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Tuesday Nov 3 | Village Soup

The start of a beautiful film series

THOMASTON : The Friends of the Thomaston Public Library is presenting a series of films in Room 208 of the Academy Building, 60 Main St./Route 1. The Friday night movies for November have a Bits of Nostalgia theme.

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Related Topix: Thomaston, ME, Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman

Tue Oct 27, 2009

Examiner.com

Classic films in focus: The Wolf Man

"Even a man who is pure in heart, and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms, and the autumn moon is bright." So goes the mantra that haunts The Wolf Man , and its reiteration over the course of the film reveals the spirit in which this movie is meant to be viewed.

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Related Topix: Horror Movies, Drama Movies, The Wolf Man, Supernatural, Lon Chaney Jr.

Tue Oct 20, 2009

Chicago Sun-Times

How clout list can help voters next year

Springfield lawmakers' reaction to the investigative report in the Chicago Sun-Times detailing how they begged the Blagojevich administration for state jobs reminds us of a scene out of the 1942 classic movie, "Casablanca." Capt.

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Related Topix: Chicago, IL, Chicago Metro, Renault, IL, Humphrey Bogart

Mon Oct 19, 2009

Examiner.com

Review: Star Wars: The Clone Wars 2.4 'Senate Spy'

Review: Star Wars: The Clone Wars 2.4 "Senate Spy" October 19, 2:22 AM Star Wars Examiner Bryan Young The Clone Wars Lucasfilm, Ltd "Senate Spy", the fourth episode of the second season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, is very much a thrilling homage to what may have been one of Alfred Hitchcock's finest films, Notorious.

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Related Topix: Thriller, Mystery Movies, North by Northwest, Adventure, Vocal, Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman

Mon Sep 21, 2009

Guardian Unlimited

HG Wells: What's your favourite film adaptation?

HG Wells disapproved of this one ... William Harrigan and Claude Rains in The Invisible Man .

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Related Topix: Horror Movies, Comedy Movies, Thriller, Drama Movies, Action Movies, The Invisible Man, Science Fiction Movies, Island of Lost Souls, Adventure, Dead of Night, Mystery Movies, War Movies, Michael Redgrave

Sat Sep 19, 2009

Buffalo News

Great team

Some things were just made for each other: ham and eggs, pizza and beer, television and couches, the Blackberry and the tweet.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Pizza, Humphrey Bogart, Jazz, Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Return to Forever

Thu Sep 17, 2009

The Hartford Courant

On Tonight: 'Beautiful Life,' 'Talent' Finale: Roger Catlin | TV Eye

"The Beautiful Life" has an odd genesis: A scripted saga about models meant to make a good fit with the network's most successful reality show, "America's Next Top Model" that is itself co-produced by Tyra Banks with Ashton Kutcher.

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Related Topix: Entertainment, Drama, Television, America's Next Top Model, Reality TV, Comedy Movies, High School Musical, Family, Drama Movies, Musical Movies, Corbin Bleu

Wed Sep 02, 2009

The Hartford Courant

Also On Tonight: 'Glee' Pilot, 'Dance' Compendium: Roger Catlin | TV Eye

The fall TV season is imminent, and to get you ready for shows that start a week from tonight, "So You Think You Can Dance" precedes its first fall season with a compilation of some of its best routines from the past five years, including some that have won Emmys for choreography.

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Related Topix: Emmy Awards, Entertainment, 9, Twitter, Pop/Rock, The Beatles

Tue Aug 18, 2009

The Jersey Journal

What, really, did they give?

Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman are shown here in a scene from the 1943 film ``Casablanca.'' Unfortunately, the author of this letter quotes Bogie instead of Claude Rains who played Captain Renault.

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Related Topix: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Horror Movies, Comedy Movies, Thriller, Drama Movies, Action Movies, The Invisible Man, Science Fiction Movies, Jersey City, NJ, Jersey City Metro

Wed Aug 12, 2009

Sand Mountain Reporter

Should Smith return to Washington?

'Is he fully aware that this bill has been months in both Houses, delayed and delayed, millions will be without food and shelter until its passage, public works to relieve unemployment will be at a standstill, government agencies will be forced to suspend...?' This question was asked during a scene in the Academy Award winning 1939 movie, 'Mr.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Comedy Movies, James Stewart, Pop/Rock, Jean Arthur

Tue Aug 11, 2009

Sand Mountain Reporter

Should Smith return to Washington?

'Is he fully aware that this bill has been months in both Houses, delayed and delayed, millions will be without food and shelter until its passage, public works to relieve unemployment will be at a standstill, government agencies will be forced to suspend...?' This question was asked during a scene in the Academy Award winning 1939 movie, 'Mr.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Comedy Movies, James Stewart, Pop/Rock, Jean Arthur

Thu Aug 06, 2009

Sand Mountain Reporter

Should Smith return to Washington?

'Is he fully aware that this bill has been months in both Houses, delayed and delayed, millions will be without food and shelter until its passage, public works to relieve unemployment will be at a standstill, government agencies will be forced to suspend...?' This question was asked during a scene in the Academy Award winning 1939 movie, 'Mr.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Comedy Movies, James Stewart, Pop/Rock, Jean Arthur

Wed Jul 22, 2009

Guardian Unlimited

Beyond the page 7 lead

Watching Andy Coulson and other News of the World apparatchiks denying the Guardian's allegations of widespread phone-hacking to MPstoday was a bit like the scene in Casablanca where Captain Renault closes Rick's bar.

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Related Topix: Humphrey Bogart, Conservatives (UK)

Tue Jun 30, 2009

San Diego Reader

Notorious

Alfred Hitchcock's high-rent spy romance, in romantic Rio de Janeiro, maintains an atmosphere of crackling sexual tension, with Ingrid Bergman as a loose liver wooed by a suave American agent, and propelled, against both their better wishes, into squeamish wedlock with a Nazi.

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Related Topix: Vocal, Alfred Hitchcock, World News, Brazil, Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant, Louis Calhern, Movies, Entertainment

Sun Jun 28, 2009

San Diego News Network

Eight great all-American movies for the Fourth

"Yankee Doodle Dandy." American movies began lighting screen fireworks even in silent days.

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Related Topix: Music!, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Yankee Doodle Dandy, The Birth of a Nation, War Movies, D.W. Griffith, Comedy Movies, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, James Stewart, Pop/Rock

Tue Jun 23, 2009

Fox News

Tech Q and A: I Am Shocked

Judging by the number of entries in the old inbox this week, it appears we weren't as ready for the DTV conversion as I opined two weeks ago.

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Related Topix: TV, Electronics, iPhone, Philadelphia, NY

Wed May 27, 2009

Atlantic Monthly

Modest Proposals for Gitmo Prisoners

In recent days, members of Congress have been "shocked, shocked," to use the words and cynical meaning of Claude Rains in "Casablanca," to learn that Barack Obama might consider bringing some of "the worst of the worst" from the SuperMax cells of Guantanamo to the mainland United States .

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Related Topix: US News, Camp Delta, US Politics, Barack Obama, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, South Carolina

Wed May 13, 2009

Entertainment Weekly

Fringe' season finale blows minds: 'We're trying to plug a hole in...

Well, there I was, watching the Fringe season finale, merrily taking notes about how much villain David Robert Jones, wrapped in his head bandages, looked and sounded like Claude Rains in the 1933 movie The Invisible Man , and getting goosebumps when, just before a commercial break, Nina Sharp said, "William Bell is not in this world ." But then my ...

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Related Topix: Fringe, Entertainment, Television, Horror Movies, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Comedy Movies, Thriller, The Invisible Man, Science Fiction Movies

Wed Apr 22, 2009

TMZ.com

4ie6

His nose has a head start, but it looks like the rest of Michael Jackson is well on its way to vanishing too -- check out his new look, inspired by Claude Rains in 1933's " The Invisible Man ." It's a thriller, right?! Permalink: http://www.tmz.com/2009/04/22/jacko-the-invisible-man-in-the-mirror/

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Related Topix: Horror Movies, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Comedy Movies, Thriller, The Invisible Man, Science Fiction Movies

Fri Apr 17, 2009

Chicago Sun-Times

Studio's unreleased faves available on demand

As Bogie once announced to Claude Rains at the end of "Casablanca," "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship." He wasn't talking about the new Warner Archive Collection, the first-ever DVD on demand service introduced by a major U.S. studio, but for film buffs, he might as well have been.

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Related Topix: Greta Garbo, Wisdom, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Emilio Estevez, Demi Moore, Sports, Movies, Entertainment

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