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- The heart of all that 'Glee'
- Critic's Notebook: Tina Fey gets her Palin on for 'Saturday Night Live'
- Hollywood mourns passing of the oldest Munchkin from "The Wizard of Oz"
- Jay-Z widens the festival tent
- Juan Jose Campanella clues you in to 'The Secret in Their Eyes'
- New on DVD: Disney's 'The Great Mouse Detective' is released on Blu-ray
- Richard D. Zanuck is a working legend
- Richard Wagner's cycle has made its mark on comic books
| Posted: 11 Apr 2010 12:00 AM PDT
In early March, the Paley Center held its annual festival saluting notable new TV shows, showcasing the likes of "Modern Family" and "Men of a Certain Age." The evenings of PaleyFest have a comfortable charm -- an episode screening, cast appearances and polite questions from an attentive audience.
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| Critic's Notebook: Tina Fey gets her Palin on for 'Saturday Night Live' Posted: 11 Apr 2010 09:01 AM PDT
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| Hollywood mourns passing of the oldest Munchkin from "The Wizard of Oz" Posted: 10 Apr 2010 11:23 AM PDT
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| Jay-Z widens the festival tent Posted: 11 Apr 2010 12:00 AM PDT
The plan was to rock the mike, not cause an identity crisis.
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| Juan Jose Campanella clues you in to 'The Secret in Their Eyes' Posted: 11 Apr 2010 12:00 AM PDT
When Argentine filmmaker Juan José Campanella was handed the Oscar for foreign-language film last month, there was something oddly appropriate that the presenters were Pedro Almodóvar and Quentin Tarantino. Campanella's film, "The Secret in Their Eyes," which opens Friday in New York and Los Angeles, exists at the intersection of the character-driven art film and the plot-driven genre film.
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| New on DVD: Disney's 'The Great Mouse Detective' is released on Blu-ray Posted: 11 Apr 2010 12:00 AM PDT
Also reviewed: "Pirate Radio," "Defendor" and "Tenderness."
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| Richard D. Zanuck is a working legend Posted: 11 Apr 2010 12:00 AM PDT
Growing up with the last name Zanuck in Old Hollywood was just like real life -- only different.
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| Richard Wagner's cycle has made its mark on comic books Posted: 11 Apr 2010 12:00 AM PDT
Look, up in the sky! In case you haven't noticed already, our entertainment stratosphere has grown crowded with muscle-bound superheroes in almost every conceivable shape and size: the franchise-rebooted likes of Spider-Man and Superman, battle-armored warriors such as Robin Hood and Perseus. ¶ To whom do we owe our super-saturated superhero culture? ¶ It would be easy to lay all of the credit (or blame) at the feet of comic-book artists and Hollywood executives. But superhero roots go much deeper than that, and if you excavate long enough, you will inevitably bump smack into Richard Wagner, the 19th century composer whose four- opera cycle "The Ring of the Nibelung" is regarded by many as an important genetic mother ship for today's fleet of action heroes. ¶ In terms of its cast of characters alone, Wagner's "Ring" tetralogy has fanboy potential written all over it. The complex saga stars maidens, angry gods, female warriors, a temperamental dragon and an angsty teen hero whose powers get him into a lot of trouble. ¶ Holy Siegfried! ¶ The comic-book artist P. Craig Russell sees the "Ring" as a crucial evolutionary step in the development of superheroes as we know them today. "I think it's a continuum -- from Ulysses to Wotan to Superman," he said by phone from his home in Ohio. ¶ Russell, whose recent credits include "Hellboy" and "Coraline," penned his own comic-book version of the "Ring," a two-volume series published in 2002 by Dark Horse Comics that he considers the most personal project of his career. An opera fan, he has even spoken to gatherings of so-called Ring Nuts, extreme fans of the "Ring" cycle. "It's almost like going to a comic book convention -- you see the same faces," he said.
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