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What's On Tonight: World Series, Monsters vs. Aliens, Friday Night Lights, Ghost Hunters

28 October 2009 10:23 AM, PDT | AOL - TVSquad | See recent AOL - TVSquad news »

At 7:30, Fox has Game 1 of The World Series. At 8, ABC has It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, followed by new episodes of The Middle, Modern Family, Cougar Town, and Eastwick. NBC has Monsters vs. Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins From Outer Space, then new episodes of Law and Order: Svu and The Jay Leno Show. The CW has a new America's Next Top Model at 8. At 8:30, Disney Xd has four new episodes of Naruto: Shippuden. At 9, DirecTV has the season premiere of Friday Night Lights. Discovery has a new Mythbusters at 9, followed by a new Time Warp. Syfy has a new Ghost Hunters at 9, then a new Destination Truth. Showtime has a new Inside The NFL at 9. At 10, Bravo has a new Top Chef: Las Vegas. Comedy Central has a new South Park at 10, then a new Secret Girlfriend. FX has a new Nip/Tuck at 10. There's a »

- Bob Sassone

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The Death of Hollywood?

23 October 2009 2:29 AM, PDT | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »

“Hollywood has always been a cage... a cage to catch our dreams.” – John Huston The sagacious Huston may have been right, once, but if recent reports are to be believed, and there is no reason to doubt them, the finances of the major Hollywood studios are in freefall. Battered by both the rise of digital, and thus the manner in which people are choosing to consume entertainment, and a quickening drought in funding, production is predicted to fall by more a third over the coming year. In response to the broader global economic meltdown banks have withdrawn much of their investment in the West Coast industry ($12bn from a total of $18bn has been made unavailable) and the ascent of Internet piracy, and even the legitimate but far less profitable download and video-on-demand sectors, is ripping the DVD market asunder. Foreign language films, too, are chipping away at the assumed »

- Nick Clarke

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DVD Review: ‘Cheri’ Knows Love Isn’t Love if It’s All About You

14 October 2009 1:57 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »

Chicago – “Cheri” could be confused with an updated adaptation of a Jane Austen novel if its characters weren’t so comfortable with what goes on between the sheets. Like players in many stuffy costume dramas, they wear the best clothes, live in lavishly decorated homes and speak their perfect grammar in posh accents. But since they aren’t sexually repressed, they do it all with a little bounce in their step.

DVD Rating: 3.5/5.0

The story, taken from a few novels by Colette, takes place in early-twentieth century France, and it would appear that even in those days, people in that part of the world made members of other cultures look like a bunch of prudes. A woman like Michelle Pfeiffer’s Lea de Lonval, for example, could not only make a career out of prostitution without seeming the least bit trashy. She could come home to a tasteful estate where »

- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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'Where the Wild Things Are' brain trust Spike Jonze, David Eggers, and Maurice Sendak don't care if their movie scares kids

13 October 2009 4:20 PM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »

While the chatter about this Friday's release of Where the Wild Things Are hasn't exactly reached wild rumpus-like proportions, the filmmakers did their best to spark a little brushfire of controversy in Newsweek today. Jonze, Eggers, and Sendak gathered in Sendak's living room for what was supposed to be a free-flowing conversation about what it was like for three geniuses to harmonically converge on one project. But at eighty years old, Sendak had no interest in spoon-feeding platitudes to the press. Instead, he and Jonze and Eggers lamented how vanilla childhood in America has become. Worrywart parents aren't doing their »

- Christine Spines

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Minds In Progress (Part IV): Who's Crazy, You or Us?

19 September 2009 11:38 PM, PDT | GreenCine Daily | See recent GreenCine Daily news »

By Simon Augustine, M.Div [The final installment, continued from "Part III" here.] Comedies Harold and Maude: A Funny Take on "Sanity Is Not the Absence of Vibrancy" If in drama, the primary mode of audience participation is empathy—and in the horror film, it's vicarious escape achieved by moral extrapolation—then in comedy, the guiding principle is uncomfortable implication. The genre turns viewer anxiety about its own potential pathology back upon itself, questioning whether it may be the audience, and society at large, who—in their half-repressed hypocrisy, greed, aggression, and envy in the name of maintaining order and prosperity—may be more deranged in its collective consciousness than poor souls designated as, to borrow a phrase, the "identified patient." Several elements are in play: ragged individualism; tense suspicion of "The State;" and the efficacy of rebellion, against one's own mind or the fascistic minds of others, neatly summed up by a notion that "in an insane world, »

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Cat Stevens Announces First Tour Dates in 33 Years

17 September 2009 1:00 PM, PDT | Pastemagazine.com | See recent PasteMagazine news »

For awhile there, it seemed like Cat Stevens was gone forever.

After converting to Islam in the late '70s, Stevens changed his name to Yusuf Islam and more or less disappeared from the pop-music map. The body of work he left behind, though, was solid enough to keep fans engaged, from the huge Tea and the Tillerman down to the oft-forgotten soundtrack to cult romance flick Harold and Maude (which is more than worth checking out, though don't watch with your grandmother). »

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Credits Report: Harold and Maude

6 September 2009 12:03 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

It doesn't seem like the right fit. The camera follows a pair of feet slowly down the staircase and over to the record player. Soon Cat Stevens' "Don't Be Shy" is playing: "Don't be shy, just let your feelings roll on by. Don't wear fear, or nobody will know you're there. Just lift your head, and let your feelings out instead." It's a nice song, in classic, melodious Stevens style -- the sort you would imagine for a movie of lightness and sweetness -- but it's also the perfect match for dark satire -- the perfect accompaniment to Harold's fake suicide.

There's nothing about the credit sequence to Harold and Maude that I don't love. The plain, sans serif font nestles right at home against the slow camera trail as Harold sets up his fake end. The camera doesn't dare pan back until the deed is done, allowing us »

- Monika Bartyzel

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A Night To Remember: A.M.P.A.S. Tribute To Hal Ashby And Screening Of "Harold And Maude"

14 July 2009 8:52 PM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »

Pictured here during the reception preceding the event (left to right): Peter Bart, Vice President and Editorial Director of Variety, Oscar®-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler, singer/songwriter Yusuf Islam, formerly Cat Stevens, Academy President Sid Ganis, writer/producer Judd Apatow, actor/writer Seth Rogen, Oscar-winning writer Diablo Cody, Oscar-winning actor Jon Voight and Oscar-winning writer/director Cameron Crowe. (Photo: Todd Wawrychuk / ©A.M.P.A.S) By Mike Thomas Normal 0 false false false En-us X-none X-none MicrosoftInternetExplorer4

The recent A.M.P.A.S. screening of Harold and Maude in Los Angeles proved to be one of those completely unforgettable evenings for anyone fortunate enough to be in attendance. It was a night of intense drama as we entered, for it was taking place just hours after the announcement of the death of Michael Jackson, and a day after the thunderbolt announcement of the Academy’s decision to expand »

- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)

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8 articles from 2009

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