Frank Langella

Drop That Name! Barbara Walters Drags 'Em In For Frank Langella

Liz Smith | Posted 04.04.2012

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"I ADMIT--I WAS kind of offended when I saw that I'd been left out of Frank Langella's new book 'Dropped Names.' But then I realized everybody in it w...

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Review: Frank Langella's Dropped Names Is a Literary Debut to Savor

Susan Dormady Eisenberg | Posted 05.29.2012

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Frank Langella's Dropped Names: Famous Men and Women As I Knew Them offers shrewd and often poignant observations that linger in the mind long after each chapter ends -- and there are 66 vignettes to savor.

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January 21 Film Roundup

Liliana Greenfield-Sanders | Posted 03.23.2012

Read More: Andrea Arnold, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Sundance Institute, Frank Langella, Robot and Frank, Benh Zeitlin, Peter Saarsgard, Wuthering Heights, Culture News

I saw three very impressive films at Sundance yesterday and was reminded why I'm here.

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Theater: Frank Langella Mans Up For Revival "Man And Boy"

Michael Giltz | Posted 12.19.2011

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Even in a flawed production of a flawed play, Langella manages to create some emotional truth on stage, to entertain however briefly the audience on hand while staying true to the character.

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Stage Door: Man and Boy, Orson's Shadow

Fern Siegel | Posted 12.09.2011

Read More: Laurence Olivier, Frank Langella, Entertainment, Orson Welles, Theater, Broadway, Hollywood, Off-Broadway, Terrence Rattigan, Vivien Leigh, Arts News

Corruption and greed resonate in every age. Though Terence Rattigan's Man and Boy was written in 1963, it seems ripped from today's headlines.

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Broadway's Fall Season Full of A-Listers, on Stage and Off

James Sims | Posted 11.20.2011

With the fall season approaching, straight plays are headed back to Times Square, and they've got a big list of stars in tow.

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Going Natural: Kirsten Dunst in All Good Things

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.25.2011

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In an Oscar-worthy performance as a doomed young woman whose disappearance 18 years ago remains a mystery, Andrew Jarecki's creation is like a true-life novelization that would make Truman Capote jealous.

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Movie Review: All Good Things

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

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The only question about Ryan Gosling this awards season is: Which of his two astonishingly detailed performances will win him the nomination?

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Movie Review: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Carey Mulligan, Josh Brolin, Kirk Douglas, Frank Langella, Shia LaBeouf, Oliver Stone, Brian Eno, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Movie Review, Bush Era, Marshall Fine Movie Review, David Byrne, Michael Douglas, Brechtian, Entertainment News

Oliver Stone is never content to just make one movie; he always makes several, then squeezes them all together into one engorged package, chockablock with gaudy visuals, oversized characters and unchecked passion.

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'Wall Street 2' Cannes Premiere: Shia, Michael, Carey, Salma, Benicio, Brolin & More (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

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'Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps' had its world premiere in Cannes Friday, and the red carpet was overflowing. Below are some of the celebs, includin...

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Movie Review: The Box

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Frank Langella, Southland Tales, Richard Kelly, Richard Matheson, Mars, Cameron Diaz, The Box Movie Review, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Donnie Darko, James Marsden, Entertainment News

Some bad movies you slag off gleefully. Others provoke a certain disappointment at their failure, a mourning at the difference between the film's ambition and its execution. Richard Kelly's The Box is such a film.

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They Played Presidents: Who Was Believable? (PHOTOS, POLL)

Huffington Post | Katy Hall | Posted 05.25.2011

Whether playing a fictional head of state or a real-life US president, these leading men have found themselves in the role of POTUS--some more convinc...

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Drama Queens: Random Thoughts While Watching The Tony Awards Show

Tallulah Morehead | Posted 05.25.2011

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How nice to have the plot of Guys and Dolls explained to me. I don't think I've seen it more than a dozen times.

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Oscar Wild

Tallulah Morehead | Posted 05.25.2011

Could we just keep Tina Fey and Steve Martin, and send everyone else home? "Don't fall in love with me," said Martin. Sorry, Steve. You're 35 years too late.

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Oscar Luncheon: Nominees Talk Awards, Get Warned Of Surprises

AP | DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 05.25.2011

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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Fans of this month's Academy Awards _ and nominees themselves _ are in for something new at Hollywood's biggest party, t...

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Richard Jenkins in The Visitor

Zorianna Kit | Posted 05.25.2011

The Visitor has earned Jenkins wins and nominations from various film festivals, critics groups, Hollywood guilds and the now the golden goose itself, a nomination from The Academy.

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Sympathy for the Devil: Frost/Nixon and the Politics of Reconciliation

Daniel Frick | Posted 05.25.2011

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The release of Frost/Nixon... offers yet another chance to explore our obsession with this man who, for many, functions as America's Satan.

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Frost/Nixon: A Dishonorable Distortion of History

Elizabeth Drew | Posted 05.25.2011

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The film's plot is a contrivance -- its telling is so riddled with departures from what actually happened as to be fundamentally dishonest; and its climactic moment is purely and simply a lie.

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Golden Globes Nominations!

AP | DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 05.25.2011

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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — The Academy Awards picture cleared up a bit Thursday as "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," "Doubt" and "Frost/Nixon"...

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Frost/Nixon

Ken Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Frank Langella as Tricky Dick was nothing short of extraordinary. He took a two-dimensional caricature in real life and made him three-dimensional on the flat screen.

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Nixon Gets Frosted

Nancy Snow | Posted 05.25.2011

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Frost/Nixon renews intellectual interest in political communications history and manages to entertain and rivet the audience at the same time.

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Veteran Actor Frank Langella Offers Frost/Nixon and Insights into A Failed Presidency

Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011

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Langella: "Ron [Howard] was about as good as anyone I've ever worked with. He wants the film to be about human beings and wants it to be about the soul of people."

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"Frost/Nixon" Review: "Talky, Weighty... Constantly Engaging"

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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"No holds barred," Richard Nixon urges to David Frost as the two prepare to sit down for a series of interviews in 1977. As "Frost/Nixon" powerfully ...

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Frost/Nixon: Nixon Comes Alive

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ron Howard's film doesn't make me wish I'd seen the Broadway play on which it is based. Just the opposite: I was glad to come to it fresh, without a preconception about what it could, should or would be.

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Frost/Nixon Already In Oscar Battle

Fox News | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ron Howard, Michael Sheen, Film, Frank Langella, Oscars, The Oscars, Frost/Nixon, Brian Grazer, Entertainment News

The fantastic "Frost/Nixon" opens next month, starring Brit Michael Sheen (Tony Blair in "The Queen") and Frank Langella, revisiting the roles they pl...

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