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Sunny Side’s Up In Bella Tuscany
After all the dark, dreary and depressing movies I slogged my way through at the Toronto International Film Festival, I doubt if you can fully appreciate the sheer joy I felt upon returning home to...
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Is Car Abuse on the Rise?
Car abuse is a growing concern in California. “It may begin with not changing the oil or filling the gas tank,” notes L.A. psychiatrist Joe Blair, “but it can escalate to actually hitting the car-and...
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Scarlett! I Don’t Give a Damn
At the Angelika, we shifted uneasily in our seats as the subways roared back and forth beneath us; up there on a screen slightly larger than your average television set, a man and a woman were actually...
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Hey! Summer Stinks, But Diane Saves Dogs
Up to here with aliens, action-comic heroes, chocolate factories and pimps who want to be rap stars, I guess the main thing I find missing from the worst summer of movies I can remember is a good...
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Wong Kar-wai’s Visual Magic: A Tribute to Feminine Beauty
Wong Kar-wai’s 2046, from his own screenplay (in Cantonese, Mandarin and Japanese with English subtitles), is quite simply an incomparably sublime work of art, a triumph of lyricism over narrative in...
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Dishy Diane Lane Dresses Down to Catch a Geek
UNTRACEABLE Running Time 101 minutes Directed by Gregory Hoblit Written by Robert Fyvolent & Mark Brinker and Allison Burnett Starring Diane Lane, Colin Hanks and Joseph Cross Starting off the new...
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Gere-Lane III: Passion on the Outer Banks
Nights In Rodanthe 98 minutes Written by Ann Peacock and John Romano Directed by George C. WolfeStarring Diane Lane, Richard Gere, Viola Davis, Scott Glenn, Christopher Meloni While the rest of the...
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Nicholas Sparks: “That Paragraph Takes Me 10 Hours to Write”
Six years after starring together in Unfaithful, Diane Lane and Richard Gere reunited in the weepy love story Nights in Rodanthe (based on a book by king of sentimentality Nicholas Sparks), which...
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How (And Why) Did George C. Wolfe Get Involved With Nights In Rodanthe?
This weekend brings Nights in Rodanthe to theaters. It’s an unapologetic tearjerker, a love story starring Richard Gere and Diane Lane (click here for Rex Reed’s review), based on a Nicholas Sparks...
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New York Observer’s 2012 Golden Globes Liveblog
Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes (Getty Images) Welcome to New York Observer‘s Golden Globe coverage of the 2012, where you’ll be able to read (and participate!) in real time as Drew Grant and Dan...
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Diane Lane, a Child Star, Returns to the Theater Older, Wiser and Just as...
Diane Lane, a child star, returns to New York theater older, wiser and, annoyingly, just as gorgeous.
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Diane Lane’s Talents Are Sorely Misapplied in the Crime Thriller ‘Every...
As perfect as she is, she’s only as good as her material.
View ArticleOrgasms 101 With Diane Lane … Broadway’s Wild, Wild Mess
Orgasms 101 With Diane Lane Diane Lane’s progression from the screen’s most appealing ingenue to one of the screen’s most grounded and attractive women has been interesting to chart. It seems only days...
View ArticleThe Parent Trap
I saw About a Boy and Unfaithful back to back with a 102-degree temperature, so my critical perception may, I admit, have been seriously altered. I liked them both. Like I said, I was probably...
View ArticleDiane Lane Stumbles, Smolders-Richard Gere Plays the Square
Adrian Lyne’s Unfaithful , from the screenplay by Alvin Sargent and William Broyles Jr., loosely based on Claude Chabrol’s La Femme Infidèle , brings to mind Vittorio De Sica’s crypto-Marxist,...
View ArticleOn Screen, Off Screen: Viva Adultery!
A few years ago, some of us leaving a party were standing in the foyer when we got onto the subject of adultery. Maybe another couple had just gotten divorced-always a slightly terrifying...
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8 of Broadway’s Best Bets for Fall 2016
The conventional wisdom is that Broadway shows that open in the fall are at a disadvantage, because Tony voters only remember the productions that bow in the spring. There are exceptions to this rule,...
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Chekhov’s Home Run: Diane Lane’s Third Time in ‘The Cherry Orchard’ Proves...
Were the Internet Broadway Database your sole means of tracking down the Main Stem career of Diane Lane, you could get the distinct impression the poor dear has marked time in The Cherry Orchard for...
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Diane Lane Elevates ‘Paris Can Wait’ From Middling to Sublime
Sometimes beauty and charm are enough to turn a middling movie into pure ambrosia. Diane Lane has plenty of both, and she uses them wisely in Paris Can Wait, elevating an otherwise mild and...
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