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Schools Are a Crime on 'The Wire'
Zap2It.comAfter 20 years as a Baltimore homicide detective, Ed Burns took on a second career, teaching social studies for seven years in the same city where he used to carry a badge. Now in his latest incarnation, as a writer and producer for HBO's Baltimore-...Tags: HBO (tv network), Tristan Wilds, Juvenile Delinquency, David Simon, Politics
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Chicago
The Hartford CourantRenée Zellweger struts as Roxie Hart, Catherine Zeta-Jones vamps as Velma Kelly and Richard Gere takes on the mouthpiece Billy Flynn in Rob Marshall's $45 million film version of the long-running revival of the John Kander-Fred Ebb vaudeville about two...Tags: Theater, Renee Zellweger, John Kander, Lucy Liu, Queen Latifah
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The Gambler
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday August 13, 1999 Some years ago American writer Charles Cohen came up with the idea that an interplay between the unfolding of the Fyodor Dostoevsky novel "The Gambler" and the fevered, dramatic circumstances under which it was written could...Tags: Michael Gambon, Casino and Gambling Industry, Personal Service, Academy Awards, Tourism and Leisure
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William Shakespeares
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday May 14, 1999 Starring everyone from Michelle Pfeiffer and Calista Flockhart to Kevin Kline and Stanley Tucci, "William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream" is presenting itself as "a 400-year-old whimsical romantic comedy as it's never...Tags: Calista Flockhart, Anna Friel, Celebrities, Sophie Marceau, Ally McBeal (tv program)
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28 Days
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday April 14, 2000 Gwen Cummings thinks being in rehab is one big joke. And no wonder. She's in a movie that believes exactly the same thing. "28 Days," otherwise known as " 'Happy Days' Checks Into 'Wonderland,' " is a film with a jones...Tags: Betty Thomas, Alan Tudyk, Steve Buscemi, Sandra Bullock, Diane Ladd
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Luminarias
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday May 5, 2000 "Luminarias" takes us into a world all too rarely seen on the big screen: that of upwardly mobile Los Angeles Latinas. Instead of barrio poverty, gangs and drugs, we're introduced to four women, longtime friends, whose...Tags: Jimmy Smits, Michael Gambon, Reese Witherspoon, Robert Beltran, University of California, Los Angeles
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Center Stage
FOR THE TIMESFriday May 12, 2000 From "The Red Shoes" to "The Turning Point," dramatic films about the ballet world have begged the question: How is it that such a serious and disciplined performing art attracts such silly and chaotic people? The callow...Tags: Jimmy Smits, Michael Gambon, Reese Witherspoon, Vincent Perez, Hill Harper
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L'Ennui (Boredom)
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday October 15, 1999 Cedric Kahn's relentless "L'Ennui" is such a rigorous exploration of sexual obsession that it proves to be a most demanding film. Virtually devoid of eroticism and sensuality, it depicts with the utmost realism a 17-year-...Tags: Melanie Griffith, Ed Harris, Reese Witherspoon, Claire Danes, Robert Downey Jr.
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The Big Kahuna
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday April 28, 2000 For Kevin Spacey, "The Big Kahuna" is far from an ideal commercial follow-up to "American Beauty" in reaffirming his new star status. It's a small picture, its stage roots all too evident, and the role Spacey plays is...Tags: Gaby Hoffman, Jimmy Smits, Albert Finney, Reese Witherspoon, Hill Harper
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The Other Conquest
TIMES STAFF WRITERWednesday April 19, 2000 Salvador Carrasco's "The Other Conquest," or "La Otra Conquista," is a boldly imaginative and enthralling evocation of the bloody aftermath of the 1521 Spanish conquest of Mexico that has become the highest-grossing drama...Tags: Jimmy Smits, Gaby Hoffman, Reese Witherspoon, Albert Finney, Hill Harper
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Scanning the crowd
OLD FACES: - Detective Jimmy McNulty ( Dominic West) has been demoted to harbor patrol, but that doesn't stop him from investigating a murder. - Avon Barksdale (Wood Harris) still controls his drug empire- but these days, he's doing it from...Tags: Death, Crime, Law and Justice, Crimes
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Tapping into new terrain
Sun Television CriticThe Wire returns to HBO tonight for its second season with a new locale and a groundbreaking exploration of life in working-class America. The critically acclaimed series is still set in Baltimore, but rather than the drug world of inner-city high-rise...Tags: Idris Elba, Murder, Society, ABC (tv network), James Fenimore Cooper
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