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...and government intervention in economic life, for example. I’m keen to see the comments that follow Scott’s essay, from George Mason University economist Don Boudreaux; Brad Delong of UC Berkeley; and TLF alum Timothy B. Lee, a Cato adjuct and scholar at Princeton’s...
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Veteran actor Piper Laurie has turned her talents to directing,
most recently helming the Off-Broadway solo play "Zero Hour,"
written by and starring Jim Brochu, who plays the larger-than-life
actor-painter Zero Mostel, and in 2006 directing the short
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Backstage
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Let's see. America is pulling out of a recession. The military-industrial complex is humming along. Healthcare is far from being reformed. We might as well pretend it's 1984.
And in that case, let's pause and pay due homage to a movie that many of us
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Salon
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This Christmas season, like so many others, we are being bombarded with one holiday special after another. Lifetime is programming exclusively with Christmas themed stories. Television, in general, is offering many versions of ‘A Christmas Carol’.
It’s
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In this 1984 TV version, George C. Scott (above) plays Charles Dickens’ Ebenezer Scrooge. David Warner and Susannah York costar as Bob and Mrs. Cratchit.
The season comes to an end tonight with a three-hour finale. First the jury members question the
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• Fans are eager to see which lucky castaway walks away with the million bucks on the "Survivor: Samoa" finale. As always, the crowning of the champ will be followed by the reunion special. 8 tonight, CBS.
• George C. Scott takes a turn at playing the
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Detroit Free Press
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George C. Scott stars as Ebenezer Scrooge in this 1984 TV adaptation of the Charles Dickens short story. You know the drill, the guy's a real miser and on Christmas Eve is visited by a former business partner and three ghosts. If you don't know the
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(Gen. George S. Patton - bore no resemblance to George C. Scott)
With many pundits invoking the spirit of General George S. Patton lately, it would seem they are actually
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Crooks and Liars
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Dave Neiwert and I have been writing a book for over two months now and in my research I discovered how easily manipulated movement conservatives from the 70's and 80's
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For many kids this Holiday season, their first exposure to Ebenezer Scrooge will be Jim Carrey's kinetic, flailing mo-cap performance in Robert Zemeckis' A Christmas Carol. Carrey has always done the "living cartoon" thing well, but I prefer my Scrooge
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Cinematical
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I hope you had a restful Thanksgiving holiday. I am a regular reader and frequent commenter on your blog. I am watching "A Christmas Carol" right now, the version starring George C. Scott.
I have a few questions for you. First, which version, and there
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Catholic and Enjoying It!
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Shades of George C. Scott and The Flim-Flam Man or Redford and Newman in The Sting, three fine movie-actors portraying the penultimate in the lineup of con artists working their scams on the hapless "mark" about to be had. The current best subject for
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Nov. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Reared in poverty on the streets of
Brooklyn, producer Joseph Papp rarely sidestepped a fight with
egotistical playwrights, demanding actors or critics impervious
to the latest brilliant show playing at his Public Theater.
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LIONEL Barrymore. Alastair Sim. Laurence Olivier. Albert Finney. George C. Scott. Bill Murray. Michael Caine. Mr Magoo. Scrooge McDuck.
Of the many to play Ebenezer Scrooge, Jim Carrey now adds his name, starring in Disney's new 3-D animation
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Shanghai Daily
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Friday, November 13, 2009
Story last updated at 11/13/2009 - 12:46 am
With rare exceptions, I have tried my darndest not to gag on Hollywood's 2009 resolution to force-feed moviegoers a diet of three-dimensional recipes.
Yet considering my longtime
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KSDK -- George C. Scott, star of the movie "Patton," died of an aortic aneurysm when a large blood vessel in his belly burst.
Dr. David Finlay, a vascular surgeon from St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Belleville, joined
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George C. Scott in the 1970 film 'Patton,' one of many Veteran's Day specials on TV Wednesday.
Perhaps because America currently finds itself at the crossroads of a war without much glamour or glory, this year's Veterans Day specials on television
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THE BIG BREAK: "Prior to acting, I owned an Italian restaurant down by Wall Street, and directors used to use my place as a location. … One day, a producer who was filming a commercial came up to me and invited me to an audition. … It was for a Comedy
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Every generation may get the “Christmas Carol’’ it deserves, from the all-dancing, all-singing horrors of “Scrooge’’ (1970) to the brash comic mugging of “Scrooged’’ (1988) to the sleaze of the recent “Ghosts of Girlfriends Past.’’ (The best? All votes
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Boston Globe
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This film has been acclaimed to be 26th out of 50 most memorable films ever made, according to the excerpts at the end of the DVD I just watched. It was made in London, in the usual British satirical style of dark humor. The actors were wonderful, with
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Associated Content
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The New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater has been the most significant not-for-profit theater group in this country since it was founded by Joe Papp more than 50 years ago. During his lifetime (he died in 1991), Papp made theater in America
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Los Angeles Times
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FOR more than 100 years, movies have been made in the same basic way: you put actors in front of a camera and photograph them.
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The Changeling is a 1980 movie starring George C. Scott that’s as much of a murder mystery as it is a haunted house film. It is one of the best “horror” films I have ever seen and it’s one I keep coming back to year after year. I first saw the film on
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CineManiac
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With all the hype surrounding the latest Indie darling, PARANORMAL ACTIVITY, I
thought Id go ghost for this years Halloween pick. Back in 1980, Peter Medak
directed a superb tale called THE CHANGELING. The story revolves around a
musician hiding
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JoBlo.com
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This is the week when cable TV likes to dust off the spooky movies and scare up a little ghostly fun.
Being a connoisseur of horror films and things that go bump in the night, I’m offended by what passes for scary these days.
Slasher films that are
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The Troy Record
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Here at the saloon, I'm known as the bartender most knowledgeable about horror movies. I'm sure this is unrelated to me being also known as: 1) the only bartender without a wife/girlfriend, 2) the bartender who has been unemployed the longest, and 3)
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In our Q&A of the imagination, discover the history of this theatrical nom de plume a name seen in many a play's billing over the past 125 years.
From 1886 to 1987, George Spelvin was in the cast of more than 90 Broadway plays and musicals. His first
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Playbill
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In our Q&A of the imagination, discover the history of this theatrical nom de plume a name seen in many a play's billing over the past 125 years.
From 1886 to 1987, George Spelvin was in the cast of more than 90 Broadway plays and musicals. His first
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Playbill
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Amelia Earhart would never take off into the wild blue yonder without a calculated flight plan, so it's logical that the aviation pioneer's biopic shouldn't, either.
Is it a can-do American's patriotic saga? Not really, even if Earhart dead ringer
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TampaBay.com | St. Petersburg Times
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- General George S. Patton (as portrayed by George C. Scott)
Americans love a winner, and will not tolerate a loser.
Throughout the information technology industry, there has been a certain pathology that somehow precludes any segment of it from
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“No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. You win it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.” — George C. Scott starring as the title character in “Patton.” “Protecting the people is the mission. The conflict will be
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This son of noted character actor Lloyd Bochner made his film debut as the oldest son of George C Scott in "Islands in the Stream" (1976), adapted from the unfinished Hemingway novel. His chiseled good looks, thick dark hair and soulful brown eyes
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Hollywood.com
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More of a documentary than a drama.
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CEO Corner 8:30 p.m. Dr. James Mongan, president and CEO of Partners HealthCare, will discuss health care reform with host Maryanne Kane.
Squares 7:30 p.m. WCVB-TV (Channel 5) Visit several squares in the Boston area, including one of the city’s most
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The great actor George C. Scott died on this date 10 years ago.
But his legacy endures. Many everyday situations can be dealt with by recycling lines uttered by characters Scott played in the movies.
Your neighbors are making a bit too much noise:
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On Big Hollywood, Kurt Schlichter has a tribute to my all time favorite lawyer movie: Anatomy of a Murder. Read the whole thing, and watch the trailer, but here is a taste:
The plot is simple. Small-town lawyer Paul Biegler (Stewart), who is more
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The Volokh Conspiracy
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Caro Jones, a casting director for television, film and theater for
more than four decades, died Sept. 3 in Los Angeles following a
14-year battle with multiple myeloma. She was 86.
Jones cast more than 1,000 TV shows, pilots, movies of the week
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Hollywood Reporter
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Early on in the classic biographical film Patton, the title character, played by George C. Scott, watches through binoculars as his forces rout the Afrika Korps, commanded by “the Desert Fox,” Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. As the Germans retreat, Patton
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Big Lizards
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There is a scene early on in the movie Patton, where the feisty general watches the forces under his command do battle with those led by the legendary German Panzer leader, Erwin Rommel. To prepare for this particular skirmish, “Old Blood and Guts”
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Town Hall
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DavidRStokes/2009/08/09/rules_for_witnesses
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A great example of dark comedy by a master filmmaker makes its way to Blu-Ray.
Stanley Kubrick is a name that any film lover knows. His films have become some of the most celebrated of all time, with works like Full Metal Jacket and A Clockwork Orange
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Pop Syndicate
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When thinking of Stanley Kubrick's substantial oeuvre, a word that doesn't come to mind often is "funny." This is a mistake of course, as even his bleakest movies have at least a
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Release date: June 16th, 2009
MSRP: $38.96
Theatrical release date: Jan 29. 1964
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Writers: Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern and Peter George (Screenplay), Peter George (book: Red Alert)
Stars:
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Following in the footsteps of parents George C. Scott and Colleen Dewhurst who were first and foremost stage actors, the classically-chiseled Campbell Scott began his career on Broadway as a soldier in "The Queen and the Rebels" (1982), starring his
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Forget Kevin Bacon. You want to play “Six Degrees of Separation,” use Timothy Hutton as your hub.
In nearly 50 films, he has costarred with everyone from Tom Cruise to Nick Nolte, from Rosie O’Donnell to Maureen Stapleton.
What makes Hutton unique (and
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CBS led this first Tuesday in July in the overnights with its encore combination of NCIS (#1: 7.1 rating/12 share), The Mentalist (#1: 6.5/11) and 48 Hours Mystery (#3: 4.0/ 7). But it is NBC that is expected to dominate among adults 18-49 care of
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MediaWeek
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Karl Malden died today. Amongst my family he was known as “Cousin” Karl (although he was no relation) because he stayed in my grandmother’s apartment in the Bronx for a while as a boarder when he was a struggling actor, probably in the 1930’s. (My
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For Malden, this was to become something of a pattern. He was prison warden in 1962's "Birdman of Alcatraz," a tour de force for Burt Lancaster. He played Gen. Omar Bradley in 1970's "Patton," a film commandeered by George C. Scott. The screen was
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Newsday
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TV this week:
This week's movie was Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb by director Stanley Kubrick and Starring Peter Sellers and George C. Scott. This 1964 black comedy is absolutely frightening. The situation set
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http://realtegan.blogspot.com/2009/06/sunday-review_28.html
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1894 (probably) Actress Jeanne Eagels, best known for playing Miss Thompson in Rain, is born today.
1911 Irving Berlin makes his Broadway debut with the fifth edition of the Ziegfeld Follies. His songs include "Woodman, Woodman, Spare That Tree" and
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Playbill
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