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'Alien' (1979)
![Of all the monsters to go bump in the endless night of the movies, few have been as wonderfully frightening as the creature from "Alien." Designed by the Swiss artist H.R. Giger and first unleashed by director Ridley Scott in 1979, the extraterrestrial with the long, hard skull and lethal oral protuberance injected a distinctly adult vibe and shivery sense of horror into the genre. Two years after George Lucas' "Star Wars" made blockbuster history with gee-whiz heroics, Scott thrust science fiction back into the foreboding dark.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2003-10/9999359.jpg "Of all the monsters to go bump in the endless night of the movies, few have been as wonderfully frightening as the creature from "Alien.\" Designed by the Swiss artist H.R. Giger and first unleashed by director Ridley Scott in 1979, the extraterrestrial with the long, hard skull and lethal oral protuberance injected a distinctly adult vibe and shivery sense of horror into the genre. Two years after George Lucas' \"Star Wars\" made blockbuster history with gee-whiz heroics, Scott thrust science fiction back into the foreboding dark.")
Times Staff WriterOf all the monsters to go bump in the endless night of the movies, few have been as wonderfully frightening as the creature from "Alien." Designed by the Swiss artist H.R. Giger and first unleashed by director Ridley Scott in 1979, the extraterrestrial...Tags: Alien (movie), Ridley Scott, Star Wars (movie), Gaming, William Friedkin
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'Undisputed'
Times Staff WriterWalter Hill's "Undisputed," a boxing/prison picture as smart as it is brawny, shows what seasoned Hollywood pros can still accomplish without pretensions and overwhelming special effects. "Undisputed" is a compelling entertainment because of Hill and co-...Tags: Peter Falk, Meyer Lansky, Fisher Stevens, Punishment, Crime, Law and Justice
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2001 All-Metro Football Team - Offense
Sun staffPlayer of the Year: Joe Benson, McDonogh There was plenty of pressure on Benson and lots of questions to be answered - all because of what he did as a first-year starting quarterback last fall. Last season, he led the Eagles through an unbeaten season,...Tags: Lacrosse, University of Maryland, College Park, Virginia Tech, Florida State University, Stanford University
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'Daddy Day Care'
Times Staff WriterEvery so often a comedy comes along that's so flat, pointless and grimly unfunny that you have to ask yourself: What in the world happened to Eddie Murphy's career? First there was Walter Hill's "48 HRS.," still one of the best, most diverting and only...Tags: Comedy (genre), Government, Spike Lee, Crime, Law and Justice, Eddie Murphy
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Back to abnormal
Sun Movie CriticThink of John Waters as a racy Wizard of Oz. Generations of American storytellers have chronicled provincial misfits and artists leaving their homes and finding their true colors in Los Angeles, New York or San Francisco. But Waters does the reverse,...Tags: Selma Blair, Comedy (genre), Juvenile Delinquency, Chris Isaak, Harley-Davidson Inc.
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DGA honors Eastwood for 'Million Dollar Baby'
![Clint Eastwood, whose film "Million Dollar Baby" is nominated for seven Academy Awards, was named best director of 2004 on Saturday by the Directors Guild of America.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2005-01/16067429.jpg "Clint Eastwood, whose film "Million Dollar Baby\" is nominated for seven Academy Awards, was named best director of 2004 on Saturday by the Directors Guild of America.")
Times Staff WriterClint Eastwood, whose film "Million Dollar Baby" is nominated for seven Academy Awards, was named best director of 2004 on Saturday by the Directors Guild of America. The DGA award for his boxing drama, combined with his receiving the Golden Globe two...Tags: Culture, Television, Arts and Culture, Guiding Light (tv program), Cinema Industry
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'Alien vs. Predator'
![In Paul W.S. Anderson's "Alien vs. Predator," two famously nasty extraterrestrial species (and 20th Century Fox franchises) are pitted against each other in a heated battle royale to control a large, Rubik's Cube-like pyramid in Antarctica, 2,000 feet below the surface of the Earth. Given the particular characteristics of these two aliens — one is an incubating parasite, the other is an armored hunter fortified to the teeth with rotary saws and whatnot — the movie had an opportunity to raise some broader philosophical questions about the nature of evil. Does it coil deep within us or come at us with a retractable spear? Anyway, it passed on that.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2004-08/13813413.jpg "In Paul W.S. Anderson's "Alien vs. Predator,\" two famously nasty extraterrestrial species (and 20th Century Fox franchises) are pitted against each other in a heated battle royale to control a large, Rubik's Cube-like pyramid in Antarctica, 2,000 feet below the surface of the Earth. Given the particular characteristics of these two aliens — one is an incubating parasite, the other is an armored hunter fortified to the teeth with rotary saws and whatnot — the movie had an opportunity to raise some broader philosophical questions about the nature of evil. Does it coil deep within us or come at us with a retractable spear? Anyway, it passed on that.")
Times Staff WriterIn Paul W.S. Anderson's "Alien vs. Predator," two famously nasty extraterrestrial species (and 20th Century Fox franchises) are pitted against each other in a heated battle royale to control a large, Rubik's Cube-like pyramid in Antarctica, 2,000 feet...Tags: Monuments and Heritage Sites, Arts and Culture, Sanaa Lathan, Death, Archaeology
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'Alien: The Director's Cut' remains fabulously frightening
Tribune staff reporter"Alien: The Director's Cut" is an old nightmare, made shiny new. It's a scream from another era that still echoes around us. Director Ridley Scott's new, digitally refurbished and re-edited version of his 1979 pop science-fiction hit -- the subzero tale...Tags: James Cameron, Ridley Scott, Gaming, Halloween, Death
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This team plays (mostly) in Peoria: The 1995-6 Tribune All-State boys basketball first team
Tribune staff reporterImagine a home-and-home set of high school all-star games featuring Chicago's finest vs. the pride of Peoria. One game at the UIC Pavilion, the other at the Peoria Civic Center. Our local favorites would feature a seemingly unbeatable combination of a...Tags: Clubs and Associations, High Schools, Teaching and Learning, Big Ten Conference, A.J. Guyton
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Wild Bill
FOR THE TIMESFriday December 1, 1995 Walter Hill should have been born 25 or 30 years earlier and become a movie director when Westerns, those featuring the kind of romanticized, dime-novel tales debunked in Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven," were appreciated. ...Tags: Christina Applegate, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Disasters, Arts and Culture, Death
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Tales From the Crypt Presents Demon Knight
SPECIAL TO THE TIMESFriday January 13, 1995 If ever there was a show-biz survivor, it's the Crypt Keeper. After being blacklisted in the '50s when "Tales From the Crypt," his horror comic book, was accused of polluting the minds of young readers, the Crypt Keeper re-...Tags: Billy Zane, Television, Hotels and Accommodations, Spike Lee, Death
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Last Man Standing
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday September 20, 1996 "Last Man Standing," Walter Hill's stylish but extremely violent reworking of Akira Kurosawa's samurai classic "Yojimbo," looks sensational with cameraman Lloyd Ahern's desaturated images, sounds wonderful with its...Tags: Mexico, William Sanderson, Sergio Leone, Bruce Willis, Crime, Law and Justice
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