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Passover and Easter on video
In home video's 1980s and '90s heyday, Easter emerged as a prime selling holiday. Religious epics, holiday-related classics and children and family holiday specials were marketed as "basket stuffers." As with Christmas and Thanksgiving, Easter (as...
Tags: Matzoh, Fred Astaire, Bunny (music group), Customs and Tradition, Easter
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For the record
Petro Vlahos: The obituary of special-effects pioneer Petro Vlahos in the Feb. 20 LATExtra section said that his "color-difference system" was used for the chariot race in the film "Ben-Hur." Vlahos' system was used to help create the 1959 movie's sea...Tags: Obituaries, Entertainment, Movies
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Petro Vlahos dies at 96; advanced blue-screen technology for film
In the 1950s, special-effects pioneer Petro Vlahos laid the groundwork that made a modern movie genre possible — the blockbuster. He did it by vastly improving a composite-image process commonly known as the "blue-screen effect" for the 1959 epic...
Tags: Star Wars (movie), Invention and Innovation, Mary Poppins (movie), Academy Awards, Awards and Prizes
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Gore Vidal's spat with Charlton Heston over gay 'Ben-Hur' subtext
Back in the Jurassic Age before Twitter, celebrities used to settle scores in public by writing letters to newspapers. One of the liveliest dust-ups in memory took place in the pages of the L.A. Times between actor Charlton Heston and Gore Vidal, the...
Tags: William Wyler, Gore Vidal, Documentary (genre), Entertainment, Celebrities
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Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies
In a world more to his liking, Gore Vidalmight have been president, or even king. He had an aristocrat's bearing — tall, handsome and composed — and an authoritative baritone ideal for summoning an aide or courtier. But Vidal made his...
Tags: Hillary Clinton, Henry Fonda, The New York Times, Charles Manson, Mick Jagger
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Richard Zanuck dies at 77; Oscar-winning producer
One day in 1962, the Hollywood legend Darryl F. Zanuck turned to his 27-year-old son, Richard, seeking advice. Whom, the elder Zanuck asked, should he appoint head of production of 20th Century Fox, which had fallen on hard times and was losing...
Tags: The Sting (movie), David Brown, Tim Burton, Road to Perdition (movie), The New York Times
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Bruce Surtees dies at 74; cinematographer worked with Eastwood and Fosse
Early in his career as one of Hollywood's top cinematographers, Bruce Surtees became known for his artful use of low-level, moody lighting in films such as Don Siegel's "The Beguiled" and "Dirty Harry" and Bob Fosse's "Lenny."
Surtees, 74, who received...Tags: Obituaries, Bob Fosse, Drama (genre), Dustin Hoffman, Academy Awards
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Christmas Day offers another chance to see holiday favorites
Zap2ItConventional wisdom among television programmers is that nobody is watching on major holidays such as Christmas, and if they are watching, they're probably sick of the holiday hype by the time the day rolls around. What seems to slip their minds is...Tags: Randy Travis, The Cleveland Show (tv program), Drama (genre), Religious Festivals, Television Industry
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The last mystery of Gore Vidal
You hear Gore Vidal long before you see him, the steady tap-swish-tap of foot and cane on an upstairs landing in his sunny Spanish Colonial house in the Hollywood Hills; then there's the slow whir of a mechanical chairlift carrying the novelist-essayist-...
Tags: Gore Vidal, Paul Newman, Authors, Bette Davis, Academy Awards
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