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Daily Variety ends boffo run
Hold onto your Tuesday copy of Daily Variety. It could be worth something one day. The publication, which has kept Hollywood insiders on top of whose star is rising and whose is falling for almost 80 years, ended its run as a print vehicle today to...
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Guide to May 2012 TV premieres, finales, specials
RedEyeMay can be a difficult month for the serious couch potato, what with regular season finales happening at the same time new series are launching. So to help you out, here's a guide to the season and series finales, plus season, series, original movie and...Tags: Last Man Standing (tv program), Castle (tv program), America's Next Top Model (tv program), History (tv network), Parks and Recreation (tv program)
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The Morning Fix: 'Puss in Boots' roars! Brian Williams' 2nd job
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Gold Derby nuggets: 'Nowhere Boy' may be serious comedy contender at Golden Globes | Michael Caine gripes he ought to have more Oscars
Gold Derby• "Proving that its buzz wasn't short-lived, Facebook movie 'The Social Network' topped the box office for the second weekend in a row, with ticket sales down a small 31% from its debut at $15.5 million," reports the L.A. Times. That helps to sustain... -
The Oscars on TV this weekend
Show TrackerFor those who just can't wait until the Feb. 27 Oscar telecast and can't get enough of Amy, Christian, Colin, Annette, Geoffrey, Hailee, Javier, Helena, Jeff, Jennifer, Jesse and all the rest, listed below are some highlights of movies, series,...... -
'Fun With Dick & Jane'
!["Fun With Dick & Jane" plays like the setup for a movie that never materializes. It has all the elements for a successful comedy, but once the premise is presented, the film doesn't know how to deliver on its promise. That doesn't mean there is no fun in "Fun." With gifted professionals like Jim Carrey and Téa Leoni in the starring roles, a script co-written by Judd Apatow ("The 40 Year-Old Virgin") and direction by Dean Parisot ("Galaxy Quest"), it would have to have amusing moments, and it does.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2005-12/21061910.jpg ""Fun With Dick & Jane\" plays like the setup for a movie that never materializes. It has all the elements for a successful comedy, but once the premise is presented, the film doesn't know how to deliver on its promise. That doesn't mean there is no fun in \"Fun.\" With gifted professionals like Jim Carrey and Téa Leoni in the starring roles, a script co-written by Judd Apatow (\"The 40 Year-Old Virgin\") and direction by Dean Parisot (\"Galaxy Quest\"), it would have to have amusing moments, and it does.")
Times Staff Writer"Fun With Dick & Jane" plays like the setup for a movie that never materializes. It has all the elements for a successful comedy, but once the premise is presented, the film doesn't know how to deliver on its promise. That doesn't mean there is no fun...Tags: Crimes, Richard Jenkins, Judd Apatow, Entertainment, Jim Carrey
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Festival of Books To be Held April 28-29 at UCLA
This page has moved. If you are not automatically re-directed, please click here.Tags: Florida, NBC (tv network), Edward James Olmos, Ina Garten, Poetry
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How the Kid Stayed in Movie Business
TIMES STAFF WRITER"The Kid Stays in the Picture," a witty, colorful and poignant account of the life and times of producer Robert Evans, takes its title from a remark made by movie mogul Darryl F. Zanuck. With scant acting experience, Evans had been cast as a matador in...Tags: Crimes, The Godfather (movie), Celebrities, Eddie Albert, New York
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Movie review: 'Inside Deep Throat'
TRIBUNE STAFF REPORTER2½ stars (out of 4) Helen Gurley Brown uses semen as a face cream. Wes Craven started his career in smut. Dick Cavett wants to watch a porn film right now. These and other salacious tidbits are yours courtesy of Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato's...Tags: Hugh Hefner, Entertainment, Manhattan (New York City), Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Erica Jong
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Grounded, more ways than one
Times Staff WriterKeisha Castle-Hughes is wincing. It's not even 9 a.m. and a stranger is plucking her eyebrows. Here in Los Angeles things get weird during Oscar season. People who have spent their adult lives in front of a camera get nominated for something or other...Tags: NBC (tv network), Celebrities, Sneezing, AMC (tv network), New Zealand
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Eighth Annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books To Feature Literary "Who's Who" Apr. 26-27 at UCLA
NOTE TO EDITORS: New media credential requirements and deadlines have been posted in the Media Center section of the festival's Web site: www.latimes.com/festivalofbooks. LOS ANGELES, April 2, 2003 – More than 325 of the country's best-selling...Tags: Tickets, New York, Arianna Huffington, Christopher Isherwood, Daniel Ellsberg
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'Daddy Day Care'
Times Staff WriterEvery so often a comedy comes along that's so flat, pointless and grimly unfunny that you have to ask yourself: What in the world happened to Eddie Murphy's career? First there was Walter Hill's "48 HRS.," still one of the best, most diverting and only...Tags: Crimes, Celebrities, Jim Carrey, Showtime (tv network), Donna Reed
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