Articles tagged "crash"

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Playing a character out of rehab hits home for Dennis Hopper

by Luaine Lee [McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)]

[31.Aug.09] :. PASADENA, Calif. — For Dennis Hopper it’s deja vu all over again. The actor, who has become a legend in his own time for films like “Easy Rider,” “Apocalypse Now”...

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Oscar-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis has some advice

by Carla Meyer [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[14.May.09] :. Paul Haggis directed and co-wrote “Crash,” named best picture at the Academy Awards in 2006, and scripted “Million Dollar Baby,” honored as best picture the previous year....

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Hollywood, race and the Age of Obama

by Christopher Kelly [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[26.Dec.08] :. Gook. Dragon lady. Swamp rats. These are but a few of the cringe-inducing racial epithets spewed by Clint Eastwood’s Walt Kowalski in “Gran Torino,” the cringe-inducing new drama...

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TV Review

Crash: Series Premiere

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Oct.08] :. Despite his recent meandering through Ameriprise commercials on the beach, Dennis Hopper can still pull out an audacious Frank Booth-like performance when so moved.

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Dennis Hopper says ‘Crash’ character is his craziest yet

by Rick Bentley [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[16.Oct.08] :. Dennis Hopper’s oxygen-sniffing character of Frank Booth in the 1986 film “Blue Velvet” was a Hall of Fame kind of crazy. The 72-year-old actor also has played characters you would...

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Film Review

Crash (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.May.05] :. The lesson seems geared toward those viewers who were surprised by the Rodney King video, that is, people who don't regularly deal with cultural collisions.

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