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Monday Nov 30 | Warrenellis.com

FREAKANGELS 0077

I'll settle for the homemade Barbie version . The dolly above, along with other figures of prominent Ukrainian politicians, was crafted by artist Yelena Kuznetsova for yesterday's Ukrainian Doll Parade, an auction aimed towards raising money for the construction of an orphans' rehabilitation center.

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Related Topix: Toy, Barbie, Ukraine, Europe, World News, Thriller, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, The Last Seduction, Red Rock West, J.T. Walsh, Alternative

Sat Nov 28, 2009

Warrenellis.com

NEXTWAVE: You Are Shitting Me

Leave a Reply Coilhouse - 27 Nov 09 [Image courtesy of Reuters ] Can one of you guys please get me this Yulia Tymoshenko doll for my birthday? A $53K porcelain representation of Lady Yu as Robin Hood, complete with a bow and arrow and leather boots fitted with spurs, isn't too much to ask for this year, is it? Anyone? guys? Okay, fine.

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Related Topix: Toy, Barbie, Ukraine, Europe, World News, Thriller, Red Rock West, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, The Last Seduction, J.T. Walsh, Alternative

Fri Nov 20, 2009

Aspen Times Weekly

Basalt resident scammed while selling ATV

Grifters came up with a couple of a creative scams to run on Basalt residents last week and batted .500, according to Basalt police.

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Related Topix: Basalt, CO, Alternative

Fri Nov 06, 2009

Collider

Stephen Frears Re-Teaming with His High Fidelty Screenwriter D.V. DeVincentis for Lay the Favorite

Stephen Frears is probably one of the most successful directors that most Americans have never heard of because his movies tend to be highly British.

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, The Grifters, Drama Movies, Thriller, Alternative, Nick Hornby, Vocal

Thu Oct 22, 2009

DVD Talk

Ch ri

Stephen Frears has made some impeccably gritty crime films is a successful courtesan nearing the last few years of youthful beauty; she's beginning to spend more time with her retired associates, fabulously wealthy "fallen women" . They gravitate toward one other because they are not presentable in respectable society.

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Related Topix: Thriller, Crime Movies, The Grifters, Drama Movies, Arts, Cinema, Alternative, France, World News, The Age of Innocence, Michelle Pfeiffer

Tue Oct 20, 2009

IcEaling

Ealing's Got Talent

AN OVERWHELMING response to adverts in the Gazette and posters around Ealing Broadway Shopping Centre saw hundreds of people apply for the first ever Ealing Has Talent competition.

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Related Topix: Alternative

Fri Oct 02, 2009

Ledger Dispatch

Trivia Bits: John Cusack didn't have to share Cher

Boniface B. St. Clair C. St. John D. St. Lawrence 4. What video game character lives in Knothole Village? A. Pac Man B. Sonic the Hedgehog C. Super Mario D. Zelda 5. What movie did the studio want to call "Pacific Air 121," only for Samuel L. Jackson and the blogosphere to insist otherwise? A. "Airplane!" B. "Air Force One" C. "Die Hard: With a ...

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Thriller, Crime Movies, The Grifters, Drama Movies, Being John Malkovich, Grosse Pointe Blank, Say Anything..., John Cusack, Alternative

Sat Sep 12, 2009

DVD Times

The Grifters

What a wonderfully nasty piece of work The Grifters still is. Released in 1990 and featuring a host of talent both in front of and behind the camera, this is a film where the bad things happening to bad people are tempered with a deceit and hurt you can only find in that line of cinema we call noir.

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Related Topix: Alternative, Thriller, Crime Movies, The Grifters, Drama Movies

Mon Sep 07, 2009

The Independent

Sexes differ over dishonesty says new study

John Cusack and Anjelica Huston as hustlers in The Grifters ? men and women's views of what is dishonest vary greatly enlarge Dishonesty is not the clear-cut concept the criminal courts assume because it can vary from person to person and situation to situation, according to one of the biggest-ever surveys of public attitudes to deceitful ...

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, The Grifters, Drama Movies, Thriller, John Cusack, Alternative, Anjelica Huston

Sun Jul 19, 2009

Woo Factor

Thriller Rises from the Grave

THE story behind thriller writer Donald Westlake's final novel is thrilling in itself.

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Related Topix: Alternative

Fri Jul 17, 2009

UTV

Stephen Frears drawn to Tamara Drewe film

Gemma Arterton reportedly cast as title character in movie adaptation of Posy Simmonds's comic strip about a beautiful columnist who ruffles feathers in a rural writers' retreat Tamara Drewe, Posy Simmonds's comic strip about a journalist who ruffles feathers in a rural writers' retreat, is to be turned into a film by Stephen Frears.

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, The Grifters, Drama Movies, Thriller, Alternative

Fri Jun 26, 2009

Pop Syndicate

Cheri

Filled with drama, intrigue and personal vulnerability. With movies like Dangerous Liaisons , The Grifters and The Queen under his belt, you'd think this was a perfect fit for Stephen Frears.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Dangerous Liaisons, Crime Movies, The Grifters, Alternative, Thriller

Wed Jun 24, 2009

The Toronto Star

Man for all countries

But he produces movies everywhere except L.A., where he has lived for two decades after starting his career in Toronto.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Dangerous Liaisons, Crime Movies, The Grifters, Thriller, My Beautiful Laundrette, Alternative, Michelle Pfeiffer

Thu Jun 18, 2009

The Hook

Conned: Brothers Bloom doesn't quite pull it off

The more movies you see about con artists , the harder it should be for the next one to fool you.

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Related Topix: The Brothers Bloom, Alternative, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Crime Movies, House of Games

Sun May 31, 2009

CiteULike

Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s: The Killer Inside Me / The...

Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s: The Killer Inside Me / The Talented Mr.

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, The Killer Inside Me, Drama Movies, Arts, Literature, Film Noir, The Killing, Thriller, Alternative

Thu May 28, 2009

TulsaWorld.com - Lifestyle

'Killer' begins shooting in Guthrie

Filmmakers wound up their first week of shooting "The Killer Inside Me" in Guthrie last weekend with stars Casey Affleck and Kate Hudson.

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Related Topix: Guthrie, OK, Alternative

Wed May 27, 2009

The Orlando Sentinel

Movie review: The Brothers Bloom -- 4 out of 5 stars

Bloom , left, is tiring of the work he does with brother Stephen . The Brothers Bloom is a dark "big con" comedy in The Grifters tradition.

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Related Topix: The Brothers Bloom, Alternative, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, House of Games, The Spanish Prisoner, Ricky Jay, Entertainment

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