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Father Dowling Mysteries: The First SeasonRecommended Surprisingly deft, low-key mystery entertainment. CBS DVD and Paramount have released Father Dowling Mysteries: The First Season , a two-disc, seven-episode collection that gathers together the show's truncated 1988-1989 premiere season, along with the original telemovie pilot, Fatal Confession , that aired in 1987. A series that was probably noted more for its scheduling and network ...
Posted on 5 February 2012 | 8:31 pm
Actress Frances Labyorteaux Dies at 85THR Staff Her sons Patrick and Matthew starred on network TV dramas. read more
Posted on 3 February 2012 | 7:20 pm
Film company has stories to tellIf you remember the funny lottery ads on TV that featured Leslie Nielsen or youve seen the documentary about Charleston native Leon Sullivan, you have viewed the handiwork of Motion Masters.The Charleston company, which produces videos, advertisements ...
Posted on 2 February 2012 | 5:35 am
Man a Ledge Should Go Take a LeapThe hero of the red-herring heist flick Man on a Ledge draws two reactions from the Manhattan throng beneath his 21st-floor perch on a midtown hotel. The first, of course, is the predictable "just get it over with" impatience of New Yorkers impeded by police barricades. The second i...
Posted on 25 January 2012 | 8:49 pm
A Leap Into the Familiar: Wrong-Man ThrillerThe hero of the red-herring heist flick Man on a Ledge draws two reactions from the Manhattan throng beneath his 21st-floor perch on a midtown hotel. The first, of course, is the predictable “just get it over with” impatience of New Yorkers impeded by police barricades. The sec...
Posted on 24 January 2012 | 10:08 pm

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Correction: Obit-Leslie NielsenIn a story Nov. 29 about the death of Leslie Nielsen, The Associated Press reported erroneously that he played the king of France in "The Vagabond King." He played Thibault.
Posted on 1 December 2010 | 4:41 pm
'Airplane!', 'Forbidden Planet' actorDespite decades spent playing sober commanders and serious captains, Leslie Nielsen insisted that he was always made for comedy. He proved it in his career's second act.
Posted on 29 November 2010 | 2:11 am
5Top: Movies that revolve around eatingWhen a young woman (Lumi Cavazos) is kept from marrying the man she loves, her culinary creations become the manifestation of her broken heart. Shedding a few tears into the batter of the wedding cake she makes when her lover marries her older sister, the resulting dessert makes the entire party weep. When he gives her a dozen roses and she uses the petals in a quail recipe, the result is a dish that makes everyone at the table feel, well, extra spicy. Many movies tap into our feelings about eating, but this is one where a chef’s creations express the emotional state of their creator. Mexican cuisine gets a series of delectable close-ups in this adaptation of the Laura Esquivel novel (featuring a screenplay by Esquivel herself).
Posted on 27 July 2009 | 5:58 pm
‘The Women’ a flick chicks will hateLargely forgotten among the heyday of MGM musicals in the post-WWII period is 1956’s “The Opposite Sex,” a disappointing attempt to inject men, music and Metrocolor into George Cukor’s 1939 classic “The Women,” which featured an all-female cast. Whereas “The Women” featured immortals like Norma Shearer, Rosalind Russell and Joan Crawford exchanging barbed dialogue by Anita Loos and Claire Boothe Luce, “Sex” gave us such inadequate substitutes as June Allyson and Joan Collins; even worse, the man these two were fighting over was no longer unseen on screen — he had somehow become the utterly bland, pre-“Airplane!” Leslie Nielsen.
Posted on 9 September 2008 | 8:01 pm