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Friday Nov 20 | Examiner.com

The Outer Limits: 'Don't Open Till Doomsday'

With the collapse of the studio system, the death of the censorship code and the advent of color television, Hollywood went through a lot of odd permutations in the 1960s.

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Mon Oct 26, 2009

Child of Television

This week in Television History: October Part IV

It's hard to say where the truth really lies. October 27, 1954 Disneyland , Walt Disney's first television series, premieres on ABC.

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Related Topix: Children TV, Entertainment, Television, Walt Disney, Animated TV, Comedy, Animation Movies, Short, Comedy Movies, War Movies, Drama Movies, Jack Benny

Fri Sep 25, 2009

BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content

'The Mel Brooks Collection On Blu-ray Disc' Set for 12/15 Release

Best known as a creator of broad film farces and uproarious parodies, jack-of-all-trades Mel B rooks has been entertaining audiences for years with his wacky and absurdist humor.

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DVD Verdict

TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection: Horror

Freaks 1932 // 64 Minutes // Not Rated Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde 1941 // 114 Minutes // Rated G House Of Wax 1953 // 88 Minutes // Rated PG The Haunting 1963 // 112 Minutes // Rated G Released by Warner Bros.

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Fri Sep 04, 2009

Hollywood Reporter

Lubitsch honor among Locarno innovations

The Locarno Film Festival announced Thursday that it would host what it called an "exhaustive" retrospective of pioneering film director Ernst Lubitsch in its 2010 edition, the first official move from new Locarno artistic director Olivier Pere.

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Thu Aug 27, 2009

The Independent

Inglourious Basterds

Quentin Tarantino returns to public notice with a Second World War movie, though be warned, it bears about as much relation to historical realism as did To Be or Not To Be or Where Eagles Dare, both of which it passingly recalls.

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Fri Aug 21, 2009

The Independent

Inglourious Basterds

Quentin Tarantino returns to public notice with a Second World War movie, though be warned, it bears about as much relation to historical realism as did To Be or Not To Be or Where Eagles Dare, both of which it passingly recalls.

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Related Topix: Inglourious Basterds, Alternative, Tarantino, Reservoir Dogs, Thriller, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Quentin Tarantino, Animation Movies, Short, Comedy Movies, War Movies, Christoph Waltz

Sat Aug 15, 2009

Rotten Tomatoes

43% Mein Fuhrer: The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler

Synopsis: December 1944: the 'total war' is as good as totally lost. Goebbels, however, isn't willing to be so easily defeated.

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Wed Jul 08, 2009

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Merchant Of Venice Review

Anti-Semitism was a fact of life in Europe in the 16th Century. Jews were forced to live in ghettoes and to observe curfews - they were banned from owning property and so became money-lenders. Shylock, played by AL PACINO, is deeply resentful about all this, especially when the Christian merchant, Antonio, , spits on him.

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Thu Jun 04, 2009

MergeDigital

'To Be or Not to Be' -- part 'Producers,' part Shakespeare -- on stage in Quakertown

''To Be Or Not To Be'' is a fast-moving farce involving a theater company in the midst of the Nazi occupation of Poland.

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Wed Jun 03, 2009

BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content

Ian Talks-Louis Walks A Musical Oddity Presented 6/9, 6/12 At Carroll Musical

Louie Walks, a one man show , is a musical oddity created by and starring Ian Finkel .

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Mon Jun 01, 2009

The Morning Call

Crowded Kitchen Players' 'To Be or Not to Be' is a fast-moving farce

"To Be Or Not To Be" is a fast-moving farce involving a theater company in the midst of the Nazi occupation of Poland.

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Sat May 23, 2009

TIME.com

Showtime for Hitler: The Producers Comes to Berlin

As the two Jewish men on stage slip on their Nazi armbands, preparing to take the Siegfried Oath, the portly man sitting next to me seems unsure if he should laugh.

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Related Topix: World News, Germany, Comedy Movies, The Producers, Musical Movies, Animation Movies, Short, War Movies, Drama Movies, Mel Brooks, Theater, Arts

Thu May 21, 2009

The Independent

Pitt as Lt Aldo Raine, who leads a crack squad of Nazi hunters through Europe

"I think this might be my masterpiece," Lt Aldo Raine declares after carving a swastika on a Nazi's forehead toward the end of Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds.

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Tue May 19, 2009

Surrey Hants Star

Springtime for Hitler ... in Berlin

Mein Gott! The Mel Brooks musical, which hit the Broadway jackpot, has been staged in Germany of all places.

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Mon May 04, 2009

Slate Magazine

Hillary Clinton, Watch These Movies

What can The Godfather: Part II teach us about international relations? Last week, in the online edition of Slate 's sister publication Foreign Policy , two of its regular bloggers, Stephen M. Walt and Daniel W. Drezner , drew up lists of what they regard as the best movies ever made about international relations.

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Directed by Ernst Lubitsch

Starring Carole Lombard and Jack Benny

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