Sag Harbor has a new culinary Muse!


I thought I was done for the year but like Al Pacino in GODFATHER III, "they keep bringing me back!" I'm not sure who the "they" are but I guess it's the fact this week has been so darn busy on the East End. It's like July trying to find a parking space


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Ouch! The 11 Worst Movies of '11


So many bad movies, so little time… Just as it's truly difficult to narrow down a "best of" list at the end of the year, a "worst of" list is even tougher, because there's so much dreck out there in the multiplex to sift through. Sometimes you know a fil


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Dates for your new diary


JAMES GIBBONS flags some highlights of the year ahead
Although the National Gallery of Ireland, in Dublin, is undergoing refurbishment, it is still open. Tomorrow sees the opening of the watercolour exhibition
Turner: A Light in the Darkness , which co


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Top Ten Family Movies of 2012


I was lucky to miss several of the films that have been showing up on worst lists for 2011, especially "Jack and Jill" with Adam Sandler (and Al Pacino!), already the clear front-runner for the Razzies.  But I was able to put together a list of miserable


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At the movies: Dec. 30, 2011

New in theaters
Nova 6, Moline:
-- "Jack and Jill" (PG)
Central Theater, Geneseo:
-- "Dolphin Tale" (PG) (free matinee at 1:30 p.m. Dec. 30 only)
Minireviews
"The Adventures of Tintin" (PG, 107 minutes). Steven Spielberg's lively 3-D adventure was insp


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2012: The unmissable cultural treats


Films by Geoffrey Macnab Bel Ami Twilight's Robert Pattinson plays an unscrupulous journalist on the make in 19th century Paris in an adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's novel directed by Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod (from theatre company Cheek by Jow


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Tim Cain column: A glance back at 2011 films

Pulling together a retrospective of a year in film is a
difficult proposition regardless of your location.
The mad rush of high-profile and award-seeking films every December
is maddening if you live in Chicago, New York or Los Angeles. Every
day somethi


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Hello From Hollywood

HE MAY NOT have been a household name, but he was certainly one of Hollywood’s much desired go-toguys for actors taking on challenging roles that required authenticity to their character. Robert Easton, the character actor turned dialect coach to the sta


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Has Hollywood’s Grauman’s Chinese Theater Forecourt Cheapened It Self Worth Non Celebs?


How did two celebrities from Sports and music make it to the forecourt of the Grauman’s Chinese theatre?  Because of trendiness and popularity, which is utterly sad.  - Get the deets on the flip…
If that’s the case why not go the distance and include com


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Movie capsules: What's playing at Erie's Tinseltown, Millcreek 6 and Movies at Meadville, Dec. 29 -- Jan. 4

"The Darkest Hour": In Moscow, five young people lead the charge against an alien race who have attacked Earth via our power supply. (1:29. PG-13 for sci-fi action violence and some language.)
"War Horse": Young Albert (Jeremy Irvine) enlists to service


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Big stars key to Ottawa film success

Getting A-list movie stars to come to Ottawa is part of producer Ron Schwarzmann’s master plan, but he knows it’s easier said than done since there are no direct flights from Los Angeles to Ottawa.
“Al Pacino would be waiting for two hours in Montreal,”


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REVIEW'S ENTERTAINMENT STORIES OF THE YEAR: When the mouse roars, fans listen


He may not live here any more, but Niagara Falls entertainment was dominated by one name this year: Deadmau5. As it will for probably the next few years.
After 2011, there's little doubt the man behind the mouse head, Joel Zimmerman, is the city's bigges


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Joe Webb: Minutes of fame


Give Joe Webb credit. Not too many NFL quarterbacks would be this understanding while being sent back to the bench four days after posting 23 points in a 26-minute relief appearance.
They wouldn't smile as they jogged to their gadgety receiver position a


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Making a case for preserving films

SAN FRANCISCO - These Amazing Shadows, a film about the National Film Registry, airing Thursday on PBS's Independent Lens, may be more of a brochure than a documentary, but its soft-sell advocacy of the need for film preservation is worthy nonetheless. D


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The Weekend Warrior's Terrible 25 of 2011

It might be hard to believe from the amount of enthusiastic snark I put into this Terrible 25 list every year, that I actually don't enjoy subjectively trashing bad movies like the ones that make our annual list of the worst of the worst. Believe me, I d


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Football As Films: Week Two Of Bowl Season Reviewed

From the Beef 'O' Brady's to the Independence, it's time to review the second film festival of college football's bowl season. Our critic was not impressed. Part One here.
THE BEEF 'O' BRADY'S ST. PETERSBURG BOWL. Rated PG for obscene gestures. Please re


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Scientists claim to know the equation for a hit

The BBC is reporting that scientists from the University of Bristol have claimed to have discovered the equation to predict whether a song will be a hit.

The program look at 23 separate variables such as loudness, danceability and complexity of harmonie


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Phil Bennett pleased with Baylor defense's progress

SAN ANTONIO -- Phil Bennett, Baylor's first-year defensive coordinator, isn't claiming that his job is done. By any means.
But Bennett said he's proud of the Bears' play to close out the season, highlighted by forcing a combined 14 turnovers in the final


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2011: The year of many farewells


Visionaries, artists, terrorists and dictators, the year saw the demise of many who played a part in shaping the world as we know it today. Here are a few of the most noted
The decade-long hunt for the man who changed the modern world with the 9/11
att


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It's raining remakes in Bollywood in 2012

From 'Players', 'Agneepath', 'Rowdy Rathore', 'Son of Sardar' to 'Chashme Buddoor', 2012 will see a string of remakes in 2012.
Bollywood has been remaking films since times immemorial but off-late filmmakers are opting for official remakes over blatant


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Democrats, leftist Jewish schmucks foiled in further smear of Cong. Allen West

The topic of the calculated smearing of U.S. Congressman Lt. Col. Allen West, a black, extremely pro-Israel Republican representing a district South Florida, as an "anti-Semite" may have slipped the attention of many, given the Christmas and Hanukkah sea


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Keaton's quirky memoir suits her

"Then Again" (Random House), by Diane Keaton.
In her revealing and perceptive memoir, actress Diane Keaton recalls the bittersweet love affair that's dominated her life. Not with Woody Allen or Warren Beatty or Al Pacino — with her own artistic ambitions


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Celebrities To Get “Hollywood Treatment” in 2011

Over the past 12 months, Hollywood Treatment had the lucky opportunity not only to meet but interview many well-known celebrities including the likes of Al Pacino, Susan Boyle, Steve O’, Elle Fanning,  Jack Black, Salma Hayek and LMFAO just to name a few


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Top 10 albums of 2011

There was some good music put out there this year, by some fun and talented artists, and this Top 10 list may differ greatly from others', but that's the beauty of life: everybody's different.  So without further ado:
Without a doubt, the album of the ye


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The Ten Worst Movies of 2011

For as many good movies as we managed to see in 2011 – especially with the holidays featuring the likes of The Adventures of Tintin and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo – we also saw our fair share of real stinkers, the kind of movies that would make you


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Looking back at 2011 on TV, radio

Naima Adedapo, a Milwaukee native, performs on “American Idol.”
Naima Adedapo, a Milwaukee native, performs on “American Idol.”
Journal Sentinel TV and film critic Duane Dudek looks at life on the small and big screen, and some of the cool stuff on bot


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Robert Easton, Accent Coach, Dies at 81


Robert Easton , a character actor turned accent coach to the stars, who transformed Drew Barrymore into Amy Fisher, Ben Kingsley into Meyer Lansky and Gregory Peck first into Josef Mengele and later into Abraham Lincoln, among other feats of articulatory


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Obituary: Robert Easton / Actor became 'the Henry Higgins of Hollywood'

Robert Easton, a character actor turned accent coach to the stars, who transformed Drew Barrymore into Amy Fisher, Ben Kingsley into Meyer Lansky and Gregory Peck first into Josef Mengele and later into Abraham Lincoln, among other feats of articulatory


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Book review: Keaton's mom co-stars in quirky 'Then Again'

"Then Again" (Random House), by Diane Keaton: In her revealing and perceptive memoir, actress Diane Keaton recalls the bittersweet love affair that's dominated her life. Not with Woody Allen or Warren Beatty or Al Pacino -- with her own artistic ambition


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Unwrapped: What the stars want for Christmas

We're all looking forward to unwrapping our pressies this Christmas Day. And to get in the festive mood, The Diary finds out what a host of celebrities are hoping for from Santa Claus....
Ex-Coronation Street star Tina O’Brien is aiming high, she says: "


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'The Son of No One' Announced for Blu-ray

The crime drama starring Channing Tatum and Al Pacino is planned for Blu-ray in February.
Hailed as “A riveting piece of filmmaking featuring one of the best casts of the year” by Joel Amos, MovieFanatic.com, 'The Son of No One' is a gripping thriller a


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BOOK REVIEW: Keaton's quirky memoir suits her

“Then Again” (Random House), by Diane Keaton.
In her revealing and perceptive memoir, actress Diane Keaton recalls the bittersweet love affair that’s dominated her life. Not with Woody Allen or Warren Beatty or Al Pacino — with her own artistic ambitions


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Whitlock: NBA's 'drama' can't rival this guy

It feels contrived, the Chris Paul trade to Lob Angeles, the controversy surrounding David Stern’s veto of the original Paul trade to the Lakers, the hype leading up to the NBA’s Christmas marathon.
The league that demanded our attention in June with an


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First teaser for HBO's Game Change with Harris/Moore as McCain/Palin

It may be a TV channel, but HBO movies are not of the Lifetime variety. They've made incredible films in recent years, most notably RECOUNT with Kevin Spacey and YOU DON'T KNOW JACK with Al Pacino.
Their next is GAME CHANGE which focuses on the McCain ca


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Screenwriter Eric Roth Says '8 1/2'-Style Spin-Off From Scorsese & De Niro's 'The Irishman' Never Came To Pass

Like an arrow straight to the pleasure center of the brain of Scorsese fetishists came the announcement a couple of years back of "The Irishman" (or, as it was known initially, "I Heard You Paint Houses") a film that would potentially reunite Martin Scor


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Diane Keaton's daughter trails behind her kookily-clad mother

She is known to dress in kooky outfits, regularly featuring flamboyant hats and a loudly printed attire.
And today it was no different, as actress Diane Keaton stepped out wearing yet another one of her Annie Hall-inspired ensembles to go Christmas shop


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About New York: 16 Years Later, Fighting to Hold On to a Gift From Santa

This story begins with a letter from a 13-year-old girl composed so long ago that its opening lines speak of a technology almost never heard of today. “Hi Santa,” Naomi Daniella Jean-Pierre wrote in November 1995. “Well, this year I want me a Microsoft W


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Movie capsules: What's playing at Erie's Tinseltown, Millcreek 6 and Movies at Meadville, Dec. 22 -- Dec. 28

TINSELTOWN: "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol." "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo." "The Adventures of Tintin."
Movies at Meadville: "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol." "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo." "The Adventures of Tintin."
"Mission Impossible


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‘Game Change’ preview: Julianne Moore is Palin, Ed Harris is McCain

HBO Films seems to have two essential mission statements. First, to corner the market on Al Pacino’s good acting (see: Angels in America , You Don’t Know Jack , the upcoming Phil Spector biopic. Second, and more importantly, the moviemaking arm of the ne


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Top ten movies based on literary works everyone should see

Recently, the trailer for The Hobbit has been spreading around the internet like wildfire. If the trailer is any indication, the movie should be a good one. The release of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is also creating waves due to the book’s popularit


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HBO 24/7 Flyers Rangers Ep. 2 review: Typical Montreal

Like the one between a father and a son; between a coach and his players; between teammates on the road; between referees and the coaches and players; between professionals and their fans.
Oh, and between a goalie and a tennis superstar; and another goal


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Movies this week 12/23/2011

"THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN" (PC-6) The titular adventurer sets off in search of a shipwreck. Animated action with Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis and Daniel Craig. PG. 107 minutes. Not reviewed.
"THE DARKEST HOUR" (PC-6) Aliens invade Moscow via the electrical gr


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Coastal Carolina’s New Football Coach is the Billionaire Who Used to be the CEO of Ameritrade

During his time on the street, he turned into a billionaire.
since when is Wall Street “the street?”
So will their offense favor the spread or the option?
Based on Moglia’s breasts alone, I’d have Chaz Bono in for a table read.
Actors who might fit the M


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Top 5 WORST movies of 2011, Nicholas Cage, Jim Carrey, Johnny Depp, Al Pacino

It's the most wonderful time of the year!  What?  Christmas?  No, no, no.  It's the best time of the year because all of us movie critics get to put together our lists for the worst movies of the year.  Also, check out my Top 10 best movies of 2011.
Ok,


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Salem: A Grinch’s guide to unseasonal TV

You could always say yippee ki-yay, well, you know, to Christmas by watching Bruce Willis in Die Hard on Christmas Eve. TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILE PHOTO Rob Salem Television Columnist Bah, humbug. Look, I start out with as much Christmas cheer as the nex


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Metropolitan Police Department Reveals Year-Long Sting Operation

The bust, the “most successful in recent history,” resulted in 70 arrests.
J.J. Brennan has seen a few stings in his time with the Metropolitan Police Department—40 years, the past 30 as a sergeant.
“It’s not an unusual thing,” he says of yesterday’s ann


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Al Pacino is 'dwarfed' by his 10-year-old son Anton

He is one of the biggest actors in Hollywood.
But Carlito's Way star Al Pacino's physical stature has always been less than grand, a fact underlined by his 10-year-old son Anton dwarfing him by walking along a wall today.
The pair looked like they were h


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Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese is one of the most prominent and influential directors in movie history. His critically acclaimed movies range from 1970s and '80s cult classics 'Mean Streets', 'Raging Bull' and 'Taxi Driver', to 'GoodFellas' and 'Cape Fear' in the 1990s


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Ed Harris

A keen sportsman in high school, Ed Harris' football skills won him a scholarship to Columbia University. However, in 1971, he dropped out to follow his parents to Oklahoma, and enrolled at Oklahoma University, where he developed an interest in theatre,


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David Duchovny

Actor David Duchovny earned an early reputation for willingness to bare his crown jewels for the camera, but that seems a far cry away the iconic role which secured his career and stardom. For since the 90’s we have all come to love him as the FBI’s resi


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Robert De Niro

Born in New York’s lower Manhattan in 1943, De Niro came from an Italian-Irish background with his part-Italian father, Robert Sr. and part-Irish mother, Virginia - both artists. He was largely raised by his mother in a loft apartment in Greenwich Villag


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Charlize Theron

In the news Golden Globe nominations announced Read more... Charlize Theron dazzles at event for her Aids charity Read more... A violent childhood compelled her to succeed and when she won an Oscar, Theron knew she'd made it. How did the beautiful blonde


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Diane Keaton on Al Pacino, Warren Beatty, and Multiple Endings for “Godfather III”

The absolutely terrific actress and filmmaker, now bestselling author, Diane Keaton, published her memoir about a month ago. I’m just getting around to reading “Then Again,” and getting quite a kick out of all the softly delivered gossip in this can’t pu


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North Haven man a film and TV actor by accident

HAMDEN — In this movie, Alex Ziwak is the brawn behind Ray Liotta. Ziwak, co-owner of Ziwak’s Martial Arts and Fitness on Whitney Avenue with his sister, Nellie Alberghini, returns to South Main Street in West Hartford today to film his final


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Work of Art's Lola on Jerry's Guilt, Her Deal with Kymia and What Happened with The Sucklord

Heading into the final judgment on Wednesday's Work of Art, Lola Thompson, the mischievous and provocative artist whose mom dated Al Pacino for a decade, believed her conceptual portrait of a couple of historian-collectors had a real shot at making the F


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The year’s most memorable celeb moments, plus some we’d like to forget

The past year in entertainment news taught us many lessons: that seemingly fake reality-show weddings rarely end well; that anyone who plays a foil to Jon Cryer on Two and a Half Men will eventually experience a public meltdown; and that if you’re famous


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Tales of two survivors

Between them, Diane Keaton and Carrie Fisher have forgotten more Hollywood gossip and scandal than the most creative tabloid editor could invent. In 1977, they both became stars in roles they would never quite escape: Keaton as Annie Hall, Fisher as Prin


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Motorsport gifts for the season

Steve McQueen loved everything about fast motorcycles and cars. Norris McDonald Motorsport Writer My purpose today is to tip you off about the best books, videos, models — what have you — that you can give to the motorsport fan in your life and know that


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Cookie Monster vs. Al Pacino by Master Impressionist Jim Meskimen

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Year in Review: Mary McNamara's top TV of 2011

For all the shows that premiered this fall, it was not a stellar season. Fortunately, the television landscape has many datelines, so, taken overall, it was a very good year. And here’s why:
“Game of Thrones”: HBO proved that nothing beats epic fantasy w


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Jessica Chastain wants to be an actress, not a celebrity

— Jessica Chastain is clearly up for just about anything. On this warm November night she could be sitting cozily inside a buzzing hotel restaurant surrounded by chandeliers, candles and ivy trellises. Instead, she's gamely agreed to be interviewed in th


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Film listings: December 16, 2011

"Arthur Christmas" (★★★): This pleasant holiday treat from Aardman, the British animation outfit behind "Chicken Run" and the "Wallace and Gromit" cartoons, has the old-fashioned spirit of Christmas at heart, spinning a snowflake-light tale with warmth,


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Super sleuth or superhero? Robert Downey Jr's manic manifestation of Holmes continues in 'Game of Shadows'


Super sleuth or superhero? Robert Downey Jr's manic manifestation of Holmes continues in 'Game of Shadows' Daniel Smith Robert Downey Jr., left, Noomi Rapace and Jude Law are on the case in "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows." The anarchists are coming,


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Film review: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

Two years after their first big screen adventure, Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law team up once more for the latest Sherlock Holmes drama. Graham Young wonders if it’s better second time round
I’M all for filmmakers pushing boundaries, but only when the cer


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Five Things You Don't Know About Sofia Vergara

Sofia Vergara is the scene-stealing actress most famous in the U.S. for playing the hot-blooded Colombian wife of Ed O'Neill on ABC's hit comedy Modern Family. Here are five things you probably don't know about this award winning star!
1. Born in the Col


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F1 unemployment line grows - but hey, it's Christmas!

All I will say about that book is this: Kitty Kelly and her editors could take a lesson in how to write a book about Frank Sinatra.
But this is supposed to be about auto racing and my purpose today is to tip you off about the best books, videos, models –


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Movies Thursday 12/15/2011

"ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIP-WRECKED" (Century 12) The titular trio of singing rodents becomes stranded on an island. Animated comedy with Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler and Jesse McCartney. G. 87 minutes. Not reviewed.
"MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE — GHOST P


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Diane Keaton on Steve Jobs: 'I could have dated him, What an Idiot I was'[VIDEO]

Steve Jobs was not only known for his work plus the Apple's worldwide phenomena he himself created. He was also known for the women he dated and Diane Keaton surprisingly was one of them.
Sign up to get up- to- date celebrity news, gossip, and more! Samp


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A Massacre In Jamaica | Mattathias Schwartz | New Yorker | 12 December 2011

Most cemeteries replace the illusion of life’s permanence with another illusion: the permanence of a name carved in stone. Not so May Pen Cemetery, in Kingston, Jamaica, where bodies are buried on top of bodies, weeds grow over the old markers, and time


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New 'Mob Wives' means more drama

The season two premiere of Vh1’s Mob Wives is right around the corner, and the buzz hasn’t stopped since a calamitous brawl between Karen Gravano and Drita D’Avanzo wrapped up season one. But with a new mob wife in the mix, fans have even more drama to l


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Diane Keaton Could've Dated Steve Jobs: 'What an Idiot I Was' (Video)

Diane Keaton was a fool for love. On Tuesday’s episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, the actress talked about her new memoir, Then Again, and got to talking about her past loves.
The talk host was definitely digging for the romantic dirt, real and on-scre


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Diane Keaton's mom co-stars in quirky, revealing 'Then Again'

In her revealing and perceptive memoir, "Then Again" (Random House), actress Diane Keaton recalls the bittersweet love affair that's dominated her life. Not with Woody Allen or Warren Beatty or Al Pacino - with her own artistic ambitions.
Diane Hall wan


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DVDs for fashion lovers

It doesn’t matter if their style is mod, grunge or corporate – Hollywood has a fashion statement for everyone.
Heathers
For: The Power Dresser
Winona Ryder and company sport power blazers in wild primary colours and giant hair to die for.
(New Worl


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Then Again by Diane Keaton – review

The key quote in Diane Keaton's memoir does not come from Diane Keaton. Nor from one of her unbeatable back catalogue of exes (Woody Allen, Warren Beatty, Al Pacino and the unconfirmed but fairly inevitable Jack Nicholson). Nor even from Dorothy Hall, Ke


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Mickey Liddell Launches Indie Distribution Company With Paramount Classics Co-Founder David Dinerstein At Helm

BREAKING: After making pricey festival acquisitions in recent years including Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s Biutiful and then finding distributors to put them out, Mickey Liddell has launched his own distribution operation headed by David Dinerstein to r


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Ariston Anderson: Jessica Chastain Takes on Hollywood With Grace

Jessica Chastain is not your typical Hollywood actress. She approaches her surroundings as a student, eager to take in the advice and help of the directors, writers, producers and actors around her. She is exceedingly calm and gracious, responding with a


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Diane Keaton's mom co-stars in 'Then Again'

In her revealing and perceptive memoir, actress Diane Keaton recalls the bittersweet love affair that's dominated her life. Not with Woody Allen or Warren Beatty or Al Pacino with her own artistic ambitions.
Diane Hall wanted so much to be a performer w


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We’ve Got The Treatment For Garry Marshall’s Next Romantic Comedy, ‘Wedding Day’

EXCLUSIVE. Garry Marshall plans on completing his “Day” trilogy, not with a holiday, but with a wedding! Katherine Fugate who penned Valentine’s Day and New Year’s Eve, will write this film as well.
While the final screenplay is months away, we found the


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Sweet ideas for your sweetie

If television commercials are to be believed, the top presents under the tree for your sweetie this year will be cars and jewelry. The reality is somewhat, well, different. We've never quite figured out the logistics of getting an automobile into the liv


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Reviews of Carrie Fisher’s ‘Shockaholic’ and Diane Keaton’s ‘Then Again’

Between them, Diane Keaton and Carrie Fisher have forgotten more Hollywood gossip and scandal than the most creative tabloid editor could invent. In 1977, they became stars in roles they would never quite escape: Keaton as Annie Hall, Fisher as Princess


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Fan Fuel: NFL Week 14 Sunday primer

The drive for the playoffs and the drive for a better spot in the draft continues this week in the NFL. For some teams, every down matters and for others, every down gets them mercifully closer to the end of the season.
So here is what to look for in Wee


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A Bakers Dozen of the Nerdiest Coaches in College Basketball

Stiff and starched, McCaffery looks and talks more like a US Senator than he does a basketball coach. And he'll have to keep that serious face for awhile if he aims to turn around a struggling Iowa basketball program.
Jokes aside, McCaffery is a decent c


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Children’s TV favourite Sid joins Lyceum panto team


IT’S true to say that Sid Sloane is most readily recognised by the very young who are fans of CBeebies along with their parents and carers but as the last remaining member of the original team he has been entertaining a few generations of them down the y


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La Rosy nostra

It’s hard to decide where to start with how much Ramona Rizzo, the new “Mob Wives” cast member, hates the movie that made her family famous. But let’s start with how they dressed Al Pacino — who played Ramona‘s grandfather, Bonnano crime family soldier B


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3 Business Lessons From The Godfather

Go inside the world of government contracting to learn all about this Big Client for Small Business.
The 1972 movie The Godfather is without question one of the best motion pictures ever produced. It was the top-grossing movie of that year, won multiple


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Hollywood's ICM buys out equity owners

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- The leadership of Hollywood's International Creative Management says it has bought out the private-equity group that held controlling interest on the firm. The move gives the senior agents at ICM a direct financial interest


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Memoirs: Once in a quinquennium revelations!!!

The most jaw-sagging memoir of the year came not from planet celebrity, fugged in its PR ozone, but from Brian Sewell, the 80-year-old art critic; specialist subject: being contrary. For decades, his lips have remained tight about his sexuality. Now, in


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Diane Keaton's memoir is light on Hollywood stories

It was always the fragile balance of opposing forces that made Diane Keaton's face so remarkable -- those tilted melancholy eyes above that frequent and infectious smile.
She seemed in a perpetual state of emotional contradiction, which is one of the thi


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Best sellers

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Rankings for hard-cover books sold in Southern California, as reported by selected book stores:
"Steve Jobs," by Walter Isaacson (S&S: $35) A portrait of the late Apple visionary as revealed by those in his inner circle.
"Then


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A Sitter's Shameful New Year's Eve

CONTINUING
ABDUCTION(PG-13) In Taylor Lautner’s breakaway role from second-choice heartthrob (Team Jacob, anyone?) to lead action star, his character fights off attacks from mysterious hit men. Lilly Collins also stars as Lautner's neighbor and only ally


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Review: 'New Year's Eve'

Back in the 1970s, Irwin Allen produced disaster movies packed with random stars, meaning you could see an adventure flick with Paul Newman, Fred Astaire and O.J. Simpson. This economic model is back with a vengeance, and though Garry Marshall's "New Yea


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Books: Keaton’s quirky memoir also tells the story of her mom

In her revealing and perceptive memoir, actor Diane Keaton recalls the bittersweet love affair that’s dominated her life. Not with Woody Allen or Warren Beatty or Al Pacino — with her own artistic ambitions.
Diane Hall wanted so much to be a performer wh


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Weekly Ketchup: Fourth Transformers Movie Is On Its Way

This week's Ketchup includes news for the latest movies in the Star Trek and Transformers franchises, sequels for Grown Ups and The Lincoln Lawyer, an American Psycho remake, biographical movies about Charles Dickens and WWE wrestler Chris Benoit, and ne


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ICM announces management buyout

International Creative Management's leaders announced Friday a management buyout of the talent agency from private equity firm Rizvi Traverse Management, which acquired controlling interest six years ago.
The high-stakes move is designed to give top agen


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Revolver

The Irish Times - Friday, December 9, 2011
Ian Brown and John Squire on stage in Manchester last week doing songs by The Clash. Seek out the footage.
Bank on it: smart money on 2012's next big thing goes to Azealia 
IT’S CLUSTER music journalism season


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Twas the Night Before Christmas with Impressions (VIDEO)

This time, the “Jimpressions” mastermind brings us a hilarious rendition of “Twas the Night Before Christmas” with loads of awesome celebrity impressions.
Who knew that Al Pacino sounded so much like Grover from Sesame Street?
If you enjoyed this post,


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Director's Chair: Garry Marshall

Garry Marshall is back in the director's chair this week with his new movie New Year's Eve, which comes hot off the heels of the success of Valentine's Day.
Yes New Year's Eve looks set to be the feel good movie of the festive period as Marshall has gath


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At the movies

PG - Parental Guidance: All ages admitted, but parent should exercise discretion allowing children to view what may contain adult content
14A - Adult Accompaniment: No one under 14 admitted unless accompanied by an adult
18A - Adult Accompaniment: No one


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Movie capsules: What's playing at Erie's Tinseltown, Millcreek 6 and Movies at Meadville, Dec. 8 -- Dec. 14

"New Year's Eve": The lives of several couples and singles in New York intertwine over the course of New Year's Eve. (1:58. PG-13 for language including some sexual references.)
"The Sitter": A comedy about a college student on suspension who is coaxed i


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Pacino to attend Dublin film festival

AL PACINO will attend the upcoming 2012 Jameson Dublin International Film Festival for the Irish premiere of
Wilde Salome , the actor’s latest documentary, it was announced yesterday.
Following on from
Looking For Richard , Pacino’s 1996 musing on Shak


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Real Steal Writer to Pen Stan Lee's Annihilator

Press Release from Magic Storm Entertainment
Hollywood, CA - December 5, 2011 - Screenwriter Dan Gilroy has signed on to pen The Annihilator (working title) for Magic Storm Entertainment. Eric Mika, the company’s CEO, announced today that Gilroy, represe


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Garry Marshall, Risible Genius

Garry Marshall gives you what you came for. "A dollar's work for a dollar's pay," is how Marshall mainstay Hector Elizondo puts it in The Flamingo Kid. Although he started as a TV joke writer alongside Mel Brooks and Woody Allen, this 77-year-old Bronx b


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Marion Dougherty, Hollywood Star-Maker, Dies at 88


Marion Dougherty, who cast some of Hollywood’s biggest stars in their earliest parts, including Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty, and who suggested Carroll O’Connor for the role of Archie Bunker in the long-running hit television show “All in


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Viral video: 'Night Before Christmas' in celebrity voices

How would you like for Bill Cosby to read you "Twas the Night Before Christmas"? What about Robin Williams, or Antonio Banderas?
There's all that and more in a new video from celebrity impressionist Jim Meskimen. His rendition of the classic Christmas t


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Check TV and movie fans off your list with recent gift-set DVD and Blu-ray releases

That task has never been easier, thanks to the availability and compact packaging of DVD and Blu-ray box-set collections.
It wasn't so long ago, remember, that giving the gift of every film from a popular movie series or every episode from a long-running


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Marion Dougherty dies at 88

Casting director Marion Dougherty, who helped define the contemporary role of those in her profession, died Dec. 4 in Manhattan of natural causes. She was 88 and had been ailing from heart disease.
Dougherty provided first breaks to numerous actors of n


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5. Romance alive

Death triggers a new beginning for our heroine.
WHAT would you do if the doctor told you that you only had six months to live?
When she learns that she is dying of cancer, travel agent Lee Yeon-jae (Kim Sun-ah) decides to start living.
All her adult li


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After Al Pacino style, Abhishek wears MJ look

After a small accident on the sets of "Bol Bachchan", Abhishek Bachchan had got stitches above the right eye and he tried convincing himself that he is looking like Al Pacino in "Scarface". Now that he has a torn tendon in his finger, he feels like he is


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David Beckham Q&A


Going strong ... David Beckham feels like he could comfortably play on until 40.
Source:
Wayne Ludbey / News Limited

David Beckham is still in demand at 36, but as David Davutovic found out, when he does retire, don't expect


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Noomi Rapace Talks Ridley Scott’s PROMETHEUS, DEAD MAN DOWN With Colin Farrell, Brian DePalma’s PASSION, and More


Having learned to speak English only three years ago, Swedish actress Noomi Rapace is making quite a splash in Hollywood. After well-earned global acclaim for her riveting portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in the original film adaptations of Stieg Larsson’s


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R.I.P. Marion Dougherty

Marion Dougherty, a former Bergdorf-Goodman window dresser who rose to become one of Hollywood’s most influential casting directors, died December 4 in Manhattan of natural causes. She was 88. Once called “the father of casting as we know it” by Paul New


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Stillness Of The Man


Gary Oldman's performance as George Smiley, John LeCarre's legendary British intelligence maestro, in Tomas Alfredson's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Focus Features, 12.9) is, I submit, a classic less-is-more performance. Oldman is muted and subtle and keep


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The Worst Bosses in Movies

Fremont: Bosses are seen as devils in disguise and are on the hate list of their employees. Though in real life they are scary, the characters playing bosses in movies are always scheming and treat them as their personal slaves who are made to dance to t


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Celebrity Couple Height Differences! - PostChronicle

Celebrity couple height differences never has stood in the way of a good romance - and fun photos!

We're not talking a couple of inches here; more like head and shoulders above one another.
And it's even more fun is the celebrity couple height differen


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Jack & Jill: Can't even break my frown

Starring Adam Sandler, Al Pacino, Katie Holmes
Directed by Dennis Dugan
Plot: When his twin sister Jill comes to visit, Jack's peaceful life is thrown into chaos.
Why? Why does Sandler, a talented guy, continue to makes such awful movies. How does he rop


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Open Thread: Who Should Make the 2011 BHB Ten?


In 2008, we started compiling a year-end list of the most interesting/influential/fascinating folks in Brooklyn Heights. The first BHB Ten was topped by our then newly elected NYS senator Daniel Squadron. Elected the same year as President Obama, we note


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'Pan Am': Kiss Kiss Bang Bang recap


The crew of "Pan Am" traveled to London Sunday (Dec. 4)...well almost all of them. Dean and Colette take their own adventure, but we'll get to that in a moment.
Kate (Kelli Garner) is sore at the CIA about the Nico Lanza thing when the Yugoslavian diplom


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December 5th In NYC History

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THE MAFIA SCOURGE

To many, the Mafia covers Sicily and the US with Marlon Brando and Al Pacino the Godfathers. Contemporary tales make them out to be naughty but nice, their main function helping Italians victimised by the establishment, using violence only as a last reso


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'Then Again': Diane Keaton, in bits and pieces


It was always the fragile balance of opposing forces that made Diane Keaton's face so remarkable — those tilted melancholy eyes above that frequent and infectious smile. She seemed in a perpetual state of emotional contradiction, which is one of the thin


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Best-sellers

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Rankings for hard-cover books in Southern California, as reported by selected book stores:
1."Steve Jobs," by Walter Isaacson (S&S: $35) A portrait of the late Apple visionary as revealed by those in his inner circle.
2."Blue N


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It's top secret: Dominic Matteo on F1, fry-ups and eyebrow painting


Kenny Dalglish. My Dad was forever telling me what a great player Kenny  was when I was a kid and I got to see it myself. He was a phenomenal talent and always played football with a smile on his face. He had the lot.
What would you be if you weren't a


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Leathernecks Corral Bison for Summit League Victory

MACOMB, Ill. – Western
Illinois (3-4, 1-1) women’s basketball started the weekend with a 68-65 win
over North Dakota State (2-6, 0-2) on Friday night. An impressive first half
gave the Leathernecks a 10-point lead at the break and would hold on for its f


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Rob Cribb: Why can’t men say “I’m sorry”

The question is spoken in a wavering voice. “I recently ended a long-term relationship with a man because he just couldn’t ever admit when he was wrong and apologize,” begins the 40-something woman sitting in a packed room of female strangers. “Why is th


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SPL: Inverness star Chris Hogg: We need inspiration like speech from Al Pacino in Any Given Sunday

Inverness star Chris Hogg: We need inspiration like speech from Al Pacino in Any Given Sunday Dec 3 2011 By Euan Mcarthur
CHRIS HOGG wants to evoke the spirit of Al Pacino's legendary Peace by Inches speech to help Caley Thistle go the extra mile today


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Anna Friel: Role in Without You left me drained - I had been through loss and it was emotional


ONLY THE hugs of her young daughter and the love of her new boyfriend kept Anna Friel from having a meltdown during filming for her latest television show.
The 35-year-old was reeling from the end of her 10-year relationship with Harry Potter star David


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Busy actor Michael Fassbender is on a wicked run

From 'Jane Eyre' and 'X-Men: First Class' to 'A Dangerous Method' and 'Shame,' Irish actor Michael Fassbender has had a busy year.
From 'Jane Eyre' and 'X-Men: First Class' to 'A Dangerous Method' and 'Shame,' Irish actor Michael Fassbender has had a bus


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Movie bits

(Adventure, PG, 127 minutes, playing at Regal Ninth Street 4
Cinemas and Regal Albany 7 Cinemas.) “Hugo” is set in a
once-upon-a-time era after World War I. The title character (Asa
Butterfield of “Nanny McPhee Returns”) is a resourceful orphan who
lives


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The Dirty Picture movie review

This film has a tightly bound script with just one loose sheaf. And frankly speaking, it's unfair on director Milan Luthria because Vidya Balan's electrifying performance, leaves the rest gasping for breath. You just see her grasp the character and make


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TV: Prime Suspect: “Gone To Pieces”


NBC sat on this episode for a while. It was supposed to be the fifth, but it has been pushed back until now, when the network is burning off the final three episodes. They were right to shelve this one. It’s an often-cartoonish mess with a hard-to-follow


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Movie capsules: What's playing at Erie's Tinseltown, Millcreek 6 and Movies at Meadville, Dec. 1 -- Dec. 7

Tinseltown: "Moneyball" and "Ides of March" double feature. "Midnight in Paris" opens Dec. 3.
"Chicago presents An Evening of Holiday Music and Greatest Hits": The Grammy-winning band gets into the holiday spirit with this special holiday concert. (1:30.


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Here's the trailer for Brian Shotwell's low-budget thriller House Of Mirrors

Back in the spring of 2010 we gave y'all the skinny on an epic disaster-film of B-grade proportions called DEFCON 2012. Turns out the writer of that film, Brian Shotwell, is making his directorial debut (feature) in a new horror/thriller called HOUSE OF


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Debra Ollivier: Diane Keaton's Ode To Motherhood

In the mid-seventies, while printing photographs in her mother's darkroom, Diane Keaton stumbled on something she'd never seen: one of her mother's journals. Part diary and part sketchbook, it was filled with her thoughts, collages and magazine cutouts.


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Movies this week 12/01/2011

"ANONYMOUS" (Premiere 10) The 17th earl of Oxford writes Shakespeare's plays as a rebellion forms against the queen. Drama with Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave and David Thewlis. PG-13. 130 minutes. Not reviewed.
"ARTHUR CHRISTMAS" (Premiere 10) Santa's son


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The Razor A Scooter Could Save You Money

The Razor A scooter is a fantastic suggestion for anybody desiring to stay healthy. These days loads of people are desk-bound and we all seem to have less time for just going out for a walk, which is the age-old antidote for gaining a few pounds. The Raz


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Movie news: Men in Black 3 teases us, 2012 Spirit Awards, and a Scarface remake


This week in movie news, Men in Black 3 finally releases....something to tease us with, the 2012 Film Independent Spirit Awards announces the nominees, and a Scarface remake has a writer.
Two posters for Men in Black 3 have been released as well as a new


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'Scarface' Remake Finds Its Writer

It was announced a few months ago that producer Martin Bregman was interested in remaking his Brian DePalma directed 1983 crime epic "Scarface," which itself was a remake of a 1932 film of the same name. It appears as though we are a little closer to ano


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I look like Pacino in 'Scarface': Abhishek

After a small accident on the sets of "Bol Bachchan", Abhishek Bachchan has got stitches above the right eye and now the actor is trying to convince himself that he is looking like Al Pacino in "Scarface".
"The stitches that I got above my right eye afte


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Training Day for Scarface

The new Scarface now has a writer: Training Day scripter David Ayer . Deadline reports that Universal has hired Ayer to pen the latest version of the tale that originated with 1932's Paul Muni-starring gangster classic and then was re-envisioned in 1983


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Book review: Then Again: A Memoir

THERE are plenty of revelations in Diane Keaton’s eccentric, confounding and rather wonderful memoir. They’re just not where you expect to find them.
If you’re looking for a precis of Woody Allen’s methods on the set of Annie Hall, say, or an explanation


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Tough Talk: Steve Ward On The Return Of The Exes In Episode 9


Master Matchmaker Steve Ward is back for a third season of Tough Love, and this time he’s traveled south to Miami where the heat is definitely on. Steve will be giving us his thoughts on every episode, and today we spoke with him about the element of bri


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Jackman show breaks house record

Hugh Jackman's one-man show, Back on Broadway, has broken the house record. Picture: Charles Sykes / Source: AP HE'S just one man, but Hugh Jackman is proving he can compete with the best of the big budget Broadway shows. Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway h


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Why the diner is the ultimate symbol of America


28 November 2011 Last updated at 19:11 ET With its chrome counter and cherry pie, the diner is an icon of American culture. What's the global appeal of this humble eatery, asks writer Stephen Smith. Continue reading the main story Five typical diner dish


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Breakin' the Hollywood Rules

Morality aside, the main reason most people don’t break rules is because they don’t want to get busted. This plays to the point that the strength of a rule lies squarely on the rules ability to be enforced.
Thankfully Hollywood is not a place that has a


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Ellen Barkin: Enjoying her third act

(CBS News) 

She was in her mid-20s before her first auditions led to work in the theater. She calls herself a late bloomer: "I was, yeah, all around."
Ellen Barkin is an actress of strong opinions on just about everything - including herself - as Eri


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Jack And Jill - Come Tumbling From The Hill ( Movie Review -Rating:*1/2)

Film: Jack and Jill, Director: Dennis Dugan, Actors: Adam Sandler, Katie Holmes and Al Pacino, Rating: *1/2
There are those who like refinement in cinema, and many who trip just on the opposite. If you belong to the latter category, 'Jack and Jill' is a


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De Niro to SRK: The villians of silverscreen

These men lorded over their empires of crime. With the release of Don 2 around the corner, ET on Sunday picks the most effective reel life crime bosses. A caveat: we look at only those whose criminal empires had a profit motive. Global destruction is not


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Los Angeles holidays: Big name hunting in the Thirty Mile Zone


Are you looking for juicy nuggets about celebrities and do you want to see the secret places where the stars of Hollywood come out to play? They were the questions posed on the website of a starspotting tour of Hollywood.
Juicy nuggets and secret places


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'Boardwalk Empire's' Jack Huston behind the mask

Jack Huston has a lot to hide when he plays gangster Richard Harrow in HBO's "Boardwalk Empire" — particularly his face.
A tin mask with an eerily painted eye, spectacle and mustache covers half of Huston's face in his portrayal of Harrow, a horribly dis


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Diane Keaton's collage-style writing offers spectrum of women's experiences

Diane Keaton's book about her life is not a straight-up, chronological memoir. It's a collage that mixes Keaton's words with those of her mother, Dorothy Deanne Keaton Hall, who died in 2008. Since Hall left behind 85 scrapbooklike journals, a huge and c


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MOVIES


A clever -- maybe too clever -- animated film from Britain about how Santa's youngest son (voiced by James McAvoy) delivers a forgotten present on Christmas Eve. It comes from the producers of the Wallace & Gromit films, and, like them, it's filled with


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Broadway's 'Seminar': a master class on what a play can be


You don't have to be a writer to appreciate the fear and loathing in "Seminar" at Broadway's Golden Theatre. Though it helps.
The play revolves around four writers, anxious to either start or resume their careers by seeking guidance from a master. They m


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Masand: 'Jack and Jill' is enjoyable


If you're not easily offended by Adam Sandler's usual schtick of toilet humor and racist jokes, you'll find there's plenty laughs in 'Jack and Jill'. The film sees Sandler perform double duty as Jack, a successful ad-filmmaker in LA, and Jill, his twin s


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Movies on TV, Tonight & Sunday

6: 00 (36) >>> This Is Spinal Tap A chronicle of an aging rock band's descent into oblivion. (2 hrs.) (43) >>> The Out-law Josey Wales Clint Eastwood. A Confederate soldier vows to avenge his family's murder. (3 hrs.) (149) >> Home for the Holidays Holly


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Jack And Jill – Come Tumbling From The Hill(IANS Movie Review -Rating:*1/2) - Indiatalkies.com

There are those who like refinement in cinema, and many who trip just on the opposite. If you belong to the latter category, ‘Jack and Jill’ is a film hand-made for you. However, if you’re not, avoid the film like the plague.

Brother-sister twins Jack


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Al Pacino Joins Lindsay Lohan and John Travolta in Gotti (Top 11 of 11)

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Al Pacino Joins Lindsay Lohan and John Travolta in Gotti was a top 11 story of 2011 for May. Here is the recap: (TMZ) Scarface is about to join the mob ... TMZ has learned Al Pacino has agreed to join the cast of the upcoming "Gotti" flick alongside L


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Happy Thanksgiving! Share these movie scenes while you share the stuffing and pumpkin pie

Note: The Times Union is not responsible for posts and comments written by non-staff members.
Stephen: Thanks CJ – please everyone don’t tell my wife as I’m taking her as a surprise...
Marvin Lewis: All three are sensational movies. Anyone alone is fanta


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Memoir: Unravelling lost pasts

Every living person should be forced to write an autobiography. They should have to go back and unravel and disclose all the stuff that was packed into their lives". So wrote Dorothy Hall in a journal that was posthumously passed on to her daughter, Dian


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Agony and ecstasy

Phil Spector ... "seen as a whack job".
Timeless rhapsodies of teen love poured fourth from the man in his heyday, making him a millionaire by the time he was 21. Yet now, half a century on, Phil Spector is behind bars, serving 19 years to life in a Cal


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The troubled mind of Phil Spector

Phil Spector ... "seen as a whack job".
Timeless rhapsodies of teen love poured fourth from the man in his heyday, making him a millionaire by the time he was 21. Yet now, half a century on, Phil Spector is behind bars, serving 19 years to life in a Cal


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Movie scoreboard

New this week Most of this week's new movies opened Wednesday. You can read full-length reviews at www.freep.com . "Arthur Christmas" * * * This quirky animated British outing imagines that Santa Claus is a title passed along the Claus line like royalty.


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Weekly Ketchup: Martin Scorsese Will Do A Serial Killer Film

This week's Ketchup doesn't even really cover a full week, as it is being published on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving Thursday, and so only half a week has transpired since the last Ketchup. And Hollywood has basically taken the whole week off for the


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Movies this week 11/24/2011

"ARTHUR CHRISTMAS" (Premiere 10) Santa's son sets out to deliver a misplaced present. Animated comedy with James McAvoy, Jim Broadbent and Bill Nighy. PG. 97 minutes. Not reviewed.
"THE MUPPETS" (PC-6, Town & Country) The Muppets reunite to save their th


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Thanksgiving Movies to See or Skip

SEE: The Descendants
It’s been seven whole years since the great Alexander Payne’s last film, Sideways. Now, one of America’s finest directors is back with another poignant portrait of the male midlife crisis. The Descendants stars George Clooney—in a ca


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Five Favorite Films and an Interview with Harvey Weinstein

Next, we chat with Weinstein about his passion for My Week with Marilyn, what drives him to produce films, and how he sees this year's Oscar season shaping up.








Whichever way you look at it, Harvey Wein


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Daniel Radcliffe: Actor We're Most Thankful For In 2011

Really, what's not to like about this talented young man? He's dazzled audiences for more than a decade as "the boy who lived" in eight "Harry Potter" films and has most recently been the talk of the Great White Way with his critically acclaimed work in


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"The Beatings Will Continue...


[Preface: I've always had a tendency to rise to the bait. It started with an anonymous comment on my last "proper" post coupled with the bit of banter that followed with the Chairman of The Board. Like finding an old friend on Facebook, I started rooting


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Diane Keaton, in bits and pieces

Keaton writes not so much in chapters, though there are chapters, but in pieces, some rushed and breathless and vague, others almost journalistic in their determination to get the facts right, all of them evocative of her famously elliptical cadence and


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The Trampfather: Dishevelled Al Pacino looks every inch his 71 years on shopping trip


Dishevelled,
wild-eyed and sporting a hair style even Phil Spector wouldn’t touch with a
barge pole, these days Al Pacino certainly isn’t the Godfather of style.
The legendary actor
looked more like a tramp than a Hollywood superstar on a shopping trip w


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Movie guide: Capsule listing of current releases

Ratings by the Motion Picture Association of America are: (G) for general audiences; (PG) parental guidance urged because of material possibly unsuitable for children; (PG-13) parents are strongly cautioned to give guidance for attendance of children you


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New ‘Mob’ wife

‘Mob Wives” is getting a new “made” member. Ramona Rizzo — the granddaughter of Benjamin “Lefty Guns” Ruggiero, the Bonnano crime family soldier played by Al Pacino in the 1997 movie “Donnie Brasco” — is joining the cast this season, The Post has learned


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Instead of double the fun, Sandler's twin film is double the agony


Jack and Jill went up a hill, but Jack fell down right into a "C" due to forced humor from normally great, well-known actors.

"Jack and Jill" features identical twins Jack and Jill Sadelstein (both played by Adam Sandler). Jack is the successful twin wi


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Jason Segel’s utterly charming “Muppets” reinvention

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Helen Mirren to host Nobel Peace concert

Dame Helen Mirren is to host the Nobel Peace Prize concert in Norway next month, the organisers have announced.
The British actress, star of The Queen and Prime Suspect, will compere a line-up including Evanescence and Glee star Matthew Morrison.
Other B


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My Favorite Mistake


I made the mistake one time of staying out four nights in a row when I had to work. I’m talking four nights in a row! I was doing a movie called The Pope of Greenwich Village, which is probably my favorite film I’ve made, working with one of my favorite


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Top Movie Mothers Gone Bad [PHOTOS]


Here we feature some of the leading mums who have gone bad in the most notable films made in the industry. 
In a lot of Hollywood movies, there have been lots of plots that involved the role mothers play in families and the community. You would love actr


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Adam Sandler's "Jack & Jill" Should all fall down


Adam Sandler is a funny guy and a talented actor. He has created some very funny and endearing characters. He has also been associated with some truly awful stinkers, unfortunately, this film falls into the latter category. To be sure, there are some fun


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Rewind radio: Dilemma; I've Never Seen Star Wars; Oscar and Al Pacino; Victoria Derbyshire – review


Does the world – and Radio 4 in particular – need another panel show? Apparently so, for that is what we have in Dilemma, a new, post-Archers, Sunday-night effort, hosted by Sue Perkins and peopled by the familiar: Rebecca Front, Dave Gorman, Richard Her


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Then Again: A Memoir by Diane Keaton – review


You would not expect a memoir by Diane Keaton to be a conventional "as told to" or ghosted showbusiness autobiography, and indeed she recognises her own eccentricity in a 1969 letter to her mother written after failing an audition for a Broadway comedy.


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Oscar and Al Pacino, Radio 4, Tuesday Schtzngrmm, Radio 4, Sunday

They say you should never meet your heroes, and I wonder if there should be a similar stricture against listening to your favourite screen idols on the radio. It goes without saying that Al Pacino is a great actor, but he's also a star in an old-fashione


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Rambling Movie Reviews: 'Jack and Jill'


Do you know what Adam Sandler and Steven Spielberg have in common (apart from being of the Jewish faith)? They’re both consistent; consistent in the sense that I know what to expect when watching their movies.  Whenever I prep myself for a Spielberg film


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Remake: Protests aside, revisiting source material nothing new for Hollywood filmmakers


Hollywood is running out of ideas.
That's a common complaint, especially when another remake of a beloved or popular old movie arrives.
"Just one more remake that proves the film industry has no more creativity," one online reader of The Commercial Appea


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David Beckham: Day I met Jack Nicholson in loo


Now the footie hero must decide whether to stay with his club in the States or
take another offer — such as a return to action in Europe.
But with the amazing life he leads here with his family, the decision will
be harder than he could possibly have


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Spiked Bejeweled Sneakers - The Christian Louboutin SS12 No Limit Collection (TrendHunter.com)

It appears that the Christian Louboutin SS12 No Limit collection really has…no limit. From spiked tips to bedazzled bodies and various animal prints (on one sneaker), this men’s shoe line is definitely made for Lady Gaga’s male counterpart. Perhaps Jo Ca


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Asshole - Martin Kihn - #7.99


What is A$$hole about?

It’s about a guy who realizes he’s too nice to get ahead in corporate America and decides to put himself through a brutal, ten-step program to turn himself into a total A$$hole. It’s the story of that transformation and how it aff


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It’s no joke keeping tabs on the calories

NAME a foodstuff and Omid Djalili can tell you how many calories it contains.
A packet of sliced cooked chicken is about 100, he says, and an apple will be about 50.
“And together that’s a meal. So if I have that for lunch, and porridge for breakfast, th


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Book review: 'Then Again' by Diane Keaton

It was always the fragile balance of opposing forces that made Diane Keaton's face so remarkable — those tilted melancholy eyes above that frequent and infectious smile. She seemed in a perpetual state of emotional contradiction, which is one of the thin


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Dan Fogelman: Scribe's career gets 'Crazy'


After years of success as the scribe for animated features such as "Cars," "Bolt" and "Tangled," Dan Fogelman has catapulted to real-world superstardom with this year's star-studded comedy "Crazy, Stupid, Love." Fogelman's enchanted year includes both "T


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'Jack and Jill': Sandler takes giant steps back

"Jack and Jill," in which Adam Sandler plays both sides of male-female identical twins, feels like a joke trailer stretched into a feature film.
That isn’t necessarily contrary to the aims of "Jack and Jill," a gleefully stupid movie much more in line w


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Film Clips

FOOTLOOSE (PG-13). A new kid in town (Kenny Wormald) rebels against a local ban on dancing in a remake of the 1980s teen favorite. The performances are a paler shade of the original and there’s considerably less chemistry to go around. As the teen lovers


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New "Twilight" takes to screens

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1Despite lacks in acting and animation, this edition does something that no previous “Twilight” movie achieved. It draws you close and keeps you there and, for those of us who haven’t read Stephenie Meyer’s novel, de


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Beckham thinking short-term only


David Beckham remained mum on his much-discussed football future on Thursday, saying he is firmly focused on his Los Angeles Galaxy's weekend clash with Houston for the MLS Cup.
Major League Soccer's title match on Sunday could see Beckham go out a champ


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Adam Sandler, Al Pacino and Ehhh

Adam Sandler brings a heartwarming family comedy to theaters with his new feature film Jack and Jill, released Nov. 11. In true Mike Myers and Eddie Murphy style, Sandler plays both leading roles – the successful and sarcastic Jack Sadelstein and his “ho


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EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Does Prince Charles support the forced eviction of the St Paul's protesters?


Prince Charles: More conscious than most about the desecration of property
Does the Prince of Wales support the forced eviction, New York style, of St Paul’s campers?
He’s an old Cambridge friend of the Bishop of London, The Rt Rev Richard Chartres, who


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On Any Given Sunday... Or Thursday: Tim Tebow's Game of Inches

Other than a deep and abiding passion for football, Tim Tebow and Rex Ryan have little in common. Tebow doubles as a pious virgin and an underwear model, whereas rotund Rex is always up for a "Goddamn snack!" or a good old fetish video. Though Tebow play


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Hopelessly devoted to Hugh

Every night outside the Broadhurst Theatre, the women flock to the stage door, their pens shaking, their cameras poised, their insides Jell-O. Whether they’re middle-aged fans who fell in love with Hugh Jackman the Broadway star in “The Boy From Oz” or 2


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Movies: Recent releases

"Immortals" * It's surprising that this movie is so bad. It comes from the producers of the spirited "300," but the script has all the depth of a manhole cover. Theseus (Henry Cavill) must rally the troops to stop the evil King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke) f


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Of Course Armond White Gave Jack And Jill A Rave Review

We’re admittedly a few days behind on this one, but the World’s Most Important Film Critic, Armond White, gave Adam Sandler’s most recent movie, Jack and Jill, a rave review, because OF COURSE HE DID. (See previously: Duh Aficionado Magazine: Armond Whit


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Kristen Stewart doesn't give a f***, says Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron has expressed her admiration for Snow White and the Huntsman co-star Kristen Stewart.
In an interview with Vogue, the actress praised Stewart for coping so well with her widespread fame despite her young age, admitting that she was not a


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Diane Keaton's Memoir Discusses Bulimic Years

Diane Keaton struggled with bulimia for five years before a psychotherapist helped her overcome it sometime around 1973, the actress wrote in a memoir that hit bookstores Tuesday. After learning she needed to lose 10 pounds to land a part in the original


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Paper Mill Playhouse's Newsies Broadway bound in March


Newsies, the breakout new American musical, will move to Broadway's Nederlander Theatre (208 W 41st St) for a strictly limited 101 performance run following its critically-hailed run at Paper Mill Playhouse earlier this fall.  The musical, featuring a sc


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Keaton Enjoyed Nicholson Kisses

The script for the 2003 romantic comedy called for the movie veterans to pucker up, but the actress struggled with the scene because she kept forgetting her lines after locking lips with aged Lothario Nicholson.
And she admits the onscreen passion made h


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Charlize Theron Single For The First Time In 17 Years

After a hiatus from leading roles, Charlize Theron returns full-on with this month's Young Adult, a film that showcases her Oscar-worthy talents—and the liberating energy of her newly single life.
“We should keep it classy,” Charlize Theron says.
It’s a


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Charlize Theron Finds Kristen Stewart's Carefree Attitude Refreshing


Charlize Theron might have called Kristen Stewart a child, but it was to show her admiration to the "Twilight Saga" beauty. During an interview for the December issue of Vogue magazine, the "Young Adult" actress revealed what she finds so refreshing abou


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Diane Keaton reveals eating disorder that blighted her affair with Woody Allen


According to Diane Keaton, Woody Allen always said she wouldn't know a joke if it hit her in the face. She always laughed at his, though.
What man could fail to feel flattered? From the moment they met in late 1968 — at an audition for his play, Play It


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Charlize Theron finds Kristen Stewart's relaxed attitude to fame 'refreshing'

The 36-year-old actress bonded with the young actress while they were filming the fantasy movie, and the South African beauty admits she was left impressed by how well Stewart coped with life in the spotlight since shooting to superstardom as Bella Swan


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Vogue Cover Girl Charlize Theron Talks Kristen Stewart And Snow White


The second we saw Charlize Theron and Kristen Stewart in the Snow White and the Huntsman trailer, we’ve been obsessing. The fact that they play mortal enemies onscreen, does not mean that they shouldn’t be BFF in real life. And by that we mean that in ou


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QuickFlick: Jack and Jill


Jack and Jill, Adam Sandler’s latest venture into family comedy, follows the shenanigans of twins whose love for each other is anything but identical. Jack, a well-adjusted Hollywood advertising executive has the displeasure of hosting his identical twin


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No Concessions: An Open Letter to Al Pacino

This isn’t a review of Jack and Jill. I mean, as if–as if I’d pay to see it (well, OK, maybe a spin on cable, where I recently wasted some time with your co-star Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston in Just Tell It Like It Is, or Just Do It, or whatever the


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1 actor, many parts in a film


Adam Sandler's "Jack and Jill" has us thinking about other actors who
have taken multiple roles in a film

By now, you probably know that Adam Sandler plays a
brother-and-sister combo pack in his latest comedy, "Jack and Jill." How you feel about t


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