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Oscar-winning actor Karl Malden dead at 97
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Karl Malden, the Academy Award-winning actor whose intelligent characterizations on stage and screen made him a star despite his plain looks, died Wednesday, his family said. He was 97.
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Gwyneth Paltrow says Spain changed her life
NEW YORK (AP) — Gwyneth Paltrow speaks almost perfect Spanish — and she does it with an Iberian accent. The Oscar-winning actress says she traveled to Spain as a teenager, fell in love with the country, and embraces the culture to the point that she visits at least once a year and makes sure her young children, Apple and Moses, also speak the language.
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Clooney smokes out new production home
LOS ANGELES (AP) — George Clooney has lined up a new home for his production company. Clooney and producing partner Grant Heslov's Smoke House Pictures is in final negotiations on a two-year development and production deal with Sony Pictures, studio Co-Chairwoman Amy Pascal said Tuesday.
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'Do The Right Thing' still asks questions
NEW YORK (AP) — Twenty years later, the trash can is still crashing through America's window. At the climax of Spike Lee's 1989 drama "Do The Right Thing," the eternal battle between love and hate teeters on a razor's edge. The young black man Radio Raheem has been choked to death by white police after a fight with a Brooklyn pizzeria owner. A seething crowd gathers in front of the shop.
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MOVIE REVIEWS
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'Sister's Keeper' raises tough questions
"My Sister's Keeper" is a shameless weepy, one of the most manipulative and fundamental of genres, but it also raises some surprisingly difficult and thought-provoking ethical questions. Based on the Jodi Picoult best-seller, the drama focuses on the Fitzgerald family, and the drastic decision they made in medically engineering a child (Abigail Breslin) as a perfect genetic match to help save the life of their older daughter Kate (Sofia Vassilieva), who has leukemia.
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Rudolph shines in poignant 'Away We Go'
In “Away We Go,” Verona (Maya Rudolph) and Burt (John Krasinski) think they have everything under control six months into their first pregnancy. A couple of unmarried 30-somethings, they have grown comfortable in their new home, knowing Burt’s parents are just down the road when they need a little guidance.
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‘Transformers’ sequel falls curiously flat
It’s a total alien-robot slap- down. Autobots and Decepticons smash each other during a nearly perpetual burst of fiery battles waged from West Coast suburbia to an East Coast Ivy League campus to a pyramid-dotted desert in the Middle East.
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Bullock takes advantage of 'Proposal'
It’s been a long time since Sandra Bullock has been so funny on film, so in tune with a script tailor-made for her comedic and dramatic strengths. The Proposal, a romantic comedy with bite and heart, is Bullock’s most appealing performance since her breakthrough role in 1995’s While You Were Sleeping.
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'Year One' just a silly, summer comedy
They’re not exactly a dynamic duo, but Jack Black and Michael Cera have chemistry. In Year One, Black has a customary Jack Black role as the troublemaking Zed, a thoroughly useless member of a primitive tribe of hunters and gatherers. Cera is Zed’s young friend, Oh, a wimpy but, by his village’s standards, bright young man who forages with the women while the men hunt.
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'The Narrows' is familiar story with authentic ring
A contemporary drama set between the contrasting territories of Brooklyn and Manhattan, The Narrows follows a familiar story about a character who strives to escape his humble beginnings. Mike Manadoro lives with his widower father, Vinny, in Bay Ridge, a working-class Italian neighborhood.
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John
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'Imagine That' a solid family comedy
Imagine That may not restore blockbuster luster to Eddie Murphy, but it’s a big step up from Norbit, Meet Dave, Daddy Day Care and The Adventures of Pluto Nash. A family comedy with a familiar moral, Imagine That casts Murphy as a financial whiz in Denver. A workaholic who’s always striving to beat his in-house competition, Murphy doesn’t make quality time for his 7-year-old daughter.
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Former Baton Rougean directs 'Imagine That'
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'Pelham' fulfills action movie mission
Custom-made for summer, The Taking of Pelham 123 stars screaming cross-town car races, a New York City subway car filled with hostages and an angry man who will kill if his deadline is not met. Action director Tony Scott helms this predictable, noisy summer movie with lean efficiency.
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'Hangover' is inspired, until it wears off
You'd be forgiven for thinking "The Hangover" is a documentary. After all, who hasn't woken up in a trashed Las Vegas hotel suite with a missing tooth, a tiger in the bathroom, a baby in the closet and little or no memory of what happened the night before? Director Todd Phillips and screenwriters Jon Lucas and Scott Moore take this familiar "What happens in Vegas ... " idea to bold new heights.
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