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Hopelessly devoted to John Travolta
Sun StaffAll week long, young and old, they've come to Middle River to pay homage to Vinnie Barbarino of television's Sweathogs fame. Or Danny Zuko from the movie Grease. But mostly it was, in the collective mind's eye of the fans who lined up daily by the...Tags: Los Angeles, Television, John Travolta, Arts and Culture, Movies
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'Sin City'
![Do graphic novels really need defending anymore? Because the oppositional, slightly defensive comic book guy stance is starting to feel atavistic. Michael Chabon won a Pulitzer Prize for "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay," and then took a crack at the script of "Spider-Man 2." National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Jonathan Lethem just published a book of essays called "Men and Cartoons." Even "Ghost World" creator Daniel Clowes — from somewhere deep in his alterna-comics lair in Berkeley — is on his second movie adaptation. The term "graphic novel" alone says all there is to say about comic books' cultural rehabilitation in the last two decades.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2005-03/16940824.jpg "Do graphic novels really need defending anymore? Because the oppositional, slightly defensive comic book guy stance is starting to feel atavistic. Michael Chabon won a Pulitzer Prize for "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay,\" and then took a crack at the script of \"Spider-Man 2.\" National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Jonathan Lethem just published a book of essays called \"Men and Cartoons.\" Even \"Ghost World\" creator Daniel Clowes — from somewhere deep in his alterna-comics lair in Berkeley — is on his second movie adaptation. The term \"graphic novel\" alone says all there is to say about comic books' cultural rehabilitation in the last two decades.")
Times Staff WriterDo graphic novels really need defending anymore? Because the oppositional, slightly defensive comic book guy stance is starting to feel atavistic. Michael Chabon won a Pulitzer Prize for "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay," and then took a crack...Tags: Bob Weinstein, Social Issues, Makenzie Vega, Spider-Man (fictional character), Bacon
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Fall Movie Preview
The Hartford CourantBetween the end of summer and the edge of winter and the holiday season, the movies shrink. The budgets are lower; the weekend totals dip. As young acolytes await the second coming of Harry Potter on Nov. 15 and older fans count the days until Pierce...Tags: England, Tara Reid, Boris Kodjoe, James van der Beek, Cate Blanchett
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'Ladder 49' actor enjoys his relative anonymity for now
Sun StaffMorris Chestnut didn't pursue acting for its elusive promise of fame and glory. Though recently, a steady flow of roles in mainstream films has kept Chestnut's resume growing, the thought of becoming a household name doesn't charm him at all. Right now,...Tags: Tom Cruise, Denzel Washington, Television, John Travolta, New York
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'Nicotina'
![In 'Nicotina,' chaos intersects flawed yet star-crossed lives in a Mexican heist. How dark is "Nicotina"? According to producer Martha Sosa, it's "the darkest, darkest part of the cigarette." But the cool, stylish Mexican heist-gone-wrong comedy is darker than that and even more hazardous to its characters' health.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2004-08/13894345.jpg "In 'Nicotina,' chaos intersects flawed yet star-crossed lives in a Mexican heist. How dark is "Nicotina\"? According to producer Martha Sosa, it's \"the darkest, darkest part of the cigarette.\" But the cool, stylish Mexican heist-gone-wrong comedy is darker than that and even more hazardous to its characters' health.")
Times Staff WriterIn 'Nicotina,' chaos intersects flawed yet star-crossed lives in a Mexican heist. How dark is "Nicotina"? According to producer Martha Sosa, it's "the darkest, darkest part of the cigarette." But the cool, stylish Mexican heist-gone-wrong comedy is darker...Tags: Death, John Travolta, Diego Luna, Mexico City, Crime, Law and Justice
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'21 Grams'
Times Staff WriterIn "21 Grams," a brutal and brutalizing new film from Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu, fate is a noose that slips over the necks of the guilty and innocent alike. In this fractured story about loss and love involving three separate families,...Tags: Death, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Quentin Tarantino, Crime, Law and Justice, Melissa Leo
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Movie review: 'Sin City'
TRIBUNE MOVIE CRITIC3½ stars (out of 4) Film noir never dies. It just keeps coming back, drenched in black, guns blazing. At least that's the case with "Sin City," an amazingly successful attempt by Robert Rodriguez to translate Frank Miller's hard-boiled, brutally violent...Tags: Death, Rutger Hauer, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, Crime, Law and Justice
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Deceiver
SPECIAL TO THE TIMESFriday January 30, 1998 A murder has been committed, and, since this is a movie, it goes without saying that it is a sensational, grisly murder--a prostitute has been sawed in half, her body parts dumped miles from one another. A couple of...Tags: Chris Penn, Renee Zellweger, Pate, Social Issues, Quentin Tarantino
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Plump Fiction
SPECIAL TO THE TIMESFriday May 15, 1998 Quentin Tarantino's chief sin--other than his atrocious acting--has been to inspire every moron with access to a movie camera and Daddy's credit cards to knock off a low-budget, noirish thriller about young, disaffected clowns...Tags: Death, Entertainment, John Travolta, Pamela Segall, Uma Thurman
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Supporting or lead role? It's anyone's call
Special to the TimesWhen "Traffic's" Benicio Del Toro beat out Russell Crowe and Tom Hanks for the Screen Actors Guild best-actor award earlier this month, there was a good deal of head scratching. Not that he didn't deserve the award, but if the Academy of Motion Picture...Tags: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (movie), Barry Fitzgerald, John Travolta, John Malkovich, Marcia Gay Harden
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Producing films, by way of Jersey
Times Staff WriterSeeing him sitting in a cramped trailer on a film set, dressed in all black except for a pair of purple flower-patterned socks, his cell phone constantly chirping, it's hard to imagine that Michael Shamberg has ever been anything but a movie producer....Tags: Fiction, Companies and Corporations, Pacific Gas & Electric Company, Chelsea (Manhattan, New York), Method Man
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Cannes tries to put 'Bunny' hop behind it
Chicago Tribune movie criticCan Cannes bounce back from "The Brown Bunny"? Or will Michael Moore's already controversial "Fahrenheit 9/11" dominate the international movie showcase, which begins again Wednesday on the southern coast of France? Last year's Cannes Film Festival --...Tags: Pedro Almodovar, England, Tony Richardson, Crime, Law and Justice, Emir Kusturica
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