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4 hrs ago | The Dallas Morning News

Cloris Leachman takes on 'Ballroom With a Twist'

Two characters are indelibly associated with Cloris Leachman - Phyllis, the nosy landlord on The Mary Tyler Moore Show , and Frau Blucher, a servant who at the mention of her name sets horses a-whinnying in Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein .

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Related Topix: The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Comedy, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Drama Movies, Phyllis, Cloris Leachman

Sun Nov 22, 2009

Customer Interaction Solutions

Coming programs span globe

Heading into its winter and spring seasons, the Wexner Center for the Arts is dropping names: filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich and the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, for example.

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Related Topix: Targets, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Thriller, Paper Moon, Peter Bogdanovich, Arts, Dance, Columbus, OH

Fri Nov 20, 2009

Variety.com

Lead Actor Race

JEFF BRIDGES "Crazy Heart" Has four prior Oscar noms . Co-stars in "The Men Who Stare at Goats." Was given the National Board of Review Career Achievement Award in 2004.

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Related Topix: Pride and Prejudice, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Crime Movies, Action Movies, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Thriller, The Contender, Jeff Bridges

Wed Nov 18, 2009

Paste Magazine

Watch the Trailer for Jeff Bridges Flick, Crazy Heart

Fox Searchlight has released the trailer for Crazy Heart , the film that critics says will help Jeff Bridges win his overdue Oscar.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Jeff Bridges

Tue Nov 17, 2009

Collider

Trailer, Poster, and Oscar Buzz for Crazy Heart Starring Jeff Bridges

Jeff Bridges is an actor who's overdue for an Oscar.A He's been nominated four times before and has a wealth of great performances in his filmography.A It looks like Bridges is adding another one to his filmography as he's getting some serious Oscar-buzz for his performance as a hard-living country singer in Crazy Heart .

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Comedy Movies, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Thriller, The Contender, Jeff Bridges, Family, Golden Globe Awards

Thu Nov 12, 2009

People

Alexa Chung Reveals Her Surprising Style Inspiration: Cybill Shepherd

Champagne, elegant canapes, celebrities - this was definitely not your typical Tuesday night shopping outing.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Cybill Shepherd

Mon Nov 09, 2009

Philly.com

Flickgrrl: Burning His (Jeff) Bridges

Jeff Bridges as Bill Django is The Men Who Stare at Goats. The pleasure of an actor's company often makes a nondescript movie seem great.

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Related Topix: The Men Who Stare at Goats, The Door in the Floor, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Drama Movies, Winter Kills, Music!, Thriller, The Contender

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Entertainment Weekly

OscarWatch: 4 Best Actor locks?

Earlier this week I posted about a trio of last-minute Best Actress contenders .

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Jeff Bridges, Up in the Air, A Single Man, Invictus, Movies, Entertainment

Sun Nov 01, 2009

Philly.com

On Movies: Jeff Bridges abides, and works like crazy

In The Men Who Stare at Goats , Jeff Bridges plays Bill Django, a military man who returns from Vietnam to embrace the '60s counterculture headlong - the whole Aquarian Age, flower power, altered states of consciousness thing.

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Related Topix: The Men Who Stare at Goats, The Open Road, Crime Movies, American Heart, Western, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Music!, Hearts of the West, Movies, Entertainment

Fri Oct 30, 2009

Black & White

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Wagon Master Directed by John Ford. "Hi, my name is Peter Bogdanovich and I had nothing to do with this movie, except that I love it." That's the first line from the commentary track, the only extra feature on this DVD but one that John Ford fans will regard as a treasure.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Paper Moon, Peter Bogdanovich, Harry Carey Jr., Religion, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism), Ben Johnson

Thu Oct 15, 2009

Omaha World-Herald

Bob's Take: Gene Wilder was delighted with Cloris Leachman

Sometimes you can be too good at your job. When Cloris Leachman started up the dark stairs of the castle in "Young Frankenstein," with a candelabra of unlit candles in her hand and Gene Wilder in tow, her classic line delivered in a thick German accent was: "Stay close to the candles.

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Related Topix: The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Comedy, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Phyllis, The Woman Who Willed a Miracle, Drama Movies, Cloris Leachman, Gene Wilder

Tue Oct 13, 2009

Boxoffice

Tuesday Video Event: The Ben Johnson Experience

One of the more pleasant perks of this gig is occasionally encountering a film you've heard about for ages but never seen, and then discovering that it lives up to its rep.

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Related Topix: She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Western, Drama Movies, Ben Johnson, Fort Apache, My Darling Clementine, John Wayne

Sun Oct 04, 2009

Daily Citizen

Jimmy Espy: Archer City, Texas

We made it. My old high school pal Jim Donovits and I loaded the Explorer down last week and drove a thousand miles to Archer City, home to the All Booked Up bookstore, the brainchild of my favorite author, the great Larry McMurtry.

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Related Topix: Archer City, TX, Texas, Drama Movies, Cybill Shepherd, Ben Johnson, Opinion

Sat Oct 03, 2009

Associated Content

Film Review: The Last Picture Show

The Last Picture Show takes place in the small dusty Texas town of Anarene during the early 1950s.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Anarene, TX, Peter Bogdanovich

Sun Sep 27, 2009

Peninsula Daily News

Making out, smoking and a new role -- Chlamydia: Leachman entertains...

Cloris Leachman, the 10th annual Port Townsend Film Festival's very special guest, definitely commands a room's attention.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, High Anxiety, Thriller, Smoking, Health, Medicine, Drama Movies, Cloris Leachman, Emmy Awards, Entertainment, Television, Port Townsend, WA

Fri Sep 25, 2009

KOMOradio

Cloris Leachman in Port Townsend for film festival

Cloris Leachman, the very special guest of the 10th annual Port Townsend Film Festival, looked out over the bluffs of Port Townsend from the home of a film festival volunteer and onto the bay where sailboats were slowly making their way in the evening breeze.

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Related Topix: Port Townsend, WA, Comedy Movies, High Anxiety, Thriller, Drama Movies, Cloris Leachman, Emmy Awards, Entertainment, Television, Reality TV, Dancing With The Stars

TV Guide

Randy Quaid and his wife arrested in Texas

Randy Quaid and his wife, Evi Quaid, were arrested Thursday for allegedly ducking out on an $10,000-odd hotel tab in Santa Barbara County.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Brokeback Mountain, Randy Quaid, Santa Barbara County, CA

Thu Sep 24, 2009

Buffalo News

Morning Links: Randy Quaid and wife fight police during arrest for cheating posh hotel

Didn't see this one coming: Randy Quaid and his wife Evi fought with police who arrested them in Marfa, Texas,on felony warrants charging them withskipping out on a hotel bill of more than $10,000. Evi had to be wrestled to the ground and Randy "assaulted them both physically and verbally and resisted arrest," according to TMZ, but will not be ...

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Brokeback Mountain, Randy Quaid, Marfa, TX

Wed Sep 23, 2009

Omaha World-Herald

Film classic is alive, it's alive

Put your horses away. Frau Blucher is coming to town. Tickets go on sale today for Omaha film historian Bruce Crawford's 25th classic movie screening, Mel Brooks' "Young Frankenstein." Crawford's special guest for the Oct.

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Related Topix: Omaha, NE, The Producers, Comedy Movies, Musical Movies, Mel Brooks, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Comedy, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Phyllis, Drama Movies

Sat Sep 19, 2009

Houston Chronicle

Hale: Catching The Last Picture Show in Archer City

For the past six weeks at the old country house in Washington County, we've been sitting around griping about the heat and the drought.

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Related Topix: Archer City, TX, Drama Movies, Washington County, TX, Weather, Natural Disasters, Drought, Conroe, TX, Huntsville, TX

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