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Kelly Jane Torrance
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MOVIE REVIEW: Hybrid comedy 'Works'
Woody Allen combines the old and new in return to New York
Friday, July 3, 2009
"Whatever Works" marks Woody Allen's return, after four films in Europe, to the cinematic New York he helped create. His re-entry isn't simply one of location. The film's a throwback to the old-school Jewish comedies he used to make in the city -- no surprise, given that he wrote the script in the 1970s, resurrecting it last year in the face of a possible actors strike.
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BEYOND: The 'stealth celebrity'
Cummings' voice is famous, but his face is not
Friday, July 3, 2009
Talking to Jim Cummings is like being in a reverse "Enchanted" -- you feel like a real person who somehow has stepped into an animated world.
Sage Advice
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
I've been sentenced to 150 years in prison. That's a pretty harsh punishment -- the judge even called me "evil" in giving it to me. I think it's actually too harsh. After all, I didn't commit a violent crime. I didn't assault anyone, and I didn't murder anyone. I was just trying to get rich. Isn't that the American way?
Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, is dead
He left big mark on world of music, dance
Friday, June 26, 2009
UPDATED: An autopsy is being conducted Friday to determine what caused the death of Michael Jackson, the Motown child singing sensation who became the King of Pop and enthralled the world with his music, dancing and antics.
BEYOND: Repeat himself? Not Frears
'That would be rather dull,' 'Cheri' director says, explaining range
Friday, June 26, 2009
No filmmaker wants to be thought of as a one-trick pony, but few can claim to be as versatile as Stephen Frears.
MOVIE REVIEW: 'Cheri'
Tale of love as Great War nears comes to glorious life
Friday, June 26, 2009
Cinematic pleasures in the summer don't have to involve computer-generated robots, museum exhibits or starships. The frothy confection "Cheri" provides just as great an escape — albeit one not quite so sweet as you might expect.
Sage Advice
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Advice compiled and condensed from actual sources by Kelly Jane Torrance, who composed the questions.
Coppola free to indulge indie soul
Friday, June 19, 2009
The man who directed the third film on the American Film Institute's top-100 list — "The Godfather" was beaten only by "Citizen Kane" and "Casablanca" — no longer wants to be thought of as the legend he is.
Finding romance online
Steamy stories, the privacy of a Kindle; together they make genre sales superhot
Friday, June 19, 2009
Romance happens to be one of the few fiction genres growing in this tough economy, thanks both to the novels' low cover prices and the yearning for escape from an era of sobering new economic limits.
MOVIE REVIEW: 'Departure'
Moving Japanese film was the surprise Oscar winner
Friday, June 19, 2009
It caused something of a stir when "Departures" won this year's Oscar for foreign-language film.