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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo:
Helping James Bond Nab a Killer

Saturday, December 24th, 2011
by Charlene Giannetti on Playing Around

The opening credits of David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo mimic the beginning of a James Bond film; female forms slither across the

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Toy Story 3— For the Young at Heart

Monday, February 21st, 2011
by Charlene Giannetti on Playing Around

When Toy Story 3 won the Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature, Director Lee Unkrich accepted the award from Justin Bieber and Hailee Steinfeld. With

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Andrea Marcovicci: Breakfast by Candlelight

Wednesday, December 8th, 2010
by Alix Cohen on Woman Around Town

Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling…Charles Baudelaire It’s 6 a.m. in Studio City, California.

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In the Career Race, What Happens When the Woman Wins?

Monday, August 30th, 2010
by Woman Around Town on Playing Around

Deputy Chief Brenda Lee Johnson, a.k.a., The Closer, is in the running to become Police Chief in Los Angeles, the first woman to hold the

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King’s Lament: Shakespeare in the Park’s The Winter’s Tale

Saturday, July 17th, 2010
by Abby Cañeda on Playing Around

The long stretch of pitched tents and open lawn chairs faithfully forms up to the box office of Central Park’s Delacorte Theatre during the summer

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Precious—A Story of Survival

Friday, February 26th, 2010
by Charlene Giannetti on Playing Around

A movie about a 350-pound African-American girl physically abused by her mother and sexually abused by her father seems like a long shot to win

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Jeff Bridges Captures Hearts in Crazy Heart

Saturday, January 30th, 2010
by Charlene Giannetti on Living Around

When Jeff Bridges was awarded a Golden Globe for Crazy Heart, the audience made up of Hollywood longtimers and newcomers gave him the kind of

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Finding Life’s Answers in a Fortunate Cookie

Sunday, January 24th, 2010
by Marie Hansen-Lehmann on Living Around

Sarah Grace McCandless is the author of two gorgeously nostalgic and poignant novels about adolescence, Grosse Pointe Girl and The Girl I Wanted to Be.

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