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Once A Punch Line, Hyundai Racks Up Sales, Awards
In the early 1990s, Hyundai's image was so bad, the brand served as an insult in a Hollywood movie.
Pick your top North Walian from our top 30
HERE they are, your top 30 North Walians. Over the past month, readers have submitted dozens of nominations for their favourite North Wales character, with many TV stars, celebrities, historic figures and politicians among those chosen.
Jonathan Pryce, who has been appointed CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours, is one of Britain's most versatile actors.
Pressure on Angels to deliver in draft
Today we find out about the steak knife. Remember Alec Baldwin, at the beginning of the "Glengarry Glen Ross" movie? Always be closing, he warned the salesmen, but the one who closed the most got a Cadillac.
In racking up two parallel casts for David Mamet's bristling, funny-sad drama about beleaguered real estate salesmen, director Gary Krinke puts a twist on the play's dynamics by using an all-female cast for half the performances.
Eddie really doesn't want to go back to the pen. He's got this case pending up in New Hampshire for hauling some stolen goods, but even a two-year sentence is more than his wife and kids can handle.
Daryl Hannah as Tracey Prescott, a rich girl who gets mixed up with "bad boy" motorcyle riding Johnny Rourke .
Kim Basinger faces 12 counts of contempt
Kim Basinger faces contempt charges after ex-husband Alec Baldwin accused her of violating their custody agreement.
Live Arts announces pretty darned exciting season
"I've never been onstage here," said Live Arts board chairman John Conover, moments before he introduced departing artistic director John Gibson to announce the upcoming Live Arts season "in his usual manner." Ah, new blood onstage and a seasoned veteran steering our local theater - what more could we ask for? How about a Live Arts season that ...
You need to keep your wits about you in the modern thriller: you never know who's going to turn out to have done it, except that it's going to be the least likely suspect.
Lymelife Review Posted by Chad Webb on 05.01.2009 Read on for cautions of ticks, deer ticks, and Carvel ice cream.
Halle Berry Was on 'Knots'? The Cast of 'Knots Landing' Then
Yep, that's Alec Baldwin alright. "Knots Landing," the '80s' version of Wisteria Lane, is the second-longest-running series in TV history , lasting 14 years and 344 episodes.
On the Town with the cast of Glengarry Glen Ross
The first act of Glengarry Glen Ross is set inside a Chinese restaurant, so it makes sense that two of the leads of the Soulpepper production choose a Szechuan place at Front and Sherbourne Street to unwind.
Arguably the greatest and most accomplished actor of his generation, Al Pacino became a cultural icon thanks to revered performances in a wide range of classic films, including "The Godfather" , "Scarface" and "Glengarry Glen Ross" . Coming to prominence during the 1970s - " a period commonly regarded as Hollywood's last Golden Age - " he possessed ...
This 'American Buffalo' is missing that Mamet snort
" 'Cause there's business and there's friendship . . . and what you got to do is keep clear who your friends are.
Glengarry Glen Ross: On swashbucklers, single malts & survival
Based on its ability to reveal the hierarchy at a real estate office with just a series of hints, Glengarry Glen Ross, starring Peter Donaldson and William Webster, could be the best workplace play ... David Mamet is characteristically sparing with the information he provides in Glengarry Glen Ross, but he takes care to give us the essentials.
Alec Baldwin's commanding onscreen presence, coupled with an riveting intensity and gravelly voice few actors possessed, won him big screen acclaim in "The Hunt for Red October" , "Glengarry Glen Ross" , "The Cooler" and "The Departed" . Off-screen, however, his outspoken liberal politics and his impatience with the Hollywood system initially ...
An extremely versatile character actor who easily oscillated between comedy and drama, Alan Arkin struggled for several years as a theater actor until the early 1960s when he caught his first break by joining the famed comedy troupe, The Second City.
The Odd Couple: Centennial Collection
Judge Roy Hrab is described as odd, at least a couple of times a day. Oscar Madison: "Now, kindly remove that spaghetti from my poker table." [Felix laughs] Oscar Madison: "What the hell is so funny?" Felix Ungar: "It's not spaghetti, it's linguini." [Oscar picks up the plate of food and throws it against the kitchen wall] Oscar Madison: "Now it's ...
Who's a tough guy now? White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, that's who.
The one silver lining to the collapse of the world as we know it, the one bit of bright in all that money sublimating into a dark, putrid smog of despair, is that the era of the douchebag is over.