When Tragedy Strikes a Hollywood Comedy
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Owen Wilson has a new movie coming out next month. Will his reported suicide attempt hurt âThe Darjeeling Limitedâ or perversely help it?
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Fine performances from a stand-out cast punctuate this post-9/11 cinematic offspring. But Ladder 49 overkills on melodrama -- the slow-paced adventure flick has enough tear-jerking Hallmark moments to extinguish a three-alarm blaze.
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When it comes to winning Best Picture, comedies and musicals usually take a back seat. Way back.
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Two disaster movies visit ancient history and the near future to tell disquietingly relevant stories
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Jordan Harrisonâs brash play turns fragments from the life of Leni Riefenstahl, the filmmaker who made movies for Hitler, into a story that is funny and thought provoking.
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It reminded me of how people were shocked when comedian Andy Kaufman - beloved for his role on the old TV show Taxi - died of a rare lung cancer at 35.
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One film that caught the fancy of just about everyone at the recently
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Got a terminal illness? Hooray. In the movies, looming death means last-minute adventures and loads of uplifting life lessons
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Creatures gather to decide the fate of the world by -- what else? -- wrestling. Anything goes, including pizza tossing and porn. Xeni Jardin reports from Hollywood.
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In a drama that had some elements of a Greek tragedy and some of a French farce, a confrontation was brewing Monday night over the comatose figure
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Yasser Arafat's dying days have contained all the ingredients of a Hollywood drama -- tragedy, suspense, plot twists and even a touch of farce.
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Woody Allen's new film isn't what it might be, but it has interesting things to say about class and morality
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With its shadows and gallows humor, âYou Kill Meâ goes about as dark as a comedy can go before turning into tragedy or self-parody.
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David O. Russell's high-wire comedy captures liberal-left despair with astonishingly good humor: it's "Fahrenheit 9/11" for the screwball set.
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An action flick in which the gaudy pyrotechnics are nowhere near as jaw-dropping as the screenplay that name-checks not one, not two, but three national tragedies.
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PARK CITY, Utah  - The sound of an audience laughing throatily is usually a sign that a movie is working.
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DonÂt fret if you find it frustrating to unscramble the blood ties or follow the fragmented domestic dramas that jostle one another in Pablo TraperoÂs big-hearted ensemble comedy.