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Filming in Miami
Miami Today - Mar 09, 2011
Stills for Next Directory. City of Miami citywide, countywide, Miami Beach citywide. PRO ONE PRODUCTIONS. Miami Beach. Sills for Fashion 2. City of Miami citywide, countywide, Miami Beach. MARKUS MUELLER PRODUCTIONS. Miami Beach. Stills for Adcetera.

Green film festival coming to San Francisco
Way Out West - Mar 02, 2011
Image courtesy SF Green Film Festival. Washington, DC, has one. Seoul has one. Bristol, Tokyo, and Turin have one. And now, finally, the Bay Area has one. The first annual San Francisco Green Film Festival will take place from March 3-6,

ONLY IN THE MOVIES
Clayton County Register - Feb 16, 2011
The directory was several years old. The Elkader movie house had long been shuttered, something the couple didn't know until they arrived in town. "There used to be a planter out front (of the theater) and the very day we came here, a 'for sale' sign

Crime fascinates me, says author Peter James
IBNLive.com - Feb 26, 2011
IBNLive: Do you think movies inspired by books do justice to the narratives? Peter James: No! Mostly they don't… As book has much more scope by the way it can make the reader think whereas in films fail to that. The scope is much narrower in a film.

'Black Death' director Christopher Smith talks about making his medieval ...
Entertainment Weekly - Feb 18, 2011
But when you see it on the screen, it's amazing. And David Warner is one of those actors. He could read you the telephone directory and make it sound cool. Triangle is one of the best films of the past few years — that almost no one saw.

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Chicago 2002 http://uslocaldir.com/C/Chicago-2002/ Sun, 27 Feb 2011 12:37:52 -0800
Endangered species
Bay Area Reporter - Feb 24, 2011
When Rob Marshall's Chicago (2002) won the Best Picture Academy Award, fans of Hollywood musicals celebrated the end of an unprecedented 34-year drought since Oliver! (1968) had taken the top prize. Many hoped it heralded a return to a

Where do Oscar winners store their trophies?
Philippine Star - Feb 27, 2011
Where do Oscar winners store their trophies?Catherine Zeta Jones (Best Supporting Actress, Chicago, 2002): She has kept her Oscar in a hot spot. “He's in our home in Bermuda,” she once told InStyle. “I figured that not many Oscars have lived there. Of course, everyone who visits wants a

Blaska's Blog agrees: Madison needs Kaleem Caire's prep school
Isthmus - Feb 27, 2011
About 30 of that audience were young scholars from Madison Prep's successful counterpart in Chicago, Urban Prep. Founded in 2002, Chicago's Urban Prep graduates all its students and, for the last two years, 100 percent are college-ready.

Christine Brinkley still playing sex symbol at 57 in Broadway's "Chicago"
Examiner.com - Feb 08, 2011
She has just signed onto a Broadway production of “Chicago.” This sexy 57 year old will play “Roxie Hart,” a staring role of “Chicago.” Christine Brinkley will play the same role that Renee Zellweger played in the 2002 movie “Chicago.

Sherpa's Top 10: overrated best pictures
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Feb 24, 2011
Chicago (2002): I'll concede that "Chicago" was a highly entertaining film, filled with strong work from Richard Gere, Rene Zellweger and John C. Reilly. Also, it's one of the few musicals I enjoy. But c'mon Academy, you blew the call when you passed

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The Girl Cant Help It 1956 http://uslocaldir.com/G/The-Girl-Cant-Help-It-1956/ Tue, 22 Feb 2011 12:07:52 -0800
Photo exhibit opening at Michener Museum takes look at Ali, Elvis
Gloucester County Times - NJ.com - Feb 18, 2011
Photo exhibit opening at Michener Museum takes look at Ali, ElvisSo you can't just go to one kind of photography and expect to find his story.” Gurevich admitted she is not an expert on Ali, so she enlisted the help of Dr. Michael Ezra, author of “Muhammed Ali: The Making of an Icon,” to help fill in the blanks.

Sally Ryder Brady's memoir of marriage, "A Box of Darkness"
Washington Post - Feb 06, 2011
Sally Ryder Brady's memoir of marriage, Why anyone would want to reckon those accounts publicly after a life partner is dead is the question I can't help but ask after reading Sally Ryder Brady's blistering memoir, "A Box of Darkness." The marriage this book describes - by all outward

10 Films That Should Have Won the Best Picture Oscar!
Obsessed With Film - Feb 16, 2011
10 Films That Should Have Won the Best Picture Oscar!A brilliant offering from the Coen Brothers that wonderfully merges black comedy with elements of suspense and humorous horror, Fargo is one of those films that you can't help but revisit. The English Patient (1996), which beat Fargo to the Best Pic

Afterlife of a diva: Renata Scotto on aging, talent, tradition and why she quit
Capital New York - Feb 21, 2011
Afterlife of a diva: Renata Scotto on aging, talent, tradition and why she quit“I would never have a moment where I said, 'Ohh, I can't sing anymore, it's too bad because I can do it better than so-and-so.' I'm happy the way I am, and so interested in so many things. I've never had a piano in my house.

Leduff: My Detroit Story, Part One
MyFox Detroit - Feb 17, 2011
Blue, black and white, can't we get anything right? An appropriated sound of course, but righteous enough in its own way. The funeral for my aunt was weird in the fact that it wasn't weird. It was normal. It was white. It started on time.

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Easy Living 1937 http://uslocaldir.com/E/Easy-Living-1937/ Thu, 17 Feb 2011 11:41:59 -0800
Wisconsin Senate to vote on anti-union bill after thousands storm capital
Salon - Feb 17, 2011
Wisconsin Senate to vote on anti-union bill after thousands storm capitalAn attempt in 1937 failed when organizers tried to convince bosses that the union and the manager could be friends. The mill-hands were disgusted. A more serious campaign in 1946, dubbed "Operation Dixie," showed little ability to uproot or challenge

'The Warmth of Other Suns' tells powerful American stories of migration
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Feb 16, 2011
In 1937, Ida Mae Gladney left a sharecropping life in Mississippi for the intimidating bustle of Chicago. In 1945, George Starling, a rabble-rousing Florida fruit picker, lit out for Harlem. And in 1953, Robert Foster, an ambitious physician who would

An Unpublished Interview With Hunter S. Thompson
The Quietus - Feb 17, 2011
An Unpublished Interview With Hunter S. ThompsonHe was born Hunter Stockton Thompson on 18th July 1937, in Norton Infirmary, Louisville, Kentucky. "I've always felt like a Southerner," Thompson told his unauthorised biographer E. Jean Carroll. "And I always felt like I was born in defeat.

Art gives a greater perspective on life
Malaysia Star - Feb 06, 2011
Art gives a greater perspective on lifeHe also reveals that his father had gone to Singapore in 1936, and not 1938 in the aftermath of the Sino-Japanese War (1937-45): “My father had gone to Singapore to teach (art and mathematics) at the invitation of educationist-philanthropist Tan Kah

In the Beginning Was the Word
New York Times - Feb 16, 2011
Mr. Camnitzer was born in Germany in 1937. Two years later his family emigrated to Uruguay, and he grew up in Montevideo. He went to art school there, then briefly studied sculpture in Munich, before coming to New York City in the early 1960s,

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The Straight Story 1999 http://uslocaldir.com/S/The-Straight-Story-1999/ Sat, 12 Feb 2011 04:18:19 -0800
Al-Jazeera played a major role in the Egyptian revolution and the downfall of ...
Straight.com - Feb 11, 2011
This most notably occurred during a 90-minute broadcast in June 1999. But the story isn't quite so simple as it has often been characterized.

"The Civil War" musical hits LU stage
Lynchburg News and Advance - Feb 10, 2011
The musical, which ran on Broadway in 1999, runs at Liberty's Tower theatre this month. Credit: Jill Nance/The News & Advance Thomas Scott rehearses for

Get your fax straight
ESPN - Feb 01, 2011
The night before the 1999 signing day, Justin Coleman, a 320-pound offensive lineman from Demopolis, Ala., promised then-Jackson State offensive coordinator

Priests, teacher charged with rape
phillyBurbs.com - Feb 11, 2011
At Assumption in 1999, Brennan attempted to engage in criminal sexual behavior with a 17-year-old Archbishop Wood student who was at the church doing

Cat, by Freya North
Podium Cafe - Feb 11, 2011
But hey, did we really want cry-babies like Christophe Bassons in the peloton in 1999? When we had a hero straight from central casting?

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