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Scott Cooper: The body and soul behind 'Crazy Heart'
The Big PictureThe critics have been raving nonstop, and rightfully so, over Jeff Bridges' peerless performance in "Crazy Heart" as Bad Blake, the burned-out country music star who finds himself running on empty, reduced to playing bowling alleys as he tries to...... -
Action auteur Walter Hill to direct St. Vincent
Frankly My Dear» Orlando Sentinel – Frankly My DearWalter Hill tutored under Sam Packinpah (The Getaway) and showed his grit early on, with Hard Times, The Driver, The Warriors, Streets of Fire. His hard-bitten blockbuster 48 Hrs. made Eddie Murphy a star, and he did a terrific Vietnam War allegory,... -
Ageism in Hollywood? Writers go after IMDb to try and get birthdates removed
Frankly My Dear - Orlando SentinelThe first actor to ever lie to me about his age was John Davidson. That was pre-Internet, and tracking down the fact that he'd shaved 8 years off (He came to fame in the stage revival of Oklahoma! in the mid-60s) wasn't easy and didn't happen on deadline.... -
Mickey Rourke as Genghis Khan?
Frankly My Dear» Orlando Sentinel – Frankly My DearHe was on a break from filming the sword-and-sorcery epic Immortals in Montreal, “Yeah, that's what they're calling it now (It was called War of Gods, or War of the Gods),” but Mickey Rourke keeps calling it “Disciples” fo... -
Get the 'Side Effects' experience
OPENING FRIDAY Side Effects Steven Soderbergh, rightly considered one of Hollywood’s smartest movie makers, is at his cleverest in "Side Effects," a canny, cunning big-idea thriller in a minor key, an engrossing zeitgeist whodunit about Wall...
Tags: Sylvester Stallone, Steven Soderbergh, Criminals, Eric Stonestreet, Chemical Industry
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Reel Critics: 'Bullet to the Head' fires blanks
Walter Hill is no stranger to sophisticated action-adventure movies. He has directing, screenwriting or producer credits on "Alien," "48 Hrs." and "Last Man Standing." But you can't expect he would have any subtle variations on the action theme with a...Tags: Warm Bodies (movie), Rob Corddry, Nicholas Hoult, Sylvester Stallone, Teresa Palmer
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Film Review: Plot has one gaping bullet hole
It used to be that actors stopped playing tough-guy action roles after reaching 60. John Wayne probably held out the longest, into his late 60s. With Clint Eastwood continuing into his late 70s (in "Gran Torino"), Arnold Schwarzenegger (65) and...
Tags: Sylvester Stallone, The Last Stand (movie), Arnold Schwarzenegger, Clint Eastwood, Jason Momoa
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Stallone proves revenge has no age limit
OPENING FRIDAY Bullet to the Head Like the amped up comeback tour of two rockers who had their heyday sometime in the mid-’80s, Sylvester Stallone and director Walter Hill (“48 HRS.,’’ ‘‘The Warriors’’)...
Tags: Literature, Sylvester Stallone, Gemma Arterton, George Romero, Sung Kang
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Movies for everyone this winter
It's getting cold out there, and what better way to keep warm than by cozying up for a flick at your local cinema? This season, there is no shortage of quality films to watch, whether you're looking for something escapist, such as Peter Jackson's...
Tags: Opera (genre), Michael Gambon, Sylvester Stallone, Organized Crime, Dustin Hoffman
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Hollywood legend Dick Zanuck: a princeling who earned his stripes
When Dick Zanuck and I had lunch last month, it would’ve been impossible to imagine that the veteran producer would be gone six weeks later. Zanuck, who was 77 when he died Friday at his home in Beverly Hills, looked at least a decade younger and...
Tags: Steven Spielberg, Bruce Beresford, David Brown, Politics, Richard Zanuck
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Datebook
Sunday, Dec. 4 'Home for the Holidays' The Brooks Tegler Army Air Force Big Band performs holiday classics at 7 p.m. at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, 801 Chase St. in Annapolis. Tickets are $28; $23 for hall members. Information: 410-280-5640 or...Tags: Lou Gehrig's Disease, Agricultural Research and Technology, Common, Education, Frank Sinatra
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Book review: 'Zombie Spaceship Wasteland' by Patton Oswalt
Special to the Los Angeles TimesFull disclosure: Comedian Patton Oswalt, author of a new book of personal essays and other flights of whimsy called "Zombie Spaceship Wasteland," once invited me to his birthday party at the Lot, the former Warner Bros. studio in West Hollywood. Oswalt...Tags: Comedy (genre), Ghouls and Zombies (supernatural entities), San Francisco, Entertainment, Robert Evans
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