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Oscar Winner Sydney Pollack Dies at 73
Sydney Pollack, the Academy Award-winning director of "Out of Africa" who achieved acclaim making popular, mainstream movies with A-list stars, including "The Way We Were" and "Tootsie," died Monday. He was 73. Pollack, who also was a producer and actor,...Tags: Breast, The Twilight Zone (tv program), Jessica Lange, Robert Altman, Burt Lancaster
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Esotouric tours explores L.A.'s dark side
Times Staff WriterIt was on a bus tour of 100-year-old ghost stories that two L.A. history freaks hit a speed bump on their journey into the city's most obscure corners. "The problem with that tour," says Richard Schave, one of the movers behind a new tour series called...Tags: Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Crimes, Los Angeles, California, New York
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L.A.: Life that art can't imitate
So Reggie the alligator already has escaped once from his cell at the Los Angeles Zoo. Mark my words: No prison will hold him. He will escape again and steal a Ferrari Enzo. This is what makes writing wild fiction about Los Angeles so hard. L.A. just...Tags: Wildlife, Michael Mann, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Crimes, Los Angeles
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'Wall-E,' 'Torino' win big for '08
![The <a href="http://www.afi.com/">American Film Institute</a> named its best films for 2008 on Sunday afternoon and the big winners were "<a href="http://adisney.go.com/disneyvideos/animatedfilms/wall%2De/"> Wall-E</a>," the Disney/Pixar animated romantic comedy about a lovable robot, and "<a href="http://www.thegrantorino.com/">Gran Torino</a>," Clint Eastwood's drama about a widowed bigot who faces his own prejudices.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-12/43874998-14150923.jpg "The <a href="http://www.afi.com/\">American Film Institute</a> named its best films for 2008 on Sunday afternoon and the big winners were \"<a href=\"http://adisney.go.com/disneyvideos/animatedfilms/wall%2De/\"> Wall-E</a>,\" the Disney/Pixar animated romantic comedy about a lovable robot, and \"<a href=\"http://www.thegrantorino.com/\">Gran Torino</a>,\" Clint Eastwood's drama about a widowed bigot who faces his own prejudices.")
The American Film Institute named its best films for 2008 on Sunday afternoon and the big winners were " Wall-E," the Disney/Pixar animated romantic comedy about a lovable robot, and "Gran Torino," Clint Eastwood's drama about a widowed bigot who faces...Tags: Television Industry, John Adams, NBC (tv network), Frozen River (movie), Politics
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"Mary Austin and the American West" by Susan Goodman and Carl Dawson
Mary Austin and the American West Susan Goodman and Carl Dawson University of California Press: 324 pp., $29.95 Few writers of her period overcame more obstacles than Mary Austin. Stuck in a disappointing marriage, Austin (1868-1934) spent the...Tags: Jack London, D.H. Lawrence, Jane Austen, California, Ansel Adams
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Guild sets stage for key talks
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAs some of Hollywood's biggest screenwriters dined on prime rib and salmon in May at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, David Young's mind was on pie. Not the edible kind, but the one full of revenue that Hollywood studios and networks divide up. In Young's...Tags: DVDs, Television Industry, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Los Angeles, California
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AFI-Dallas Announces Full Schedule & Opening Night Film
AFI DALLAS 2009 International Film Festival has just announced that THE BROTHERS BLOOM will be the feature presentation of the festival's opening night gala. The eight-day festival begins March 26th and will feature 173 screenings and shorts with 150...Tags: Kathryn Bigelow, Movies, Rita Hayworth, Entertainment, Festive Events
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Revamped Allen Film Adds Farrell, McGregor
Zap2It.comJust weeks after putting the kibosh on another potential film, Woody Allen is getting to work casting his next London-set picture. According to the generally reliable Production Weekly website, Colin Farrell and Ewan McGregor will star in the project,...Tags: Comedy (genre), Vice (movie), Star Wars (movie), Drama (genre), Michelle Williams
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'Ask the Dust'
![Lovers of Los Angeles literature and especially the works of John Fante have long anticipated the arrival of the movie version of "Ask the Dust." That it was entrusted to Robert Towne, of "Chinatown" fame and keeper of a tradition of Southern California writers, has been a source of comfort and high hopes.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2006-03/22348715.jpg "Lovers of Los Angeles literature and especially the works of John Fante have long anticipated the arrival of the movie version of "Ask the Dust.\" That it was entrusted to Robert Towne, of \"Chinatown\" fame and keeper of a tradition of Southern California writers, has been a source of comfort and high hopes.")
Times Staff WriterLovers of Los Angeles literature and especially the works of John Fante have long anticipated the arrival of the movie version of "Ask the Dust." That it was entrusted to Robert Towne, of "Chinatown" fame and keeper of a tradition of Southern California...Tags: Salma Hayek, Nathanael West, Idina Menzel, Donald Sutherland, Los Angeles
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Writers Guild Dubs 'Casablanca' Top Screenplay
Zap2It.comJulius J. & Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch's "Casablanca" script, adapted from the play "Everybody Comes to Rick's" by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison, has been saluted as the greatest screenplay ever by the members of the Writers Guild of America. The...Tags: Paddy Chayefsky, Robert Altman, Robert Benton, Woody Allen, Oliver Stone
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Hayek Bares Body, Soul for 'Dust'
Zap2It.comRobert Towne ("Chinatown") is one of Hollywood's legendary screenwriters, but when Salma Hayek initially got his script for "Ask the Dust," she turned him down flat. "What happened was that he gave me the script eight years ago and I did not understand...Tags: Salma Hayek, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Movies, Los Angeles, Entertainment
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Contempt for the hometown
!["Los Angeles … has never recovered from the inferiority complex that its movies nourished," Pauline Kael once wrote. James Sanders uses Kael's quote in "Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies," a persuasive demonstration that film artists created a magical New York City on studio lots in Hollywood, Burbank and Culver City, inspired, at least in part, by the disdain and contempt they felt for the city in which they worked and lived. The real Los Angeles was no match for their mythic Manhattan.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2006-05/23495606.jpg ""Los Angeles … has never recovered from the inferiority complex that its movies nourished,\" Pauline Kael once wrote. James Sanders uses Kael's quote in \"Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies,\" a persuasive demonstration that film artists created a magical New York City on studio lots in Hollywood, Burbank and Culver City, inspired, at least in part, by the disdain and contempt they felt for the city in which they worked and lived. The real Los Angeles was no match for their mythic Manhattan.")
Special to The Times"Los Angeles … has never recovered from the inferiority complex that its movies nourished," Pauline Kael once wrote. James Sanders uses Kael's quote in "Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies," a persuasive demonstration that film artists created a...Tags: Bruce Dern, Roger Corman, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Los Angeles, Burbank (Los Angeles, California)
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