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From the archives: Chinese Theater @ 85
VarietySid Grauman the genius and world's greatest picture house showman, the father of the $1.50 straight atmospheric film theater with a consistent policy along that line, is dedicating next week the dream of a life time, his $1,200,000 Chinese theater, in the...Tags: Entertainment, Travel, Tourism and Leisure, Gene Hackman, Academy Awards
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Movie Review: Marmaduke
Frankly My Dear» Orlando Sentinel â Frankly My DearâIf youâre a teenager and the world doesnât fit you, youâre totally hosed.â And if youâre making a movie about a chatty, teenaged Great Dane, you might as well give him the voice of Owen Wilson. Marmaduke, the comi... -
Sarah Jessica Parker to be filming in Annapolis
Celebrity watcher alert: Irrepressible fashion plate Sarah Jessica Parker will be sporting her Manolo Blahnik footwear in Annapolis this week. Parker, late of HBO's Sex and the City series, will be filming a scene for her next movie, Failure to Launch,...Tags: Television, Entertainment, Easton (Easton, Pennsylvania), Annapolis, Sarah Jessica Parker
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Fast-Paised review: Failure to Launch'
Big question: A "professional interventionist" (Sarah Jessica Parker) is hired to lure 30-something bachelor Tripp (Matthew McConaughey) out of his parents' (Terry Bradshaw, Kathy Bates) house. Does this negatively named comedy achieve liftoff? Skip it:...Tags: Comedy (genre), Entertainment, Zooey Deschanel, Sarah Jessica Parker, Movies
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Movie review: Failure to Launch'
Tribune arts critic1½ stars (out of four) Cursed with an honest title, "Failure to Launch" waves a white flag in scene after scene, declaring surrender. We give up! We do not know how to make a decent mainstream romantic comedy! Outside the often fruitful sub genre of the...Tags: Entertainment, Matthew McConaughey, Michael Phillips, New Products, Kathy Bates
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'Failure to Launch'
Zap2It.comSo there's this romantic comedy in which Matthew McConaughey plays a genial, manipulative jerk brought low by the love of a woman with equally duplicitous motives, and it's unspeakably awful -- an insult to the intelligence of anyone unfortunate enough to...Tags: Entertainment, Paramount Pictures, DVDs and Movies, DVDs, Matthew McConaughey
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'Shanghai Knights'
Times Staff WriterLate in "Shanghai Knights," the lazy and resolutely witless follow-up to the comic western "Shanghai Noon," the two lead characters get into an argument about which guy is the sidekick. Owen Wilson, who plays a 19th century dude named Roy O'Bannon,...Tags: Fann Wong, Christianity, Entertainment, Anglicanism, Jackie Chan
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'Shanghai Noon'
Times Staff WriterThe hilarious, knockabout "Shanghai Noon," Jackie Chan's best American picture to date, breathes fresh life into the virtually dormant comedy-western. It also marks the relaxed and confident directorial debut of Tom Dey, working from a consistently funny,...Tags: California, Entertainment, Lucy Liu, Berkeley (Alameda, California), Jackie Chan
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Movie review, 'Showtime'
As your mind wanders during the formulaic, witless, self-contradictory piffle that is "Showtime," you may ask yourself questions. Like: Remember when Robert De Niro's presence in a movie used to mean something? De Niro movies weren't all great, but...Tags: Robert De Niro, Faye Dunaway, Entertainment, James Brown, Television
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'Showtime'
Times Staff WriterWhen Robert De Niro and Eddie Murphy decided to team up for the cop action-comedy "Showtime," they hooked up with exactly the right people to give a fresh and funny satirical twist to an old formula. They are director Tom Dey and writers Alfred Gough...Tags: Robert De Niro, Tribeca, Entertainment, Bars and Clubs, Los Angeles Police Department
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