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Review: `The Intouchables' is a real crowd-pleaser
May. 23, 2012 3:12 PM ET (AP)
On paper, "The Intouchables" looks like eat-your-vegetables cinema: the story of a wealthy, white disabled man and the troubled black youth from the projects who becomes his reluctant caretaker....
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Loach's whiskey expert brings Scotland to Cannes
May. 23, 2012 10:08 AM ET (AP)
Charles MacLean is out of his element in Cannes, a town consumed by cinema and celebrity. His element is Scotch whisky _ "uisge beatha," he says, giving it its Gaelic name. The water of life.
MacLean...
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Banks' hit summer includes `Hunger Games,' babies
May. 15, 2012 9:05 AM ET (AP)
With "The Hunger Games" in the rear-view mirror, the ensemble comedy "What to Expect When You're Expecting" just ahead and a 14-month-old at home, Elizabeth Banks is tired.
"I've signed on to being...
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Promoter: 'Dragon' stage adaption was a 'beast'
May. 10, 2012 11:38 AM ET (AP)
Besides trying to translate a cartoon movie into a theatrical production, promoter Michael Cohl had other concerns about bringing "How To Train Your Dragon" to the stage _ like keeping the audience...
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Riot-hit London neighborhood turns to film
May. 3, 2012 9:18 AM ET (AP)
Isaac Densu lives in Broadwater Farm, a large, concrete public housing project in Tottenham, the gritty district where last year's British riots began. Unemployment is high and young people face many...