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MY BOYFRIEND INVITED me to spend Thanksgiving with his family in rural Kentucky.

Canadian auteur Atom Egoyan will be honored with this year's Master of Cinema lifetime achievement award at the 58th Mannheim-Heidelberg film festival.

When the gangsters of a Chicago crime "family" murder the brother of a police officer, there's going to be hell to pay.

Three large maps of USU campus were placed in separate areas around the Taggart Student Center on Saturday.

In my expert opinion, two men were the true personification of the 1980s: Ronald Reagan and Patrick Swayze.

The list of cinematic white-trash heroes is good. But it really does leave a lot of contenders out, particularly if you use loose criteria for what constitutes white trash.

Eleanor Ringel Cater has been a film critic in Atlanta for 29 years. Her column appears every Friday.

Alternate Takes 09.19.09: Patrick Swayze Posted by Shawn S. Lealos on 09.19.2009 Alternate Takes looks at the career of Patrick Swayze, from Dirty Dancing to Donnie Darko .

Ask 411 Movies for 09.21.09: The Column That's Like the Wind! Posted by Leonard Hayhurst on 09.21.2009 Recent celebrity deaths, Greg Kinnear, Craig Kilborn, cheap movies, 'King of the Hill' finale, 'The Riches' and famous Leonards other than me! From YouTube this week as sent to me by 411's own Erik Luers and done by the Onion News Network, we see ...

Herea s a sign the Washington Post is a liberal newspaper: todaya s Adam Bernstein obituary for Patrick Swayze begins obviously by noting his big hits "Ghost" and "Dirty Dancing," but doesna t get to "Red Dawn" until paragraph 23.

Indeed, I could say much of the Swayze oeuvre were guilty pleasures, but then again I feel no guilt at my unalloyed enjoyment of so much of his work.

Just three days into the Culture Blog/The Poop territorial shift , I'm already breaking the rules.

Cast members from the 1983 film "The Outsiders," from left, Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze and Tom Cruise, are shown.

After today's unfortunate announcement involving the death of actor-dancer Patrick Swayze , we wanted to celebrate the best from his long spanning career.

Los Angeles -- Patrick Swayze, an actor and classically trained dancer whose role in the film 'Dirty Dancing' made him a movie star, died Monday.

Date : Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:44:36 PDT The International Herald Tribune, France August 29, 2009 Saturday A director tests his own borders Atom Egoyan ventures into new territory with an 'erotic mystery' by KATRINA ONSTAD ABSTRACT His new film ''Chloe,'' is a star-studded break from form for him, the first of his features for which he has not written ...