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'Backbeat' creators go beyond the standard musical theater fare
Searching for his way into the new musical "Backbeat," which examines the Beatles' early days (and nights) in Hamburg, Germany, David Leveaux asked himself what he called "the Jerome Robbins question." It's a tactic he picked up in 2004 while overseeing...
Tags: Concerts, David Grohl, Music, Entertainment Events, Tony Awards
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Ahmanson's 2012-13 season includes 'Seminar,' Beatles musical
The 2012-13 season at the Ahmanson Theatre will feature Theresa Rebeck's "Seminar," starring Jeff Goldblum, and the U.S. premiere of "Backbeat," a new musical about the origin of the Beatles, based on the 1994 movie. As previously announced, the...
Tags: Rachel York, Judy Garland, Entertainment Events, Music, Stephen Dorff
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The Wings of the Dove
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday November 7, 1997 Despite a dense, convoluted writing style that makes no concessions to readers in a hurry, magisterial novelist Henry James has lately become a favorite of movie-makers. This last year has seen Jane Campion's "Portrait of a...Tags: Michael Gambon, Jane Campion, Linus Roache, Nicole Kidman, Elizabeth McGovern
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'K-PAX'
Times Film Critic"K-PAX" is a pleasant enough entertainment raised above its station by the quality of its acting. While the story line gets increasingly questionable, the fact that Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges are taking it seriously makes a good deal of difference. The...Tags: Plastic Surgeons, Gaming, Mary McCormack, Manhattan (New York City), Kevin Spacey
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Hackers
SPECIAL TO THE TIMESFriday September 15, 1995 "Hackers" is one of those movies that explore a cool misunderstood teen subculture with a breathtaking lack of verisimilitude. As a result, it gives you more insight into the minds of Hollywood hacks than of computer...Tags: Gaming, Companies and Corporations, Networking, Angelina Jolie, Social Issues
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'The Skeleton Key'
![With her light yellow hair, clear eyes and purposeful stride, Kate Hudson cuts through the boggy gloom of "The Skeleton Key" like a beam of reason. But even she is no match for the lugubrious vegetation of the Louisiana bayou outside New Orleans, which fairly quivers with dread and swampy portent. Mind you, there's also the hoodoo, which is described as a sort of DIY voodoo and is clearly something no rationalist Yankee will be able to resist. Toss in a remote, crumbling antebellum mansion full of religious iconography, a creepy attic, a permanently locked door and an all-access skeleton key and, well, I don't have to tell <I>you</I>.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2005-08/18925244.jpg "With her light yellow hair, clear eyes and purposeful stride, Kate Hudson cuts through the boggy gloom of "The Skeleton Key\" like a beam of reason. But even she is no match for the lugubrious vegetation of the Louisiana bayou outside New Orleans, which fairly quivers with dread and swampy portent. Mind you, there's also the hoodoo, which is described as a sort of DIY voodoo and is clearly something no rationalist Yankee will be able to resist. Toss in a remote, crumbling antebellum mansion full of religious iconography, a creepy attic, a permanently locked door and an all-access skeleton key and, well, I don't have to tell <I>you</I>.")
Times Staff WriterWith her light yellow hair, clear eyes and purposeful stride, Kate Hudson cuts through the boggy gloom of "The Skeleton Key" like a beam of reason. But even she is no match for the lugubrious vegetation of the Louisiana bayou outside New Orleans, which...Tags: Stranger Than Fiction, Gena Rowlands, Louisiana, Death, Bodies of Water
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