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Mr. Toback, I’m Ready for My Close-Up“Sorry, I’m in makeup; if it’s something important, call my agent, Israel... |
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Comedy That Never ForgetsThe Dictator is Sacha Baron Cohen’s fourth and—surprisingly—funniest movie, a... |
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Dark Shadows: Not Gay, Just FeyIn Tom Stoppard’s 1982 drama The Real Thing, a middle-aged playwright and his... |
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The Avengers: Kicking Ass and Selling TicketsIt was a bad weekend for Nicolas “The American in Paris” Sarkozy but a great... |
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Mortal Combat From a Feminine PerspectiveAs female authors increasingly dominate popular fiction, they are confronted with... |
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Return of the WASP Woody AllenMetropolitan, the 1990 dramedy about a group of chivalrous preppies whose debutante... |
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Tehran Comes to HollywoodThe Iranian film A Separation, a domestic drama-turned-courtroom mystery, is among the... |
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The Not-so-Great DictatorSo Jewish people don’t run Hollywood after all? That was my first snarky thought... |
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Goodbye, Mr. ChimpsAlthough future behavioral taboos are notoriously hard to predict, it’s clear that... |
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The Fires This TimeThe New Year literally blazed into Los Angeles with dozens of fires set over several... |
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The Boss Wears PumpsIn 1979, Margaret Thatcher won the first of her three terms as Britain’s prime... |
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Fight the (Imaginary) PowerThe more popular it is to worry over some organized threat, the less of a danger it... |
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Commie Muppets From Hollywood?A few days ago, Fox News dared to imply the new Muppet movie is another example of... |
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A Toy Story for GrownupsThe movie industry’s clean little secret is that it could be even more vastly... |