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Appearance is everything in`Coco Before Chanel'
Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009
The young Coco Chanel noticed style everywhere, even in the crisp white and basic black of the nuns' habits at the orphanage where she was raised. "Coco Before Chanel" has a similarly keen eye for appearances, but there's not a whole lot of passion or insight beneath the surface. ...
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James Brolin takes time out from film to talk about Clint Eastwood and longevity
Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009
His relaxed manner belies the first-day "collywobbles," which generally set in when an actor is prepared to deliver his first lines in a film. The hammock at the end of the dock at Bowen's Island still looks inviting, here on the set of "Angel Camouflaged," but James Brolin is focused.
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South African actress brings music to 'Angel Camouflaged'
Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009
That singular screen quality, presence, will not be a problem. The energy of being vividly "in the moment" flows from Dilana Robichaux, a striking, now dreadlocked rock singer taking her first bow as a leading lady in writer-director Michael Givens' independent feature, "Angel Camouflaged."
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Festival showcase for French films
MUSC auditorium will play host to Alliance Francaise presentation of six movies in four days
Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009
Self-taught, Seraphine Louis (1864-1942) was an exemplar of the Naive Movement, which is to say art characterized by a deceptively childlike simplicity in technique and subject matter.
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'This Is It' a homage to Jackson greatness
Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009
Watching "Michael Jackson's This Is It" will have fans grieving once again, but this time, it won't only be for the fallen King of Pop, but for what we lost -- a brilliant entertainer who gave every inch of his body and soul for what might have been one of the most spectacular comebacks of all time.
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Chris Rock's 'Good Hair' is a good time
Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009
Morgan Spurlock, look lively. Sacha Baron Cohen, watch your back. Chris Rock's bright, wisecracking expose "Good Hair" is the mane event.
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Italian Film Festival
'Food' is the theme for annual 3-day event at Sottile Theatre
Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009
Though hotly debated by Francophiles, who consider the very notion a declaration of war, there are those who insist the Italians, the Medicis, specifically, taught the French how to cook.
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Owen deserves better than script for 'Boys'
Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009
Particular fans of Clive Owen will want to see him in "The Boys Are Back," and maybe they should.
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'Amelia' Top-flight portrayal of aviator an instant bio classic
Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009
Freckle-faced, prairie-voiced and fiercely independent, Hilary Swank's depiction of aviator Amelia Earhart in Mira Nair's biographical film "Amelia" is of a high order. It ranks with recent real-life portrayals of Ray Charles by Jamie Foxx and Truman Capote by Philip Seymour Hoffman and could be similarly awards-bound.
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Babs makes comeback on Hippodrome's big screen
Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009
Babs is back. In Charleston, at least.
The Terrace Hippodrome will screen a five-day revival of the 1968 musical biography "Funny Girl" starting Friday and ending Tuesday, with shows at 1, 4 and 7 p.m. each day.
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