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21 hrs ago | Jalopnik

1958 Chevy Impala Convertible for a Hollywood-Classic $35,000! [Nice Price Or Crack Pipe]

In case you let Toad borrow your car, Nice Price or Crack Pipe is inviting Project Car Hell over for some beers, and to check out a 1958 Chevy Impala that's more American Grifter than American Graffiti.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Autos

Wed Jul 08, 2009

The Arizona Daily Star

Car show and 'American Graffiti'

Courtesy of the loft CINEMA : If you go a What: Screening of "American Graffiti" with vintage hot rod show.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Drama Movies, Theater, Arts

Tue Jul 07, 2009

MySanAntonio.com

'Beth Cooper' honors late-night movie tradition

Ever have one of those nights? Chased all over town by a bully bent on annihilation? Driven down a pitch-black road with the headlights off? Wound up in your underpants in the company of people you don't really know? That's just a small sampling of the humiliations visited upon Denis Cooverman, the increasingly bedraggled protagonist of "I Love ...

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Related Topix: I Love You, Beth Cooper, Comedy Movies, Drama Movies, Teenagers, Family, Oregon State University, Movies, Entertainment

Hollywood.com

Joe Spano

The often soft-spoken, slightly built Joe Spano came into the public eye after more than a decade as a stage player in the San Francisco Bay Area when he was cast as Det.

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Related Topix: Hill Street Blues, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Primal Fear, Apollo 13, Comedy Movies, Roadie, Thriller, History Movies, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Adventure, Musical Movies, The Incredible Shrinking Woman, Science Fiction Movies

Sat Jun 20, 2009

Hollywood.com

Candy Clark

Unusual, dynamic model-turned-actress who followed her film debut in John Huston's "Fat City" with a memorable, Oscar-nominated performance in George Lucas's seminal coming-of-age film, "American Graffiti".... Unusual, dynamic model-turned-actress who followed her film debut in John Huston's "Fat City" with a memorable, Oscar-nominated performance ...

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Related Topix: Sport Movies, Drama Movies, Fat City, Comedy Movies, Horror Movies, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Thriller, Cat's Eye, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Action Movies, Science Fiction Movies, Candy Clark, Entertainment

Thu Jun 18, 2009

Columbus Dispatch

Watch out for werewolves at screening after sundown

The Wexner Center for the Arts will open the cash bar, hand out free popcorn and screen The Wolf Man outside at sundown tonight.

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Related Topix: Horror Movies, The Wolf Man, Drama Movies, Lon Chaney Jr., Claude, TX, Bela Lugosi, Comedy Movies, Music!, Crime Movies, Adventure, O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Sun Jun 14, 2009

Canada.com

Cruize-in a retro love-in

Steve Plunkett says his annual gathering for car buffs is "an automotive extravaganza like no other," and the Fleetwood Country Cruize-in certainly lives up to that billing.

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Related Topix: Canada, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies

Fri Jun 12, 2009

Midland / Penetanguishene Mirror

'Laverne and Shirley' star coming to King's Wharf

Cindy Williams, best known for her portrayal of Shirley Feeney in the hit sitcom "Laverne and Shirley," will headline the production of "Moon Over Buffalo" starting next month at the King's Wharf Theatre in Penetanguishene.

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Related Topix: Laverne and Shirley, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Short, Comedy Movies, Thriller, Mystery Movies, The Conversation, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Cindy Williams, Father of the Bride, Family

Sun Jun 07, 2009

Modesto Bee

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Long before director George Lucas ever dreamed up the "Star Wars" series or thought about Indiana Jones, his life was all about cars.

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Related Topix: Star Wars, Action Movies, Adventure, Science Fiction Movies, Modesto, CA, Modesto Metro, Comedy Movies, Drama Movies, Harrison Ford, Richard Dreyfuss

Fri Jun 05, 2009

Las Vegas Review Journal

Birthday bash draws 8,000

From across Eldorado Park's manicured grass and rows and rows of cars, the 1951 Mercury looked familiar -- very familiar.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Bo Hopkins, Las Vegas, NV, North Las Vegas, NV, Chevrolet

Fri May 22, 2009

Santa Maria Times

Classic cars roll into the Santa Maria Fairpark for weekend

The best of the West's classic cars are back in Santa Maria. For the second consecutive year, the 28th annual West Coast Kustoms Cruisin' Nationals car show will call the Santa Maria Fairpark home this weekend.

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Related Topix: Santa Maria, CA, Paso Robles, CA, San Luis Obispo Metro, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Santa Barbara County, CA, Life, Food, Food Festival

Wed May 20, 2009

Film Threat

Sound on Sight: Angels, Demons & Ron Howard

This week's Sound on Sight podcast is a looks at some of Ron Howard's films both as a director and an actor.

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Related Topix: Angels & Demons, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Ron Howard

National Dragster

Hot rodding comes home for 50th running of historic Kragen O'Reilly NHRA Winternationals

From the classic images of Harrison Ford in American Graffiti to James Dean to The Fonz in Happy Days , the car the hot rod has always been at the center of Hollywood's projection of what it means to be cool in California.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Harrison Ford, Pomona, CA

Sat May 16, 2009

The Daily Times

Ocean City cruises back in time

OCEAN CITY - Anyone heading for Ocean City this weekend might feel as if they're driving into another era, as the resort will be chock full of the 20th century's best automobiles.

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Related Topix: Ocean City, MD, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Cindy Williams

Thu May 14, 2009

BIO

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Film director, writer, and producer. Born May 14, 1944, in Modesto, California. His parents sold retail office supplies and owned a walnut ranch in California.

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Related Topix: Modesto, CA, Modesto Metro, Comedy Movies, Drama Movies, University of Southern California, Star Wars, Action Movies, Adventure, Science Fiction Movies, Harrison Ford

Sat May 09, 2009

Buffalo News

a Graffitia makes its mark

The Buffalo Niagara Film Festival got going Saturday in the Riviera Theatre in North Tonawanda with a tribute to "American Graffiti," and who better to introduce the classic 1973 film than one of its own - actress Cindy Williams.

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Related Topix: Buffalo, NY, Buffalo Metro, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, North Tonawanda, NY, Tonawanda, NY, Laverne and Shirley, Comedy, Entertainment, Television

Thu May 07, 2009

Courierpress.com

Enthusiast's cars send him cruising down memory lane

Dave Wingerter grew up when teenagers did the circuit, cruising all the drive-ins, from Farmer's Daughter, Austin's and Merry-Go-Round on old U.S. 41 to the Coral on "rural" Green River Road before heading Downtown to drag Main Street or hang out at the Community Center.

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Related Topix: Family, Teenagers, Memphis, TN, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies

Tue May 05, 2009

Union-Sun & Journal

ENTERTAINMENT: Buffalo Niagara Film Fest returns this weekend

Nothing in life offers a greater reward than seeing one's baby grow up. After three years of laboring to get his film festival off the ground, Bill Cowell is one proud papa.

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Related Topix: Buffalo Metro, Buffalo, NY, New York, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Cindy Williams, Tonawanda, NY

Sun May 03, 2009

Tonawanda News

ENTERTAINMENT: Stars open the Buffalo Niagara Film Festival at the Riv

Classic cars, hula-hoopers and girls on skates rolling up and down Webster Street heralded the beginning of the Buffalo Niagara Film Festival Friday.

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Related Topix: Buffalo, NY, Buffalo Metro, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Cindy Williams, Enemy Mine, Science Fiction Movies, Black Entertainment, Louis Gossett Jr.

Fri May 01, 2009

WHIZ-TV Zanesville

19th Annual Hopalong Reunion ...

06:35 PM It's time to bring out your cowboy hats and spurs for the 19th Annual Hopalong Cassidy Reunion.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Bo Hopkins

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