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Thursday Nov 5 | Filmexperience.blogspot.com

Decade in Review: 2000 Top Ten

Let's discuss each year of this decade as it winds down! Who's with me?!? It's always interesting to see which films remained at the forefront of our memory and which fade... both for a variety of reasons, quality being only one factor.

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Related Topix: Best of 2007, Drama Movies, You Can Count on Me, Mark Ruffalo, Sport Movies, Bring It On, Comedy Movies, Antichrist

Wed Nov 04, 2009

Curve

At the Outfest Legacy Awards

Kicking it on the patio of the esteemed Directors Guild on Sunset Boulevard, waiting for the Outfest Legacy Awards to start, I notice actress Laura Linney mingling with assorted filmmakers, film lovers and supporters of Outfest, Los Angeles' prestigious gay and lesbian film festival.

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Related Topix: Entertainment, Drama, Television, Tales of the City, Gay/Lesbian, Theater, Arts, Wedding

Fri Oct 30, 2009

Playbill

Platt Is Linney's Hubby in "The C Word"

Oliver Platt a ' last seen on Broadway in Guys and Dolls a ' will co-star with another stage veteran, Laura Linney, in the Showtime pilot "The C Word." The dark comedy stars Linney as a suburban wife and mother who has been diagnosed with cancer.

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Related Topix: Frost/Nixon, Huff, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Oliver Platt, The Squid and the Whale, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Weeds, Comedy

Wed Oct 28, 2009

FilmCritic

Love Actually

I can only presume that the British calendar is so uniquely screwy that it allows for a Christmas movie to open a week after Halloween.

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Related Topix: Hugh Grant, Wedding, Rowan Atkinson, Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Entertainment

Thu Oct 22, 2009

Playbill

Eric Bogosian Completes the Cast of Broadway's Time Stands Still

Actor and playwright Eric Bogosian, known for Talk Radio and "Law & Order: CI," has joined the cast of Manhattan Theatre Club's upcoming Broadway production of Donald Margulies' Time Stands Still, joining a cast that includes Laura Linney, Brian d'Arcy James and Alicia Silverstone.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Manhattan, NY, Talk Radio, New York, NY, Eric Bogosian, Emmy Awards, Entertainment, Television, Journalism

Wed Oct 14, 2009

Austinist

The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, An Epilogue Makes History

A month after Matthew Shepard was murdered in Laramie, Wyoming in 1998, New York's Tectonic Theater Project trekked down there and conducted interviews with hundreds of locals - including those close to the family of the victim and perpetrators - to try and understand why such a horrific hate crime could have occurred.

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Related Topix: Laramie, WY, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, The Laramie Project, Peter Fonda, Steve Buscemi

Sat Oct 10, 2009

Edmonton Journal

Outside looking in

"I'm often shocked by the behaviour of men, I've got to say," says Laura Linney, and she lets loose with a laugh that is at once delighted and knowing.

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, Driving Lessons, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Mystic River, Mystery Movies, You Can Count on Me, Gabriel Byrne, Short Cuts

Thu Oct 08, 2009

Frankly My Dear... - Movies

Movie review: The Other Man, starring Liam Neeson, Laura Linney and Antonio Banderas

A bizarre, at times risible misfire from the director of Notes on a Scandal and based on a novel by the author of The Reader, The Other Man is melodrama at its most melodramatic, a puzzle picture that's not that puzzling.

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Related Topix: Liam Neeson

Tue Oct 06, 2009

Frankly My Dear... - Movies

Laura Linney--America's Helen Mirren? Discuss

I was watching The Other Man, t he twisty-turny menage a trois melodrama starring Liam Neeson, Antonio Banderas and Laura Linney as the woman they love, when up pops the obligatory Laura Linney nude scene.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, You Can Count on Me, P.S., Helen Mirren, Liam Neeson

Tue Sep 22, 2009

Hollywood Reporter

Bill Condon boards 'The C-Word'

Oscar-winning writer-director Bill Condon has been tapped to helm "The C Word," Showtime's comedy pilot starring Laura Linney.

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Related Topix: Gods and Monsters, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Bill Condon, Movies, Entertainment

Sat Sep 19, 2009

Tbs.com

Running Mates

Comedy, Drama Robert Culp, Faye Dunaway, Bob Gunton, Teri Hatcher, Laura Linney, Tom Selleck, Nancy Travis, Ron Lagomarsino, J. August Richards Governor James Reynolds Pryce, a popular Democratic presidential nominee, encounters numerous personal and political challenges in choosing his running mate.

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Related Topix: Robert Culp, Faye Dunaway, Teri Hatcher, Bob Gunton, Tom Selleck, Movies, Entertainment

Thu Sep 17, 2009

Naplesnews.com Stories

The Movie Dude: Already older, but needing to grow up

Just because you've gotten older doesn't mean you've grown up. You may pay some bills, have a job and a place to live.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Thriller, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Twister, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Dave, Mystery Movies, Documentary Movies, Congo, Adventure, Science Fiction Movies, Philip Bosco

Wed Sep 16, 2009

Hollywood Reporter

Outfest to honor Alan Poul, Clear Channel

Producer-director Alan Poul and Clear Channel Los Angeles will be honored at Outfest's annual Legacy Awards on Sept.

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Related Topix: The Back-Up Plan, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Emmy Awards, Tales of the City, Armistead Maupin

Fri Sep 11, 2009

Boxoffice

The Other Man

Five years after Kinsey , Liam Neeson and Laura Linney reunite as a married couple in Richard Eyre's slender romantic drama.

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Related Topix: Horror Movies, Taken, Drama Movies, Thriller, Iris, Biography Movies, Liam Neeson

Thu Sep 10, 2009

EntertainmentWeekly

Movie Review: The Other Man

The Other Man is self-conscious, overproduced, overacted Euro-marital hoo-ha in which a husband uncovers the existence of another man in the life of his wife , who disappears one day.

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Related Topix: Liam Neeson

Tue Sep 01, 2009

Myrtle Beach Online

Shania Twain slowly stepping back into spotlight

Country music singer Shania Twain is slowly stepping back into the spotlight after the break up of her marriage to Robert "Mutt" Lange in May 2008.

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Related Topix: Country, Shania Twain, Game Show, American Idol, Reality TV, Entertainment, Television, Dave, Comedy Movies, Carrie Underwood

Thu Aug 27, 2009

Playbill

Emmy Winner Laura Linney to Star in New Showtime Series

Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Laura Linney, who will return to Broadway later this season in Manhattan Theatre Club's upcoming New York premiere of Time Stands Still , will star in a new series for the Showtime cable network.

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Related Topix: John Adams, Tales of the City, Mystery Movies, Documentary Movies, Congo, Action Movies, Emmy Awards, Adventure, Entertainment, Science Fiction Movies, Television, Manhattan, NY, New York, NY

Variety

Laura Linney to star in Showtime series

Laura Linney is tackling terminal illness for Showtime. Thesp will star in and exec produce a dark comedy tentatively titled "The C Word," in which Linney's character is diagnosed with cancer.

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Related Topix: Entertainment

Bugs and Cranks

I can spot a fake Boston accent from 20 miles away

The early ads for the new NESN sorta game show Pocket Money were pretty funny, but as soon as the dude stopped whistling and started opening his mouth, something sounded wrong to my ears.

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Related Topix: Boston, MA, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Mystic River, Mystery Movies

Thu Aug 13, 2009

Eugene Weekly

Visioneers

Inhibition All George wants is an explosion-free life by Jason Blair VISIONEERS: Directed by Jared Drake.

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Related Topix: The Hangover, Drama Movies, The Truman Show, Jim Carrey

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