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'Silver Linings Playbook' wins best feature at Indie Spirit Awards
David O. Russell's dramatic comedy "Silver Linings Playbook" took home the best feature prize at the Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday afternoon at a raucous ceremony hosted by Andy Samberg on the beach in Santa Monica. It was a big afternoon for...
Tags: Film Independent Spirit Awards, Keep the Lights On (movie), Mark Duplass, Academy Awards, Amour (movie)
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Quiz: The money behind Oscar 2013 nominees
Academy Awards nominations and Oscar statues can provide a big boost at the box office. Some films benefit enormously. The domestic box-office take for 2009 best picture winner "Slumdog Millionaire" jumped to $141.3 million from $98.3 million after...
Tags: Entertainment, Academy Awards, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (movie), Argo (movie), Amour (movie)
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Hollywood's outsiders come inside
It's been nearly a generation since Quentin Tarantino burst on the scene with his raucous indie film "Pulp Fiction" in 1994, and Hollywood is a very different place. The once-vibrant independent film scene that Tarantino helped shape has shrunk to a...
Tags: Alexander Payne, Academy Awards, The Descendants (movie), Wars and Interventions, David Fincher
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Oscar predictions: Vegas lays odds, and the best bet goes to ...
Are you feeling certain, like most, that Daniel Day-Lewis is going to win the lead actor Oscar on Sunday for his title turn in "Lincoln"? If you want to put some money behind that belief, you can, but, given his sure-shot status, you'd better be...Tags: Entertainment, Golden Globe Awards, Academy Awards, Celebrities, Amour (movie)
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Oscars 2013: Here's what to look for on Oscar night [video chat]
With the 85th Academy Awards set for Sunday night, the question on many's minds is whether "Argo," Ben Affleck's drama set amid the Iranian hostage crisis, will cap off its awards season run with a best picture win. But there are many other things to...
Tags: Seth MacFarlane, Ted (movie), Adele (music artist), Academy Awards, Ben Affleck
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How Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence found the 'Silver Linings'
When Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence met for the first time before shooting the new David O. Russell movie "Silver Linings Playbook," they didn't opt for a conventional encounter. There was no leisurely table read of the script, no tell-me-your-...
Tags: Zach Galifianakis, Entertainment, He's Just Not That Into You (movie), Bradley Cooper, Movies
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'Silver Linings Playbook' set design mines the '70s
"Silver Linings Playbook," which moves from limited release to about 2,500 theaters this weekend, earned eight Academy Award nominations, including nods for actors Bradley Cooper, Golden Globe winner Jennifer Lawrence, Robert DeNiro and Jacki Weaver....
Tags: Julia Stiles, Sculpture, Manhattan (New York City), David O. Russell, Bradley Cooper
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Oscars 2013: 'Argo' generates most heat, but can 'Lincoln' catch it?
With the Oscars finally upon us Sunday, it's do-or-die for the movies ranked in the L.A. Times Data Desk's HeatMeter, which tallies points at events throughout the season to gauge the overall traction of people and films. With Ben Affleck's "Argo"...
Tags: Saving Private Ryan (movie), Golden Globe Awards, Academy Awards, Searching for Sugar Man (movie), Ben Affleck
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12 things I learned from watching the Golden Globes
Channel Guide MagazineHere are a few things I learned from watching last night's Golden Globes ceremony (many of them were things I didn't know that I didn't know, which is always a bonus): 1) Jodie Foster is retiring! UPDATE: She's not retiring 2) Jodie Foster had... -
Anticipating the Oscars: These might contend
My Academy Awards predictions — and honestly, why not start now, a month before the nominations are announced? — carry an odor akin to Paul Rudd's cologne in "Anchorman": 60 percent of the time, they're right every time. This week the awards...
Tags: Entertainment, Bradley Cooper, Academy Awards, The Master (movie), Ben Affleck
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The boldness and brilliance of one-star reviews on Amazon.com
A couple of weeks ago at a Tribune-hosted cocktail party in the Loop, I found myself in a conversation with novelist Richard Ford. I was wearing the baseball hat I'm wearing in the photo that runs with this column, and from the corner of my eye I...
Tags: Entertainment, Guy Fieri, NBC (tv network), Amazon.com Inc., Reviews
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University of Chicago Medicine's top official faces a challenging 2013
Nearly every morning, before 7 a.m., Dr. Kenneth Polonsky is dropped off near the Lakefront Trail on Chicago's South Side, a few steps from Lake Michigan. He carries no briefcase, wears no suit and has no cup of coffee, the standard trappings of his...
Tags: Science and Technology, Separation of Church and State, Human Interest, Politics, Medical Research
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