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‘First Position’ Will Keep You on Your Toes
Guest Blog: Beth Kargman’s ballet documentary follows six young contestants from five continents dancing for the chance to change their lives
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Jane Goodall: ‘Chimpanzee Politics Are Nicer than Ours’
Guest Blog: Proceeds from "Chimpanzee," the Disney nature film, will go to the Tanzania institute founded by 78-year-old primatologist Jane Goodall
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Julia Roberts Should Have Looked Closer at ‘Mirror Mirror’
Guest Blog: Julie Roberts should have followed her instincts and insisted on a better script for “Mirror Mirror”
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‘The Hunger Games’ Is Fiction … Or At Least We Hope So
Guest Blog: “The Hunger Games” is great fun as a movie but author Suzanne Collins’ also provides a cautionary look at how we’re addressing the divide between rich and poor
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Frank Frazetta Could Have Helped ‘John Carter’
GUEST BLOG: Pixar and Disney made a mistake when they decided not to use the stylings of artist and Edgar Rice Burroughs collaborator Frank Frazetta on “John Carter”
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Picasso Visits ‘Downton Abbey’
Guest Blog: An encounter with another wealthy family and inheritance
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‘The Artist’ Producer Thomas Langmann Learned From His Film Family
Thomas Langmann, producer of Oscar-winner “The Artist,” learned the value of taking risks and the joy of a challenge as a child on the beaches of St. Tropez
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Pan Am Memories: Aloha to Hawaii And to My Mother
The possibly final episode of TV’s “Pan Am” inspires the author, a former real-life Pan Am stewardess, to remember a visit to Hawaii with her mother
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What Norman Mailer Would Have Told Me About ‘Safe House’
Perhaps it would have helped screenwriter David Guggenheim to have worked from a graph instead of allowing a chase to become practically the entire plot
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How ‘The Woman In Black’ Reminded Me of ‘Stepford Wives’
In “The Lady in Black,” as it was in “The Stepford Wives,” the importance of being earnest — no matter how bizarre the scene — is clear
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Ridley and Tony Scott Put Their Stamp on ‘The Grey’
As producers, the Scott brothers bring the thrills on “The Grey.” But it is the earnest, intense performance of Liam Neeson that makes the movie a must-see
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The Night I Danced With the Shah of Iran
“My sons like to date Pan Am stewardesses,” he told me — to the music of the Bee Gees
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Watching ‘Red Tails’ With the Real Tuskegee Airmen
“We were a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement”
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Misogynistic ‘Bridesmaids’ Wins Praise from Gervais at the Golden Globes
Women doing crude and testosterone-driven humor — just like men — is not achieving equality. And we have better things to do.
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Flying Into Istanbul for Turkish Delight
During my Pan Am stewardess days, Mother and I stayed in the Hilton, not far from the Crazy Horse, a nightclub known for its exotic dancers
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