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Oscars by the Numbers

2012-02-02 16:41:14

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Warner Bros. to release Samuel Goldwyn film library on DVD

2012-03-30 16:33:31

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On the Frontiers of Medicine, June 13, 1960

2010-06-13 16:33:14

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Author of the play 'Tea and Sympathy'

2009-02-10 00:00:00

Playwright Robert Anderson, author of such Broadway hits as "Tea and Sympathy" and "You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running," died Monday. He was 91. His stepdaughter, Mary-Kelly Busch, said Anderson, who had Alzheimer's disease, died of...

A Glimpse at Wiretap Device Central to the Case

2006-02-18 00:00:00

In a racketeering indictment issued last week, federal prosecutors contend that Hollywood private eye Anthony Pellicano helped develop a device called Telesleuth, which he then used in illegal wiretaps. Telesleuth was used to convert voice recordings...

Pellicano and 6 Others Are Indicted

2006-02-07 00:00:00

In a sweeping indictment that reads like an unfinished Hollywood screenplay, onetime private investigator Anthony Pellicano and six others were accused Monday of conspiring to wiretap, blackmail and intimidate dozens of celebrities and business...

Film Review: 'Stoker' is ambiguous, stylish, weird

2013-03-08 14:41:00

"Stoker" is utterly fascinating -- about what we'd expect from the American debut of Korean director Park Chan-wook, whose 2003 "Oldboy" was one of the most extraordinary films of the millennium so far. Even those who found the subject and gore of “...

Mesa Musings: Last 40 years are the best

2010-11-09 19:33:53

Thursday is Veterans Day. I celebrated it early by watching one of my all-time favorite films the other night. William Wyler's 1946 classic, "The Best Years of Our Lives," which won seven Academy Awards, features an all-star cast, including Myrna Loy,...

Inaugural crowd: 1 million and what?

2009-01-21 16:24:14

by Noam N. Levey More than 1 million spectators convened on the National Mall to watch Barack Obama take the oath of office Tuesday, but it was unclear if the crowd surpassed the record thought to have been set at......

John Grisham's The Rainmaker

1998-01-06 00:00:00

Friday November 21, 1997 ��Francis Ford Coppola writing and directing an adaptation of a John Grisham novel sounds like the creative mismatch of the decade. What's next, Maya Angelou reciting "Humpty Dumpty"? Wynton Marsalis doing an arrangement for...

Top winners from 1942

2000-03-07 00:00:00

denotes winner Performance by an actor in a leading role James Cagney as George M. Cohan in YANKEE DOODLE DANDY Warner Bros. Ronald Colman as Charles Ranier in RANDOM HARVEST MGM Gary Cooper as Lou Gehrig in THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES Samuel Goldwyn...

Top winners from 1941

2000-03-07 00:00:00

denotes winner Performance by an actor in a leading role Gary Cooper as Alvin C. York in SERGEANT YORK Warner Bros. Cary Grant as Roger Adams in PENNY SERENADE Columbia Walter Huston as Mr. Scratch in ALL THAT MONEY CAN BUY William Dieterle; RKO Radio...

Most of Hitchcock's heroines were cool and removed. Not Teresa Wright: Her character in "Shadow of a Doubt" projected warmth and idealism. Hitchcock called her one of the most intelligent actors he'd ever worked with.

2012-10-19 11:11:36

's rambling acceptance speech for the actress statuette for "Mrs. Miniver" is the longest in Oscar history, clocking in at 5 minutes, 30 seconds, according to Guinness. The following year the academy instituted a time limit.

2011-02-24 11:18:06

. Resentment, confusion, fury, hurt: Brando, in his film debut, expresses everything going on inside his character, an orphan and loner with what '50s educators called "an attitude problem.

2010-05-13 12:01:52