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Reel Critics: A rugged and inspiring 'Trail'
I was privileged to attend the private screening of a captivating new documentary. Catherine Jayasuriya is a very sharp local mom on a major mission. She is the driving force behind "Dusty's Trail," which is vying for a spot in the Newport Beach Film...Tags: Elections, Chess Playing, Game Playing, Gael Garcia Bernal, Movies
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Miller: No clear winner in Oscar contest
For some in Newport-Mesa, the 85th annual Academy Awards telecast may have prompted a three-word response: "Oh, hey, guys." Within minutes of the show's beginning, William Shatner, who recently brought his one-man show to the Segerstrom Center for the...
Tags: Rosalynn Carter, Daniel Day-Lewis, Robert De Niro, Jane Austen, Roger Ebert
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Check It Out: Reading up before the Oscars
On Feb. 24, the 85th Academy Awards ceremony will take place at the Dolby (formerly Kodak) Theatre in Hollywood. The show has grown considerably from its humble origins in 1929 as a private banquet for 270 guests at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. This...Tags: Meryl Streep, Libraries, Entertainment, Ceremonies, Academy Awards
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Playing the Oscar game
It's time to play one of our favorite yearly games at Times Community News: Can You Outguess the Features Editor? And no, that's not a rhetorical question. You probably can. Last year, incurable Oscar junkie that I am, I challenged readers to beat my...
Tags: Jennifer Lawrence, Daniel Day-Lewis, Kathryn Bigelow, Ben Affleck, Les Miserables (movie)
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City Lights: A list for why this recovering list addict is going list-less (from now on)
Now that Christmas is over, I have a new seasonal tune stuck in my head. Maybe it wasn't intended as a holiday song, but it's one I often find myself humming around the end of December and start of January: "Nothing Was Delivered," an obscure Bob Dylan...
Tags: Lucinda Williams, Mary Tyler Moore, John Fogerty, Neil Armstrong, Jimi Hendrix
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Reel Critics: 'Argo' holds audience hostage
It's a mark of great film-making when the retelling of history, with a known outcome, seizes us with suspense. Such is the case with "Argo," which had my heart racing within the first five minutes thanks to Ben Affleck's smart direction. It opens with...
Tags: The Big Lebowski (movie), Ben Affleck, Genres, U.S. Embassy, Entertainment
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'Saturday Night Live': Stefon steals the show
Staff writerStefon received a deliriously wacky sendoff this weekend on "Saturday Night Live," the high point of the 38th season finale. New York correspondent Stefon (Bill Hader) revealed that he was getting married to someone who would treat him with more...Tags: Fred Armisen, Ben Affleck, Bill Hader, MSNBC (tv network), Jennifer Garner
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In Brazil, Domino's makes rented DVDs smell like pizza
Don't forget the napkins when you watch a DVD in Brazil. In Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Domino's has teamed up with 10 rental stores to use movie DVDs for an unusual marketing push. Users pop in a rented DVD like they would any other, and after...Tags: Marketing, Brazil, Microsoft Corporation, Netflix Inc., Skyfall (movie)
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Nate Silver: In Hollywood, 'Nobody knows anything'
Predictability and the arts-and-entertainment world have an uneasy relationship. Predictability is a given — like the mouthfeel of a Big Mac — when it comes to, say, the punch lines on "Two and a Half Men" or the beats of your average...
Tags: Two and a Half Men (tv program), Bradley Cooper, Religion and Belief, Mark Wahlberg, Ben Affleck
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Interview: Kevin Smith isn't the silent type
When you ask people who clearly are upset what's wrong, they typically will reply "nothing," because they don't want to talk about it — or they will take the opposite approach and tell you exactly what's got them down, starting from beginning to end...
Tags: Django Unchained (movie), Film Festivals, Sundance Film Festival, Red State (movie), Ben Affleck
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Hollywood bets big on blockbusters, starting with 'Iron Man 3'
Summer is the season for blockbusters at the box office, and this year Hollywood is going all in. Midway through a year of declining attendance and ticket sales, the major studios are betting heavily on big-budget spectacles that can fatten the bottom...Tags: Labor Day, The Heat (movie), Robert Downey Jr., Jerry Bruckheimer , Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.
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Review: Marveling at meditative 'To the Wonder'
Terrence Malick, as unconventional, esoteric and spiritual as ever, has created an ocean of love in "To the Wonder," filling it with calm seas, treacherous storms, incredible beauty and a god who watches over it all. Love in all its many facets is...
Tags: Roger Ebert, Religion and Belief, Movies, Roman Catholicism, Ben Affleck
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