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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: David Simon, Murder, HBO (tv network), Television, Juvenile Delinquency
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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, Taye Diggs, Queen Latifah, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Colm Feore
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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: Lifestyle and Leisure, Lotteries, Movies, Casino and Gambling, Casino and Gambling Industry
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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: Bill Irwin, Television, Movies, Sophie Marceau, CBS Corp.
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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: Sandra Bullock, Television, Movies, Elizabeth Perkins, 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: Peter Facinelli, Samuel L. Jackson, Elizabeth Perkins, Burt Reynolds, Joshua Jackson
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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: Peter Facinelli, Liam Aiken, Samuel L. Jackson, Elizabeth Perkins, Vincent Perez
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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: Marc Anthony, Sophie Marceau, Kirk Douglas, Cloris Leachman, Michael J. Fox
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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: Peter Facinelli, Samuel L. Jackson, Movies, Elizabeth Perkins, Diane Ladd
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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: Elizabeth Perkins, Samuel L. Jackson, Movies, Diane Ladd, Chloe Sevigny
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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, Crimes, Crime, Law and Justice
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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: HBO (tv network), Television, Movies, Employees, Robert De Niro
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