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Monday Aug 25 | Seattle Post-Intelligencer

'Search and Destroy' is a boring mission

Remember the Eighties? Not the nostalgic warmth for big hair and spandex of "The Wedding Singer," but the steel gonads and moral vacuity of "Wall Street"? THEATER REVIEW PLAYWRIGHT : Howard Korder CAST: Gabe ...

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Tue Aug 05, 2008

Guardian Unlimited

Film picks: The Hand That Rocks the Cradle | 300 | The Player

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle 9pm, ITV2 Rebecca De Mornay is splendidly icy as the nanny from hell, an inverted Mary Poppins out to terrorise the family she blames for all her woes .

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Tue Jul 29, 2008

Times Online

Interviews of the week: Greta Scacchi, DJ Goldie, David Blunkett

Scacchi happier with her clothes on Greta Scacchi no longer has any desire to take her clothes off on screen.

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Related Topix: Greta Scacchi, Vincent D'Onofrio, Drama, Comedy Movies, Thriller

Sun Jul 27, 2008

Times Online

Interviews of the week: Greta Scacchi, DJ Goldie, David Blunkett

Scacchi happier with her clothes on Greta Scacchi no longer has any desire to take her clothes off on screen.

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Related Topix: Greta Scacchi, Vincent D'Onofrio, Drama, Comedy Movies, Thriller

Fri Jul 25, 2008

Telegraph.co.uk

Greta Scacchi: 'I'm done with taking off my clothes on screen'

Greta Scacchi reveals how she fell out of love with acting before realising it was her destiny In her delectable youth, memorably naked in the cause of art, Greta Scacchi became sickened by the acting ...

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Wed Jul 16, 2008

Zap2it.com

Kate Hudson Has 'Nine' Lives

Kate Hudson has joined the cast of the Weinstein Company's big screen version of "Nine," adding another Oscar nominee to the roster.

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Related Topix: Kate Hudson, Comedy Movies, Music!, Almost Famous, Drama, Adventure, Thriller, Movies, Entertainment

Mon Jul 14, 2008

ComingSoon.net

Kate Hudson Joins Rob Marshall's Nine

The Weinstein Company announced today that Academy Award nominee Kate Hudson will join the cast of Nine , Academy Award Nominee Rob Marshall's adaptation of the Tony Award Winning Broadway musical.

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Related Topix: Kate Hudson, Nicole Kidman, Comedy Movies, Music!, Almost Famous, Drama, Adventure, My Left Foot, Biography Movies, Thriller, Entertainment

Fri Jul 11, 2008

XtraMSN Real Estate

Lyle Lovett sells millions, earns nothing

Lyle Lovett says he has "never made a dime" from album sales during his two-decade career, and hopes to rectify that situation when his contract expires.

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Related Topix: Country, Lyle Lovett, Comedy Movies, Thriller, Drama, The Opposite of Sex

Mon Jun 30, 2008

Boston Globe

In praise of Pollack

Sydney Pollack made his mark as a director , producer , and even as an actor with cameo roles in films such as "The Player" and on TV shows such as "The Sopranos." The Coolidge Corner Theatre has been honoring ...

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Related Topix: Sydney Pollack, Drama, Short, Comedy Movies, Tootsie, Thriller, Movies, Entertainment

Mon Jun 23, 2008

Huliq.com

New Jersey Theatre Presents Lyle Lovett

State Theatre presents Lyle Lovett and his Large Band in Concert on Wednesday, June 25 at 8pm.

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Fri Jun 20, 2008

WVIZ-TV Cleveland

Masterpiece: Miss Austen Regrets

Saturday, June 21 at 9:00 PM Jane Austen wrote about romance and courtship from personal experience, so it is hard to believe that she never married.

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Related Topix: Olivia Williams, Drama, Comedy Movies, Thriller

Fri Jun 06, 2008

Creative Loafing Tampa

Lovett, Hiatt return to Ruth Eckerd

"Clearwater , FL Four-time Grammy award winner Lyle Lovett and eleven-time Grammy nominated John Hiatt will be performing at Ruth Eckerd Hall on Friday, September 26 at 8 pm.

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Related Topix: Lyle Lovett, Country, Clearwater, FL, Short Cuts, Drama, Comedy Movies, Thriller, Pop/Rock, John Hiatt

Wed Jun 04, 2008

Bloomberg Business News

Greta Scacchi Jokes About Missionary Positions, Liz's Lingerie: Interview

Greta Scacchi is reminiscing. ``There was a period of six months when I had Harrison Ford , Jimmy Smits , Vincent D'Onofrio and Tom Berenger all in the missionary position, one after the other,'' she says with ...

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Related Topix: Harrison Ford, Vincent D'Onofrio, Tom Berenger, Greta Scacchi, Crime Movies, Drama, Comedy Movies, Presumed Innocent, Thriller

Mon Jun 02, 2008

Independent Weekly

Remembering director Sydney Pollack, and his visit to Durham

Sydney Pollack, at work on Sketches of Frank Gehry Photos courtesy of Full Frame Documentary Film Festival If Sydney Pollack is not necessarily a household name to the general public, chances are his face and ...

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Related Topix: Theater, Arts, Raleigh Metro, Sydney Pollack, The Electric Horseman, Comedy Movies, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Eyes Wide Shut, Western, Drama

Sat May 31, 2008

KSBY-TV San Luis Obispo

Director Sydney Pollack dies of cancer at 73 in Los Angeles

Academy Award-winning director Sydney Pollack, a Hollywood mainstay who achieved commercial success and critical acclaim with the gender-bending comedy "Tootsie" and the period drama "Out of Africa," has died.

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Related Topix: Sydney Pollack, Comedy Movies, Death Becomes Her, Drama, Los Angeles, CA, Short, Tootsie, Thriller, Husbands and Wives

Fri May 30, 2008

News Max

Appreciation: Pollack's Smart and Complex Films

Sydney Pollack had the rare ability to use his acting experience as adeptly behind the camera as he did in front of it.

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Related Topix: Sydney Pollack, Dustin Hoffman, Comedy Movies, Thriller, Drama, Entertainment

Mon May 26, 2008

Dayton Daily News

Some of Sydney Pollack's films

More... Some of Sydney Pollack's films By The Associated Press Some of the films and roles of Sydney Pollack, who died Monday.

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Related Topix: Sydney Pollack, Changing Lanes, Eyes Wide Shut, Drama, A Civil Action, Comedy Movies, Thriller, Husbands and Wives, Mystery Movies, Movies, Entertainment

Sun May 25, 2008

Fredericksburg.com

Peter Gallagher is going strong

Peter Gallagher loves the old alley behind the Broadway theater where he's co-starring with Morgan Freeman and Frances McDormand in Clifford Odets' "The Country Girl." Some 30 years ago he was just starting ...

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Related Topix: Theater, Arts, Peter Gallagher, While You Were Sleeping, Drama, Comedy Movies, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Thriller, American Beauty

Fri May 02, 2008

Playbill

Oscar Winner Bardem Withdraws from "Nine" Film; Kidman and Dench May Join Cast

“It's a gorgeous score, and we're reworking it for film, so it's really a new book”

Javier Bardem Javier Bardem, who won an Academy Award for his performance in "No Country for Old Men," has withdrawn from the upcoming film based on the award-winning musical Nine . via Playbill

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Mon Apr 21, 2008

Reuters

Hells Angels' chief sues HBO

Hells Angels veteran Sonny Barger, the man who oversaw the motorcycle gang's violent crackdown on fans at the Rolling Stones' disastrous Altamont concert in 1969, is suing HBO over a drama project he claims he ... via Reuters

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Related Topix: Carefree, AZ, Comedy Movies, Thriller, Drama

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