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...was perusing a lifestyle blog yesterday and the subject of Lauren Bacall as a fashion icon came up. I’d heard the actress’ name thrown around with other style icons, like Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe , but I didn’t have a specific picture in my mind of...
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...a theatre critic can be a dangerous game as Birmingham Post writer Richard Edmonds discovered when he upset actress Lauren Bacall. So dangerous in fact that the Hollywood superstar hit him. “I was clouted in the face by Lauren Bacall,” recalls Richard. “She...
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Birmingham Post
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I once had the good fortune of visiting with Lauren Bacall in her apartment in NYC. Somehow we got on the subject of etymology and wound up spending some time sharing knowledge with each other (read: I was 23, so she was the one doing most of the
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Mental Floss
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...of every obsessive thought he ever had about the myth and the man and all his movies. LAUREN BACALL, STILL SALTY AT 80Â When Lauren Bacall writes that her singing voice ranges "somewhere between B minus sharp and outer space," she's being candid and funny....
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...stars in this narratively knotty mystery. Marlowe gets wrapped up with a rich family being blackmailed by a pornographer. With Lauren Bacall; directed by Howard Hawks. •“The Brasher Doubloon” (1:30 p.m. Jan. 16): Marlowe (George Montgomery) is hired to find...
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KansasCity.com
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...of every obsessive thought he ever had about the myth and the man and all his movies. LAUREN BACALL, STILL SALTY AT 80Â When Lauren Bacall writes that her singing voice ranges "somewhere between B minus sharp and outer space," she's being candid and funny....
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ArtsJournal
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1936 Eddie Albert and Jose Ferrer are featured in Brother Rat, a comedy by John Monk, Jr. and Fred F. Finklehoffe, which runs 577 performances at the Biltmore Theatre. It's about cadets at the Virginia Military Academy who try to keep the secret that
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Playbill
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Hear me, members of the coven. A new moon is rising on these November nights, a new day will dawn across the land -- and the “Twilight Saga” is doomed.
Yes, we’ve seen the frenzy “Twilight” causes. We know that the conventional wisdom is that “New Moon”
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Celebitchy
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Eighty-five-year-old legend Lauren Bacall received an honorary Academy Award at the 2009 Governors Awards this weekend - but what did Tom Hanks have to say? Plus, Anika Noni Rose gets emotional at the premiere of Disney’s “The Princess & The Frog.”
Tom
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From left, filmmaker Roger Corman, actor Lauren Bacall and cinematographer Gordon Willis received honorary Oscars on Sunday at the inaugural Governors Awards event. Also honored was producer John Calley, not pictured.
When Academy Awards planners
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TampaBay.com | St. Petersburg Times
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The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences presented its honorary Oscars off-camera Saturday night in a departure from its tradition. Actress Lauren Bacall and B-movie actor Roger Corman were recipients, along with cinematographer Gordon Willis
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National Ledger
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• The inaugural edition of the Governors Awards took place Saturday night in a ballroom not far from the Kodak Theatre where the academy holds the Oscars every year. Showcasing the honorary awards in a separate ceremony allowed the recipients --
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Los Angeles Times
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The actress, 85, received the award for her life's work at a private black tie dinner attended by Tom Hanks, Kirk Douglas, Steven Spielberg and Quentin Tarantino over the weekend to save time at the ceremony on March 7.
How insulting. Lauren
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Talk Entertainment
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Lauren Bacall has been given an honorary Oscar.
The legendary actress accepted the honour this weekend, four months before the full ceremony takes place.
Upon receiving the award, she quipped: "I can't believe it - a man at last. The thought that when
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Boston Globe
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Lauren Bacall was presented with an honorary Oscar at a star-studded dinner party in Hollywood.
The legendary actress was one of a group of people given honorary gongs by the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences off-camera, months ahead of the
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Bury Times
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The 85-year-old actress, who was married to showbiz heartthrob Humphrey Bogart until his death from cancer in 1957, collected the accolade at Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences'' 2009 Governors Awards.
"I can''t believe it - a man at last,"
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New Kerala
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Lauren Bacall, two others receive early Oscars Chris Pizzello Filmmaker Roger Corman, left, actress Lauren Bacall, center, and cinematographer Gordon Willis pose onstage with their honorary Oscars at The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 2009
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KansasCity.com
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It has a reputation for glitz, glamour - and running late.
Perhaps that's why the organisers of the Oscars chose to present Lauren Bacall with her golden statuette nearly four months before the ceremony.
The 85-year-old actress received the award for
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Daily Mail - UK
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Source: ReutersActress Lauren Bacall (C) stands onstage with the Honorary Oscar she received in Hollywood, California
Hollywood veterans turned out in force to see Lauren Bacall,
grand dame of film noir, receive a honourary Oscar at the motion
picture
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TVNZ
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LOS ANGELES Without the burden of a live worldwide broadcast, members of the film academy threw themselves a lively yet relaxed dinner party to honor the first Oscar winners of the season.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences broke with
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San Diego Union-Tribune
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Oscar fight!: Actress
Lauren Bacall (C), cinematographer Gordon Willis (R) and filmmaker
Roger Corman, with honorary awards REUTERS/Fred Prouser
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National Post
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The actress Lauren Bacall has been awarded an honorary Oscar.
This year's Hollywood event was not broadcast live, with the guests apparently happy with the situation, The AP reports.
Producer Norman Jewison said: "We're gathered here together, all
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Digital Spy
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Oscars of the awards season late Saturday, honouring screen acting legend Lauren Bacall with a statuette for her life’s work in film.
“I can’t believe it!” Bacall gushed, as she was awarded the Governor’s Award at a ceremony that offered a foretaste of
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Hindustan Times
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In an unprecedented early event, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences bestowed honorary Oscars on four of its members last night: Lauren Bacall, producer-director-writer Roger Corman, cinematographer Gordon Willis, and producer John Calley. [
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Vulture
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hollywood veterans turned out in force to see Lauren Bacall, grand dame of film noir, receive an honorary Oscar at the motion picture academy's Governors Awards on Saturday night, away from TV cameras.
Bacall, 85, starred in
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Reuters
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Congrats to Lauren. It's still bullshit that they cut these awards from the actual Oscar show. They deserve to have their moment and not be replaced by a song and dance number or a stupid joke. shameful.
Yes. What is this all about, anyway? I was
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OH NO THEY DIDN'T
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Honour: Lauren Bacall (centre) with daughter Leslie Bogart and son
Stephen Humphrey Bogart at the Oscar ceremony in Hollywood yesterday. Picture:
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ACTOR Lauren Bacall was awarded the first Oscar of the season at a dinner in
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Herald Sun
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Academy Awards won't be presented until March, but the first Oscar statuettes of the season were being handed out Saturday night at a private, black-tie dinner in Hollywood.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is
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KLTV
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The Academy Awards won't be presented until March, but the first Oscar statuettes of the season were being handed out Saturday night at a private, black-tie dinner in Hollywood.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is breaking with tradition
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PhillyBurbs.com
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Lauren Bacall and Richard Widmark star in "The Cobweb," a 1955 film that is getting an extremely rare screening at the UW-Cinematheque tonight.
The UW-Cinematheque free on-campus film series prides itself on
bringing movies to town that wouldn'
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Madison.com
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"Listening" is the key to good acting, according to Helen Stenborg.
Co-starring Off-Broadway at the DR2 Theatre in Morris Panych's
"Vigil" gives her the chance to exercise that talent. This
two-hander centers on the evolving relationship between
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Backstage
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It was "therapeutic" to write, he says, and reveals a couple of unexpected twists in the tale of the Iowa farm boy who became the all-American crooner; the Emperor of Easy who practically defined our image of Christmas with his cosy Yuletide television
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The Scotsman
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The China-lights protest happened at the Empire State Building. Students for a Free Tibet were outside, with signs; China's New York consul-general, Peng Keyu, was in the lobby, flipping the switch. Meanwhile everyone else who hadn't already gotten on
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After being in show business for over 55 years, Lauren Bacall will be presented with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Honorary Award on November 14
On November 14, 2009 when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presents its
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On Friday October 2, The American Academy of Dramatic Arts will be celebrating a milestone birthday with many alumni, friends and supporters. The Academy which many regard at the "cradle to the stars" will be celebrating 125 years. In honor of this
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Broadway World
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Appellate Judge James A. Stewart always rings twice.
"Amorous attractions never proved so fatal as in this steamy
classic."
That DVD cover description of the original The Postman Always Rings
Twice could apply to all four movies in . In addition to
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DVD Verdict
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"He's the ugliest handsome man I've ever seen."
"I was flat-chested and very skinny. The clothes of that time just didn't look good on me."
"Hawks said to me, 'I have a feeling that you would be great in a movie with either Cary Grant ... or Humphrey
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The Sheila Variations
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"These four individuals have each, in their own unique way, made lasting impressions on the motion picture industry and audiences worldwide," said Academy President Tom Sherak. "I'm thrilled that the Academy's Board selected them to be honored at our
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ExtraTV.com
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...Lauren Bacall was born Betty Joan Perske on September 16, 1924, the only child of Jewish immigrants. Her father, William Perske, worked as a salesman and her mother, Natalie Weinstein-Bacal, was a secretary. The pair divorced when Bacall was six years old...
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Finding Dulcinea
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Lauren Bacall, whose sultry roles in film noir movies To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep and Dark Passage earned her Hollywood immortality, is to get an honorary Oscar.
The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted to
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ABC Online
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Actress Lauren Bacall talks to a reporter as she arrives on the red carpet at the Kennedy Center in Washington, March 8, 2009. REUTERS/MOLLY RILEY
Lauren Bacall, whose sultry roles in film noir movies "To Have and Have Not," "The Big Sleep" and "Dark
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International Business Times
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Really? They don't have even one Oscar betwixt the three of them? Lauren Bacall, Roger Corman and Gordon Willis will receive honorary Oscars at a gala to be held Nov. 14. Little Shop of Horrors has always been my favorite play, my favorite movie, with
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Dallas Morning News - Blogs
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Lauren Bacall, whose sultry roles in film noir movies "To Have and Have Not," "The Big Sleep" and "Dark Passage" earned her Hollywood immortality, is to get an
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Reuters
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Screen legend is being honored for her work -- celebrating 65 years in the business since her movie debut in 1944.
Bacall starred alongside Humphrey Bogart in her first film, 'To Have and Have Not,' and has appeared in more than 30 Hollywood films. She
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Entertainment Tonight
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All four awards will be presented at the Academy's inaugural Governors Awards event Nov. 14 at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center.
The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present the Irving G.
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Playbill
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The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted tonight to present the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award to producer-executive John Calley, and Honorary Awards to actress Lauren Bacall, producer-director Roger Corman,
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Broadway World
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Just put your lips together, and go on a search for the 1940s styles to enhance your fall wardrobe. While many people will suggest Casablanca as the must-see 1940s Bogart movie, it wrongly overshadows another Bogart movie, To Have and Have Not.
To Have
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Yes I saw Twilight my granddaughter made me watch it, she said it was the greatest vampire film ever," tweeted the fake. "After the film was over I wanted to smack her accros(sic) her head with my shoe, but I do not want a book called Grannie Dearest
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