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IN PLAYING the Chief, head of the super-secret spy agency CONTROL in the new movie version of the classic spoof TV show "Get Smart," Alan Arkin naturally endures his share of exasperation with the ...

“The Savages"(2007), her much-anticipated follow-up to "Slums”

Writer, director and actress Tamara Jenkins was not a typical Hollywood power-player, cranking out movie after movie and banking on star-power over narrative substance. via Hollywood.com

The latest flick in Dave's Drive-in is the great Slums of Beverly Hills . If you liked Alan Arkin in Little Miss Sunshine , you'll love this 1998 performance. via Davenetics

“I haven't seen you wearing one of those since your bar mitzvah”

For proof that American playwrights have not quite cornered the market on angsty dramas about domestic strife, check out "Two Thousand Years," a comedy by Mike Leigh in which a middle-class Jewish clan in ... via New York Times

“They're shorter. Like something Robert Mitchum would smoke.”

I'm going to get a cigarette," the actress Natasha Lyonne said by way of greeting. via The Huffington Post

“My life is very much in the present today”

She was my favorite rising star: Natasha Lyonne, with that throaty voice, curly hair and big eyes. via About World

Some of the choices made by the nominating committees for the 2008 Spirit Awards are nothing short of stupefying. via FilmStew

Academy Award winner Marisa Tomei stars in the world premiere of Will Eno's Oh the Humanity and Other Good Intentions, which begins previews at The Flea Theatre Nov. via Playbill