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Accomplished actors Gordon McConnell, front, and Avi Hoffman are the last two surviving Jews in Kabul and worst enemies.

When I was a kid, there were three movies I wished I could have starred in: The Bad News Bears , Bugsy Malone and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory .

Rating : * * * * Verdict : Fast and furious French farce. Prolific French comic writer/director Veber, whose slim and nimble entertainments are often remade in Hollywood, gets the last word here.

Fred Schepisi's loose and lagging companion to his Roxanne: slightly brainy, slightly barmy romantic comedies.

If you're quick, there's still time to catch a classic Neil Simon comedy, writes Lynda Smart .

Nobody makes animated features with as much tender loving care and craftsmanship as Pixar.

Speaking of Edward Abbey: He opposed the future as articulated by Dwight Eisenhower , George Orwell and Ridley Scott .

"I think it's hard to generalize," says actor Denzel Washington about movie remakes.

Syston: The Odd Couple a play by Neil Simon and made famous as a film with Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon was then rewritten in a female version resulting in one of the funniest comedies for women seen on the stage.

'The Fortune Cookie,' with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau filmed in Cleveland during Browns glory days: Rediscoveries More Entertainment Headlines >> `District 9' uses penned-up aliens to explore themes of human arrogance, xenophobia by Julie E. Washington, The Plain Dealer Tuesday August 11, 2009, 12:31 PM Take me to your leader: Visitors from an ...

'The Fortune Cookie,' with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau filmed in Cleveland during Browns glory days: Rediscoveries More Entertainment Headlines >> `District 9' uses penned-up aliens to explore themes of human arrogance, xenophobia by Julie E. Washington, The Plain Dealer Tuesday August 11, 2009, 12:31 PM Take me to your leader: Visitors from an ...

'The Fortune Cookie,' with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau filmed in Cleveland during Browns glory days: Rediscoveries Regis Philbin, 'The Time Traveler's Wife' and Madden NFL 10 top this week's Pop 10 More Entertainment Headlines >> 'G.I. Joe' commands box office with $56.2M debut Monday August 10, 2009, 6:22 AM The "G.I. Joe" cast, from left: ...

Best for a family trip with lil' ones The Cat in the Hat and Other Dr. Seuss Favorites Read by: Dustin Hoffman, Kelsey Grammer, Billy Crystal, Walter Matthau, Ted Danson, John Cleese, John Lithgow, othersPublisher: Random House and Listening LibraryPrice: $19.992 CDs: 11 stories, unabridged; 2 hoursAges: 3 and olderWhat's it about: You know the ...

It's a film that famously ended with a sneeze a quirky, one off, downbeat thriller set in Seventies New York City that many people still treasure as one of the most enjoyable films of that decade.

These brain teasers rely on your ability to recognize groups of common attributes.

The later Walter Matthau gave his director-son Charlie his biggest career boost back when he agreed to star in C harlie's film adaptation of The Grass Harp.

CAN: Join the Committee of French-Speaking Societies at their 85th Annual Official Bastille Day Ball, first because the roaring twenties theme includes live big-band from George Gee and his Jump Jivin' Wailers, and second because this event has been going on for 84 years.

Two elderly, eccentric, next-door neighbors sustain a rancorous relationship that only a wise observer could recognize as a very special friendship.

Max: "Good morning, dickhead." John: "Hello, moron." John Gustafson and Max Goldman have been friendly rivals for decades.

"A Westerner likes open country. That means he's got to hate fences, and the more fences there are, the more he hates them." - Jack Burns Opening Statement In 1962, our modern world was starting to become confining, not just with fences made out of wood or barbed wire but with fences made out of laws as well.