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Great Geek Debates: Joss Whedon vs. J.J. Abrams
Joss Whedon photo by Gage Skidmore; J.J. Abrams photo by Steve McFarland There was a time, once, when geeks everywhere revered the name of George Lucas.
Mike Nichols to Receive AFI Career Award
Director Mike Nichols, pictured here in January 2005, will receive the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award.
Mike Nichols to receive AFI's top honor
He's almost the last of his generation of great filmmakers still working. Altman, Peckinpah, Pollack,all gone.
The career of this actress-writer-director was seemingly inevitable: she is the daughter of playwright Arthur Miller and photographer Ingeborg Morath and was raised in New York's artsy Chelsea Hotel.
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J.J. Abrams: Pop-culture polymath
Welcome back to our EW University course on TV Auteurs - a look at some of the people who have had a major role in shaping the medium over the last 50 years.
John Leguizamo sticks it to Hollywood in Toronto show
John Leguizamo attends the premiere of Righteous Kill in New York in 2008. He's doing his first Toronto show this week.
This reliable supporting actor has appeared in a handful of successful films in the 1990s, mostly as the leading man's best pal.
IF AMERICAN arts and letters has an aristocracy, then Rebecca Miller is a marchioness, maybe even a duchess.
An inventive screenwriter and producer who got his start in showbiz co-writing his first produced script while still in his early 20s, J.J. Abrams would go on to create memorable, star-making series with loyal.... An inventive screenwriter and producer who got his start in showbiz co-writing his first produced script while still in his early 20s, ...
On Movies: A director obsessed with time and space
By Steven Rea Inquirer Movie Columnist and Critic Fans of Lost desperate to figure out what's going on with space, time, and alternate realities on ABC's increasingly surreal series may want to check out the new Star Trek .
Q&A With 'Star Trek' Director J.J. Abrams
J.J. Abrams is responsible for some of the most beloved entertainment of the past two decades.
On the eve of his Star Trek reboot, J.J. Abrams is now a 42-year-old father himself-and one of the most powerful producers in the business.
This past weekend, rather than go to Tigerfest and inject myself into the fray of moon bounces, pop-punk and drunkenness, I adjourned to my home town of Columbia to see Fall Out Boy play at Merriweather Post Pavillion a few blocks down the street from where I live.
As a boy growing up in Los Angeles, J.J. Abrams liked to practise magic tricks. He enjoyed sleight of hand and card tricks but his favourite illusion was the "zombie floating ball", where he would conjure a white ball to rise through the air to the audience's delight and surprise.
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