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“August: Osage County,” opens Christmas day. Written by Tracy Letts, adapted from his Pulitzer Prize-winning play. It’s a close look at three sisters played by Juliette Lewis, Julia Roberts and Julianne Nicholson. Meryl Streep plays Violet Weston, the drug-addled matriarch. Also starring Abigail Breslin, Dermot Mulroney, Chris Cooper, Margo Martindale, Sam Shepard. Produced by George Clooney and Harvey Weinstein
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The 2nd Annual Tinsel & Tails Celebrity Catwalk Holiday Party Fundraiser for Fashionista Dogs and Dog Lovers was a tremendous success. Thank you to Jennifer Bartok.
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Over the past three-plus decades Whitaker has worked with an extraordinary array of brilliant directors in an astounding number of films. The movies include “The Color of Money” (Martin Scorsese), “Platoon” (Oliver Stone) “Good Morning, Vietnam” (Barry Levinson), “Bird” (Clint Eastwood), “Body Snatchers” (Abel Ferrara), and “The Crying Game” (Neil Jordan).
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And the winners are… Best Picture: American Hustle Best Director: Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave Best Screenplay: Eric Singer & David O. Russell, American Hustle Best Actress: Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine Best Actor: Robert Redford, All is Lost Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle Best Supporting Actor: … Read more
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Seven people escape decimated New York. They have one thing in common: The alcoholic gene. The same genetic quirk that makes alcoholics and addicts susceptible to booze and drugs gives them a mysterious ability to evade the undead. They just need to stay quiet, fight smart, and get along with each other.
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Evan Rachel Wood stars with Shia LaBeouf in the “True Romance” style slash Tarrantino-esque thriller, “Charlie Countryman,” opening today in limited release. LaBeouf plays Charlie whose dead mother appears and sends him to Bucharest, Romania. The griefstricken and unglued Charlie is led through a series of bizarre events that lead him to Gabi (Wood), a mysterious Romanian he falls instantly in love with. The trouble is, as director Fredrik Bond put it, “Gabi is like playing with plutonium.” It is a dark and twisted, yet funny, love story in the brutal underworld of Bucharest.
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In Kevin Macdonald’s adventure thriller, the movie ‘Black Sea,’ Law’s character Captain Robinson has been kicked out of the British Navy. Then he discovers a Russian U-boat that he believes to contain Russian gold sent to Hitler as a bribe from Stalin. The movie is about greed and love.
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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and His Numbers: $1 Salary Bloomberg earns yearly as mayor of New York City, $370,000,000 Amount of money Bloomberg Philanthropies distributed in 2012 for Bloomberg’s charitable activities in public health, environment, government innovation, initiative, arts and education, $7.5 billion Amount of money allotted to Bloomberg’s municipal affordable housing plan, the largest since the Koch administration, $108,371,685 Amount Bloomberg spent on his campaign for a third term as mayor, $27 billion Networth, in dollars, making Bloomberg the 7th richest man in the U.S.
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The Wolf of Wall Street is a biography crime drama due out November 15, 2013. It’s based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, a stockbroker who rose to meteroic wealth and basked in his high life. That is until his partying plummets into the depths of crime, corruption, and trouble with the federal government. … Read more
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