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Sunday Jun 28 | Fox Valley Shopping News

Band keeps cool during rise

I have to admit, I entered this story thinking it was a Lester Bangs special. Remember Bangs, the rock journalist played by Philip Seymour Hoffman in Cameron Crowe's "Almost Famous," the story of a high school boy given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies it on their concert ...

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Related Topix: Almost Famous, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Music!, Adventure

Sat Jun 27, 2009

Guardian Unlimited

Don't look back

As veteran musicians headline Glastonbury this weekend, does the best writing about rock music also hail from a different era? Is anybody today as good as Greil Marcus or Lester Bangs? Having spent 20 years as a pop journalist, John Harris asks whether music writing has lost its way A tragic hero ... Philip Seymour Hoffman as Lester Bangs in Almost ...

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Related Topix: Journalism, Comedy Movies, Music!, Almost Famous, Drama Movies, Adventure

Wed Jun 17, 2009

The Jersey Journal

See "Doubt" tonight in Hoboken

See Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Doubt" tonight in Hoboken. Here's a reminder that tonight's Movie Under the Stars will be "Doubt." The free outdoor movie screening will take place at Pier A Park.

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Sun Jun 14, 2009

/film

Tonight at 9 PM Est: An Evening with Clifton Collins Jr., Man of a Thousand Faces

You may not know it, but Clifton Collins Jr. is one of the most talented and prolific character actors alive today.

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Capote, Sunshine Cleaning, Clifton Collins Jr., Extract

Fri Jun 12, 2009

Critical Mass

For I have known them all already, known them all

Ms. Mentor, the Chronicle of Higher Ed 's wonderfully acerbic alternative to Miss Manners, asks readers to recommend "newish academic novels that will delight and instruct her readers," noting that Richard Russo's Straight Man is her current favorite.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Empire Falls, Helen Hunt, Ed Harris, Paul Newman, Indie

Thu Jun 11, 2009

Dave Burke's Blog

The MSDN Northeast Roadshow: Ita s Whata s For Dinner

The MSDN Northeast Roadshow with Chris Bowen, Jim Oa Neil and Bob Familiar is whata s for dinner.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Action Movies, Comedy Movies, Twister, Thriller

Mon Jun 01, 2009

Village Voice

Savage in Limbo

On June 12th , One of NYC's hottest nightspots, The Bowery Electric will host the Apollonia Players ' production of SAVAGE IN LIMBO by John Patrick Shanley .

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Related Topix: Doubt

Sun May 31, 2009

BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content

LAByrinth Theatre Co. Announces New Artistic Leadership

LAByrinth Theater Company has announced that Artistic Directors John Ortiz , Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Gould Rubin pass their voluntary positions of service into the hands of fellow artists and LAB members Stephen Adly Guirgis , Mimi O'Donnell and Yul Vzquez.

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Related Topix: Theater, Arts, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Sydney, Thriller

Fri May 29, 2009

E! Gossip

Seth Rogen, Jason Bateman on E.T. Duty

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have beamed up a big haul for Paul . According to Variety , comedy heavyweights Seth Rogen , Jason Bateman , Kristen Wiig , Bill Hader and Jane Lynch have joined the frequent double act for their latest big screen partnership.

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Related Topix: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Kissing Jessica Stein

Thu May 28, 2009

BBC

Othello role for Seymour Hoffman

Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman is to star in a New York stage production of Shakespeare's Othello.

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Related Topix: Doubt, Synecdoche, New York, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Capote, Sydney, Thriller

Wed May 27, 2009

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Philip Seymour Hoffman plays Iago in 'Othello'

The Public Theater says Philip Seymour Hoffman is set to play Iago in an off-Broadway revival of "Othello" next season.

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Capote, Theater, Arts

Tue May 26, 2009

Playbill

Dafoe, Hoffman, Sellars, Parks, Daisey and McCraney Set for Public Theater's 2009-2010 Season

Peter Sellars will direct Tony and Academy Award winner Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Ortiz in William Shakespeare's Othello as the first offering of the Public Theater's 2009-2010 season.

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Related Topix: Theater, Arts

Sun May 24, 2009

Boston Globe

Manchester-by-the-Sea, a movie star among towns

Hollywood has a soft spot for this quaint, seaside town 20 miles north of Boston.

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Related Topix: Travel, United Kingdom Travel, Manchester, United Kingdom Travel, Kate Capshaw, Tom Selleck, Sarah Jessica Parker, Danny DeVito

Wed May 20, 2009

Film School Rejects

Movies We Love: Almost Famous

"I am a Golden GOD!" Synopsis William Miller is on the verge of being a 15 year-old high school graduate when he gets the break of a lifetime.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Music!, Almost Famous, Drama Movies, Adventure, Patrick Fugit, Jason Lee, Billy Crudup, Kate Hudson

Tue May 19, 2009

Mark Bernstein

Doubt

Just saw Doubt . Any movie that pits Meryl Streep against Philip Seymour Hoffman is bound to be good.

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Fri May 15, 2009

This Is London

Synecdoche, New York is a real mindbender

London, Synecdoche, New York Cert: 15 Derek Malcolm's rating Description: Reality fragments as painter Adele Cotard calls a time out from her marriage to beleaguered theatre director Caden, and decides to head for Germany with their four-year-old daughter, Olive, to give the relationship a little breathing space.

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Related Topix: Synecdoche, New York, Wedding, Arts, Cinema, Albany Metro, Schenectady, NY

Wed May 13, 2009

MediaGuardian.co.uk

The ultimate postmodern novel is a film

Synecdoche, New York uses tricks that will be familiar to readers of postmodern fiction, but performs them better than any book ) Beyond Baudrillard ... Samantha Morton and Philip Seymour Hoffman in Synecdoche, New York.

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Fri May 08, 2009

Guardian Unlimited

In a New York state of mind

Bewildered by Being John Malkovich? Entranced by Eternal Sunshine? Be warned: brainmelt master Charlie Kaufman's latest, Synecdoche, New York, is his most confusing yet.

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Related Topix: Synecdoche, New York, Drama Movies, Being John Malkovich, Comedy Movies, John Malkovich, Publishing, New York Times

Austrian Times

WhatA s on at the Burgkino this weekend?

What s on at the Burgkino this weekend? By Thomas Hochwarter Vienna's Burgkino will have the following original English version films on offer this weekend: The rock'n'roll comedy THE BOAT THAT ROCKED tells the story of pirate radio stations broadcasting to the United Kingdom from ships in the 1960s.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, United Kingdom, The Boat That Rocked, Angels & Demons, Dan Brown, Vocal, Tom Hanks

Radio World

Radio Pirates Get Screen Time

Those raffish, sexy radio pirates! a oeThe Boat That Rockeda is a release from Universal Pictures with a serious film pedigree .

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Related Topix: Media

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