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Youth unemployment: a generation of graduates to the dole queue
"I'm a little worried about my future," said Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate . He should be so lucky.
It's difficult to see clearly a film that has become encrusted with 30 years of cultural significance, especially when that significance is laced with the kind of self-congratulatory boomer twaddle that attends this 1967 classic.
Even though Anne Bancroft seduced a much younger Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate in 1967, it must have been hard then to believe that 42 years later, a cruise specifically for frisky middle-age females would be so popular.
AICN Legends: Capone swims in shark-infested waters and climbs...
Hey everyone. Capone in Chicago here. My third AICN Legends piece is the first to win an Academy Award for Best Actor.
20 Movies Better Than The Books They Were Based On
It's a familiar complaint, whenever books are re-imagined for film, fans and critics always cry that the novel is better than the movie.
`Paranormal Activity' dismembers `Saw' with $21.1M
Low-budget horror prevailed at the weekend box office as "Paranormal Activity" expanded to nationwide release and took the No.
'Scream 2009' celebrates sci-fi, comics, horror
Spike TV is honoring vampires, space rangers and comic-book heroes at "Scream 2009." The star-studded event being held Saturday at the Greek Theater will air as a two-hour special on Oct.
Armando Iannucci: the films that taught me how to be funny
The creator of The Thick of It and In the Loop reveals the movie moments that helped to build his own sense of humour a ' and still make him laugh Sunday, 18 October 2009 Some jokes never lose their appeal a ' they just get better with time.
Mike Nichols to receive AFI's top honor
He's almost the last of his generation of great filmmakers still working. Altman, Peckinpah, Pollack,all gone.
Mike Nichols to Receive Top AFI Honor
Director Mike Nichols has been selected to receive the American Film Institute's 38th AFI Life Achievement Award.
Mike Nichols named to receive AFI's 38th Life Achievement Award
Oscar-winning director Mike Nichols has been selected by the American Film Institute Board of Trustees to receive the 38th annual AFI Life Achievement Award.
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Director Mike Nichols will be feted by the American Film Institute next summer with a life achievement award .
Filmmaker Nichols Graduates to AFI Lifetime Honor
Director Mike Nichols has been chosen to receive the 38th American Film Institute's life-achievement award.
Yes...I Can do that work for you
Many industries, such as the financial service industry and even academia in some areas have taken quite a hit recently when it comes to jobs.
Cougar Cruise brings 'cubs' onboard for Mrs. Robinsons of the world
Finally, a cruise for Mrs. Robinson, the older woman in the film "The Graduate" who seduced the much younger character played by Dustin Hoffman.
'The Graduate' coming to Chatham Playhouse
A sense of community branded within its namesake is what has kept a group of thespians bound for years to the Chatham Community Players and the Chatham Playhouse.
Why is It the Great Movies That Get Remade - and Not Dross Like Howard the Duck?
Sam Leith: We need better excuses for returning to past classics than nostalgia or celebrities getting their kit off On my way home from seeing Anna Friel in a new stage version of Breakfast at Tiffany's last week, I picked up a newspaper containing a big article about the remake of the film Fame, and then went home to watch TV reports of a doomed ...
They are Cougars, hear them roar
Bad enough that this noble feline is declining in numbers and facing extinction in many parts of the world, but now it's facing a threat of another kind, one that goes to the very core of what it is to be a cougar.
If Kanye West were to hop on stage to receive an award for Most Notorious Interrupter, we'd grab that mic right out of his hand and scream out the following names.
Alas, Energy Efficiency Isn't Sexy
Read the full story at ClimateBiz. If The Graduate were remade today, the famous scene where Benjamin Braddock gets career advice might have to be rewritten this way: Mr.
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