Scarface bust found in real-life mobster's home


News you wish you didn't know. Italian police discovered a life-size bust of Al Pacino as ‘Scarface’ during a raid on the home of a suspected mafia drugs boss outside Naples. LONDON, UK – Italian police discovered a life-size porcelain bust of Al Pacino


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El Hollywood latino viene a Miami para el National Latino Film Showcase inaugural de Hispanicize 2012, del 10 al 13 de abril

MIAMI, 30 de marzo de 2012 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ -- Hispanicize 2012 divulgó hoy su serie de largometrajes, cortometrajes y documentales, así como más de una docena de sesiones de desarrollo profesional que juntos componen el primer National Lati


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Diane Keaton's regret at being a single parent

DIANE KEATON, lover of Woody Allen, Warren Beatty and Al Pacino, never married. She adopted her first child at the age of 50. Her daughter Dexter is now 16 and her son Duke is 10. Keaton says she has regrets about being a single mother and that its bette


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Adam Sandler's wife Jackie shows off her toned shape in tiny two piece as they enjoy family day with their children in Miami


The day before he was the centre of attention with a group of scantily girls who wanted their picture with the funnyman. But today Adam Sandler only has eyes for his very own bikini babe, his wife Jackie. The couple were seen soaking up the sunshine enjo


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Latino Hollywood Comes to Miami for Inaugural National Latino Film Showcase of Hispanicize 2012, April 10-13

MIAMI, March 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Hispanicize 2012 today unveiled its line-up of feature length, short and documentary films as well as more than a dozen professional development sessions that together comprise the first annual Hispanicize 2012 Natio


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Neopolitan 'Godfather' kept life-size bust of Al Pacino's Scarface on desk


The porcelain likeness of the actor as Tony Montana was kept on a desk in the luxury villa where alleged crime lord Carlo Padovani ran a drug-trafficking empire. The discovery follows the arrest of Padovani and 32 others, including eight women, in a seri


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Alleged mafioso had 'Scarface' bust


NYP2003091753 - NEW YORK, SEPT. 17 (UPI) -- Al Pacino poses for pictures at the 20th Anniversary re-release of Scarface at the City Cinemas Theatres in New York on September 17, 2003. SC/LC/LAURA CAVANAUGH UPI License photo Published: March. 29, 2012 at


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People: Stevie Nicks: "Idol" singer could be in Fleetwood Mac

Nicks said. Phillips sang Jonny Lang's "Still Rainin,'" and earned a standing ovation from Idol judges Steven Tyler, Jennifer Lopez and Randy Jackson. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZK4DLfElc8) shoplifter's course so Lindsay's probation is now informal


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What to Watch: 'Grimm,' 'Undercover Boss'

The gap is the "challenge of our time in education," Daniel Nerad says in his school board interview. Read more The gap is the "challenge of our time in education," Daniel Nerad says in his school board interview. Read more It was in the days following l


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MythBusters exhibition opens in Chicago

CHICAGO — Who gets wetter, someone walking in the rain or running? Is it really possible to hang from a cliff by your fingers until help arrives like they do in the movies? And is Superman the only one who is faster than a speeding bullet? Those are ques


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Complacency Cannot be Tolerated as United Search for Number 20

This year’s title race has proven to be one for the ages. With United and City trading blows like two heavyweight boxers, fans have a mouthwatering two months left of the season to look forward to. With five games left before the two juggernauts of Engli


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Mob rat and bro pick sides


COLOMBO crime boss Thomas Gioeli’s trial turned into a scene from “Godfather: Part II” Wednesday when the brother of the turncoat witness showed whose side he’s on — sitting with the mobster’s family in court. Hit man Dino Calabro was asked on cross-exam


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Events: Easter Egg Hunt for the Hounds, An Intimate Evening with Al Pacino

ETC. Easter Egg Hunt for the Hounds: 3:30-5 p.m. Sat. Animal Welfare Society of Southeastern Michigan, 27796 John R, Madison Heights. 248-548-1150. $5 per dog, $5 per picture with the Easter Bunny. Festifools: Students and volunteers parade around with h


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Terry O’Neill Furniture


Photographer Terry O’Neill and luxury furniture brand Jimmie Martin have collaborated on a project to design ten functional but unique haute couture furniture pieces. The one-off sofas, armoires, chairs and beds incorporate a 22-carat gold-leafed baroque


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Gracious town of Wailuku an old-fashioned treat on Hawaiian island of Maui


You hear a lot about Maui’s golden beaches and purple-pink sunsets. And there’s good reason for that. But the last couple times I’ve been in my favourite spot on earth I’ve enjoyed hanging out in some of the funky, smaller towns that are a little ways fr


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Lonna Saunders: The Good Wife's Julianna Margulies Celebrates Steppenwolf Theatre

The Good Wife 's Julianna Margulies came to Chicago as the guest of honor at the third annual Steppenwolf Salutes Women in the Arts luncheon. Coincidentally, the two television series she's best known for -- ER and The Good Wife -- are both set in Chicag


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Diane Keaton hopes to avoid the knife

But 66-year-old Diane Keaton (left) is adamant she has had no surgery to help keep her youthful looks. However, the actress is not ruling it out because every time she swears not to do something she has always broken her word. I said I would never have


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Why I regret being a single mother says Diane Keaton, who admits 'best possible scenario' would be if she was attached


She has long been admired as a strong, single woman who raised a young family on her own. But now Diane Keaton has admitted that she would have preferred to have had a man by her side after all. The Annie Hall actress said she loves being a mother but th


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'New Girl' recap: The Flip Queen Has Spoken

Image credit: Greg Gayne/Fox PROSTATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS Jess really should brush up on her small talk skills before the third date First off, Martin Starr!!! To be fair, his character Dirk was a little underwhelming, no? But could he help it when Nick


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The Crap We Missed – Monday 3.26.12

He uses his Herculean strength to get to the front of the buffet line. Hmmm…let me guess….she wants us to look at her ass? Come here, let me show you where Kiefer got his disdain for the paparazzi. Seems attractive, but there is something off about her f


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News Corp. Scandal Gets ‘Frontline’ Treatment

Troubles at News Corp. just won’t go away. A day after the BBC unveiled new allegations of illegality in the pay-TV wing of Rupert Murdoch’s company, PBS’s Frontline looks into the phone-hacking scandal still roiling his British newspapers. Murdoch’s Sca


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Interviews: Brendan Kelly (Brendan Kelly and the Wandering Birds / The Lawrence Arms)


Brendan Kelly can be called many things but, "unproductive," is not one of them. Kelly has been recording music since the age of 10, touring in bands since high school, appeared on dozens of albums and somewhere found time to graduate college. Now, Kelly


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'Cuckoo' role tops movie poll


Jack Nicholson's Oscar-winning turn in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest has been voted the greatest movie performance of all time. The Hollywood veteran's role as R.P. McMurphy, a criminal faking insanity to serve his jail sentence in a mental hospital, c


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There's No Place in England for a Coward: 'The Four Feathers' (Review)


This is arguably the most beautiful film version (the fourth) of A. E. W. Mason’s resilient 1902 adventure tale, set during Britain’s late-19th century African endeavors, wherein a self-professed coward redeems himself in the biggest way. Produced by the


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10 New Arrivals at the Library

Update: Do you own or manage a business in Three Village? Don't forget to claim your directory listing! Email the editor for more information. Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the mid 40s. North winds 5 to 10 mph...becoming northwest after midni


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A Critic's Back Pages, Part Four


Three times this season — which marks the 20th year since The Moscow Times and I have covered the distinctly fascinating topic of Russian theater — I have used this space to peruse my back pages as a critic. I thought I would do this more often when I st


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It's A Sunny Day For Adam Sandler

Comedian Adam Sandler was photographed walking - and talking on his cell phone - with his youngest daughter Sunny, 3, in Santa Monica, Calif. on Friday (March 23). Sweet Sunny - who dressed in true preschool fashion sporting some animal print leggings, a


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Sujoy Ghosh: Sonnys death was the turning point in The godfather

When I watched Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather for the first time, I hadn’t read the book then. I was a teenager, but the memories are vivid. I remember being spellbound, sucked into the drama and left with my mind blown. Not having read the book, e


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'Science is cool': Discovery's 'MythBusters' opens national tour with exhibition in Chicago

A setup of phone booths for “Change Like A Superhero,” featured in the exhibition, which runs through Sept. 3. (AP/Museum of Science and Industry photos) Jamie Hyneman, left, and Adam Savage, stars of the Discovery Channel TV show “Mythbusters,” are outs


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‘The Godfather’ still makes an offer you can’t refuse


Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather” turns 40 this weekend, a surprisingly ripe old age for a movie that hasn’t aged a bit. One of the great American movies, “The Godfather” hasn’t stopped influencing popular culture since the day it was released. Mart


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Commentary: Admit it, you didn't see Rockford coming, either

Rockford's Alex Durkin goes for a loose ball against Romulus' Elbert Matthews during the Class A boys' basketball semifinals on Friday. - (Katie Greene | MLive.com) The players on the Rockford basketball team all seem like a great group of guys, so forgi


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Usher Excited for Role as Sugar Ray Leonard

The "Confessions" singer will be portraying the famous boxer in an upcoming biopic. Usher is already familiar with being nominated for Grammy Awards and now he’s setting his sights on something outside of the music realm – a spot among the nominees at th


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'The Godfather' Anniversary: Fact and Fiction

"My Mafia is a very romanticized myth," said "Godfather" novelist Mario Puzo, who claimed that he had never met any actual mobsters when he wrote his bestseller, and that his accounts of lurid crimes were based on archival research and imagination. Nor d


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Al Pacino Unveils Oscar Wilde Documentary At SF’s Castro Theatre

A flash of Hollywood came to San Francisco’s Castro Theatre Wednesday night for the world premiere of ‘Wilde Salome.’ The film is a documentary celebrating the life of the great playwright Oscar Wilde. Veteran actor Al Pacino, who both directs and stars


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To the barricades and the spelling bee


Words on a second-grader's spelling test this week at Rosa Parks Elementary in Berkeley: "Protest; march; strike; rights; reversed; illiterate; humiliate; oppress; pride, union." For extra credit: "social change." "The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier


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Get 'Wilde': Al Pacino's new doc gets red carpet opening at Castro


Al Pacino, looking a bit Wilde at the Castro All my amigo Morlock E. wants to know is where Frank Chu is, since Frank Chu is still a fairly good indicator of being at the most happening event of the evening -- or at any rate the one with the most televis


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Usher Cast To Play Boxing Great Sugar Ray Leonard

In the next few months, you might see Usher "in corners boxing" as he prepares for a major role -- portraying Boxing legend Sugar Ray Leonard. Usher has just been cast to play the legendary boxer in a forthcoming biopic titled "Hands of Stone." While the


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R&B Artist Usher To Play Sugar Ray Leonard In 'Hands Of Stone'; Ryan Kwanten & Michelle Rodriguez Also Join


Late in 2010, seemingly on the back of David O. Russell's "The Fighter" and all its success, Gael Garcia Bernal and Al Pacino boarded "Hands Of Stone," a biopic of legendary Panamanian boxer Robert Duran which had Venezuelan helmer Jonathan Jakubowicz se


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A Grand Life at the Grand Lucayan Resort


Master Z and I decided we needed to escape the rigors of kindergarten (me, not him) and our cold, windy winter for a mother-son trip somewhere exotic and warm. We learned about the , on Grand Bahama Island, boasting 7.5 acres of white sand beaches, limit


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MythBusters' exhibition opens in Chicago

CHICAGO – Who gets wetter, someone walking in the rain or running? Is it really possible to hang from a cliff by your fingers until help arrives like they do in the movies? And is Superman the only one who is faster than a speeding bullet? Those are ques


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Cotter Smith returns to Milwaukee for March Madness at the Marcus Center

March Madness is an annual phenomenon that is about buckets and brackets, free throws and personal fouls. You drive the lane and swish a three-pointer. Emotional depth and curtain calls are not in the vocabulary. But March Madness in Milwaukee includes t


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Scott Stringer wants 'pink slime' out


A member of the Good Day New York family got a special shout-out on Thursday. … Pauly Shore has been entertaining audiences for almost 30 years. His big screen debut was in the film … Long before her hit reality show 'La La's Full Court Life,' La La Anth


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Al Pacino Debuts New Film at Castro Theatre


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Man accused of masturbating at Hofstra


Authorities say a man is responsible for at least 15 trash can fires around … Nassau County police arrested a Uniondale man on lewdness charges at the Hofstra… Mayor Michael Bloomberg has a costly lump of coal waiting for lazy New Yorkers … A St. Patrick


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Man busted for trash can fires


Authorities say a man is responsible for at least 15 trash can fires around … Nassau County police arrested a Uniondale man on lewdness charges at the Hofstra… Mayor Michael Bloomberg has a costly lump of coal waiting for lazy New Yorkers … A St. Patrick


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Public Advocate Bill de Blasio


Lt. Gen. David Perkins, Commanding General, Combined Arms Center, Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, leader of the … Dr. Roshini Rajapaksa discusses several new studies. Actress Caissie Levy has had leading roles on Broadway in hit Musicals like "Rent," "Hairspray


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The Hunger Games star Isabelle Fuhrman


Bill de Blasio, Public Advocate for the City of New York, discusses the City's … Lt. Gen. David Perkins, Commanding General, Combined Arms Center, Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, leader of the … Dr. Roshini Rajapaksa discusses several new studies. Actress Caiss


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Jeffrey Tambor on His New Comedy, Bent, and the Secret Origin of Arrested Development’s Oscar

On the new NBC show Bent (premiering tonight at 9 p.m.), Amanda Peet is a divorced lawyer, David Walton her contractor, and Jeffrey Tambor his unemployed dad, Walter, who inserts himself into their lives because he can't find work as an actor. Walter lik


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Al Pacino Brings Oscar Wilde Doc To Sold-Out Castro Theatre This Week

Al Pacino directed a new documentary called Wilde Salome that's described as "unconventional" and "an intimate, behind-the-scenes glimpse into Oscar Wilde's life." It also features actress Jessica Chastain, and the U.S. premiere is happening here in San


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Secretary

James Spader and Maggie Gillenhall E. Edward Grey: Look, we can't do this 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Lee: Why not? Burt Holloway: You are the child of god's holy gift of life. You come from me. But you are not me. Your soul and your body are your


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Chris Schulz: Why are these movies being made? (+trailers)

So the world's gone crazy over the new Prometheus trailer - and rightly so. It's awesome. Ridley Scott's Alien prequel was released yesterday to overwhelming praise and adulation for what looks to be a pretty amazing and epic sci-fi action-adventure. I k


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Why are these movies being made?


Eddie Murphy in a scene from his new film A Thousand Words. SO THE world's gone crazy over the new Prometheus trailer - and rightly so. It's awesome. Ridley Scott's Alien prequel was released yesterday to overwhelming praise and adulation for what looks


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Selling Tudor City Treasure

A view of the living-room area, featuring an 18-foot-high ceiling, at 5 Tudor City Place. Among the hidden treasures of New York are the gothic penthouses of limestone and brick known simply as "the studios" at the top of Tudor City's towers, a garden-li


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Sir Patrick Stewart still waiting for dream job

HEs best known for his role as Star Treks Captain Jean-Luc Picard but Sir Patrick Stewart says he is still waiting to land his dream job. The 71-year-old insists he isnt too old to storm the stage as Shakespeares star-crossed lover Romeo. Youre looking a


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Sir Patrick Stewart says his dream role is to play Romeo

Sir Patrick Stewart has said that he doesn't consider himself too old to play his dream role of the famous lover Romeo. The 71-year-old is best known for his role as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in 'Star Trek'. "You're looking at an actor ready to play Romeo


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A Moon for the Misbegotten Opens Off-Broadway at the Pearl March 18


According to the Pearl, "Centered on the passionate and lonely Josie Hogan and the self-destructive James Tyrone, a character modeled on O'Neill's own older brother, A Moon for the Misbegotten has been hailed as one of O'Neill's masterpieces and as one o


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Renowned New Smyrna Beach celeb photographer Jack Mitchell is focus of documentary

Celeb photographer Jack Mitchell, seen here in front of just a few of his many famous portraits. (N-J file) NEW SMYRNA BEACH --In the 1940s, actress and pin-up girl Veronica Lake knew the power and allure of her "peek-a-boo" hairstyle -- the way her shou


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TO CAPTURE AN ARTIST

tool goes here P oint to any of the celebrity photos on display at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art and Michael Childers can tell you a story. Take, for instance, the shot of a normally gregarious Ringo Starr looking very serious in a photo Childers sho


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'MythBusters' exhibit explodes into Chicago museum

Who gets wetter, someone walking in the rain or running? Is it really possible to hang from a cliff by your fingers until help arrives like they do in the movies? And is Superman the only one who is faster than a speeding bullet? Those are questions the


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Adrien Brody heads back into darkness in 'Detachment'


The beauty of playing darker roles, Adrien Brody explains with a chuckle, is that there is always a light at the end of the tunnel — when the film’s a wrap. The Oscar-winning actor, who conjures up his best inner-conflict angst to play a troubled substit


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Staying In: Tips for TV, cooking and more

Staying in tonight? Here are some suggestions to help you make the most of your evening at home. Our staff has come up with all sorts of options, including the best of what's on television, a DVD to watch, a book you might want to read, even a recipe to


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City Life: News Net: New billboard proclaims “Hot Dogs Cause Butt Cancer”

Since sifting through dull newspapers, hyperbolic blogs, and overflowing RSS feeds for meaningful news can be an arduous process, News Net catches and compiles both the amusing and the significant reports that were overlooked throughout the week. Here ar


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The Worst Cliches in Sports

As opposed to before? Or perhaps they mean on the dance floor. We'd expect most professional athletes to be constantly honing their craft. But kudos to you, sir. Excluding Veronica Corningstone's entrance into Ron Burgundy's head during Anchorman, we hav


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Al Pacino’s Film ‘Wilde Salome’ Makes U.S. Debut Screening in SF


It's not often a real red carpet comes to San Francisco, so here's your chance to get right next to all the action. The Al Pacino-directed Oscar Wilde documentary Wilde Salome (about the life of famous playwright and philosopher Oscar Wilde) makes its US


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Rush Limbaugh’s conspiracy theory


After my past two Sunday columns lambasting conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, I figured I had sufficiently beaten on the commentator who, in my mind, ruthlessly slandered a female Georgetown law student for simply testifying before a congressional c


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Dr. Seuss’ ‘The Cat In The Hat’ Get Another Life At Chris Meledandri’s Illumination

EXCLUSIVE: After topping the box office the past two weeks with Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax, Universal Pictures, Illumination Entertainment’s Chris Meledandri, and Audrey Geisel will tap the Dr. Seuss library for another classic title, and this one is a surpris


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'MythBusters' hits the road

The "Running in the Rain" exhibit, part of of the "MythBusters: The Explosive Exhibition," lets experimenters find out for themselves whether one gets wetter by walking or running in the rain. Who gets wetter, someone walking in the rain or someone runni


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TV: Podmass: Week of March 8-14


“What a treat for the fans! So many suicides!” —Scott Aukerman, Comedy Bang Bang “I finally listened to her episode. I see what all the fracas is about now. It was controversial… I do a really good cartwheel. I don’t understand how she could say I was wo


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'Godfather' celebrates 40th anniversary of its release date


The answer has been the same for more than three decades: "The Godfather," which along with "The Godfather, Part II," I have always considered to be one big cinematic masterpiece. That's probably because that's how I always watched them on DVD, back-to-b


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Filmmaker Dito Montiel honored by Astoria arts group


Dito Montiel hustled his way to Hollywood, but he just keeps coming back to the streets of Queens. This time, the Astoria native brought the red carpet with him. Montiel, director of “Fighting” and “The Son of No One,” was the toast of the Astoria Perfor


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Today in History: 'The Godfather' premieres

Today is Thursday, March 15, the 75th day of 2012. There are 291 days left in the year. On March 15, 1972, "The Godfather," Francis Ford Coppola's epic gangster movie based on the Mario Puzo novel and starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino, premiered in Ne


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Maine governor to tour businesses in Oxford County

PARIS, Maine (AP) -- Gov. Paul LePage is meeting with business and community leaders in western Maine for his 13th Capitol for a Day event. The governor is visiting Oxford County on Thursday, making stops at Rumford Power in Rumford, Grover Gundrilling i


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Hollywood's Fake Latinos

When it comes to casting characters of a specific race, you can't always count on Hollywood studios to focus on authenticity. How many films have there been with Chinese actors playing Japanese characters, or Spanish actors playing Arabs, or white actors


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Bill to up fines for Maine ad violations fails

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) -- More legislative votes are expected following the Senate's rejection of a bill that would have increased fines for violations of Maine's laws on campaign advertising. The Senate on Wednesday rejected by a 19-16 vote a bill that see


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Jacqueline Fernandez eyes Hollywood

'Murder 2' actress Jacqueline Fernandez is on a high. The former Miss Sri Lanka has been reportedly approached by debutant director James Simpson for a Hollywood film. Simpson's previous credits include the Al Pacino starrer 'Merchant of Venice.' Titled


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Cowboys Tidbits: BTB On YouTube Plus Dallas Talking With Martellus Bennett? Laurent Robinson's Worth?

Yesterday, as news broke of the sanctions imposed by the NFL on the Dallas Cowboys and the Washington Redskins, just like any Cowboys fan, I was extremely frustrated. I took to the video camera to record a venting session based on the information that wa


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Jacqueline set for Hollywood outing?


Mumbai, March 13 -- Following in the footsteps of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (The Pink Panther 2, 2009) and Bipasha Basu (Singularity), Jacqueline Fernandez might also be set for her big break in Hollywood. The actor has been approached been approached for D


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Free to Air

Channel 5BBC37.00 The Real Hustle: Celebrity Chancers. 7.30 World's Craziest Fools. 8.00 Don't Tell the Bride. 9.00 CHOICE The Anti-social Network. 10.00 Eastenders. 10.30 Little Britain Abroad. 11.00 Family Guy. 11.45 American Dad! 12.30 Being Human. 1.


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Funniest side up


No one minds being made a bakra when Cyrus Broacha is around. Meet the lovable gagster who, along with stand-up comedian Vikram Sathaye, performed in the city It's 20 minutes to show time. I'm in the greenroom of the Music Academy, winding up an intervie


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Al Pacino & His Beverly Hills Boy


The Godfather star Al Pacino was spotted walking hand-in-hand with his 10-year-old Anton in their Beverly Hills neighborhood on Saturday (March 10). Anton's twin sister, Olivia, wasn't seen with the duo. The twins' mother is actress Beverly D'Angelo. Pac


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Bieito's nightmarish 'Camino Real' puts the spotlight on Tennessee Williams


The playwright John Guare once wrote that the title of Tennessee Williams' "Camino Real," a wildly free-form 1953 poetic pageant set in a crummy tropical outpost with shades of New Orleans, Tangier and Havana, embodied both the glamorous Spanish world of


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Canadian R&B powerhouse, singer/songwriter Frank D'Angelo releases his fourth CD THE WINDS OF TIME April 10, 2012

TORONTO, March 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Frank D'Angelo gets people talking and on April 10 through Blue Sapphire Music/DEP/Universal it will all be about his new CD release THE WINDS OF TIME. THE WINDS OF TIME is the fourth record from the R&B powerhouse,


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Confession

Every now and then I'll submit to a horror film, but only in theatres and never at home. But a couple of weeks ago I happened to watch Devil, a 2010 shortfaller that was written by M. Night Shyamalan, and the strangest thing happened. I began to feel cre


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Movie star Dexter Fletcher reveals how meeting his wife halted drugs meltdown


Movie star Dexter Fletcher reveals how meeting his wife halted drugs meltdown Mar 11 2012 Exclusive by John Millar, Sunday Mail dexter fletcher Image 2 DEXTER Fletcher has starred with Oscar winners and the cream of British big-screen talent but the most


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Listening, watching and peering


I was lucky enough to be at Narrative Night San Francisco, a benefit for the online Narrative, a magazine of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, interviews, cartoons and images, and last year read by 125,000 literature lovers. The two-part evening began with pa


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FILM REVIEW Indie memoir 'Being Flynn' is a dud

Pity poor Nick Flynn. As a boy, he was forced to grow up without a father on the mean and dirty streets of ... Scituate, Mass. Scituate? When did the quaint little town by the sea become a facsimile for the 'hood? We all should be so disadvantaged. And h


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Reservoir Dogs Michael Madsen charged with child cruelty after battering son

MICHAEL Madsen, the Reservoir Dogs star, was arrested at the weekend following a fight with his teenage son and charged with child cruelty. The 54-year-old actor who spent time in Ireland three weeks ago with Al Pacino for the Dublin Film Festival, was a


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We Like to Watch: Friendship on TV


I recently tried to pitch an essay that made use of, if not coined, the term “friendship porn.” The essay was basically about my massive consumption of a certain genre of TV show, which I had tried to make sense of by dipping into the literature on frien


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Valentine praises Maddon, talks about his own style

FORT MYERS, Fla. — In a few ways, Rays manager Joe Maddon is Bobby Valentine Version 2.0. He is an effusive personality, a creative thinker and somebody adept at turning marginal players into valuable ones. Valentine doesn't know Maddon beyond saying hel


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'The Godfather' hits 40


Leave the gun, take the cannoli, and make movie history: And Francis Coppola’s masterpiece crime drama is still able to wrap you in a kiss-on-each-cheek embrace no film can match. It’s rare for any piece of art to both comfort and energize us at the same


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POLL: BATMAN VS. SUPERMAN, BATMAN:YEAR ONE, or SANDMAN; Which Movie Should and Shouldn't Be Made?

David Hughes' new book Tales From Development Hell looks at films that were never made, and ended up nestling into the cracks of Hollywood's scariest location, development hell. A place where movies go to die and usually never see the light of day. In th


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Leave the gun– Take my career

IT’s an offer that moviegoers have never been able to refuse: “The Godfather,’’ the capo di tutti capo of post-World War II American movies, is celebrating its 40th anniversary Thursday. What’s been hailed as one of one of the greatest movies ever made p


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John Leguizamo: Ghetto Klown

“Having played everything from a drag queen to a plumber, a video game to a Shakespearean villain, 's strong suit has always been his versatility — and an ability to powerfully inhabit any character he portrays. In his latest one-man show, Ghetto Klown,


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Insomnia

Memento director Christopher Nolan preceded his Dark Knight days with this riveting suspense thriller starring Al Pacino as a troubled cop probing a murder in the permanent daylight of Alaska. Chief suspect: a sneeringly effective and totally against-typ


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Shia LaBeouf Rocks Long Beard in LA – See Other Scruffy Male Celebs (PHOTOS)

Shia LaBeouf looked barely recognizable as he grabbed some coffee Thursday afternoon in Los Angeles. The Transformers star was seen rocking a long scruffy beard and a ponytail on a nearby stoop, which he paired with a quirky-looking cardigan and jeans. T


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The Secret Footballer: Promoting your No2 is always a big mistake


Ask most people what comes to mind at the mention of The Godfather trilogy and nine times out of 10 they will make reference to the decapitated horse's head placed in the bed of the stubborn moviemaker Jack Woltz. For me, though, the star has always been


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Daniel Day Lewis spends a lot of time honing on his acting skills

Daniel Day Lewis at a screening of My Left Foot/WENN.com WHILE Al Pacino and Daniel Day Lewis spend months embodying their characters to perfect their acting skills, it seems actor Dougray Scott has gone one step further to learn an instrument for his ne


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At the movies: March 9, 2012


New in theaters Great Escape 14 Stadium Cinemas, Moline: -- "John Carter" (PG-13) -- "Silent House" (R) -- "A Thousand Words" (PG-13) Rave Motion Pictures 53, Davenport: -- "John Carter" (PG-13) -- "Silent House" (R) -- "A Thousand Words" (PG-13) Nova 6


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Movie Bites

Each month The Ticket Movie Bites will select a dish from a film. We’ll give you the recipe and leave you in peace to do the shopping. Next week you can grab your pinny and join us for the cook-along. Then watch the movie that inspired your dinner. Tasty


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New on DVD and Blu-ray, March 18


Handout / McClatchy-Tribune News Service Jacob (Anton Yelchin) and Anna (Felicity Jones) fall for each other in the fiercely honest "Like Crazy." Footloose The pace may be amped up and the setting modernized, but the charm and much of the music of the or


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Adam Sandler's 'Jack and Jill' is plain obnoxious

"Jack and Jill" (Rated PG for crude material including suggestive references, language and comic violence; Sony, $30.99): Adam Sandler hits a new low here — and that's saying something — playing both a guy and his obnoxious twin sister who comes to visit


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Messi magic, Tibetan goats and bibs for flags


Mortal player: Dionisos Chiotis (APOEL FC) Messi hogged Thursday's headlines but, in Nicosia at least, goalkeeper Chiotis was his equal, after saving penalties from Alexandre Lacazette and Michel Bastos as APOEL beat Olympique Lyonnais to become the firs


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Rahmfather Mystery solved. Straight from the fish's mouth.


The Rahmfather Mystery has finally been solved. The mastermind behind the masterpiece of "The Rahmfather" portrait hanging in my office came forward the other day. He announced himself by sending me a dead fish. And later we met for lunch at Shaw's Crab


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Detroit Lions Mock Draft: Post-Combine Look at All 7 Rounds


When Lloyd Carr was “helped” to the exit door in Ann Arbor, the Wolverines lost out on one of their top defensive prospects and Nick Perry switched his allegiances and headed for the surf and sun offered by Pete Carroll and the Southern California Trojan


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New to DVD: 'Jack and Jill' 'Footloose' and 'Game of Thrones'


' Jack and Jill' For male comedians, the 11th commandment -- one of the missing ones on that tablet Moses dropped in "History of the World" -- is: "Thou shalt not pass up the opportunity to do drag." They all feel compelled to do so at some point, from M


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Being Flynn / *** (R)


De Niro plays Jonathan Flynn, in his own estimation one of the three greatest American writers (the others: Mark Twain and J.D. Salinger). He claims publishers have been bidding fortunes on his work in progress, but we follow his decline: He loses his ap


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Smoking as portrayed by hollywood: The most iconic smoking scenes from movies

“What are you going to do, charge me with smoking?” asks actress Sharon Stone, as she lights a cigarette in the “interrogation” scene in Basic Instinct. This scene is arguably the most famous scene involving smoking in film history. The glamour of Hollyw


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Oxymoron Entertainment Is Proud to Announce the Release of Columbus Circle

LOS ANGELES, March 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Oxymoron Entertainment is pleased to announce the home entertainment release of the dark and suspenseful thriller, Columbus Circle, available on Blu-ray™, DVD, Digital Download and On Demand today from Universal


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"The Godfather" turns 40, special screenings in digital surround sound


"The Godfather", Francis Ford Coppola's classic film turns 40 years old this month and celebrates with special showings in theaters and on television. "The Godfather" was a significant contribution to American cinema history and resuscitated the career o


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John Leguizamo brings 'Ghetto Klown' to the Straz


By John Fleming , Times Performing Arts Critic John Fleming Tampa Bay Times In Print: Thursday, March 8, 2012 Ghetto Klown is the latest of John Leguizamo's autobiographical stage shows. After delving into his New York upbringing and sex life in four pre


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10 Celebrities Who Ran Into Tax Trouble With The IRS


What is it with celebrities and the IRS? Seems like every time we turn around, another boldface name has run into trouble with the taxman. Most recently, Kirstie Alley was hit with a $41,395 bill, including interest and fees, for back taxes on her $1.73


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