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	<title>Alternative Film Guide &#187; Actors</title>
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		<title>Edward Woodward</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Actors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Breaker Morant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bruce Beresford]]></category>
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Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Bryan Brown, Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson in Breaker Morant

Edward Woodward, the star of the 1980s television series The Equalizer and of the  film classics  The Wicker Man (1973) and  Breaker Morant (1980), died on Monday in Truro, Cornwall, England. Woodward had been suffering from heart problems and other ailments; the cause of death was pneumonia.
Born  to working-class parents in Croydon, Surrey, south of London, on June 1, 1930, Woodward began his acting career onstage in 1946. As a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he played roles in, among others, Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing, in addition to starring in Cyrano de Bergerac on the West End and in Noel Coward&#8217;s Broadway musical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jocelyn Quivrin</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
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Jocelyn Quivrin, Bénabar in Incognito

Jocelyn Quivrin, the  French Academy&#8217;s César winner for most promising newcomer in 2008, died after losing control of his sports car while driving in a tunnel just outside of Paris   on Sunday (Nov. 15) night. Quivrin was 30.
Quivrin&#8217;s off-screen companion was actress Alice Taglioni, best known for playing a top model in Francis Veber&#8217;s  comedy The Valet. The couple had a child in March. According to reports, Taglioni was driving in front of Quivrin on Sunday night; she  called the police when the actor didn&#8217;t arrive home. 
Quivrin  (born on Feb. 14, 1979) began his show-business career at the age of 10, appearing in the television series Les compagnons de [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grace Kelly: TO CATCH A THIEF, THE SWAN</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Green Fire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[High Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Country Girl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rockingham Tea Set]]></category>
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Grace Kelly on TCM: Part I
Thanks to Kelly&#8217;s Oscar win, The Country Girl is interesting as a historical curiosity &#8212; it&#8217;s the sort of &#34;gutsy&#34; and &#34;realistic&#34; film adaptation of a  respected stage play that was very popular among the filmgoing elite of the 1950s (e.g., Tea and Sympathy, A Hatful of Rain), but that I generally find both lame and artificial. Bing Crosby&#8217;s drunk is about as convincing as Kelly&#8217;s frumpish housewife (a role that should have gone to original choice Jennifer Jones), but that didn&#8217;t prevent a number of Academy members from making sure Crosby, director George Seaton, and the film itself  received Academy Award nominations.  Seaton, in fact, did win an Oscar for his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grace Kelly on TCM</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dial M for Murder]]></category>
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Stating the obvious:  most people take great pleasure in idealizing  their idols &#8212; which is why idols are idols. 
Whether we&#8217;re talking of gods, saints, prophets, or pop stars,  the process is pretty much the same: flaws are expunged, deeds that never took place are turned into (at times miraculous) facts,  the Pantheon of the Immortals becomes their abode following their earthly demise. (In some extreme cases &#8212; assorted gods, Elvis &#8212; the idol in question doesn&#8217;t die, period.)
Grace Kelly, Turner Classic Movies&#8217; Star of the Month, is one of the lofty ones now dwelling in the aforementioned Pantheon. True, the flesh-and-bood Philadelphia-born (Nov. 12, 1929) woman (nee Grace Patricia Kelly) may have been quite different [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Five Movie Screamers</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/top-five-movie-screamers-leigh-wray/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Top Ten Movie Screamers: 10 to 6


5 &#8211; Janet Leigh in Psycho (1960)
I don&#8217;t recall myself recoiling in horror while watching Janet Leigh&#8217;s shower scene in Psycho, but I do recall quite vividly  one night long ago when I was showering at an acquaintance&#8217;s place and imagined myself facing the same fate as Leigh&#8217;s unlucky bank teller. So, I guess that sequence  did leave a lasting impression on me. (Needless to say, I was out of that acquaintance&#8217;s shower stall and all dried up in a matter of seconds.)


4 &#8211; Fay Wray in King Kong (1933), Doctor X (1932), and The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
Fay Wray has to be here. To her belongs the title of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ramon Novarro: Q&amp;A with Author Allan Ellenberger</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:34:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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I first contacted author Allan Ellenberger  shortly before the publication of his book on Old Hollywood star Ramon Novarro, as at the time I  was working on my own Novarro bio. Instead of treating me like a pesky rival, Allan generously shared the information he&#8217;d amassed throughout about a decade of research &#8212; and for that I was very thankful.
We&#8217;ve since become good friends (but Allan, you need to buy me pizza more often), so I&#8217;m glad to report that his Ramon Novarro (McFarland, 1999) is now available in paperback at online bookstores. In his carefully researched book (I&#8217;ve read it about four or five times), Allan discusses Ramon Novarro&#8217;s life and career from his early beginnings in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AFI FEST 2009: Christopher Plummer, Viggo Mortensen Tributes</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/afi-fest-2009-christopher-plummer-viggo-mortensen-tributes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 05:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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James McAvoy, Christopher Plummer in The Last Station (top); Viggo Mortensen in A History of Violence (bottom)

AFI FEST 2009 has selected  Christopher Plummer, who&#8217;ll turn 80 next December, and Viggo Mortensen, 51, as this year&#8217;s tribute honorees. 
Sponsored by the Skirball Cultural Center, Plummer’s tribute  will precede the screening of The Last Station, in which he plays Leo Tolstoy,  on Tuesday, Nov.  3. Mortensen’s tribute will precede the US premiere of John Hillcoat&#8217;s futuristic drama The Road on Wednesday, Nov.  4. Both tributes will take place at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
A stage, film, and television and television veteran, during the course of his 50-plus-year career  Plummer has won two Tony Awards (for Cyrano [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Audrey Hepburn Film Series: CHARADE, MY FAIR LADY</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 07:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn in Love in the Afternoon

Audrey Hepburn LACMA Series: ROMAN HOLIDAY, SABRINA
Love in the Afternoon
  October 30 &#124; 9:35 pm
  Love in the Afternoon, Wilder’s long awaited tribute to his idol Ernst Lubitsch, is based on a French novel and tells the story of Ariane, an innocent young cello student in Paris whose father is a detective, played by Chevalier, the star of four Lubitsch musicals. In order to spark the romantic interest of Frank, an American millionaire and notorious playboy ensconced at the Ritz, Ariane assumes the guise of a sophisticated woman of affairs; but when Frank hires Ariane’s father to investigate the mysterious girl who only visits him in the afternoon, complications arise. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Audrey Hepburn LACMA Series: ROMAN HOLIDAY, SABRINA</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 07:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany&#8217;s

&#8220;Audrey Hepburn: Then, Now and Forever&#8221; Intro
Screening schedule and synopses from LACMA&#8217;s press release:
Roman Holiday
  October 23 &#124; 7:30 pm &#124; Introduction by Peter Bogdanovich
Cloistered in a Roman palace on a brief state visit and yearning for a taste of la dolce vita, a young princess from an unnamed European country breaks curfew and hits the town, where too much champagne propels her straight into the arms of an accommodating American—a reporter who knows an exclusive story when it wakes up in his apartment, needing coffee and a new outfit for the scooter. Love blossoms when they set off on a magical mystery tour of the great monuments of the Eternal City; but as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Audrey Hepburn: Then, Now and Forever</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:57:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany&#8217;s

&#34;Audrey Hepburn: Then, Now and Forever&#34; is the title of the new Los Angeles County Museum of Art film series that kicks off this evening with a double bill: Roman Holiday (1953, right), the film that both made Audrey Hepburn a star &#8212; in her first leading role &#8212; and earned the actress her only Academy Award, and Peter Bogdanovich&#8217;s little-seen They All Laughed (1981), Hepburn&#8217;s last starring role in a feature film. Bogdanovich will introduce the screening.
 Classy without being aloof; alluring without being vulgar; sophisticated without being snotty. That pretty much would summarize Audrey Hepburn&#8217;s screen presence. She could be hilarious, e.g., doing her best to seduce Cary Grant in Charade (1963); she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gael Garcia Bernal and Survival</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
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 In the above photo, Gael Garcia Bernal, the star of Y tu mama tambien and Amores perros, models the new T-shirt designed by John Rocha to mark the 40th anniversary of the human rights organization Survival International. 
As per the Survival website, the design was inspired by Rocha&#8217;s collection of tribal masks. 
On its website, Survival is described as &#34;a human rights organisation that helps tribal peoples defend their lives, protect their lands and determine their own futures. It was founded 40 years ago, following an article by Norman Lewis in the Sunday Times Magazine about the genocide of Brazilian Indians.&#34;
The commemorative Survival T-shirt is available exclusively from Survival’s Christmas catalogue.
Photo: Courtesy Survival International
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		<title>Rosanna Schiaffino</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Rosanna Schiaffino, Vince Edwards in Carl Foreman&#8217;s The Victors (1963) 

Rosanna Schiaffino, the sensual leading lady of dozens of Italian (and a few international) productions of the &#8217;60s and early &#8217;70s, died on Oct. 17 at her home in Milan following a long battle with cancer. She was 69.
The Genoa-born (Nov. 25, 1938) actress, referred to by some as the &#34;Italian Hedy Lamarr,&#34; began her film career in the late 1950s. Among her best-known roles are those in Francesco Rosi&#8217;s first feature, La Sfida / The Challenge (1958); Mauro Bolognini&#8217;s La Notte brava / The Big Night / Bad Girls Don&#8217;t Cry (1959), winner of the Italian Film Critics&#8217; Silver Ribbon for Pier Paolo Pasolini&#8217;s screenplay; and André Hunebelle&#8217;s historical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George Clooney, Kevin Spacey, Bill Murray: London 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:28:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joan Lister</dc:creator>
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Jarvis Cocker, Eric Anderson, Jason Schwartzman, George Clooney, Wally  Wolodarsky,  Bill Murray attend the World Premiere of Fantastic Mr  Fox and the Opening Gala of The Times BFI London Film Festival at the  Odeon Leicester Square on October 14, 2009. (Photo:  Samir Hussein/Getty Images)

Kevin Spacey, Author Jon Ronson, Producer Paul Lister, Director Grant  Heslov and George Clooney at the The Men Who Stare at Goats press  conference at the Vue  West End on October 15. (Photo by Samir Hussein/Getty  Images)

Kevin Spacey, Grant  Heslov,  George Clooney (Photo by Samir Hussein/Getty  Images)

 George Clooney stares at a goat  (Photo by Ian  Gavan/Getty Images)

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		<title>Karl Dane Biographer Interview</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Allan Ellenberger interviews biographer Laura Petersen Balogh, whose book on silent-film comedian Karl Dane has just been published by McFarland. 
Here&#8217;s a brief snippet:
Why Karl Dane? What is it about him and his story that moved you to write a biography?
I had always known who Karl Dane was, being a silent film buff my whole life, but he never really made  that much of an impression on me. I had read different Hollywood  scandal books which said his voice was not suited to the talkies, but  pretty much thought that was the end of the story. It wasn’t until  December 2005, when my husband Dan and I were watching the 1933 early  sound serial The Whispering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cindy Crawford, George Clooney, Elisabetta Canalis: London 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:35:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joan Lister</dc:creator>
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George Clooney and Elisabetta Canalis attend the World Premiere of  Fantastic Mr Fox,  the Opening Gala of The Times BFI London Film Festival, at the Odeon Leicester Square on October 14, 2009. 
Photos: Ian Gavan/Getty Images

Elisabetta Canalis, George Clooney

Cindy Crawford

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		<title>Marlon Brando, Marlene Dietrich, Sophia Loren Home Movies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Alfred Hitchcock, wife Alma Reville, daughter Patricia Hitchcock, and dog at home ca. 1941

Paulette Goddard, Betty Grable,  Edward G. Robinson, Ginger Rogers, and Natalie Wood&#8217;s rarely seen home movies will be screened at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ presentation of “Hollywood Home Movies II: Treasures from the Academy Film Archive” on  Saturday, October 17, at 7 p.m. at the Academy’s Linwood Dunn Theater  in Hollywood. This event is sold out, but standby tickets may become  available.
 The Academy Film Archive houses a  wide variety of amateur movies &#8212; whether featuring the stars&#8217; families and friends, or behind-the-scenes  activities on their sets. &#34;Hollywood Home Movies II&#34; will feature a number of excerpts, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bette Midler Cancels Appearance at THE ROSE Screening</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Alan Bates, Bette Midler in The Rose

Actors Barry Primus and Doris Roberts,  Oscar-nominated sound  mixers Jim Webb and Theodore Soderberg, and director Mark Rydell  will participate in an onstage discussion following the Academy of Motion Picture Arts  and Sciences’ (now sold out) 30th anniversary screening of The Rose on Friday,  September 25, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly  Hills. Los Angeles Times film critic Betsy Sharkey will host  the evening. 
Bette Midler was originally  scheduled to be present at  the event, but as per the Academy&#8217;s press release &#34;has had to cancel for  personal reasons.&#34; Instead, Midler will provide &#34;a special video message  dedicated to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Claude Rains on TCM: CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA, JUAREZ</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/claude-rains-caesar-and-cleopatra-juarez/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Claude Rains, Gale Sondergaard in Anthony Adverse

Turner Classic Movies will be showing eight movies featuring Claude Rains, TCM&#8217;s Star of the Month of September, beginning at 5PM Pacific Time.
Of those, I&#8217;ve seen only three:
Juarez (1939) could have been a good historical biopic, but things go wrong from the start thanks to the miscasting of Paul Muni as Benito Juárez. Even Bette Davis, who plays the mad Empress Carlotta von Hapsburg, would have been more believable as Mexico&#8217;s first full-blooded American Indian to be elected president. William Dieterle was also the wrong man to direct Juarez, as Dieterle&#8217;s hand tended to be quite heavy when dealing with real-life  subjects, e.g.,  The Life of Emile Zola,  The Story of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patrick Swayze</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Demi Moore, Patrick Swayze in Ghost

Patrick Swayze, the star of Dirty Dancing and Ghost,  died from complications from pancreatic cancer yesterday in Los Angeles. Swayze was 57.
The Texan-born Swayze (on Aug. 18, 1952, in Houston), whose background included classical dance training, became a star after playing the romantic lead in the sleeper hit Dirty Dancing (1987), directed by Emile Ardolino and co-starring Jennifer Grey. However, Swayze&#8217;s  follow-up releases &#8212; the little-seen Tiger Warsaw; Next of Kin, as a rough cop; and Road House, as a bouncer &#8212; were disappointments.
Swayze&#8217;s career took another upward turn with Jerry Zucker&#8217;s Ghost, a 1990 supernatural romantic comedy-melorama-thriller  in which he dies but hangs around so as to find out the identity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Venice 2009: Sylvester Stallone&#8217;s &#8220;Glory to the Filmmaker&#8221; Award Photos</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator>
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Il Postino actress Maria Grazia Cucinotta, &#34;Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the  Filmmaker&#34; Award recipient Sylvester Stallone, and Venice Film Festival director Marco Muller   at the Sala Grande during the 66th Venice Film  Festival on September 12.
  Photos: François Durand / 2009 Getty Images. Courtesy: Jaeger-LeCoultre
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Sylvester Stallone

Sylvester Stallone

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		<title>Venice 2009: Jared Leto, Sarah Polley, Diane Kruger Images</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator>
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Mr. Nobody director Jaco van Dormael, actors Sarah Polley, Jared Leto, Linh Dan Pham and Diane Kruger 
Photos: François Durand / 2009 Getty Images. Courtesy: Jaeger-LeCoultre
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Diane Kruger, Jared Leto

 Linh Dan Pham, Sarah Polley,  Diane Kruger 

Sarah Polley, Jared Leto, Linh Dan Pham and Diane Kruger 

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		<title>Martin Sheen, Judy Greer in LOVE HAPPENS Photos</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator>
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Aaron Eckhart, Martin Sheen

Martin Sheen

Judy Greer
Photos: Kimberley French / Copyright: © 2009 Universal Studios
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Jennifer Aniston in LOVE HAPPENS Photos
Aaron Eckhart in LOVE HAPPENS Photos

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		<title>Claude Rains on TCM: HERE COMES MR. JORDAN, DECEPTION</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Claude Rains returns this Wednesday, Sept. 9, in more films featuring Turner Classic Movies&#8216; Star of the Month.
Every single one of the titles listed below is worth watching if only because of Rains&#8217; presence. That said, a couple of them actually have considerably more to offer: Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) and Deception (1946).
Here Comes Mr. Jordan is a witty, romantic comedy about love, death, reincarnation, greed, bad timing, and prizefighting. I know,  this all (minus the prizefighting) sounds like some heavy-duty drama  straight out of the Bible or some other holy book, but director Alexander Hall and screenwriters Sidney Buchman and Seton I. Miller, adapting Harry Segall&#8217;s play Heaven Can Wait,  handle those serious themes with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Claude Rains on TCM</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Claude Rains, one of the greatest actors of the studio era &#8212; in fact, one of the greatest film actors of the 20th century &#8212; is Turner Classic Movies&#8216; Star of the Month of September.
What would I recommend? 
Well, whether on TCM or on DVD or on VHS or in some hidden vault somewhere, I&#8217;d say check him out in The Invisible Man and (ouch!) The Lost World; his supporting roles opposite Priscilla Lane and Bette Davis; his Oscar-nominated roles in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Casablanca, Mr. Skeffington, and Notorious;  his brief appearances in Lawrence of Arabia and The Greatest Story Ever Told; his cinematic swan song, Twilight of Honor. In sum, if Claude Rains is in it, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Juanita Moore, Susan Kohner, Paul Weitz Photos</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator>
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The 50th anniversary screening of Douglas Sirk&#8217;s classic weepie Imitation of  Life, starring Lana Turner, Sandra Dee, John Gavin, and Oscar nominees Juanita Moore  and Susan Kohner (above), was presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on  Friday, August 21, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The event was hosted by film critic Stephen Faber.
In Imitation of Life, white Susan Kohner plays black Juanita Moore&#8217;s daughter (hey, it&#8217;s Hollywood). In real life, however, Kohner doesn&#8217;t have a black mom. Her mother is Lupita Tovar, 98, known as &#34;Mexico&#8217;s Sweetheart&#34; back in the early 1930s and the star of the Spanish-language version of Dracula. Her father was producer Paul Kohner, among whose credits [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bette Midler at THE ROSE Screening</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Mark Rydell will  take part in an onstage discussion following the 30th anniversary screening of The Rose on  Friday, September 25, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy of Motion  Picture Arts and Sciences’   Samuel Goldwyn Theater in  Beverly Hills. (Bette Midler was scheduled to attend, but has had to cancel her appearance at the screening.)
Inspired by the wild life and  times of Janis Joplin, The Rose chronicles the  rise and  fall of late &#8217;60s rock star  Mary Rose Foster (Midler), who is used by her self-serving manager (Alan Bates at his slimiest); loved by a just-folksy, Starred-and-Striped limo driver (Frederic Forrest); and who  eventually comes to the realization that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Claire Bloom on TCM</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Claire Bloom, Julie Harris in The Haunting. Photo: Courtesy of Turner Classic Movies.

Claire Bloom, one of the most talented and stunning-looking actresses of her generation, will have her &#34;Summer Under the Stars&#34; day on Monday, Aug. 31. 
Handpicked by Charles Chaplin to be her young leading lady in the 1952 melodrama Limelight, the British-born Claire Bloom developed into a fantastic actress; one who should have become an international film superstar. That never happened, perhaps because Bloom was more enamored of the stage (A Streetcar Named Desire, The Cherry Orchard, A Doll&#8217;s House) than she was of film, and wasn&#8217;t as discerning in her film choices as she should have been.
I knew of her, but was mostly unfamiliar with her work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peter Sellers on TCM</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Peter Sellers in Lolita. Photo: Courtesy of Turner Classic Movies.

Peter Sellers will have his &#34;Summer Under the Stars&#34; day on Saturday, Aug. 29.
Turner Classic Movies will present thirteen Peter Sellers vehicles, including two TCM premieres, John Guillermin&#8217;s Waltz of the Toreadors and Robert Day&#8217;s Two-Way Stretch.
First of all, I must admit that I&#8217;m not that familiar with Sellers&#8217; film career. Among the few of his films I&#8217;ve seen are a couple of the Pink Panther flicks &#8212; neither of which was very good &#8212; in addition to  his two Oscar-nominated performances in Dr. Strangelove and Being There. So, this Peter Sellers Day on TCM will be a good opportunity for myself &#8212; and others &#8212; to become  better [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frank Sinatra on TCM</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 11:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Bobby-soxer-turned-blue-haired-matron idol Frank Sinatra will have his &#34;Summer Under the Stars&#34; day on Friday, Aug. 28.
Turner Classic Movies will show twelve of the actor-singer films, the best of which  is On the Town, a zesty musical about three sailors and their three girls (four, if you include Alice Pearce) spending a day together in New York City. The three guys &#8212; Sinatra, Gene Kelly, and Jules Munshin (above) &#8212; are all likable and fine, but it&#8217;s the female quartet that does it for me: in addition to Pearce, there&#8217;s Vera-Ellen, Betty Garrett, and Ann Miller. In my view, those women are the ones who should have been the superstars of Hollywood musicals of the &#8217;40s and &#8217;50s. Anyhow, Kelly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ida Lupino on TCM</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 22:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Ida Lupino, one of the top Warner Bros. stars of the &#8217;40s, will have her &#34;Summer Under the Stars&#34; day on Thursday, Aug. 27.
More than a second-rank Bette Davis but less than a truly great talent, Ida Lupino &#8212; whether at her best or at her worst &#8212; was invariably interesting. Yet, I can&#8217;t say that I&#8217;m an inveterate Ida Lupino admirer. My problem with the likes of Lupino, Anne Baxter, Susan Hayward, and, oftentimes, Bette Davis is that when they emoted, they ***EMOTED*** &#8212; in caps, italics, bold, and with asterisks all around it. Just in case you didn&#8217;t get that their characters were going through some really rough  times.
That said, what makes those actresses interesting &#8212; as [...]]]></description>
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