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Summer Fun Guide: Summer movies are more fun outdoors
St. Louis Post-DispatchAct 2 in the heartwarming story of Frontyard Features is a lot like the first: A hometown fan steps to the plate to promote his favorite pastime in the city he loves. In this case, the pastime is movies, and the new guy in charge of the outdoor-...Tags: Arts, Arts and Culture, Academy Awards, Casablanca (movie), Casablanca (Morocco)
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Classical Corner
Access Contemporary Music: Resident ensemble Palomar is joined by Strawdog Theatre Company actors to present "1,001 Afternoons in Chicago," a play for voices and instruments based on legendary Chicago journalist Ben Hecht's newspaper columns. 7 p.m....Tags: Arts and Culture, South Shore, Colleges and Universities, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Dominican University
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Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick redux at LACMA
With the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's expansive "Stanley Kubrick" exhibition set to close on June 30, the museum's film department is revisiting several key movies in the maverick filmmaker's oeuvre. Each of the director's films in the series...Tags: Arts, Arts and Culture, Barry Lyndon (movie), Paths of Glory (movie), Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson, David Fitzsimmons column
The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson"By injecting Stone Age genes into a human embryo it will soon be possible to create a living Neanderthal." - Harvard professor George Church Too late, George. When the anthropologist Melvin Mead III parted the creosote bushes and saw...Tags: Arts and Culture, Family Planning, United Nations, The Daily Show (tv program), Entertainment
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New on DVD: 'Atlas' requires concentration while 'Dexter' takes a turn
The Fresno BeeThis week's new DVD releases range from the odd to the odder. "Cloud Atlas," Grade B: Events and actions in one time period have an affect on past and future eras. Tom Hanks stars. Not since "2001: A Space Odyssey" has a film come along that's such a...Tags: Doctor Who (tv program), Tobe Hooper, The Matrix (movie), Entertainment, PBS (tv network)
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"2001: A Space Odyssey" Showing at Avon Theatre Film Center in Stamford
2001: A Space Odyssey may be the most epic movie of all time, a dated but romantic vision of the future directed by the great Stanley Kubrick in 1968. Signs of extraterrestrial intelligence are discovered, and astronauts are sent on a secret mission to...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Stanley Kubrick, Stamford
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Ray Harryhausen, Special Effects Master, Dies at 92
ReutersMay 07 (TheWrap.com) - Special-effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen has died. He was 92. Despite shifts in popular tastes and production techniques, Harryhausen's monsters and other-worldly creatures dazzled movie-goers for roughly four decades and showed...Tags: James Cameron, Casablanca (movie), Paleontology, Jurassic Park (movie), Tom Hanks
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Reel Critics: 'Oblivion' a thinking man's thriller
Big-budget science-fiction movies are often vehicles for selling toys to kids and merchandise to adult fans. But there was a time when these films offered compelling visions of a strange future far beyond conventional thinking. "Forbidden Planet" in 1956,...
Tags: Life of Pi (movie), Blade Runner (movie), Tom Cruise, Max Thieriot, Andrea Riseborough
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Tom Cruise, 'Oblivion' going nowhere, glacially ★★
Something's wrong. Tom Cruise, or, rather, Jack Harper, his character in the placid new science-fiction adventure "Oblivion," can't shake his dreams of a woman giving him the big eyes on the observation deck of the Empire State Building. It's 2077....
Tags: Arts and Culture, Tom Cruise, Andrea Riseborough, Entertainment, Oblivion (movie)
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Digging deep into 'The Shining'
There is nothing especially frightening about Room 350 at the Standard Hotel on the Sunset Strip. It overlooks the pool, with colorful mod décor pleasantly bathed in bright window light. Inside, documentary filmmaker Rodney Ascher is prepared to discuss...
Tags: Symbols and Symbolism, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Movies, A Clockwork Orange (movie), The Holocaust (1934-1945)
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TV This Week: March 31 - April 6: 'Mr. Selfridge' on PBS
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of March 31 - April 5, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SUNDAY Technically, it's the day...
Tags: Doctor Who (tv program), Peter Dinklage, Television Industry, Denise Richards, Jessica Biel
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LACMA's overhaul is a work in progress
Seven years ago last month, when Michael Govan was named the sixth director in the relatively brief history of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, his mandate was clear: overhaul the place. The ambitious plan was to make LACMA the nation's only...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Arts, Full Metal Jacket (movie), The Getty, Mexico
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