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Oct 6, 2009 | Associated Content

A Cinematic Tour of Las Vegas

Las Vegas has been featured in many movies with big stars. Modern hits include Leaving Las Vegas , Oceans Eleven and What Happens in Vegas .

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Related Topix: Tom Cruise, Dustin Hoffman, Oh, God! You Devil, Comedy Movies, Matthew Perry, Games, Blackjack

Tue Sep 15, 2009

Spokesman Review

In Passing

Larry Gelbart, 81, a celebrated writer and producer whose socially innovative TV series "M*A*S*H" helped demonstrate that the half-hour comedy could win huge ratings while addressing contemporary issues such as war and gender relations, died Friday at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif.

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Related Topix: Larry Gelbart, Sid Caesar, Short, Comedy Movies, Tootsie, Dustin Hoffman, Los Angeles Metro

Sun Sep 13, 2009

San Diego Reader

Old Guys Rule

Posted September 13, 2009, 2:01 p.m. I remember being about 11 when the movie "Going in Style" came on HBO.

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Sat Sep 12, 2009

NowPublic

Larry Gelbart Dead: 'M*A*S*H' Writer Dies from Cancer

Larry Gelbert, one of the brilliant minds behind the success of M*A*S*H , is dead at the age of 81.

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Fri Sep 04, 2009

Deseret News

Classic TV shows get U.S. stamp of...

The other day my wife came home from a visit to the post office with a sheet of stamps featuring 20 images from "classic" TV, which means the earliest black-and-white, baby-boomer days of series television.

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Related Topix: Entertainment, Drama, Television, Comedy, The Ed Sullivan Show, Dinah Shore, The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

Wed Aug 12, 2009

ABC7 Chicago

The U.S. Postal Service is saluting early television shows with a new collection of stamps.

The early TV memories stamps honor 20 television icons. The first class stamps include shows like The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, Lassie, The Lone Ranger, I Love Lucy, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, The Red Skelton Show, Dragnet and Kukla, Fran and Ollie.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, Drama

Tue Aug 11, 2009

Hollywood.com

Martin Brest

After making an award-winning short while a student at NYU , Brest wrote and directed his first feature, "Hot Tomorrows" , during a fellowship program at the American.... After making an award-winning short while a student at NYU , Brest wrote and directed his first feature, "Hot Tomorrows" , during a fellowship program at the American Film ...

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Related Topix: Midnight Run, Comedy Movies, Thriller, Meet Joe Black, Mystery Movies, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Adventure, Beverly Hills Cop, Scent of a Woman, Art Carney, Entertainment

Sat Aug 08, 2009

Hollywood.com

Martin Brest

After making an award-winning short while a student at NYU , Brest wrote and directed his first feature, "Hot Tomorrows" , during a fellowship program at the American.... After making an award-winning short while a student at NYU , Brest wrote and directed his first feature, "Hot Tomorrows" , during a fellowship program at the American Film ...

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Related Topix: Midnight Run, Comedy Movies, Thriller, Meet Joe Black, Mystery Movies, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Adventure, Beverly Hills Cop, Scent of a Woman, Art Carney, Entertainment

Sat May 30, 2009

KansasCity.com

Pixar perfect: The people at this studio have important lessons to teach

In order to make their sublimely inventive and affecting new film "Up," the tight-knit team at Pixar Animation Studios embarked upon a painstaking, complicated and, at times, even harrowing five-year journey.More than a few times along the way, they thought that they had a disaster on their hands.They closely studied an unusual group of other ...

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Up, Pixar, Media, Startups, Pixar Animation Studios, Animation Movies, Finding Nemo, Family, Drama Movies, Adventure

Tue Apr 28, 2009

Florida Times-Union

Would you really want to be "17 Again"?

Most moviegoers have seen some past variation of the recent Zac Efron theatrical release, "17 Again." You know, where some depressed adult wakes up to find himself in teenage form with a fresh chance to build a more fulfilling life.

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Related Topix: 17 Again, Comedy Movies, Thriller, Like Father Like Son, Drama Movies, Dudley Moore, Kirk Cameron, Opinion

Mon Apr 20, 2009

Courier-News

Popcorn Panel: '17 Again'

Get to the theater Sure, this sounds a lot like "Big" and "Freaky Friday" and, duh, George Burns' "18 Again!" and a host of other body-switching movies.

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Related Topix: 17 Again, Comedy Movies, High School Musical, Family, Drama Movies, Musical Movies, Zac Efron, Tom Hanks, Elgin, IL, Movies, Entertainment

Schadenfreude.

Thanks America.

You just had to go out in droves to see "17 Again". I know nothing about this movie, except that it stars one of the "Friends" and some dude named Zac Efron.

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Fri Apr 17, 2009

Ann Arbor News

Zac Efron returns to the glory days of the 'body-switcher comedy' in so-so '17 Again'

Ay, there's the scrub: Mike O'Donnell realizes he's looking much younger today than he did yesterday in "17 Again." A few years ago, NBC encouraged couch potatoes to watch reruns with the slogan: "If you haven't seen it before, it's new to you." The same sentiment could apply to "17 Again," which borrows liberally from the once-trendy ...

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Related Topix: 17 Again, Comedy Movies, High School Musical, Family, Drama Movies, Musical Movies, Zac Efron, Chances Are, Movies, Entertainment

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