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28 min ago | Current

Lacy coaxes creative talents to share stories of their lives

Susan Lacy is surrounded by lists: lists of actors, lists of musicians, lists of photographers, lists of artists.

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Related Topix: American Masters, Entertainment, Television, Photography, Arts, History of the World: Part I, Comedy Movies, Celebrities, Mel Brooks, Emmy Awards

5 hrs ago | Examiner.com

Martin Scorsese to present Mel Brooks with AFI Life Achievement Award

The American film Institute announced Monday that Martin Scorsese will present Mel Brooks with the American Film Institute's 41st Life Achievement Award - America's highest honor for a career in film.

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Related Topix: The Producers, Comedy Movies, Musical Movies, To Be or Not to Be, History of the World: Part I, War Movies, Drama Movies, Animation Movies, Short, Hugo, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Spaceballs, Science Fiction Movies

9 hrs ago | 24dash

Was Richard III a benevolent king or a murderous tyrant?

Experts are set to debate one of the most contentious questions in English History - was King Richard III a good king or a murderous tyrant? The University of Leicester is holding a free public debate on " Richard III: Benevolent King or Murderous Tyrant? " on Thursday, June 6. The event follows on from the University's momentous discovery of the ... (more)

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Related Topix: War Movies, Drama Movies, Richard III

13 hrs ago | Hollywood Reporter

Cannes: Indian Director Anurag Kashyap on His Five Films on the Croisette

As Cannes celebrates 100 years of Indian cinema, the auteur also discusses the use of Bollywood stars in Hollywood films.

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Related Topix: Arts, Cinema, Horror Movies, Short, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Black Friday, Adventure, Science Fiction Movies, Bollywood, World News, India,

16 hrs ago | The Guardian

Speed, rage, and Fast & Furious 6

Without superheroes or aliens, the F&F franchise has made speed, laced with rage, one of film's most beloved intoxicants The reason for the burgeoning success of the Fast & Furious films eludes some people.

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Related Topix: Speed, Short, Comedy Movies, Thriller, Documentary Movies, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Fast & Furious 6, Fast & Furious

17 hrs ago | RTE.ie

Mulligan dreamed of working with DiCaprio

Baz Luhrman's big-screen adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's iconic novel, has said that he always dreamed of working with the Titanic star.

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Related Topix: Titanic, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Celebrities, Leonardo DiCaprio

Mon May 20, 2013

MSN Living

Revenge surgery: A new trend for the recently divorced

According to recent statistics and plastic surgeons alike, more divorcees are opting to go under the knife.

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Related Topix: Titanic, Drama Movies, Action Movies

The Sydney Morning Herald

Game of Thrones recap: Wedding and bedding ceremonies

I'm surprised I didn't see the portly silhouette of a famous British director trot past in that episode because for me, that was Game of Thrones Alfred Hitchcock-style. Taut psychodrama, and taut psychos - it had it all.

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Related Topix: Prince William, Royal Wedding, Game of Thrones, Wedding, Entertainment, Television, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Adventure

WMGI-FM Terre Haute

Keanu Reeves makes director debut with modern Kung...

He's played a science-fiction hero, policeman and even Hamlet. But now actor Keanu Reeves is taking on a new role - as director of a contemporary martial arts movie aimed at both Chinese and Western audiences.

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Related Topix: Documentary Movies, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Speed, Short, Comedy Movies, Thriller, Celebrities, Keanu Reeves

Sentinel & Enterprise

PBS offers two ways of punking Hitler

Premiere of American Masters 'Mel Brooks: Make A Noise' at the Paley Center for Media Featuring: Mel Brooks Where: Los Angeles, California, United States When: 09 May 2013 Credit: Ai-Wire/WENN.com Melvin James Kaminsky, known far and wide and forever as Mel Brooks, turns 87 next month.

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Related Topix: The Producers, Comedy Movies, Musical Movies, History of the World: Part I, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Celebrities, Mel Brooks, American Masters, Entertainment, Television, Los Angeles, CA

Rome News

Ga. town to mark date it was burned in Civil War

As the 150th anniversary of the burning of Darien approaches, historian Buddy Sullivan wants to clear up what he considers a misconception about the south Georgia town's Civil War history.

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Related Topix: Georgia, Glory, War Movies, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Short, Comedy Movies, Celebrities, Matthew Broderick

Ledger-Enquirer.com

'Cleopatra' feted at 50 with restoration, Cannes screening, theatrical re-release and Blu-ray

There was the spectacle, the runaway budget, the fights with the studio. But almost everyone thinks about the 1963 movie "Cleopatra" for one thing: Liz and Dick.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Cleopatra, Rome, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Celebrities, Martin Landau, Richard Burton, R-N-B, Elizabeth Taylor

Rotten Tomatoes

25% Passion

From screenwriter/director Brian De Palma , PASSION stars leading-actress Rachel McAdams and the talented Noomi Rapace .

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Related Topix: The Vow, Midnight in Paris, Crime Movies, The Untouchables, Drama Movies, Thriller, Rachel McAdams, Noomi Rapace, Love Crime

Sun May 19, 2013

New York Daily News

Keanu Reeves shows weight gain at Cannes

Cannes I have some more? Keanu Reeves, in the South of France for the annual Cannes Film Festival, looked much heavier than when he starred as superfit Neo in "The Matrix" trilogy.

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Related Topix: Documentary Movies, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Speed, Short, Comedy Movies, Thriller, Celebrities, Keanu Reeves, Movies, Entertainment

USA Today

Warner Bros. goes gangster with 2 new movie collections

As part of its year-long celebration of its 90th anniversary, Warner Bros. releases two sets of gangster films - classics that helped defined the genre and contemporary ones that made them popular again.

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Related Topix: The Petrified Forest, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, The Public Enemy, Action Movies, Celebrities, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, The Untouchables, Gearbox Software, Heat, Thriller, Video Games, Movies, Entertainment

The Independent

Sex, drugs and fast cars: The legend of James Hunt has set Hollywood hearts racing

Early glimpses of Ron Howard's film Rush suggest it will portray Hunt as a high-living lothario, with an insatiable appetite for partying.

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Related Topix: Frost/Nixon, Apollo 13, Drama Movies, Adventure

Playbill

the DVD Shelf: Chaplin's "Monsieur Verdoux," Olivier's "Richard III"...

This month's column looks at Blu-ray releases of the Chaplin classic, "Monsieur Verdoux"; Laurence Olivier 's stunning "Richard III"; and the Douglas Fairbanks swashbuckler, "The Thief of Bagdad." Charles Chaplin, in his later years and later films, struggled with the old Charlie; both the character, and the style of filmmaking that had made him ... (more)

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Monsieur Verdoux, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Richard III, War Movies, Celebrities, Laurence Olivier, The Thief of Bagdad, Family, Action Movies, Adventure, Douglas Fairbanks, City Lights

Philly.com

Mel Brooks looks back on a career built on laughs

He is the subject of an American Masters special , recipient of an American Film Institute life achievement award , and librettist of a proposed Broadway musical based on his 1974 movie hit Blazing Saddles .

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, The Producers, Musical Movies, History of the World: Part I, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Celebrities, Mel Brooks, American Masters, Entertainment, Television, Emmy Awards, Movies

ComingSoon.net

Myriad Finds Life Itself with Morgan Freeman and Diane Keaton

Myriad Pictures announced today that Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman and Academy Award winner Diane Keaton will star together for the first time in the heartwarming comedy Life Itself .

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Related Topix: The Big Wedding, Annie Hall, Comedy Movies, Celebrities, Diane Keaton, Morgan Freeman, My One and Only, The Gathering Storm, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Entertainment

Sat May 18, 2013

Sammamish Review

Lake Washington District students settle in to new STEM school

And so it happened that students in Pete Saxby's class, at the Lake Washington School District's STEM school were watching the Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock movie "Speed." As the bus approached a highway ramp with a 50-foot gap, Saxby stopped the film to check the students were able to find the variables such as the buses' speed and the distance ... (more)

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Related Topix: Education Etc., Speed, Short, Comedy Movies, Thriller, Documentary Movies, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Celebrities, Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Sammamish, WA