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Joining 'The Cemetery Club' in San Jose - San Jose Mercury News

San Jose Mercury News,  USA
We learn the women are fans of Kosher Chinese food. At a wedding, they drink enough to become hung over. Among the three friends, Lucille (Lillian Bogovich) is the promiscuous man-chaser, telling endless stories about her latest flirtations. …

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THEATER REVIEW | 'THE PHILANTHROPIST' - New York Times

New York Times, United States
By CHARLES ISHERWOOD Watching “The Philanthropist,” a moribund revival of a 1969 play by Christopher Hampton that opened Sunday night at the American Airlines Theater, is like being stuck in a stuffy room with a bunch of pompous, malicious or dreary …

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Review: 'The Soloist' - Christian Science Monitor

Christian Science Monitor, MA
Based on the true story of a journalist who befriends a schizophrenic homeless man with a prodigious musical talent, movie doesn't resonate as deeply as it should. By Peter Rainer | Film critic of The Christian Science Monitor This feature requires a …
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Movie review: 'The Informers' - San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco Chronicle,  USA
But "The Informers," directed by Gregor Jordan and written by Ellis and Nicholas Jarecki, has an air of detachment and sadness, enhanced by the movie's being set a full quarter century ago. Like new cars in an old movie, these people may glow with …
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Baltimore Sun
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review: 'The Soloist' - Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times, CA
And I work with Lopez at The Times, which, in an unprecedented gesture, offered its newsroom as a set and has in general bound itself to this movie with remarkable fealty. More than that, as a Washington Post reporter when "All the President's Men" …
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Salt Lake Tribune
NY1
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Review: 'The Soloist' plays a familiar tune - Salt Lake Tribune

Salt Lake Tribune, United States
Where the movie stumbles is in deciding whose story it should be telling. We first meet Steve Lopez, the Los Angeles Times columnist whose book the movie is based upon, crashing his bike in the hills above LA Of course, Lopez (played by Robert Downey …
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'The Big Dig' gives glimpse into life in San Jose Chinatown 100 … - San Jose Mercury News

San Jose Mercury News,  USA
By Jessie Mangaliman Everyday after school for the past week, second grader Zachary Konda rushed to the empty lot in Japantown with his mother to ask the workers behind the fence one burning question: What did you find? A lot, it turns out. …

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Review: `The Soloist' hits notes that clang - The Associated Press

The Associated Press
"The Soloist" takes all those innately engaging details and turns them into what is essentially a made-for-Lifetime movie, albeit one populated by Oscar winners and nominees. Robert Downey Jr. stars as Lopez, with Jamie Foxx playing opposite him as …
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San Antonio Current
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'Furious' is fast becoming 'the' movie critics hate - The Wichita Eagle

The Wichita Eagle, KS
Random movie bits: "Fast" fury — Why, oh, why was there a need to make "Fast & Furious," other than to keep Vin Diesel in a job or let Paul Walker perfect his blank stare? And, WOW, is that an ingenious take on the original film's title, "The Fast and …
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Review: 'The Projectionist' at the Kirk Douglas Theatre - Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times, CA
Yet the real star here is the Kirk Douglas Theatre itself, where the play is performed in the lobby of this former movie house, whose retro concession stand and ticket booth seem made to order. The production is part of DouglasPlus, an eclectic mix of …