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Summer Guide
Summer Guide: Coppolla, Mann, Allen, and Tarantino Bring the Summer Flicks
By Chuck Wilson
Published: June 4, 2009
...rds." Tarantino's World War II action flick also stars Diane Kruger, B.J. Novak (The Office), Hostel writer-director Eli Roth, and last, but never least, the mighty Cloris Leachman. It Might Get Loud (August 21) Directed by Davis Guggenheim The Oscar-winning director of An Inconvenient Truth cuts loose in his new documentary, which finds ro...
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Stage
Life’s a Stage, Even When You’re Sitting in Front of One
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: January 1, 2009
...fe on The Ted Knight Show. And she was also walking right behind us when you said all that." Usually, I run from actors. I fled through a side door the night I saw Cloris Leachman (whom I love) perform her one-woman show (which I hated), because Cloris ended the evening by standing at the theater's exit so that she could hug each and every au...
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Film
Meg Ryan and Eva Mendes can’t keep The Women from being just another chick flick
By Ella Taylor
Published: September 11, 2008
...nto a dithery ghost of Meryl Streep's caffeinated werewolf in The Devil Wears Prada. Other than, interestingly, the truly older women (Candice Bergen as Mary's mom, Cloris Leachman as a straight-shooting housekeeper, and a woefully underused Bette Midler as a much-married playgirl), that's about as badass as anyone gets among this relentlessly...
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Stage
And the Robbie Award goes to…
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: July 31, 2008
...y dialogue like a crazed shrew. No other actor got anywhere near her grand performance all season long. The Lars Lindstrom Award for No-Show Entertainment to . . . Cloris Leachman in Cloris! Okay, so Cloris Leachman was still "workshopping" her one-woman show when she brought it to the new Tempe Center for the Arts last February. But no one ...
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Stage Frights
Robrt L. Pela pays, uh, respect to the great Cloris Leachman
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: January 31, 2008
I used to know a crazy lady who looked exactly like Cloris Leachman. Ella was the kind of crazy that can never be cured; the kind of crazy that struck fear in the hearts of her friends and family, that caused former employees to ch...
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Film
All You Can Eat
Spanglish piles it on
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: December 16, 2004
...Ian Hyland) and Bernice (Sarah Steele), and he lives in a modestly palatial Westwood home in which there's room enough to stash his alcoholic mother-in-law, Evelyn (Cloris Leachman), without much bother. But beneath the perfect surface, trouble roils: Deborah's body may be in great shape, but it's all that remains from John and Deborah's ear...
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Stuff
Lazarus, Reborn
Peter Bogdanovich wasn't dead. He was just acting like it.
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: April 25, 2002
...ow had screened in Archer City, Texas, where the movie was made amid much chaos and distraction. Attending the screening and celebration were stars Jeff Bridges and Cloris Leachman, who won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 1971 for her role as Ruth Popper, Timothy Bottoms' dispirited lover. Though he was not far away--only 138 miles, to be...
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Art
Going Overboard
Sifting through the wreckage at the Arizona Science Center with a serious Titanic fanatic
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: December 6, 2001
...ul and Muffet Brown, the great-granddaughter of Titanic's famous "Unsinkable" Molly Brown, compared notes on the several film interpretations of Molly (Paul favored Cloris Leachman in a cheesy 1970s TV movie called SOS Titanic, but Brown thought Leachman was "all wrong" and preferred Kathy Bates in the James Cameron version), I toured the cent...
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Film
Popular Mechanics
Animated The Iron Giant earns its metals
By M.V. Moorhead
Published: August 5, 1999
... the voice cast -- Eli Marienthal as Hogarth, Jennifer Aniston as his mother, Christopher McDonald as the G-man, Harry Connick Jr. as the beatnik, and John Mahoney, Cloris Leachman, James Gammon and M. Emmet Walsh in smaller roles -- are all effortlessly effective. The most touching performance, however, is that of the appropriately named Vin ...
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Feature
Beach Blanket Bacchanal
XXX marks the spot at Lake Havasu, "amateur porn capital of America"
By Dewey Webb
Published: June 17, 1999
...oof while shrieking obscenities. The stripper, a hard-looking, baby-voiced young woman named Rose, who resembles a cross between Pamela Anderson Lee and a young Cloris Leachman, has considerably better luck when she takes to the roof. Doffing her bikini top, she immediately earns high-decibel encouragement from several boatloads of beer-st...
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