To legions of movie fans, Vivien Leigh (1913-1967) will best be remembered as the defiant and beautiful Scarlett O'Hara, heroine of the 1939 movie classic Gone With the Wind. Vivien Leigh had only a b...
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(Embargoed for release at 12:01 a.m. EDT
Tuesday, Oct. 16) By Bob Tourtellotte LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - It won only one Oscar, but
Orson Welles' 1941 film "Citizen Kane" is widely considered his
be...
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I'm glad I caught up with Austin Pendleton's unusual backstage story, Orson's Shadow, which has settled in for a long run, I hope, at the Barrow Street Theatre downtown. For one surprising thing, i...
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There really aren't many television events that you can build a party around. There's the Super Bowl, of course. And a friend of mine once hosted an especially dismal State of the Union gathering w...
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Prestige revivals mark this spring's theater season, with several potentially bankable classics opening on Broadway in the next month. Among the most anticipated are Tennessee Williams' Southern dr...
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SPIDER-MAN 3 Running Time 140 minutesDirected by Sam RaimiWritten by Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi and Alvin SargentStarring Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Thomas Haden Church, Topher Grace
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Steven Spielberg’s Munich, from a screenplay by Tony Kushner and Eric Roth, based on the book Vengeance by George Jonas, resembles other recent “significant” films: It’s ove...
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Steven Spielberg’s Munich, from a screenplay by Tony Kushner and Eric Roth, based on the book Vengeance by George Jonas, resembles other recent “significant” films: It’s ove...
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Before you ask me how Woody Allen's Melinda and Melinda compares to his earlier films and whether it's worth seeing, I should remind you that Mr. Allen is approaching 70 after a 40-year career, dur...
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Great Scott! Back to the Future, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Oklahoma! and 12 Angry Men were among the 25 selections entered into the Library of Congress' National Film Registry this year. ...
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