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• Happy-Go-Lucky’ is a sprightly delight
You don’t have to be a screenwriter to know the structure of 99 percent of all Hollywood scripts. See enough movies, and you can see the “meet-cute,” the “Act 2 conflict” and the “11 th hour reveal” coming from miles away. It’s the ...
• Judge bars RealNetworks' copying software
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has kept in place a temporary prohibition on RealNetworks Inc.'s distribution of software that lets consumers copy and store DVD movies on their personal computers and portable hard drives. RealNetworks and Hollywood's ...
• RocknRolla’ will run you over
... about the stool pigeon, the badass Russian henchmen, Johnny’s feckless American producers (Jeremy Piven and Chris “Ludacris” Bridges), Stella’s sham marriage, the crawfish torture, or the criminal with a weakness for Emma Thompson movies. The ...
• Hollywood's undead: They're just like us
From TV shows like "True Blood," "Pushing Daisies," "Desperate Housewives," "The Ghost Whisperer" and "Reaper" to movies like "Twilight," "Ghost Town," "Over Her Dead Body" and the film version of the novel "The Lovely Bones" (due out next year), the ...
• Town keeps Laurel and Hardy's legacy alive
The museum even has two hats worn by Laurel and Hardy in movies — a pith helmet from 1935's "Bonnie Scotland" and a fez from 1933's "Sons of the Desert." The silent film actors were paired up in 1927, beginning a career that spanned three decades ...