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'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' a luxe example of '50s cinema
The teaming of Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" was a combination so potent it can only be described with an inappropriately long wolf whistle, so much so that even a fussbudget such as New York Times film critic Bosley...
Tags: Eastman Kodak Company, Marilyn Monroe, Monty Python and the Holy Grail (movie), Alfred Hitchcock, Ai Weiwei
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No matter how you look at it, it's still the news
I love the classic movie channel for the personal discoveries that it allows a movie fan. Now and then, I’ll see a film I had only vaguely heard about. That was the case recently, when I watched the 1952 movie “Park Row” about...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Movies, The Herald-Mail, Arts and Culture, Photography
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LACMA film series celebrates California noir
24 FramesStarting Friday at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Bing Theater in conjunction will the museum’s “California Design, 1930-1965” exhibition, “California Noir” features a superb selection of 10 little-seen films... -
PASSINGS: Sid Melton, Leonard Stone, Liz Anderson, Thomas McNeeley Jr., George Rountree
Sid Melton
Character actor in dozens of TV, film projects
Sid Melton, 94, a character actor perhaps best known for his roles in the hit television shows "Green Acres" and "The Danny Thomas Show," died of pneumonia Wednesday at Providence St. Joseph...Tags: New York City, Cesar Romero, Boxing, Diseases and Illnesses, Arts and Culture
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Andy Whitfield and Cliff Robertson to receive TV salutes
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelThe salute to Oscar winner Robertson comes first. He died Sept. 10 at age 88. TCM will offer a marathon of Robertson movies on Monday, but "Charly," for which he received the best actor Oscar, won't be among them. But two of his best-known performances... -
Book Review: 'Warning Shadows' by Gary Giddins
Warning Shadows
Home Alone With Classic Cinema
Gary Giddins
W.W. Norton: 416 pp., $18.95
Gary Giddins is well known for his writing about music — he was a Village Voice jazz columnist for three decades, and his books, among them the biography...Tags: Death, Ingmar Bergman, Carmen Miranda, Mel Gibson, Entertainment
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When it's no fun to get spoiled
Talking PicturesLeonardo DiCaprio in "Shutter Island" Every year or two, I have made the egregious mistake of disregarding the matter of the spoiler while writing a review. Too much is discussed; mistakes are made. Culpas are mea'd. Mea culpa. While certain...... -
Making sense of Hollywood -- in print
Special to The TimesApril 17, 2008 For the last several years, Richard Schickel has been a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times Book Review, writing primarily about books on film. His new book, "Film on Paper: The Inner Life of Movies," is a collection of many of...Tags: Documentary (genre), Censorship, Arts and Culture, History, Biography (genre)
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The year in home entertainment
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIn terms of home entertainment, viewers had an embarrassment of riches to choose from this year. Among 2007's best releases were restored old favorites and newly discovered rarities, television classics past and present, and at the top of the heap, the...Tags: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Sergei Eisenstein, Death, Terrence Malick, Ingmar Bergman
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'Pierrot le Fou'
Special to The TimesJean-Luc Godard's films have always reflected the times in which they were made with their acute, even startling ability to evoke self-recognition, yet so rich and far-ranging are their concerns that it is hardly surprising they seem timeless. Such is the...Tags: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Death, Movies, Jean Renoir, Anna Karina
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The Woman Chaser
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday July 21, 2000 "The Woman Chaser" is a minor diversion enlivened by some hilarious moments that above all serves as a potent big-screen calling card for Patrick Warburton, best known as Puddy from TV's "Seinfeld." In "The Woman Chaser,"...Tags: Patrick Warburton, Movies, Crimes, The Salvation Army, Vehicles
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'The Big Red One: The Reconstruction'
!["This is fictional life, based on factual death," reads the title card that opens "The Big Red One: The Reconstruction," the restoration that breathes new life into Samuel Fuller's 1980 World War II movie about a weathered sergeant and his four fresh-faced charges. The writer-director wove his own experiences with the 1st Infantry Division — whose distinctive crimson shoulder patch provides the film's title — with stories he'd heard to create a deeply personal, ground-level vision of men at war.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2005-01/15936674.jpg ""This is fictional life, based on factual death,\" reads the title card that opens \"The Big Red One: The Reconstruction,\" the restoration that breathes new life into Samuel Fuller's 1980 World War II movie about a weathered sergeant and his four fresh-faced charges. The writer-director wove his own experiences with the 1st Infantry Division — whose distinctive crimson shoulder patch provides the film's title — with stories he'd heard to create a deeply personal, ground-level vision of men at war.")
Times Staff Writer"This is fictional life, based on factual death," reads the title card that opens "The Big Red One: The Reconstruction," the restoration that breathes new life into Samuel Fuller's 1980 World War II movie about a weathered sergeant and his four fresh-...Tags: Death, Reconstruction, Crimes, Los Angeles, World War II (1939-1945)
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