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Post-Madonna, Guy Ritchie puts his faith in hard work and 'Sherlock Holmes'
JILL LAWLESS - December 22, 2009
LONDON (AP) All in all, Guy Ritchie has had a pretty good 2009. He had a blast making his big-budget thriller "Sherlock Holmes," stayed focused on his work and avoided coverage of the fallout from his split with Madonna. "I haven't read the papers for so long now," said Ritchie. "I...
Venice festival honors John Woo with lifetime achievement award
MIN LEE - December 22, 2009
HONG KONG (AP) Organizers for the Venice Film Festival have honored John Woo with its lifetime achievement award, saying the veteran director transformed action movies both in his native Hong Kong and his current professional home of Hollywood. Calling the 61-year-old filmmaker "an innovator of...
Movie review: Labored 'Squeakquel' offers twice the chipmunks, half the fun
GLENN WHIPP - December 21, 2009
"Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel" offers exactly two big laughs for its kiddo target audience one involves passing gas, the other a shot to the crotch. Since there's a fair amount of time between these two bits of comic invention, young and old alike have ample opportunity to...
Father says Kim Peek, Utah man who inspired Dustin Hoffman's 'Rain Man' character, dies at 58
DOUG ALDEN - December 22, 2009
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) The man who inspired the title character in the Oscar-winning movie "Rain Man" has died. Kim Peek was 58. His father, Fran, says Peek had a major heart attack Saturday morning and was pronounced dead at a hospital in the Salt Lake City suburb of Murray....
Movie review: Downey's no Sherlock Holmes, but it works in Ritchie's Conan Doyle update
DAVID GERMAIN - December 21, 2009
Take it from a lifelong fan of Arthur Conan Doyle: Robert Downey Jr. is so NOT Sherlock Holmes. That's not a hindrance in fact, it's a big help as he and director Guy Ritchie bring Conan Doyle's dusty Victorian-age detective into the modern world. Enough of the trappings...
Movie review: Love is simple-minded in 'It's Complicated,' though Streep's always a pleasure
DAVID GERMAIN - December 21, 2009
"It's Complicated" is lying from the moment the title appears. Writer-director Nancy Meyers' latest relationship comedy isn't what the name promises at all. It's simple, almost as simple about grown-up romance and heartache as the average Hollywood teen comedy is about youthful love...
California appeals court rejects Roman Polanski's bid to have criminal case dismissed
LINDA DEUTSCH - December 21, 2009
LOS ANGELES (AP) In a case that has polarized public passions, director Roman Polanski did not win his freedom Monday for a 32-year-old sex offense, but an appeals court said in a strongly worded opinion there was probable judicial and prosecutorial misconduct in his case. The opinion...
Cameron talks aliens: 'Avatar' creator says real E.T.'s will be far stranger than Hollywood's
DAVID GERMAIN - December 21, 2009
LOS ANGELES (AP) James Cameron offers what may be the most exotic planet full of aliens ever put on film in his sci-fi epic "Avatar." Yet if and when humans do meet creatures from other worlds, they'll be unimaginably more far-out than anything Hollywood can dream up, Cameron said....
WTO upholds that China unfairly blocking US music, films; US fights China over raw materials
BRADLEY S. KLAPPER - December 21, 2009
GENEVA (AP) The World Trade Organization's top arbitrators upheld a ruling that China is illegally restricting imports of U.S. music, films and books, and Washington pushed forward with a new case accusing China of manipulating the prices for key ingredients in steel and aluminum production....
Fashion designer Tom Ford mixes style with substance in debut film 'A Single Man'
JILL LAWLESS - December 21, 2009
LONDON (AP) Fashion designer Tom Ford has made a seamless transition to filmmaker with "A Single Man," the soulful, immaculately styled story of a grieving college professor in 1960s California. The ultra-confident Ford never doubted his abilities though he admits plenty of other...
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