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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala dies at 85; Oscar-winning screenwriter
For years, people who read Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's novels assumed she was born in India. She wrote about swamis, social climbers, duplicitous landlords and other characters from the Indian bourgeoisie who inevitably found themselves colliding with...
Tags: Literature, Manhattan (New York City), Academy Awards, Shirley MacLaine, India
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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, award-winning author and screenwriter, dies at 85
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, a novelist and screenwriter whose long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions yielded two Academy Awards for her work on the films “A Room With a View” and “Howards End,” has died. She was 85....
Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Paul Williams, Academy Awards, Entertainment Events, Obituaries
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Richard Robbins dies at 71; film composer had 2 Oscar nods
Richard Robbins, the composer who created memorable scores for such films as "A Room With a View," "Howards End" and "The Remains of the Day" during a quarter-century collaboration with director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant, has died. He was...
Tags: Venice International Film Festival, Christopher Reeve, Celebrities, Sharon Stone, Entertainment
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L.A. Times launches free Indie Focus film series at Laemmle NoHo
The L.A. Times is expanding its events for movie lovers with a new, free Indie Focus Screening Series at the Laemmle NoHo 7 theaters starting Aug. 22 with “Robot & Frank.” Starring Oscar nominee Frank Langella as an aging jewel thief who...
Tags: Atom Egoyan, Lucrecia Martel, Miranda July, Gregg Araki, Sarah Polley
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Theater review: 'A Room With a View' at the Old Globe
Culture Monster"A Room With a View," a musical adaptation of E.M. Forster's 1908 novel, has its world premiere at the Old Globe.... -
Paul Newman's Top 15 Movies
![Paul Newman may be a beloved movie icon to those of us older than, say, 40. But many of the nation's younger moviegoers may have seen only one Newman movie in their lives: "Cars," in which he provides the voice to the old racer Doc Hudson.](http://www.courant.com/media/alternatethumbnails/story/2008-09/41635747-29043755.jpg "Paul Newman may be a beloved movie icon to those of us older than, say, 40. But many of the nation's younger moviegoers may have seen only one Newman movie in their lives: "Cars,\" in which he provides the voice to the old racer Doc Hudson.")
Courant Staff WriterPaul Newman may be a beloved movie icon to those of us older than, say, 40. But many of the nation's younger moviegoers may have seen only one Newman movie in their lives: "Cars," in which he provides the voice to the old racer Doc Hudson. They don't...Tags: Literature, Ted Williams, Celebrities, Hospitals and Clinics, Netflix Inc.
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Surviving Picasso
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday September 20, 1996 As an artist and a personality, Pablo Picasso resembled the Hindu god Shiva, "the destroyer of worlds," intent on outraging orthodoxy and defying tradition whenever possible. So it's ironic and even amusing to watch as...Tags: Sex, Cinema Industry, Pablo Picasso, Movies, New York
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Jefferson in Paris
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday March 31, 1995 Thomas Jefferson's idea of having fun in Paris was knocking down the walls of his house and putting up new ones. He enjoyed spending his evenings reading thick books and making multiple copies of his diary with the aid of a...Tags: Gwyneth Paltrow, James Earl Jones, Slavery, Cinema Industry, Greta Scacchi
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Stiff Upper Lips
FOR THE TIMESFriday August 27, 1999 Those austere, handsomely mounted Edwardian-era films with their green lawns, golden skies and repressed emotions--yes, I'm a little sick of them, too. Why has it taken so long for a movie like "Stiff Upper Lips" to get made?...Tags: Mel Brooks, Peter Ustinov, David Lean, Movies, Entertainment
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Cotton Mary
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday March 17, 2000 "Cotton Mary," which takes us to the Malabar Coast in South India in 1954, is the third feature in the last seven years to be directed by Ismail Merchant, the producing half of the distinguished filmmaking team he formed with...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Greta Scacchi, Movies, India, Merle Oberon
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'Le Divorce'
Times Staff WriterFor some, Paris is Notre Dame, the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe — an embarrassment of touristic riches interspersed with strings of baffling words and encounters with equally baffling food and wine. Of course, it's possible to get past...Tags: Politics, Celebrity Parents, Cinema Industry, Education, Stockard Channing
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Summer of same
Tribune movie reporterThe sequels and franchise flicks scored big last summer, so what do we get? More of the same this year. Check out the titles, and you might conclude that this is the year of the colon. But don't be fooled by the amount of noise generated by the highest-...Tags: Fraud, Minority Groups, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Paul Walker, Minnie Driver
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