11 days to chat with stars and celebrities, consume lobster and martinis and hopefully watch whichever film will become the next "March of the Penguins" or "Sideways."](http://images.zap2it.com/20060703/gregkinnear_littlemisssunsh.jpg "Hollywood, the site of so many blockbusters, is also the home of the annual Los Angeles Film Festival, which champions cinema's more independent cousins. Zap2it will be on hand for all 11 days to chat with stars and celebrities, consume lobster and martinis and hopefully watch whichever film will become the next "March of the Penguins\" or \"Sideways.\"")
Zap2It.comHollywood, the site of so many blockbusters, is also the home of the annual Los Angeles Film Festival, which champions cinema's more independent cousins. Zap2it will be on hand for all 11 days to chat with stars and celebrities, consume lobster and...Tags: Transportation Accidents, Paris Hilton, Christianity, Kelly Hu, Christopher Guest
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Willis Sues Former Friend for Extortion
Zap2It.comBruce Willis has dicovered that a friend in need of $100,000 and a car is not a friend indeed. The "Die Hard" actor filed a lawsuit Tuesday, Aug. 1 against a childhood friend who allegedly has threatened to release a book containing private information...Tags: Death, Property, Crimes, Family, Crime, Law and Justice
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'Fast Food Nation'
![Anyone who has read Eric Schlosser's book "Fast Food Nation" can tell you that the big burger-related question of the day is not "where's the beef,"<strong> </strong>but what, in the name of all that is good and pure, is <I>in </I>the beef. Apparently, not much that is good and pure. Beyond that, you don't want to know — and neither does the $330-billion fast food industry, which in response to Schlosser's Upton-Sinclair-of-the-Happy-Meal exposé, launched a major PR counteroffensive designed by the same people who brought us the Swift Boat campaign. (McDonald's has denied involvement.)](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2006-11/26454858.jpg "Anyone who has read Eric Schlosser's book "Fast Food Nation\" can tell you that the big burger-related question of the day is not \"where's the beef,\"<strong> </strong>but what, in the name of all that is good and pure, is <I>in </I>the beef. Apparently, not much that is good and pure. Beyond that, you don't want to know — and neither does the $330-billion fast food industry, which in response to Schlosser's Upton-Sinclair-of-the-Happy-Meal exposé, launched a major PR counteroffensive designed by the same people who brought us the Swift Boat campaign. (McDonald's has denied involvement.)")
Times Staff WriterAnyone who has read Eric Schlosser's book "Fast Food Nation" can tell you that the big burger-related question of the day is not "where's the beef," but what, in the name of all that is good and pure, is in the beef. Apparently, not much that is good...Tags: Public Employees, Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation, Crimes, Catalina Sandino Moreno
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Festival has many looks
Times Staff WriterThe Festival de Cannes wants to be all things to all people, to be the place for breakout extravaganzas as well as artistic ventures. For this year's 59th edition, both ends of the spectrum have American names attached. It's the sheer size of the thing...Tags: Cate Blanchett, Carol Reed, Colin Farrell, Film Festivals, England
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Three American Films Make Cannes Cut
Zap2It.comSofia Coppola, Richard Linklater and Richard Kelly are the three American filmmakers who will have projects in competition at next month's Cannes Film Festival. The program for the Festival, which runs from May 17-28, was unveiled on Thursday (April 20)....Tags: Film Festivals, Festive Events, Wim Wenders, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Guillermo Del Toro
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Delpy branches out quite effortlessly
Sentinel Movie CriticAt 37, Julie Delpy has stopped waiting for Hollywood to call. And she's stopped waiting for Paris or the rest of Europe to call, either. The French actress, a Hollywood transplant since the early '90s, still spends a few months a year in her home city....Tags: Julie Delpy, Roger Moore, Film Festivals, Death, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California)
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Spirit Awards tilt toward true independence
Times Staff WriterNominations for the Independent Spirit Awards were announced Tuesday with a mix of well-known, critically acclaimed films such as "In the Bedroom" and "Memento" joining edgier and more controversial films such as "L.I.E." and "The Believer" among the...Tags: Sissy Spacek, Culture, Brian Cox, John C. Reilly, Entertainment
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