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4 hrs ago | Playbill

the DVD Shelf: Chaplin's "Monsieur Verdoux," Olivier's "Richard III"...

This month's column looks at Blu-ray releases of the Chaplin classic, "Monsieur Verdoux"; Laurence Olivier 's stunning "Richard III"; and the Douglas Fairbanks swashbuckler, "The Thief of Bagdad." Charles Chaplin, in his later years and later films, struggled with the old Charlie; both the character, and the style of filmmaking that had made him ... (more)

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Monsieur Verdoux, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Richard III, War Movies, Celebrities, Laurence Olivier, The Thief of Bagdad, Family, Action Movies, Adventure, Douglas Fairbanks, City Lights

8 hrs ago | Philly.com

Mel Brooks looks back on a career built on laughs

He is the subject of an American Masters special , recipient of an American Film Institute life achievement award , and librettist of a proposed Broadway musical based on his 1974 movie hit Blazing Saddles .

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, The Producers, Musical Movies, History of the World: Part I, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Celebrities, Mel Brooks, American Masters, Entertainment, Television, Emmy Awards, Movies

9 hrs ago | ComingSoon.net

Myriad Finds Life Itself with Morgan Freeman and Diane Keaton

Myriad Pictures announced today that Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman and Academy Award winner Diane Keaton will star together for the first time in the heartwarming comedy Life Itself .

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Related Topix: The Big Wedding, Annie Hall, Comedy Movies, Celebrities, Diane Keaton, Morgan Freeman, My One and Only, The Gathering Storm, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Entertainment

Sat May 18, 2013

Sammamish Review

Lake Washington District students settle in to new STEM school

And so it happened that students in Pete Saxby's class, at the Lake Washington School District's STEM school were watching the Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock movie "Speed." As the bus approached a highway ramp with a 50-foot gap, Saxby stopped the film to check the students were able to find the variables such as the buses' speed and the distance ... (more)

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Related Topix: Education Etc., Speed, Short, Comedy Movies, Thriller, Documentary Movies, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Celebrities, Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Sammamish, WA

Spokane 7

a oeTo the Wondera virtually drips with art

One difficult thing for a film critic to do can be captured in a two-part question: How do you review a film that, 1, is more of a mood piece than an example of narrative storytelling and, 2, resists your every effort to describe it without giving too much away? Faced with that challenge, I came up with the following for my review of Terrence ... (more)

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Related Topix: To the Wonder, The Tree of Life, Badlands, Days of Heaven, Thriller, Crime Movies, The Thin Red Line, Drama Movies, War Movies, Action Movies, Biography Movies, The New World, Adventure

Russia Taday

Lights! Camera! Censorship! Hollywood fed up with Chinese 'brick wall'

China's film market is the world's second-largest, just behind the US, but those shooting a movie in China inevitably come to grips with state censorship.

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Related Topix: Django Unchained, Avatar, Titanic, Drama Movies, Action Movies

Eastern Daily Press

Norwich city centre is transformed into an art gallery

The open-air Streetwalker Gallery taking everyday elements of the city and turning them into works of art.

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Related Topix: Titanic, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Celebrities, Leonardo DiCaprio, Boat Disaster

BroadwayWorld.com

Julien's Music Icons 2013 Auction to Feature Bette Midler Awards and More Today

Julien's Auctions returns to the Big Apple for the music memorabilia auction of the year at the Hard Rock Caf in Times Square today, May 18, 2013.

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Related Topix: Short, Music!, Hawaii, Drama Movies, Celebrities, Bette Midler, Elvis Presley, Pop/Rock, John Lennon

Fri May 17, 2013

MSN Living

More modern brides take husband's last name

For a while, brides were kicking the custom of taking their husband's name. In 2009, researchers found a 20-year trend of women keeping their maiden names, or at least hyphenating.

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Related Topix: Wedding, Titanic, Drama Movies, Action Movies

Fox News

Over $1 million in jewelry meant for celebs stolen at Cannes Film Festival

You can call it the case of life imitating art imitating life. The day after Sofia Coppola premiered "The Bling Ring," based on real-life celeb Jewelry thieves, in at the Cannes Film Festival, a real-life bling ring has hit the celebs where it hurts -- in Cannes! Thieves made off with over a million bucks in jewelry on Friday, all pieces set to be ... (more)

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Related Topix: Movies, Entertainment, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Cleopatra

Blaze

Go Your Own Way

Cabaret sensation Catherine Alcorn takes on one of the great unsung song-writers of the 20tth century, Christine McVie, in a new show for the Cabaret Festival.

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Related Topix: Hawaii, Drama Movies, Celebrities, Pop/Rock, Bette Midler, Mick Fleetwood, Fleetwood Mac

UTV

Is Leo the greatest Gatsby?

He's one of the most iconic characters in American literature, the eponymous anti-hero of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, the seductively mysterious self-made millionaire Jay Gatsby.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, The Great Gatsby, Arts, Literature, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pop/Rock, Titanic, Crime Movies, Action Movies, Romeo-Juliet, Celebrities, Leonardo DiCaprio

MetroMix

What's that 'Noise' you hear? It's Mel Brooks

A photographer from 'Mademoiselle' caught Brooks lounging in his Roman armor and helmet in between shooting scenes for 'History of the World, Part 1' in 1980.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, History of the World: Part I, Spaceballs, The Producers, Musical Movies, Science Fiction Movies, Celebrities, Mel Brooks, American Masters, Entertainment, Television, Arts, Cinema, Movies

Thu May 16, 2013

TN Team Blog

Six songs that became bigger than the movies for which they were written

A couple weeks ago, I wrote an article listing six songs that weren't specifically written for a movie, but are now forever associated with that film.

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Related Topix: Rock-N-Roll, Chuck Berry, Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, Western

UPI

Filmmaker, explorer James Cameron to be honored with science prize

California's Scripps Institution of Oceanography says it will honor filmmaker and ocean explorer James Cameron with its Nierenberg science prize.

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Related Topix: Avatar, Titanic, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Celebrities, James Cameron, Oceanography, Science, UC San Diego

BroadwayWorld.com

Christopher Plummer, Barbara Byrne and More Join Guthrie's 50th Anniversary Gala, 6/22

The Guthrie today announced that eight artists who have graced the Guthrie's stages during its 50-year history, from the first season in 1963 to the theater's current season, are slated to participate in the Guthrie's 50th anniversary on June 22, 2013.

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Related Topix: Celebrities, Christopher Plummer, Theater, Arts, Medea, Comedy Movies, Drama Movies, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Animation Movies, Short, Music!, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Crime Movies, Birth, Macbeth

Examiner.com

Conversations 'Bout the Girls

Conversations 'Bout the Girls is a provocative play that is quit delightful: 'Bout the Girls chronicles the lives of young girls and women and their relationships with their breasts, body image and world around them.

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Related Topix: Documentary Movies, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Speed, Short, Comedy Movies, Thriller, Los Angeles County, CA, Medicine, Health, Breast Cancer, Los Angeles, CA

Firstshowing.net

'Cabin in the Woods' Director to Write and Direct 'The Martian' at Fox

Last year director Drew Goddard blew audiences away with his meta horror movie Cabin in the Woods , and now he's finally lined up his next project.

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Related Topix: Apollo 13, Drama Movies, Adventure, Celebrities, Tom Hanks

Space.com

Apollo 13 Astronaut Jim Lovell Joins Private Moon Flight Co...

Legendary Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell has signed on with a commercial lunar exploration firm to help make private trips to the moon a reality, the company Golden Spike announced today .

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Related Topix: Apollo 13, Drama Movies, Adventure, Jim Lovell, Science / Technology, Space, NASA, Marble Falls, TX

MSN Living

Heartbroken bride finds another groom at wedding

They say the best way to get over someone is to meet someone else. One woman from Madhya Pradesh, India, really took that advice to heart.

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Related Topix: Wedding, Titanic, Drama Movies, Action Movies