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Selection Sunday is exciting but will never top the NFL Draft
"Selection Sunday." It's got a nice ring, but don't get too cocky, basketball fans. Granted, you have one of the two best non-sporting sporting events (in which no scoring happens), but you will never touch the first day of the NFL Draft. But you...
Tags: Television Industry, Janet Leigh, Methadone (drug), Joe Buck, Robin the Boy Wonder (fictional character)
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'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy' plays close to the vest – 4 stars
![Actors so rarely get paid to sit still. This week at the movies, as Tom Cruise is on Imax screens playing a frantic, hamsterlike intelligence gatherer in the new "Mission: Impossible" movie, we have also a superb adaptation of the John le Carre spy novel "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy." Its central character, George Smiley of the British Secret Intelligence Service, does not smile much, or give anything away. He sits. And watches. And waits for his adversaries, one of whom is a double agent working for the Soviets as well as the British, to make a fatal mistake.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/column/2011-12/66766333-14134632.jpg "Actors so rarely get paid to sit still. This week at the movies, as Tom Cruise is on Imax screens playing a frantic, hamsterlike intelligence gatherer in the new "Mission: Impossible\" movie, we have also a superb adaptation of the John le Carre spy novel \"Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.\" Its central character, George Smiley of the British Secret Intelligence Service, does not smile much, or give anything away. He sits. And watches. And waits for his adversaries, one of whom is a double agent working for the Soviets as well as the British, to make a fatal mistake.")
Actors so rarely get paid to sit still. This week at the movies, as Tom Cruise is on Imax screens playing a frantic, hamsterlike intelligence gatherer in the new "Mission: Impossible" movie, we have also a superb adaptation of the John le Carre spy...Tags: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (movie), Mark Strong, Entertainment, Ciaran Hinds, Gary Oldman
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'Prometheus': Ridley Scott returns to space and finds something familiar ✭✭✭
Nearly all the bits and pieces in director Ridley Scott's"Prometheus" come from other movies — either one of Scott's or someone else's. More and more, though, I appreciate Scott's fundamental squareness as a filmmaker. "Prometheus" may be the"...
Tags: Science Fiction (genre), 2001: A Space Odyssey (movie), Gladiator (movie), Guy Pearce, Ridley Scott
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Bringing Big Bill Broonzy back into the spotlight
He was one of the most celebrated blues artists of his era, a visionary Chicago singer-songwriter who mentored Muddy Waters, introduced the music to Europe and inspired no less than Eric Clapton, Ray Davies and Pete Townshend (as they've all acknowledged)...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Documentary (genre), Studs Terkel, Chicago Tribune Printers Row Book Fair, Robert Johnson
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‘Doctor Who’: David Tennant, Billie Piper return for anniversary
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesMatt Smith's Doctor will cross paths with David Tennant's Doctor in an upcoming 50th anniversary special of “Doctor Who.” Tennant, ...... -
Around Town: 'Paper Moon' shines on downtown festival
24 FramesThe Los Angeles Conservancy's Last Remaining Seats festival that showcases the historic movie palaces on Broadway in downtown L.A. returns this Wednesday with Peter Bogdanovich's 1973 comedy "Paper Moon."... -
Matt Smith is leaving ‘Doctor Who’ at the end of 2013
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesMatt Smith is leaving “Doctor Who” after four years of portraying the time-traveling hero on the long-running British sci-fi adventure […]... -
'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy': engaging espionage, critics say
24 Frames"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy": The new Cold War spy thriller "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" had its work cut out for it, first in condensing the 400 pages of John le Carre's 1974 novel into two hours of screen time, and then in surviving comparisons to the... -
Tuesday's TV Talk Shows
Show TrackerClick here to download TV listings for the week of Dec. 11 - 17 in PDF format TV listings for the week of Dec. 11 - 17 in PDF format are also available at latimes.com/entertainment/news/tv Weekly TV Listings and more...... -
'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy': Betsy Sharkey's film pick
24 Frames"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy": Sometimes there is a wonderful madness in the method, and so it is with the superb thrill of "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," starring Gary Oldman, according to L.A. Times critic Betsy Sharkey.... -
Academy names its shortlist of 10 live-action shorts
24 FramesThe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the short list for live action short films. British actor John Hurt stars in two of the films on the list that will move on to the next round of nominations.... -
Oscar shorts: ‘Sailcloth’ features a silent John Hurt
24 Frames"Sailcloth" is one of two films starring John Hurt that made it onto the academy's short list for live action short films this year....
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