Entertainment Columns
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'Night Catches Us' evokes strong memoriesDec 08, 2010 11:00 pm - The title comes from a Jamaican saying, “Don't let the night catch you,” meaning, I suppose, that you shouldn't let the darkness perhaps the dark past overtake you. Ja...
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Con man cons all too well in 'Phillip Morris'Dec 08, 2010 11:00 pm - The extent that Jim Carrey's con man character in “I Love You Phillip Morris” connects with its audience ultimately determines how much we are drawn into this peculiar a...
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New on DVD: ESPN gift set, Bob Hope collectionDec 08, 2010 10:00 pm - “ESPN Films “30 for 30 Gift Set” Sports channel ESPN is celebrating its 30th anniversary on the air by releasing the critically acclaimed series “30 for 30” on DVD ...
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Romantic thriller 'Tourist' nice to look at, but sparks fizzleDec 08, 2010 10:00 pm - Call it “The Tourist” claptrap. Here we have a romantic thriller that should have evoked comparisons with a classic Alfred Hitchcock film starring Cary Grant and Eva Mar...
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'Grease' co-creator: No one got the endingDec 01, 2010 10:00 pm - We're sorry, Sandy. All this time, we were completely wrong about you and the ending of your musical movie “Grease.” We thought that when you doffed your sweet Sandra De...
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Portman mesmerizing as ballerina in 'Black Swan'Dec 01, 2010 10:00 pm - Darren Aronofsky's disturbing “Black Swan” chronicles in exquisite, excruciating detail how a control-freak ballerina pirouettes off into the abyss of madness and obsess...
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Surely, Gire couldn't forget meeting Leslie NielsenNov 28, 2010 10:00 pm - 'Airplane!' star brought whoopie cushion to interview and declared 'I love being an idiot!'
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Gire chats with 'Love and Other Drugs' director Edward ZwickNov 24, 2010 10:00 pm - Chicago-born Edward Zwick's new romantic drama “Love and Other Drugs” is loosely inspired by the nonfiction book “Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman.” I spoke...
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'Welcome to the Rileys' slow but heartfeltNov 24, 2010 10:00 pm - This might well be the closest thing we get to an actual Christmas movie this holiday season. Jake Scott's family crisis drama “Welcome to the Rileys” boasts superlative...
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'Tangled' goes to great lengthsNov 22, 2010 10:00 pm - Where Walt Disney/Pixar's “Toy Story 3” sketched all-too human characters in an adult story about mortality and the unstoppable march of time, “Tangled” returns to class...