American Beauty

...to be seen since there were academy voters everywhere you looked. And speaking of those voters, Oscar-winning producer Dan Jinks ("American Beauty") was saying how he didn't think the new rule allowing 10 best-picture nominees would work very...

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...the opportunity Adams offers to work outside the walls of their commercial careers. Newman, whose film score credits include "Wall-E" and "American Beauty," says his new piece, "It Got Dark," commissioned by the Philharmonic and receiving...

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...right, but the film simply refuses to take off. Director Sam Mendes, who previously dissected suburban life so astutely in American Beauty , and screenwriter Justin Haythe, whose script is scrupulously faithful to Yates' novel, at...

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"I am not near that." One of his guests corrected him, saying: "Actually it's just five - you're there." A little flustered, the star of American Beauty responded: "I would need to find out the tax implications first. I haven't done...

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Print Email Font Resize Starz rolls out sexy movie clip fest Mena Suvari in 1999's best-movie Oscar winner, "American Beauty," is one of the clips in the Starz sex documentary. (DreamWorks SKG ) Expect a spicy clip assemblage when...

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...canny performance ( The Usual Suspects ), or could turn a boss-from-hell into a repellent yet magnetic monster ( Swimming With Sharks ). American Beauty has not aged well, but Spacey's portrayal of a disaffected man who rediscovers his zeal...

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...Candy Crowley. One highlight, Kielbasa said, was a Sunday morning event featuring Alan Ball, writer of the 1999 film "American Beauty," creator of HBO's "Six Feet Under" and writer and director of HBO's vampire series "True Blood.

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...the film. At the Sunday night AFI Fest "Precious" premiere party at Chateau Marmont, I ran into Oscar-winning producer Bruce Cohen ("American Beauty," "Milk"), who is charged with producing the Nov. 14 Governors Awards honoring Lauren...

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...has blasted Kevin Spacey after he was fired for asking the actor's pals not to smoke in a restaurant. Peter Turner has accused the American Beauty star of costing him his job at the Clarke Cooke House in Newport, Rhode Island, after...

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...a director with "Caged Heat." And perhaps Tarantino will also salute the pulp filmmaker. Oscar-winning producer Bruce Cohen ("American Beauty") is organizing the evening in collaboration with Emmy-winning director Don Mischer. As per the...

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