Awkward Encounters in the Hollywood Trenches
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During a strike, itâs enemies by day and friends by night.
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Only one thing was more dramatic than the looks on the couture runways in Paris last week: the battles raging behind the scenes
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Set in wartime Iraq, âThe Situationâ is exploitation cinema of the most narcoleptic kind.
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Two crucial intermediaries and some diplomacy finally turned an icy standoff into the kind of hot-and-bothered bargaining in which Hollywood deals are forged.
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By MAY WONG    SAN JOSE, Calif.  -- Sometimes it pays to befriend an enemy...
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Amazing, but even in this time of goodwill and cheer, some folks are always looking for a fight. A recent exchange with a regular reader got me thinking how divisive things can get.
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Ang Lee&#39;s lugubrious  spy epic &quot;Lust, Caution&quot; brings to mind what soldiers say about  war: that it is long periods of boredom relieved by moments of  extremely heightened excitement.
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Beware films with protagonists depicted as vastly more sensitive than their fellow characters. The result may be a crock like âCashback.â
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A celebrity break-up puts the spotlight on a taboo subject. And the internet comes to the rescue of divorced lonelyhearts.
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Hollywood's dreary season has been infiltrated by an interloper. The spy thriller "Breach" is an unusually smart, tense and engaging film amid the usual dreck that lands in theaters this time of year.
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Many people are finding themselves cornered by a loquacious stranger, especially one whom theyâre paying.
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Hollywood directors risk big budgets and  reputations when they work. Iraqi film makers risk their lives.
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Sometimes, the two concepts can blur.
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Racial hatred, violence and suicide are among concerns for movie viewers questioned about film classification.
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In Stephen Massicotteâs excellent new play, T. E. Lawrence and Robert Graves are two veterans and it takes no leap of the imagination to translate their World War I experiences into stories from todayâs newspaper.
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When director Brigitte Bertele shot her film about a traumatized German soldier returning from Afghanistan, she did not think its release would coincide with a heated debate about the deployment of further troops abroad.
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The writersâ strike is on the brink of ending in true Hollywood fashion: through connections.