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Proving Linguistic Rules Gets Complicated
The Hartford CourantQ: I have been wondering about the expression "the exception proves the rule." Can you elucidate? I'd be interested in its history and some examples to clarify the meaning. — Frank Aleman via email A: True confession: When someone asked me this... -
Summer baseball series on deck at ArtsQuest Center
Pass the peanuts and Cracker Jack. The Frank Banko Alehouse cinemas will screen seven features celebrating the Great American Pastime as part of its Summer Baseball Film Series, which runs June 16 to July 28 at the ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks. The...
Tags: Madonna, Dennis Haysbert, Baseball, Corbin Bernsen, Hodgkins Disease
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David Koch's chilling effect on public television
We seem to have entered an era of government snooping and censorship unsurpassed even by the dismal standard set four decades ago by President Richard Nixon. In recent days, we have discovered that the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative...Tags: Scott Walker, Television Industry, Barack Obama, Media Industry, National Security Agency
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Movie classics? Depends on your taste
The schedule for Kristen Tett's Cinema Classics series at Triangle Square Cinemas doesn't look like the syllabus for a film studies class, exactly. This year's offerings run the gamut from critical darlings (the first two "Godfather" movies, "Vertigo") to...
Tags: Elections, Inception (movie), Orange County Register, Music, Airplane! (movie)
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Film Independent at LACMA celebrates 'Valley Girl'
Film Independent at LACMA is holding a 1980s costume contest after the 30th anniversary screening of Martha Coolidge's endearing comedy "Valley Girl" on Thursday evening at the Leo S. Bing Theater. The romantic comedy was inspired by Frank Zappa and his...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Ed Wood (movie), Sally Kellerman, Arts and Culture, Larry Karaszewski
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Old movies still draw a crowd
When it comes to old films, Robert Osborne is hard to stump. But this time he had to consult his notes. "Hold on, it's so obscure, even I don't remember the name of it," said Osborne, who has served as the main on-air host of Turner Classic Movies for...Tags: Entertainment Events, All About Eve (movie), Media Industry, Airplane! (movie), The Big Sleep (movie)
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Roger Ebert dies at 70; Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic
Roger Ebert, the Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic whose gladiatorial "thumbs-up, thumbs-down" assessments turned film reviewing into a television sport and whose passion for independent film helped introduce a new generation of filmmakers to...
Tags: Journalism, Television Industry, Newspaper and Magazine, Social Media, Weight
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Donald Richie dies at 88; interpreted Japan for the West
Donald Richie, an American expatriate in Japan who became that country's preeminent Western interpreter, explaining its culture — from cinema to Zen to tattoos — in books and essays that illuminated the author's psyche as much as that of his...
Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Tokyo (Japan), Toshiro Mifune, Columbia University, Japan
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The story of the Oscars
While it's true that there's only so much anyone can say about the Oscars, remember it can be said again and again. As a reader (and writer), I know by now that there are 10 abiding Oscar stories. Here they are, all in a single article: The history...Tags: Gene Kelly, Rear Window (movie), Seth MacFarlane, Amour (movie), Arts
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Richard Collins dies at 98; onetime blacklisted screenwriter
Richard Collins, a screenwriter during the McCarthy era who was blacklisted for several years before he cooperated with the Communist-hunting House Un-American Activities Committee, died Thursday in Ventura. The onetime Communist Party member was 98...
Tags: Trumbo (movie), Obituaries, Russia, Arts and Culture, Homes
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When H.G. Wells met Orson Welles, Or: How typos lead to neat things
The strangest part of this story may be that in the middle of World War II, 74-year-old British author H.G. Wells took a train to Texas to speak to a meeting of the United States Brewers Assn. I can't quite figure out why he was tapped to speak there;...
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Big-screen blind spot: 'Groundhog Day'
RedEyeOnce in a while, a movie slips under your radar. For about, oh, 20 years. In 'Big-screen blind spot,' we sit down with those 'classic' movies everybody but us has seen and give them the nostalgia critic treatment. Confession: Until this week, I had never...Tags: Bill Murray, Entertainment, Andie MacDowell, Library of Congress, The Godfather (movie)
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