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TCM to remember Andy Griffith with four-film tribute on July 18
Channel Guide MagazineLegendary actor Andy Griffith passed away today at the age of 86. While he may be most remembered and beloved from his television work on The Andy Griffith Show and Matlock, Griffith was also a fantastic actor of both the stage and screen, and not just in... -
'Magic City': We like Ike
It is dawn on Dec. 31, 1958, and Ike Evans has a loving young wife, a former showgirl, in bed next to him, Frank Sinatra sleeping in the Presidential Suite of the glamorous Miami Beach hotel he owns and … big problems. A union strike, mobster...
Tags: Steven Strait, Miami Beach, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Frank Sinatra, Yul Vazquez
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'Find Me Guilty'
Chicago TribuneFor half a century, hot or cool, the trial dramas of director Sidney Lumet have established a clean, gliding visual order even when there's disorder in the court. Before "Twelve Angry Men" (1957), Lumet worked in live television, a medium not conducive...Tags: Chicago Tribune, Michael Phillips, Spike Lee, Annabella Sciorra, New Jersey
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Vin Diesel's movie makeover
![When "Find Me Guilty," director Sidney Lumet's take on the longest mob trial in U.S. history, debuted last March, posters for the movie had all the earmarks of a comedy: The star, Vin Diesel, was slumped in a prison cell, wearing a sad sack expression, a rumpled suit and a bad hairpiece.](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2006-11/26635695.jpg "When "Find Me Guilty,\" director Sidney Lumet's take on the longest mob trial in U.S. history, debuted last March, posters for the movie had all the earmarks of a comedy: The star, Vin Diesel, was slumped in a prison cell, wearing a sad sack expression, a rumpled suit and a bad hairpiece.")
Times Staff WriterWhen "Find Me Guilty," director Sidney Lumet's take on the longest mob trial in U.S. history, debuted last March, posters for the movie had all the earmarks of a comedy: The star, Vin Diesel, was slumped in a prison cell, wearing a sad sack expression,...Tags: Chicago Tribune, Celebrities, Elections, Marketing, Cinema Industry
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'The Country Bears'
NewsdayIf you've been to Disney World more than once, you've probably appreciated how useful that "Country Bear Jamboree" of singing automated bears can be when you're trying to cool down young 'uns who have been overstimulated by thrill rides. Still, no matter...Tags: Bonnie Raitt, Haley Joel Osment, Willie Nelson, M.C. Gainey, Brian Setzer
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Just Write
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday September 25, 1998 "Just Write" is just right, a blithe yet incisive romantic comedy that strikes a deft balance between fantasy and reality, humor and seriousness. Jeremy Piven, a busy and versatile young actor, moves easily into a...Tags: Celebrities, Sherilyn Fenn, Cinema Industry, Ed McMahon, Wallace Shawn
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Dudley Do-Right
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday August 27, 1999 Who better, or so you might think, to play the lead in "Dudley Do-Right" than Brendan Fraser, an actor whose persona contains so much of the straight-arrow Canadian Mountie that you could run a retrospective of his career...Tags: PG Rated Movies, Sarah Jessica Parker, WKRP in Cincinnati (tv program), Television, Movies
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The Wedding Planner
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday January 26, 2001 Jennifer Lopez and Matthew McConaughey have great chemistry in "The Wedding Planner," but their megawatt star power is short-circuited by the movie's lack of energy and crackling dialogue. Their charisma will likely be enough...Tags: Joanna Gleason, Emergency Planning, Bridgette Wilson, Charles Kimbrough, Adam Shankman
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Summer Movie Preview
![It has been suggested that summer has already begun at the cineplexes, with the huge opening for ``The Scorpion King." Whether The Rock has legs as well as arms will be seen. But well before Memorial Day, the traditional start of summer, the long season for big movies surely commences on Friday with the arrival of ``Spider-Man."](http://www.courant.com/media/thumbnails/story/2002-04/2896045.jpg "It has been suggested that summer has already begun at the cineplexes, with the huge opening for ``The Scorpion King." Whether The Rock has legs as well as arms will be seen. But well before Memorial Day, the traditional start of summer, the long season for big movies surely commences on Friday with the arrival of ``Spider-Man.\"")
Courant film CriticIt has been suggested that summer has already begun at the cineplexes, with the huge opening for ``The Scorpion King." Whether The Rock has legs as well as arms will be seen. But well before Memorial Day, the traditional start of summer, the long season...Tags: George Lucas, Teen-agers, Joaquin Phoenix, Melanie Griffith, Weather Reports
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