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‘Star Wars’ writer Lawrence Kasdan wants spinoff film to ‘start fresh’
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesFans were relieved this week to learn that Lawrence Kasdan would be writing another “Star Wars” movie. After all, it ...... -
My Pet World: Kingpin's love of dogs evident in his latest film
If there ever was a Hollywood kingpin — Lawrence Kasdan fills the bill. He's participated in writing and directing so many great movies, including "Raiders of the Lost Ark," "The Empire Strikes Back," "Return of the Jedi," "The Bodyguard," "Body...Tags: Animals, Diane Keaton, Dog (animal), Ayelet Zurer, Advice Columns and Columnists
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Charles Newell is on an amazing theatrical roll at Court Theatre
Charles Newell's office is spotless. Unnervingly tidy. Standing in it makes you feel as though you have intruded on a magazine photo shoot about anal-retentive work environments. His desk, which looks out onto 55th Street in Hyde Park, gleams: There's not...
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Ralph McQuarrie dies at 82; created the look of 'Star Wars'
When director George Lucas hired illustrator Ralph McQuarrie in 1974 to do a series of paintings visualizing scenes from his script for an intergalactic war movie he was trying to sell, McQuarrie liked the concept for the space fantasy. He just didn't...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Arts and Culture, Battlestar Galactica (tv program), Boeing Co., Parkinson's Disease
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Bob Anderson dies at 89; sword-fight teacher to the stars
Ten days before Bob Anderson headed to the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki as part of the British fencing team, he responded to a call from a British film studio in need of three fencers to coach the lead actors for sword-fighting scenes in a new pirate...Tags: Folklore and Mythology, Liv Tyler, The Three Musketeers (movie, 2011), The New York Times, Charlton Heston
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Bill Varney dies at 77; Oscar-winning sound mixer
Bill Varney, an Academy Award-winning sound mixer whose final film credit was a "director's edition" of Orson Welles' "Touch of Evil" that was released on the film's 40th anniversary, has died. He was 77.
Varney died Saturday of congestive heart...Tags: Roots (tv program), Physical Conditions, Orson Welles, Heart Failure, The New York Times
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Letters From The Editor: Love her, I do
My daughter talks like Yoda. Not all of the time. Just lately. She's taken to wearing her robe around the house. She raises her voice and turns her phrases. "Miss you, I will," she says before I leave for work. "Grateful, I am," she says after...Tags: California, Entertainment, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Movies, Star Wars (movie)
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