Get ‘off’

Stefanie Cohen’s article on Broadway ticket prices is a sobering look at the high cost of this most unique form of entertainment (“The Great White Ripoff,” July 26). However, New York City’s theatrical universe does not begin and end with Broadway. Each


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Al Pacino rushes home to New York as 21-year-old daughter is 'arrested for drink-driving'


Al Pacino appears to have made a dash back to New York today, after his 21-year-old daughter Julie Marie was arrested on suspicion of drink driving, this morning.
The actor was seen walking briskly through JFK airport with girlfriend, Argentinian actress


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Pacino's daughter car-'faced'

The scent of this woman was beer and weed. Al Pacino's 21-year-old daughter had a dog-day night in lower Manhattan, where she was busted for driving while drunk and stoned, authorities said. Julie Marie Pacino, an aspiring film director and producer, was


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Reel good

THE NATURAL 1984 Sunday, 12:30 a.m., Spike * Barry Levinson and Robert Redford’s conspiracy-of-the-ethereal baseball movie about an over-the-hill pitcher who shows up out of nowhere with a magical bat made from a lightning-struck tree. He rises to the gl


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Television movies for the week of July 31

MOVIE RATINGS = Poor = Fair = Good = Excellent G = General audiences PG = Parental Guidance PG-13 = Not recommended for preteens R = Restricted audience CC = Closed captioned for hearing impaired ALPHABETICAL LISTING A Abandon '02. Katie Holmes. A detec


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Clooney, Madonna to grace Venice fest

George Clooney, Madonna and Al Pacino will grace the red carpet at this year’s Venice film festival but cult director Roman Polanski is staying away out of fear of extradition, organisers said on Thursday.
Twenty-two films, all world premieres, will comp


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Captain America worth a cheer


As expected, the movie has the requisite CGI bombast, though the most unique visual effect involved digitally altering the buff Evans so that he would appear emaciated in the early sequences — an approach that works far better than the technique for whic


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Marvel wins lawsuit, Joe Pesci sues 'Gotti' producers

Marvel has won a legal battle to retain copyright of its lucrative comic book characters including Spider-Man and The Incredible Hulk. The comic-book powerhouse sued the family of late co-creator Jack Kirby last year after they laid claim to copyrights f


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Meet Minichiello: The big man behind Ennis's grand plan


Coach has a volatile father-daughter relationship with British heptathlete – but it's working perfectly. Simon Turnbull reports It could be any given Saturday for Toni Minichiello – or any given Sunday, for that matter. For the man behind the great Briti


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Will Patrick Willis find a bigger voice?


Patrick Willis has heard this all before. He is the 49ers ' most dynamic defensive player and one of the most exciting young players in the NFL. His quiet demeanor, however, always raises doubts about whether he will ever be a classic middle-linebacker l


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Clooneys film to open Venice film fest

The line-up of the 68th edition of the film festival was announced Thursday, reports contactmusic.com.
Clooney directed the film and stars in it with Ryan Gosling, Paul Giamatti and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Approximately 22 films will be presented in comp


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Cooper to play gangster Gotti?

Dominic Cooper is being lined up to play notorious New York mobster John Gotti Jr in new movie Gotti: Three Generations.
The film is being directed by Rain Man's Barry Levinson and will co-star John Travolta and Al Pacino.
Barry and Gotti: Three Generati


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George Clooney's The Ides of March to open Venice film fest - Realbollywood.com News


London, July 29: Actor George Clooney's political thriller "The Ides of March" will open the Venice International Film Festival, which starts Aug 31.
The line-up of the 68th edition of the film festival was announced Thursday, reports contactmusic.com.
C


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Palm trees in Mineola? Just California dreamworld....

They’re planting palm trees on the lawn of the south side of the State Supreme Court in Mineola.No, nobody’s going crazy here.It’s all part of a plot -- a movie plot.The HBO movie makers want this bit of land outside the courthouse to look like Californi


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Joe Pesci sues Gotti film over weight gain


The Raging Bull and Goodfellas star Joe Pesci is taking on the makers of a Mafia movie, saying they conned him into putting on more
than two stone for a major supporting role before offering him a much smaller part.
The 68-year-old is suing the produce


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IMPEACH NIXON

You guys know me, I can’t start writing without a title. What have we got here, five days before the country implodes? I’m already putting together a crew, we’re going to move westward and rename the suburbs. Spartacus. Mitchum. You know, ease everyone’s


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World News: Joe Pesci sues filmmaker over mob role

Joe Pesci claims the makers of a biopic on the Gotti family have made him an offer he can refuse – a lesser part in the movie and a two million US dollar salary cut.
The actor sued Fiore Films, seeking the three million dollars he said he was promised to


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Tony Award given to man who inspired character


28 July 2011 Last updated at 04:30 ET Mark Rylance said Micky Lay "deserves" the Tony award Actor Mark Rylance is giving his Tony Award for his part in Jerusalem to the man who inspired the play. The actor said he thought Micky Lay, the 71 year-old build


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Pesci sues Gotti film producers


28 July 2011 Last updated at 04:56 ET Pesci, 68, won an Oscar in 1990 for his role in crime drama GoodFellas Actor Joe Pesci has taken legal action against the producers of a film about US mobster John Gotti, claiming they have reneged on their pledges t


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Ponzi schemer Ken Starr divorced by ex-stripper Diane Passage

Washington, July 28 : Ken Starr is being divorced by wife Diane Passage as he serves a 7 and a half year federal prison sentence for bilking 33 million dollars from clients including Al Pacino, Uma Thurman and Sylvester Stallone.

The former Scores strip


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Royal Shakespeare Company vs. New York’s Shakespeare in the Park

NEW YORK — Bill this midsummer card as an Elizabethan throwdown: the Royal Shakespeare Company versus the New York Shakespeare Festival. Virtually within earshot of each other, Britain’s bastion of Bard-dom and Manhattan’s warm-weather outlet for iambic


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Bill Murray's Ghostbuster home for sale in tony Palisades, NY

Bill Murray’s former country home in the wealthy New York enclave of Palisades has been put on the market by Oscar-winning composer David Shire and his wife, the actress Didi Conn. Plus a special bonus!
The 5,100-square-foot home, which Murray painstakin


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G.D. Spradlin, Prolific Character Actor, Dies at 90


G. D. Spradlin , whose experience as a corporate lawyer, independent oilman and rancher influenced his nuanced portrayals of authority figures in more than 70 films and television shows, including “The Godfather: Part II” and “Apocalypse Now,” died on Su


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January Jones shows more than cleavage at Golden Globes

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New York (ANI): 'Mad Men" star January Jones was snapped wearing a red-hot Versace gown that exposed more than her cleavage at the Golden Globe Awards. Jones, 3


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Wife to divorce Ponzi schemer

Jailed celebrity Ponzi-scheming money manager Ken Starr is being divorced by his ample-charmed, former Scores stripper wife, Diane Passage, Page Six has exclusively learned. While Starr is serving a 7½-year federal prison sentence, Passage is seeking cou


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Here's What Bradley Cooper's Devil May Look Like in Paradise Lost

Bradley Cooper has portrayed a variety of sinful characters in his career but the Hangover star will embody pure evil next year when playing Lucifer in the 3-D adaptation of John Milton’s Paradise Lost. After premiering the first concept artwork for the


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2011 WCG Football Film Tournament

We here at Windy City Gridiron like to have a good time. That should be obvious if you've ever been to our comment threads, any of our posts, or watched us pick on each other via Twitter.
We wanted to bring you something fun as we lead up to the 2011 sea


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Brad Balfour: Remembering the Late Great Director Sidney Lumet Through One of His Last Interviews

At the time Before the Devil Knows You're Dead was released, it first premiered in the U.S. at the 2007 New York Film Festival. Its director, Sidney Lumet, had long been regarded as an internationally respected auteur who had made several benchmark films


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Godfather actor GD Spradlin dies

26 July 2011 Last updated at 04:37 ET US character actor GD Spradlin - best known for playing corrupt senator Pat Geary in The Godfather Part II - has died in California at the age of 90. The former lawyer and oil producer died of natural causes on Sunda


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John Lundberg: Can Bradley Cooper Handle Satan?

I just fell in love with that character. Satan is kind of the guy you agree with -- I don't know if you agree with him, but you understand his argument and he's very compelling. Hopefully we'll be able to maintain the integrity of that.





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Get Out of The Way of Yourself!

Michaelangelo once said "Lord, free myself so I can please you"
Al Pacino once said "In acting you are trying to get yourself out of the way to deliver a great performance"
Ken Loach the film director said "A director is there to make a film come alive,


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Emanuel Derman


Near record heat in NYC, 92 degrees even at 9pm.
U.S. govt messed up as usual. Europe too.
I was in Norway twice.  The first time was during the LTCM/Russian default crisis, which occurred while I was hiking around the fjords with a group of Norwegians,


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Phone hacking: The hiring of Andy Coulson exposes David Cameron's essential decency

Hard on the heels of the multiple resignations of Rebekah Brooks and Les
Hinton from the Murdoch apparat and of Sir Paul Stephenson and John Yates
from the Met, this parliamentary extravaganza showed that dramatic catharsis
is not the same as foren


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Will we still love fair districts when it's over?

Whenever, and wherever, state constitutions are amended at the ballot box, lessons that expand our appreciation for the separation of powers inevitably ensue. Among the virtues of the process is to demonstrate the shocking inadequacy of our classroom civ


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Jamie Williams joins The Des Moines Register Sports Hall of Fame

Whenever Jamie Williams took the football field in high school, college or the pros, it was open season on linebackers.
Davenport Central, University of Nebraska, the National Football League it didnt matter. As a tight end, Williams was a heat-seeker i


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July 24 — 30


Andy Webster Remember the bygone days of Manhattan’s glorious, glamorous past? You know, with the urban decay, ethnic tension, police corruption scandals and people smoking on subway platforms? Perhaps no director better captured the moral quandaries of


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WPLJ’s Scott and Todd Give Money to Panhandlers

Who's your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional?
Todd Pettengill: Al Pacino. ‘Cause nobody wears a headband like Al.
Scott Shannon: Brian Williams from NBC.
In one sentence, what do you actually do all day in your job?
Todd: I create


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Freud, cocaine, and the 'talking cure' - a theory


“Is that coke in your bra, or are you just happy to see me?” So asked the MC at the Babylon Club, voicing one of the more memorable quotes from Scarface, the 1983 epic crime drama directed by Brian De Palma and scripted by Oliver Stone. There were a few


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'Buffy' producer developing vampire 'Sword'

EXCLUSIVE: Framelight Prods. and producer Howard Rosenman ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer") are developing "Sword of Wood" -- a tale of vampires during the Crusades -- from comic book scribe Chuck Dixon.
The team, which made the announcement Friday during Com


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Michelle Rodriguez gets behind the wheel while riding the Mediterranean waves


It seems like she’s been on holiday for months, but Michelle Rodriguez is making the most of her time off since wrapping up her latest film.
And she’s still enjoying the scenery in Porto Cervo, Italy, where she has been since the beginning of the July.
T


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Would Ron Paul's Drug Freedom Lead to 'Needle Park'?

The
Panic in Needle Park was a 1971 movie starring Al Pacino,
about a heroin addict couple whose life spins out of control.
It was set in a New York City park frequented by heroin dealers
and heroin addicts. The other well-known "needle park"
o


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McCULLOUGH: A neurotic in dog’s clothing

I think my dog needs a psychiatrist.
Now anyone who has read this column for any length of time should know I don’t go in for pop-psych, belly-button gazing, introspective namby-pamby-ness, especially when it comes to pets. I don’t believe in clothes for


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Top 10 racing movies

While any Top 10 list is subjective -- it can mean significant, as well as best -- let's get the worst out of the way first: Driven (2001).

10. Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (1977)


9. Bobby Deerfield (1977)


8. Talladega Nights (2006)


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'The Trip' of their zany lifetime

In Winterbottom's “Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story” (2005), the two British comedians starred as slightly exaggerated versions of themselves, playing actors making a foolhardy movie adaptation of Laurence Sterne's famous novel. Some of the best pa


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His pride and joy: The reason why he's home tonight!


Disclaimer: We, at The Week, aren’t promoting alcohol. We’re only saying, that for those of you who enjoy an occasional drink and prefer the concept of having a peg or two at home rather than in a crowded bar where you have to scream to be heard, you mig


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Al Pacino, the Tea Party Movement, and Immanuel Kant

In the climactic speech delivered by Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman, Pacino does an excellent job of articulating why Kant rejected the pursuit of self interest as an ethical position. In the speech Pacino clearly disavows the pursuit of self interest as


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Tragic from the Start

In The Sea Gull (1968), Sidney Lumet’s adaptation of the celebrated Chekhov play, characters’ charms become their tragedies. No one is judged. To the camera, desires are not foolish, but sincere and complex; the ambiguities of human behavior are recorded


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NYC mobster Vinny Gorgeous gets 2nd life term

A federal judge sentenced a notorious New York mobster who's
already serving life behind bars to a second life term on
Wednesday, saying he wanted to send a message that there's nothing
"romantic or redeeming about organized crime."
A life sentence for V


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Jailed mob boss and killer 'Vinny Gorgeous' Basciano given second life term


A convicted mob boss and killer who ordered hits on those who showed him the slightest hint of disrespect was today sentenced to a second life term, after the judge said he wanted to send a message that there's nothing 'romantic or redeeming about organi


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Phony problem, phony solution

Maybe it’s all kabuki, but when Judd Gregg, who knows the breed, says out loud that the House Republicans won’t see reason on the debt ceiling until the Social Security checks stop going out, it’s time to look around for bolt-holes.
Have you heard about


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Mirren joins Spector flick

HBO's Phil Spector movie has gotten an A- List up grade. Oscar-winner Helen Mirren has just joined the cast of the as-yet-untitled Phil Spector biopic, according to reports. Mirren has stepped in to play attorney Linda Kenney Baden opposite Al Pacino's S


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Jennifer Lopez gets away from breakup with Marc Anthony


Jennifer Lopez performs on the TV show “Wetten, dass...?” (Let’s Make a Bet) on the Island of Mallorca last month. | Jaime REINA~Getty Images
Jennifer Lopez is handling her breakup with Marc Anthony by running away — at least in a sense.
The superstar h


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The Curse Of The Dark Tower

Yes, once again a big-time adaptation of Stephen King’s book series , a sort of sci-fi horror western, has fallen through. The first time it was J.J. Abrams trying to put together a project, this time it was Ron Howard. Howard actually got kind of far, g


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Lily Rabe and Josh Hamilton Enter A Doll's House at Williamstown July 20

Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, starring Tony Award nominee Lily Rabe as Nora and Josh Hamilton as Torvald, begins performances July 20 at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.

Rabe was last seen on Broadway in The Merchant of Venice opposite Al Pacino. Sh


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Mirren replacing Midler in HBO Spector biopic


Local photographer Shannon Myers was chosen to photograph The Sheepdogs in their hometown for a potential cover story in the August 18 edition of Rolling Stone Magazine.




As has become the custom during our summers over the past few years, Canadian


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Helen Mirren Replacing Bette Middler in Movie

HELEN Mirren is set to replace Bette Middler in the HBO Films movie Phil Spector.
Middler recently had to pull out of the project for medical reasons, so Mirren has been tapped to star opposite Al Pacino in the film, which explores the client-attorney re


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Michael Winship: Get mad at judges, not juries!

Last week, an HBO film crew was in my Manhattan neighborhood shooting a movie about legendary record producer Phil Spector, now serving 19 years to life for the 2003 shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson.
The film, starring Al Pacino, already has stir


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Big Screen Berkeley: Rapt


Sometimes a title tells you everything you need to know about a film. There’s little mystery, for example, when you pop Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster into your DVD player. You are going to see Godzilla fight the Smog Monster (or, as he was originally kno


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Los Angeles: Helen Mirren to Join Al Pacino in HBO's Phil Spector Movie, Replacing Bette Midler

Helen Mirren is replacing the previously reported Bette Midler in HBO's film about music producer Phil Spector, according to a report on Deadline.com. David Mamet is writing and directing the project, which is currently in production. Midler has withdraw


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Transformers: Dark of the Moon Wasn't Completely Shot in 3-D, and 5 Other Stories You'll Be Talking About Today

Also in this Tuesday edition of The Broadsheet: Dennis Quaid is Expecting… Helen Mirren runs into the Wall of Sound… the strange story of Hairspray star Nikki Blonsky… and more ahead.
· You know how everyone associated with Transformers: Dark of the Moon


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Recap: Shakespeare Theatre Company’s The Merchant of Venice


Mark Nelson as Shylock in the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s production of The Merchant of Venice, directed by Ethan McSweeny. Photo credit: Scott Suchman.
What happens when you pluck Shakespeare’s Italian players out of the old-world and drop them into t


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"Deeper Than Oil: Calm down, that’s just your wife’s head in the box!"

I usually avoid watching English-language films dubbed into Russian. Not only as – for obvious reasons – I prefer seeing them in the original, but also because I’ve had some bad experiences. © RIA Novosti. Marс Bennetts One of the worst has to be the tim


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Can Rupert Murdochs Godfather act save the family business?

These are stories Report on Business is following Monday, July 18. Get the top business stories through the day on BlackBerry or iPhone by bookmarking our mobile-friendly webpage.
Murdoch's Corleone moment
Watching Rupert Murdoch's rapid-fire moves Frid


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John Podesta Calls Out Liz Cheney on the Bush Tax Cuts, Medicare Part D and Two Wars Being the Drivers of our Deficit


Apparently Fox News thinks that the daughter of mister deficits don't matter Dick Cheney who helped to break the bank on our spending for two invasions of countries that were never a threat to us and the Bush tax cuts that they justified as being okay be


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Her parents' legacy, her own spotlight


WILLIAMSTOWN - Lily Rabe says what she remembers most about making her professional stage debut in 2002 at Gloucester Stage Company, alongside her beloved, twice-Oscar-nominated mother, Jill Clayburgh, are the “endless hysterical giggle fits’’ that would


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Who's hot and not in Hollywood

Midway through the summer, let's see whose movies (and career) are performing as expected. When you're hot, you're hot. When you're not, the studios don't want to know your name.
Let's just see where people stand at the moment:
Boy-band boy makes good. H


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Protest planned over Spector movie

Al Pacino is stepping into the role of the incarcerated music producer for David Mamet's upcoming film, but the playwright sparked speculation it will be a sympathetic portrayal of Spector after recently insisting the music mogul should not have been jai


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Downtown Theater to Take a Chance on Celebrated 'Cymbeline'

July 15, 2011, 1:15 pm By PATRICK HEALY Commercial theater producers seeking to make money off Shakespeare usually stick to tried-and-true audience draws like “Hamlet” or “Macbeth,” but even those can be financially risky without a celebrity in the title


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Author Peter Manso vs. Scathing New York Times Review

The Players:  Peter Manso, a two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee who has written Marlon Brando's biography and written for The New York Times, Vanity Fair, and the San Francisco Chronicle; Dwight Garner, book reviewer for The New York Times. The Opening Serv


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Nassau courthouse movie shoot postponed

A star-studded movie shoot scheduled to take place Monday on the Nassau County courthouse steps has been postponed indefinitely, after actress Bette Midler withdrew from the project.A spokeswoman for HBO said the production of the movie, a biopic about t


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Frontlines

The Irish Times - Saturday, July 16, 2011
The Matisse exhibition runs until September 25th and is attracting record crowds of up to 1,000 a day.
PATSEY MURPHY 
The band has been invited to tour the UK, Germany, Denmark and Belgium in 2012, so catch them


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Al Pacino's young girlfriend Lucila Sola poses poolside for sultry Italian magazine shoot


It's no wonder Al Pacino is looking very happy these days.
The 71-year-old Oscar-winning actor has been dating Lucila Sola, a gorgeous Argentinian actress who was yesterday spotted showing off her curves during a photo shoot in Ischia, Italy.
The 31-ye


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Bette Midler Leaves Phil Spector Film

Midler forced to leave HBO production due to herniated disc.
The Divine Miss M, a.k.a Bette Midler, has apparently been
forced to leave the HBO Phil Spector biopic, what for injury. Midler had to
drop put of the project, which is currently in principle


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New Suzanne Fields for 07/15/2011

I recall meeting a group of "refuseniks" in St. Petersburg in the 1980s who were excited by Reagan's efforts. We huddled in a cold basement where they read the Torah and studied Hebrew, praying they could leave Russia for Israel.
"The Merchant of Venice


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Midler drops out of Spector film


15 July 2011 Last updated at 10:06 ET Bette Midler said she was 'heartbroken' to be leaving the project Bette Midler has dropped out of a TV film about jailed music producer Phil Spector, after suffering a herniated disc six days into production. The act


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Midler drops out of Spector biopic

Bette Midler has been forced to drop out of the project, which is currently in production, after suffering a herniated disc.
Midler had been cast to play Linda Kenney Baden, one of the record producer’s defense attorneys during his trial for the murder o


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Bette Midler pulls out of new Phil Spector biopic - July 13, 2011

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Bette Midler has had to pull out of the new Phil Spector biopic on her 'doctor's orders'. The actress did not appear on set of the new HBO Films' movie and p


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Frank Caliendo is really into table tennis


Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the host of the Laugh Track column, a man who gathers his comedy news with the utmost integrity . . . Mike McIntyre.
Thank you, Cleveland! News of the World in London closed when it was discovered that reporters uns


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FIELDS: Republican courtship of the Jews

“The Merchant of Venice” is back and plays for relevance just in time for 2012. The Shakespeare drama is being staged in the nation’s capital, set in a troubled America struggling with cultural extravagance in New York City before the Great Depression. A


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Midler out of Spector flick

HBO's upcoming Phil Spector biopic has hit a major snag. Bette Midler has been forced to drop out of the project, which is currently being filmed, after suffering a herniated disc. Midler had been cast to play Linda Kenney Baden, one of the record produc


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French Coach Relies on Poetry

As a coach, he is not exactly the Vince Lombardi of women’s soccer, with an unsmiling public image. The night before matches, Bini does not give severe lectures, but instead reads poetry to his players and sings with them to lyrics he has written about c


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Friends of Phil Spector's Murder Victim Threaten Campaign Against HBO Biopic

David Mamet’s newest project – an HBO movie about record producer and murderer Phil Spector – is under fire from friends of the woman whom the crazy-haired Spector is convicted of killing.
Friends of Lana Clarkson are afraid of how Mamet will portray th


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Boston theater mogul Rosenfeld dead at 100


Pausing in his early 80s to reflect on decades as a mainstay of Boston’s arts community, Jerome Rosenfeld looked back at his extensive efforts to keep theater vital and could find but one blank space on his resume.
“I’ve done everything in the theater ex


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Peter Manso Bristles Over New York Times' Review

The author of “Reasonable Doubt” has fired off a 700-word letter to the newspaper in response to Dwight Garner’s stinging review Sunday.
Giorgio Armani has tapped Rihanna to front the fall-winter 2011-2012 Emporio Armani Underwear and Armani Jeans ad cam


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Bette Midler to Be Replaced in HBO's Phil Spector Biopic

Bette Midler has pulled out of David Mamet's upcoming Phil Spector biopic for HBO, according to Deadline. Nikki claims Midler has a herniated disc and dropped out due to "doctor's orders." HBO will reportedly recast the role of Linda Kenney Baden, the de


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Not Even Al Pacino and Katie Holmes Can Save Adam Sandler's Jack and Jill


Let's just start at the beginning with this one. Adam Sandler's doing double duty in his latest comedy, Jack and Jill, playing himself (although he's going by the name Jack here) and his annoying, obnoxious twin sister from the Bronx, Jill. Yes, Sandler


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British get guys' road trip movie right

Jump for joy. I saw a good movie in La Jolla. It was made by grownups for grownups to be enjoyed with grownups. It was called "The Trip." That may not be a good sign, especially if the trip is a road trip and involves a couple of guys. We've seen a fe


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Stage review: A Shakespeare heroine you don't want to mess with


NEW YORK - Director Daniel Sullivan and the cast of Shakespeare in the Park's production of "All's Well That Ends Well" have done something hard - they've managed to make neither of its two lead characters into villains.

Annie Parisse as Helena comes ac


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'Mob hit' is poorly executed

This alleged hit man should have watched "The Godfather" a few more times to see how it's done. Unlike Al Pacino's cool-headed Michael Corleone, suspected Albanian Mafia gangster Bajram Lajqi allegedly blew a planned hit on another gangster because he le


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Namibia: Big Brother Amplified - Who's 'Home Alone'?!

Is Luclay Biggie's imaginary friend? Are LoKim all Lo and no highs? Has Weza jeopardised bilateral relations with Tanzania? Has Zeus stolen Karen's mojo? And has Vina read 'He's Just Not That Into You'?
These are just a few of the questions fuelling rela


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Kaite Holmes & Adam Sandler Take "Jack and Jill" to Cancun

Taking their new movie south of the border, Katie Holmes and Adam Sandler teamed up for press duties in Cancun, Mexico on Sunday (July 10).
The former "Dawson's Creek" darling looked radiant in a three-quarter sleeved white mini dress paired with nude he


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Movie Preview: Jack and Jill

Sandler plays a rich Angelino who hates his visiting twin sister (also Sandler) in this fall farce. Al Pacino plays himself, oddly, in this fingernails-on-blackboard trailer. Yeah, I know, I’m not giving “Jack and Jill” a chance. But please. I’d rather h


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MBT footwear is the world's first physiological footwear to care feet haelth

World trends in Turkey with the Boyne Stores,now the world's first physiological footwear MBT (Masai Barefoot Technology) is bringing its customers.The mbt footwear sold in 35 countries in the world and broke sales records,thanks to the patented design,w


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Jack And Jill Trailer Online

Wow. Just… Wow. The first trailer for Adam Sandler’s latest lowbrow/high concept comedy Jack and Jill has arrived on the web, and you can watch it below.
It’s the sort of film we figured Sandler might essentially retire from making after seeing the genre


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Al Pacino woos cross-dressing Adam Sandler with a hotdog in new screwball comedy Jack and Jill


He is widely regarded as one of the greatest actors of all time for his portrayal of gritty gangsters like Michael Corleone.
But it seems Godfather star Al Pacino is going soft in his old age, as he is starring as Adam Sandler’s love interest in his late


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Zookeeper (2011) review


I have purposely tried to avoid Kevin James movies my entire life. That's mostly due to the fact that all of them have looked terrible and make being put in a guillotine look like a welcome form of relief after sitting through such atrocious garbage. But


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10 Epic Godfather Finds - From Gruesome Gangsta Tees to Mobster Branded Liquor (TrendHunter.com)

Implications -
With many consumers being inundated with a variety of advertising techniques, companies would be wise to use marketing tactics that capitalize on the familiarity of pop culture icons. Customers will be drawn to this familiarity and be m


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Secret life


10 July 2011 Last updated at 05:52 ET By Tim Masters Entertainment and arts correspondent, BBC News Jessica Chastain has made several films since The Tree of Life - but they are yet to come out Since shooting The Tree of Life three years ago, actress Jes


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"Jack and Jill" Trailer: Watch Now!

Giving potential theatergoers a look at what's to come, the trailer for the upcoming comedy "Jack and Jill" has been released.
With quite the intriguing scenario, Adam Sandler stars in a dual role as co-star Katie Holmes' husband while also playing a fem


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'Jack and Jill' Trailer: Adam Sandler Gets Some Twin Time

The first trailer of "Jack and Jill", starring Adam Sandler as twins, has been made available for viewing pleasure. The video gives a sneak peek at what the funnyman has in store for his next comedy movie. It previews the chaos and hilarity that ensue wh


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It's Pacino as fiend's 'Phil'-in!

Here's Al Pacino filming in Midtown and looking very much like Phil Spector (pictured), the music-industry Machiavelli Al portrays in an upcoming HBO biopic. Pacino, who previously portrayed Dr. Jack Kevorkian, another less-than-savory character, in the


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Does anybody care?


As news of the trouble in Karachi filters onto media outlets, the great tragedy is not the death of humans but it’s the death of humanity that has added the element of the surreal to the entire situation.
Earlier weeks brought news of targeted killings w


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Top 10 Athlete-Celebrity Look-Alikes! Long Lost Relatives

I remember watching the Olympics a few years ago when Michael Phelps absolutely destroyed everyone and was the most popular guy in the world.
Then it cut to a commercial-break with New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning, and it immediately reminded me o


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Books of The Times: A Murder Trial to Cover, Axes to Grind


A few years ago the terrific Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam spotted, and put a name to, a burgeoning true-crime genre. He called it Cape Cod Exploitational. There should be a shelf reserved for these salt-speckled things at every good indie bookstore.


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Film reveiw: Kevin James goes animal crackers in The Zookeeper


If we could talk to animals, they’d probably tell us off. We’re not very nice to them.
However, according to Zookeeper, the new film directed by Frank Coraci and starring Kevin James, if the animals could talk, they’d tell us, quite realistically, to pee


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All things sequel


Not yet CGI, I am ... Yoda trains Luke Skywalker in The Empire Strikes Back . To coincide with the final Harry Potter release, Kaleem Atfab presents the best DVD box sets for square-eyes seeking a weekend binge. HARRY POTTER How many films Eight (don't l


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Al Pacino is a doppelgänger for music producer turned convicted killer Phil Spector in new film


These are the first pictures of Al Pacino as legendary music producer Phil Spector, the 'Wall of Sound' pioneer who revolutionised pop music.
In these pictures, The Godfather star looks eerily like the musical powerhouse at the height of his fame in the


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Worst movie bosses ever

Think your boss is a horror? Some of these film honchos probably make him (or her) look like Mother Teresa. Star Wars (1977): The scariest military boss of all time? Darth Vader. One disagreement and zappo, you’re vaporized. 9 to 5 (1980): Three working


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Cornell Cinema honors departed luminaries

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Adam Sandler to play Dracula in 'Hotel Transylvania'


Adam Sandler rejoins fellow actors Kevin James, David Spade and Steve Buscemi from the comedy hit Grown Ups for an animated family comedy, Hotel Transylvania , in the role of Dracula. According to a release from the studio, the film is about a group of l


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Liza Minnelli gives Glasgow all the gusto it can handle


“I'm so excited to be here I can't tell you! But I'll try and show you...” explains Liza before (probably unintentionally) letting out a phlegmy cough, soaking up the audience’s affectionate laughter before launching into a playful and surprisingly dextr


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New Music: Future f/ Drake – ‘Tony Montana (Remix)’


Drake gets on his gangsta flow on the remix to Future’s single “Tony Montana” named after Al Pacino’s character in Scarface. “I swear young women are lost these days, but older women dig me/ Fu**in’ women that knew Biggie so it really ain’t no biggie,” s


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Franc D'Ambrosio and Liz Callaway bring extensive Broadway credits to Webber revue


Franc D'Ambrosio craves a trip to the Strip District, "where I expect I'll gain 10 pounds," while fellow New Yorker Liz Callaway is hoping to catch a game at PNC Park "despite what the Pirates did to the Mets here [in New York]."
The Phantom and Grizabel


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A Natural Olmsted


The musing generally begins with "why, when I was a kid..." as we're lectured on how prior generations did things better. Some people are beginning to take heed of these ruminations.
Take Olmsted Naturally, for example, Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy'


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Juju's tour of learning to Make Benefit Glorious ANC

Heard it before? Yes, you have.
Remember Julius Malema's study tour last year? Zimbabwe featured prominently. I seem to recall that Venezuela was among the countries visited. But can't recall if he eventually got to China, as planned, or Chile.
I always


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The Delacorte Theater Offers Two Plays That Measure Better Than Well


New Yorkers are a cynical and individualistic bunch, reluctant to parrot slogans and loathe to do anything en masse. But if ever we were to reveal our inner romantic jingoists, we would do so by proclaiming Milton Glaser’s straightforward dictum of urban


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Fresh faces to watch on the big screen this summer

NEW YORK Charlie Day is channeling a certain wannabe marine biologist.
"It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" actor Charlie Day stars opposite Jennifer Aniston in "Horrible Bosses," out Friday.
"It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" actor Charlie Day stars op


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The Casey Anthony Trial & The Top 10 Most Infamous Trials To Date


Just over a month ago, on June 3rd 2011, "Dr. Death" passed on after a bout with kidney difficulties and pneumonia. Dr. Jack Kevorkian was sentenced to 10-25 years in prison in 1999, but released on parole in 2007. His lawyer, Geoffrey Fieger, stated he 


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MF Husain wanted to burn his works

It was a rare meeting of sorts when three of MF Husain's sons – Shamshad, Shafat and Owais – were present in the capital on Saturday evening to be part of a tribute organized for the artist.
However, what Husain's younger son Owais told us was rarer st


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Lurid case fascinates, disgusts

EDMONTON - Most of us experience courtroom drama second-hand - on primetime television, on movie screens (Al Pacino screaming "You're out of order!" comes to mind), or on the pages of a John Grisham novel.
In real life, a murder trial is smaller, slower


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Trailer for William Shatner’s New 'Star Trek' Documentary Released

'The Captains' will premiere Epix HD the same day that Comic-Con starts
Big egos lead to big fights, which sometimes lead to urine being thrown.
The two actors are among 178 artist who were invited to join The Academy.
Marvel releases very limited editio


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Bondy's Diary: Wimbledon nothing to sneeze at

Anne Hathaway didn't come to my party last night, but there is some consolation in knowing she also didn't show up to the party three houses down the block, which was considerably louder than mine. A bunch of drunken blokes talking sports, though not at


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Street Racing Mulholland Drive in 1978

This article is an automotive writing classic. First run in the July 31, 1978 edition of the long-defunct New West magazine under the title "Thunder Road," it captures a place and moment in time — a 1.8-mile slice of Mulholland Drive atop the hills betwe


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Pacino, Midler to film movie in Mineola

The Nassau County Courthouse is getting ready for its close-up later this month, when superstars Al Pacino and Bette Midler will arrive in Mineola to film a scene for an upcoming HBO movie about Phil Spector , the music producer serving 19 years to life


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Richard III, Old Vic, LondonLullaby, Barbican Pit, LondonThe Beggar's Opera, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, London

It says “NOW” in huge letters, projected overhead, at the start of Richard III, directed by Sam Mendes. With Kevin Spacey as the malign crown-snatcher, this should be a triumphant climax for the Bridge Project, Mendes’s three-year series of transatlantic


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Workplace angst fuels plot for movie murder

plugs into a universal set of emotions — frustration with insensitive bosses and feelings of impotence regarding what to do about the work situation. And whether the boss is a micromanager, a bully or engages in sexual harassment, the feelings tend to be


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'Horrible Bosses': A real piece of work

Seth Gordon knows from bad bosses. He once worked as a dishwasher in an old folks home, where his micromanaging supervisor told him everything he did was wrong -- whether it was stacking the plates, cleaning things in the right order or moving fast enoug


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Film: Newswire: Spike Lee can’t get a movie financed, not even a star-studded sequel to his biggest hit

Spike Lee hasn’t made a feature film since 2008’s Miracle At St. Anna, which failed financially and caused a dust-up with Clint Eastwood over the accuracy of racial portrayals in period military films—all of which effectively killed Lee’s buzz after the


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PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Williamstown Theatre Festival's Jenny Gersten


Gersten has also been the artistic director of the Off-Broadway company Naked Angels. She has now returned to Williamstown as artistic director after having served as the associate producer there from 1996-2004.
















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