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• Oscar broadcast will now allow movie ads
LOS ANGELES - Hollywood’s biggest annual advertisement for itself — the Academy Awards broadcast — now can carry commercials for movies themselves. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences board voted to allow commercials for movies to ...
• 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 ...
• Saoirse Ronan says she sometimes feels 17
In most of my movies I have been with adults. I mean in ‘Atonement’ I was with adults pretty much all the time,” she said sitting in jeans in a New York hotel room where her father Paul, who is also an actor, sat nearby. “I would love to work ...
• 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 ...
• Keep driving past ‘City of Ember’
It’s turning out to be quite the year for post-apocalyptic kids’ movies — this summer we had “Wall-E,” with its polluted Earth abandoned by an increasingly flabby human race, and now comes “City of Ember,” about a pocket of civilization ...