A Kindergarten, A Story And A Life In Shambles
Lukas works in a Danish kindergarten, and it's clear he's in the right place: When the kids look at him, they see a great big toy.That's especially true for 5-year-old Klara, the lonely daughter of...
View ArticleIn Argentina, Coca-Cola Tests Market For 'Green' Coke
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View ArticleFor Actress Ruby Keeler, Another Opening, Another Show
Ruby Keeler was an unknown actress when she starred in the 1933 production of Busby Berkeley's 42nd Street.But the movie was so popular she was able to land two more splashy musicals that same year —...
View ArticleYou'll Want To Hang Up On These 'Secret Conversations'
A country girl from Grabtown, N.C., Ava Gardner arrived in Hollywood in 1941 knowing she couldn't act but, gorgeous as she was, she never had to let that slow her down. Her beauty — which reportedly...
View Article90 Years Later, 'Safety' Still The Last Word With Harold Lloyd
There may be no film image more iconic: Harold Lloyd, high above the street, dangling from the minute hand of a giant department-store clock.The face of the clock swings down; the minute hand bends.
View ArticleLibraries' Leading Roles: On Stage, On Screen And In Song
When I was 9, I spent a lot of time at a public library just down the street; I was already a theater nerd, and it had a well-stocked theater section. Not just books, but original cast albums for...
View ArticleBob Mondello Remembers Columbus Day 1963, And A Visit To Camelot
Fifty years ago, President Kennedy hosted a Columbus Day ceremony in the Rose Garden, and I was there. Fourteen-year-old me, with my family. This was a fluke. The President had cracked a politically...
View ArticleBeat Manifesto: 'Kill Your Darlings,' Figuratively And ...
Hollywood's been trying to get a handle on the Beat Poets for years. Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac led wild — and influential — lives. But films about them, like Naked Lunch and On...
View ArticleFor A Free Spirit, A Grim '12 Years' In Chains
Just a few years before the start of the Civil War, two anti-slavery books became best-sellers in the United States.
View ArticleThis 'Time,' Supernatural Love Story Falls Flat
There's a phrase in French — "L'esprit de l'escalier," meaning "staircase wit"— for that moment when you've lost an argument and are walking away, and waaay too late, think of the perfect comeback. If...
View ArticleChasing Money, And Meaning, In 'Nebraska'
Woody Grant has white hair, a cranky disposition and a stubbornness that just won't quit. When we meet him, he's being stopped by a highway patrolman as he's walking down the shoulder of a Montana...
View ArticlePeter O'Toole, Exuberant From 'Lawrence' To His Last Role
Blond, blue-eyed and wearing blazing white robes in Lawrence Of Arabia, Peter O'Toole was handsome enough — many said beautiful enough — to carry off the scene in which director David Lean...
View ArticleA Century Ago Today, Chaplin Made His Film Debut — In A Dud
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View ArticleOn Philip Seymour Hoffman, And His Many Appearances
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View ArticleAlain Resnais, Director And Master Of Disorientation, Dies At 91
Transcript MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Melissa Block.AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: And I'm Audie Cornish.The French filmmaker who shook up European cinema and offered...
View ArticleReview: 'The Grand Budapest Hotel'
Transcript MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: Filmmaker Wes Anderson makes movies that are eccentric, pointedly artificial and, to his fans, very funny. From his early comedies "Rushmore" and "The Royal...
View ArticleSend Out The Doves: 'Noah' Lands On Solid Ground
The story of Noah's Ark is getting blockbuster treatment in Hollywood's new biblical epic Noah. Darren Aronofsky's film about the Old Testament shipbuilder has been sparking controversy — but there's...
View ArticleMickey Rooney, All-American Boy For More Than 90 Years, Dies
Transcript MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: Mickey Rooney, who lived a long life on stage and screen, died last night at his home in Los Angeles. He was 93.
View ArticleIn 'Belle,' A Complex Life Tangled In Class And Commerce
Here's a unique specialty for a movie studio: slavery films. Last year, Fox Searchlight brought us an Oscar winner about a free black man hauled into 12 years of slavery.
View ArticleSeeing The New 'X-Men'? Take Along A Teenager To Explain
The final "X" in the 20th Century Fox logo glows for an extra second as X-Men: Days of Future Past gets started, but what follows is darker than dark — a bleak, dire future in which all of Manhattan is...
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