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Science Fiction Double Feature: District 9 pops, Time Traveler's Wife flops

Gregory Weinkauf | Posted 09.13.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: The Time Traveler's Wife, District 9, Philippa Boyens, Eric Bana, Audrey Niffenegger, Richard Taylor, Prawns, An American Werewolf in London, John Landis, The Fly, Rachel McAdams, David Cronenberg, Peter Jackson, Entertainment News
Gregory Weinkauf

What we're seeing with movies such as these is not the literal manifestation of remakes, but a sort of cinematic cannibalism, rather than invention.

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2,000+ Words for the 2,000 Year Old Man: Mel Brooks Is Saluted by the Academy

Gregory Weinkauf | Posted 08.25.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Dracula: Dead and Loving It, Dom Deluise, Marty Feldman, The Producers, Carol Arthur, History of the World: Part I, Maximillian Brooks, Mel Brooks, The Elephant Man, Leonard Maltin, Oscar, The Fly, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Silent Movie, The Twelve Chairs, Blazing Saddles, To Be or Not to Be, Michael DeLuise, Richard Pryor, Madeline Kahn, Young Frankenstein, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Anne Bancroft, Life Stinks, Richard Benjamin, Sid Ganis, Carl Reiner, Sid Caesar, High Anxiety, Cloris Leachman, Spaceballs, Entertainment News
Gregory Weinkauf

Cloris Leachman aptly put it, "There is much that is serious about Mel Brooks. Inside that rapid-fire humor machine is a man with deep emotions, with a great capacity to care, and to love."

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Q&A: Actor Geena Davis Got an Oscar and Now Makes Accidents Happen

Brad Balfour | Posted 06.25.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Oscars, Tribeca Film Festival, Geena Davis, Australia, Ridley Scott, Tim Burton, Accidents Happen, The Accidental Tourist, Beetle Juice, Mackenzie Allen, The Fly, Television Series, David Cronenberg, A League of Their Own, First Female President, Commander in Chief, Thelma and Louise, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Sci-Fi, Cutthroat Island, Tootsie, Entertainment News
Brad Balfour

Davis's startling and starring reappearance makes for a snappy and sharp-witted comeback. She plays the maternal head of a decidedly distraught and traumatized suburban family.

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Should President Obama Be More Optimistic?

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 03.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, John McCain, President Obama, Hope, Economy, Optimism, George W. Bush, Winston Churchill, The Fly, Franklin Roosevelt, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Mark McKinnon, President Bill Clinton, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jimmy Carter, Politics News
Lincoln Mitchell

If Obama is truly committed to change, being more optimistic may not help him in that effort. Americans voted for Obama because they were acutely aware of the problems the country faces.

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The Lords of The Fly

Mike Ragogna | Posted 10.16.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Puccini, Carmen, John Gardner, Woody Allen, Ruxandra Donose, Theatre Du Chatelet, John Goldenthal, Across the Universe, The Fly, Nicholas & Alexandra, Howard Shore, Vincent Price, Beowulf, Deborah Drattell, William Friedkin, The Fly II, Jeff Goldblum, Madame Butterfly, Dante Ferretti, Batman Forever, George Langelaan, The Lion King, Ann Bogart, The Magic Flute, Return of the Fly, Lost in Space, Michael Collins, Opera, The Phantom of the Opera, Verdi, Playboy, Placido Domingo, David Cronenberg, Mozart, David Henry Hwang, La Boehme, Il Trittico, Beethoven, Julie Tamor, Daniel Okulitch, Heat, Geena Davis, Dorothy Chandler Pavillion, The Lord of the Rings, Grendel, Berlioz, Los Angeles Opera, Frida, Aida, Rasputin, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

The production contained some pre-requisites for the medium -- a tragic storyline that centered around love, sex and three principles, making it a theoretical candidate for an operatic treatment.

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Culture Zohn: Be Afraid, Be Very, Very Afraid!

Patricia Zohn | Posted 10.05.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Puccini, William Friedkin, Woody Allen, LA Opera, Placido Domingo, Jeff Goldblum, The Fly, Geena Davis, Met Opera, David Cronenberg, Movies, Howard Shore, Entertainment News
Patricia Zohn

2008-09-05-20080905BrundleVeronica3_pull.jpg David Cronenberg and Oscar-winning composer Howard Shore have gotten together to reconceive The Fly for the LA Opera.

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