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• In ordeal as captive, character was shaped
The prison camp where he confessed to being a "black criminal" has been turned into a multiplex cinema showing garish American movies. A five-star hotel occupies the site of the "Hanoi Hilton" jail, where he spent more than three years. The surface ...
• DVD reviews: ‘Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’
... from Joseph Conrad’s “The Secret Agent”; and the murder mysteries “The Lodger” and “Young and Innocent.” The eight-disc package comes with a 32-page booklet with background on Hitchcock, while each film has commentary from cinema ...
• Travel Postcard: Bar-hopping in Mumbai
8.00 p.m. - For another surreal experience, take a taxi to Kit Kat, opposite Metro Adlabs cinema, probably the most ghostly bar in the city. It's often empty, apart from the man behind the cashier who is constantly writing in one of the many dusty ...
• Newman’s own way of living, acting rang true
Looking over the career of Paul Newman is like watching a microcosm of American life and American cinema, from the post-World War II Freudian underpinnings of “The Left-Handed Gun” (where he played probably the screen’s most psychologically ...
• Court: No punitive damages in ‘LOTR’ suit
LOS ANGELES - A judge has barred the estate of “Lord of the Rings” author J.R.R. Tolkien from seeking punitive damages against the studio that brought the trilogy to the big screen. Tolkien’s heirs claim New Line Cinema has failed to pay any ...