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THE dominant cultural form of the 20th century is starting to unravel. What was the dominant cultural form of the 20th century? There are plenty of candidates and no lack of ones that are allegedly under threat.

Friday, November 06, 2009 As the California State Park system struggles with financial shortfalls, perhaps Hollywood should come to the rescue.

If you live in Los Angeles, there's a good chance that you love film. And if you love film, there's also a good chance that you love silent and old black and white films.

Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin are taking on the Oscars. The two Hollywood veterans will share hosting duties at the 82nd Academy Awards, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Tuesday.

ABSTRACT: A CRITIC AT LARGE about Ayn Rand. 13 years after Rand's death, her books still sell more than 300,000 copies a year; "The Fountainhead," her slow-building blockbuster of 1943, was made an honorary Book-of-the-Month Club selection.

It feels familiar a ' the boxy white plastered exterior, red tile roof, the ubiquitous arches, soaring ceilings and foot-thick interior walls.

Another is to sign your name in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theatre. But the most lasting of them all may be to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

As a kid, Steven Spielberg charged $0.25 admission for 8-mm adventure movies he made with friends.

As a heavyweight contender four decades ago, 6-foot-6 Jack O'Halloran battled such tough hombres as George Foreman, Ken Norton and Cleveland Williams.

"I am big. It's the pictures that got small," Gloria Swanson declaimed in "Sunset Boulevard." In the Japan film industry, though, the pictures are getting bigger - gargantuan, in fact.

Merrimack Hall has sent out an e-blast offering a "two-for-one" discount on the upcoming event, "An Evening with Jerry Stahl," scheduled for Oct.

Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau is best known and most celebrated for films such as Nosferatu , The Last Laugh , Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans and Tabu .

Actor Hugh Grant is one of many from Hollywood who've been involved in sex scandals.

The Best of San Francisco Stage, Film, Fashion, Dining, Travel, Business, Philanthropy, and Governance - Challah Is Taken Sunday 18th of October 2009

ELIZAVETA MUKASEI, KGB spy and half one of the most famous husband-and-wife duos in the history of espionage.

Here's what's happening in the world of entertainment today: Angelina Jolie is in talks to replace Charlize Theron in "The Tourist," according to The Hollywood Reporter .

The 1956 Cecil B. DeMille classic "The Ten Commandments" is fantastic but it could have been so much better if it had used speed-ramping and buckets of blood.A Oh, and maybe a Jewish actor as Moses.A It now looks like we might get two out of three as 20th Century Fox has just made a pre-emptive acquisition of a pitch to tell the story of Moses in ...

That is the quote that caught my eye in this story about 20th Century Fox developing a film about the story of Moses from when he was an infant and almost died, to where the story of freeing the Hebrew slaves from enslavement by the Egyptians.

Even if you don't believe in ghosts, walking through a graveyard can be a little spooky _ especially in autumn as the trees lose their leaves, flowers wither away and light fades in the late afternoon.

Critics agreed John Galliano 's spring 2010 show in Paris yesterday was staggeringly beautiful.