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3 hrs ago | Fort Collins Coloradoan

Holiday season's movie list: classics, vampires, science fiction, mystery

Hollywood loves money. So does Ebenezer Scrooge. So what better way to launch the holiday season than putting the old money-grubber at the head of the line to separate moviegoers from their cash? The latest version of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' features Jim Carrey as Scrooge.

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Related Topix: Horror Movies, Animation Movies, Short, A Christmas Carol, Family, Drama Movies, Musical Movies, Charles Dickens, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Crime Movies, Twilight, 2012, New Moon, Adventure

8 hrs ago | Surreycomet.co.uk

Discover Treasure at the Rose

This year, Christmas in Kingston will all be about pirates, pieces of eight and swashbuckling adventure as the Rose Theatre brings Treasure Island to life.

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Related Topix: Robert Louis Stevenson, Kids, Family

12 hrs ago | Tvnz.co.nz

Founder of Catholic Opus Dei group focus of movie

If Opus Dei had a rough ride in the blockbuster movie based on Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, it looks set for an altogether more sympathetic portrayal in another film that deals with the Catholic organisation.

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Related Topix: Roman Catholic Church, Religion, Dan Brown

Fri Nov 06, 2009

Stamford Times

Tony Curtis Likes it hot at the Avon

Tony Curtis Likes it hot at the Avon By KEITH LORIA Hour Correspondent When the American Film Institute named its top movies of the century in 2000, it voted 1959's screen gem "Some Like it Hot" as the greatest American comedy in motion picture history.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Music!, Thriller, Crime Movies, Musical Movies, Tony Curtis, Marilyn Monroe

The Press On-Line

Del Toro promises 'magic' in Hobbit

A WIZARD DID IT: The Hobbit director Guillermo del Toro says there will be a lot of magic in the film.

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Related Topix: J.R.R. Tolkien

The Seattle Times

Sit down and shut up: Don Rickles is in the house

Rickles because he deserves it. He's a legend. Honorary member of the Rat Pack. The guy Johnny Carson tossed into a hot tub.

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Related Topix: Don Rickles, Snoqualmie, WA, The Rat Pack

Southport Visitor

This week's cinema highlights - 06.11.09

THE festive spirit takes over cinemas this week with the release of a Christmas Carol, an animated retelling of the classic Charles Dickens novel.

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Related Topix: Charles Dickens, The Men Who Stare at Goats, US Military, US Army, The Fourth Kind, Horror Movies, Animation Movies, Short, A Christmas Carol, Family, Drama Movies, Musical Movies, Supernatural

Post Tribune

Hitchcock classic comes to Blu-ray

Alfred Hitchcock's "North by Northwest" has never looked as good on home video as it does in the new 50th anniversary Blu-ray edition, released this week .

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Related Topix: North by Northwest, Thriller, Adventure, Mystery Movies, Alfred Hitchcock

Chain Leader

Capital Grille Lets Guests Design Wine Label

The Capital Grille invites customers to design a custom label for an exclusive, world-class wine.

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Related Topix: Wine, Drink, Orlando Metro, Robert Louis Stevenson

Thu Nov 05, 2009

KVBC-TV Las Vegas

2008 Reno quakes on National Geographic show

The mini-documentary on the series of earthquakes that rattled the Reno area last year will be featured Thursday night on the National Geographic Channel.

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Related Topix: National Geographic, University of Nevada-Reno, Nevada

Telegraph.co.uk

Theatre bans Al Jolson tribute act from 'blacking up'

A theatre was under fire after it banned an Al Jolson tribute act from 'blacking up' - claiming it is racist.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Mammy, Musical Movies, The Singing Fool, Al Jolson

IndyStar.com

National Geographic to film Ind. coaster build

Holiday World & Splashin' Safari will receive a wave of publicity as a crew from the National Geographic Channel will be on hand to capture a key moment in construction for the Wildebeest water coaster.

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Related Topix: National Geographic, The National, Entertainment, Television, Santa Claus, IN

Cinema Blend News

Anthony Hopkins To Go Fishing As Hemingway

It's amazing that there haven't been more films made about the life of Ernest Hemingway.

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Related Topix: Ernest Hemingway, In Love and War, War Movies, Drama Movies, Chris O'Donnell

NBC DFW

Martin & Baldwin Hosting the Oscars? That's a Winner

Hosting the Oscars is the worst job in comedy. Everyone at home expects you to be funny.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Oscars, Theater, Arts, Saturday Night Live, Steve Martin, Billy Crystal

Wed Nov 04, 2009

The Modesto Bee

Rick Warren, Reader's Digest part ways on project

A joint publishing venture between influential pastor Rick Warren and Reader's Digest magazine has collapsed less than a year after it was announced with great fanfare.

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Related Topix: Rick Warren, Economics News, Bankruptcy

Seattle Times

Atheist group Freedom From Religion Foundation to meet in Seattle

When some 600 atheists, agnostics and other nonreligious folks gather in Seattle starting Friday for a Freedom From Religion Foundation convention, there will be an emphatically non prayer breakfast.

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Related Topix: Seattle Metro, Bill O'reilly, Harvard University, Pitzer College

WIAT-TV Birmingham

Tisch Honors Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, & Marcia Gay Harden - ET

";" src="http://www.etonline.com/media/video/2009/11/120059/et_briangrazerevent_091103_large.jpg" style="border-width:0px;" /> NYU's Tisch School of the Arts Gala honored five of Hollywood's elitea ' Brian Grazer , Ron Howard , Marcia Gay Harden , Sheila Nevins , and Diana King a 'Monday night in New York.

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Related Topix: Angels & Demons, Brian Grazer, Dan Brown, Entertainment

Burnley Citizen

Jim Carrey: Thanks for Supernanny

Jim Carrey thanked Britain for the legacy of Charles Dickens - and for Supernanny - as he switched on the Christmas lights at London's Oxford Circus to celebrate the world premiere of Disney's A Christmas Carol.

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Related Topix: Horror Movies, Animation Movies, Short, A Christmas Carol, Family, Drama Movies, Musical Movies, Disney's A Christmas Carol, Supernanny, Reality TV, Entertainment, Television, Charles Dickens

Sky News

Jason Donovan, Jim Carrey and Harriet Scott

Jim Carrey helped turn on London's Christmas lights as his new Scrooge film premiered in the capital.

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Related Topix: Horror Movies, A Christmas Carol, Family, Drama Movies, Animation Movies, Short, Musical Movies, Charles Dickens, Entertainment

The West Australian

Bidders resist eternity with Marilyn Monroe

A legion of male admirers found her irresistible before her death but Marilyn Monroe has not been able to exert the same kind of pull in the afterlife.

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Related Topix: Marilyn Monroe, Offbeat

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