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  The Oak Ridger

  Oak Ridge Playhouse: 'God of Carnage' opens March 10

  Oak Ridge Playhouse: 'God of Carnage' opens March 10

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  Entertainment

  The Telegraph

  Why can’t today’s actors stop mumbling?

  In Hamlet, the Danish prince advises his band of players to “speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you”. Clearly, he would have understood the frustration felt by today’s playwrights and directors with actors who fail to make themselves heard.

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  The Telegraph

  Donald Spoto, biographer who probed the seamier side of lives including Alfred Hitchcock and Laurence Olivier – obituary

  Donald Spoto, who has died aged 81, was a prolific American biographer who also chronicled the lives of several British stage and screen celebrities, among them Alfred Hitchcock and Laurence Olivier.

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  Entertainment

  The Telegraph

  Are English actors really superior to all others?

  Perhaps the most famous of all acting anecdotes is the one about Laurence Olivier and Dustin Hoffman on the set of Marathon Man. As the standard version runs, the method-acting American had kept himself awake for three days to match his character’s exhaustion. On confiding this to Olivier, the elder statesman of the English stage replied, with feline alacrity, “My dear boy, why don’t you just try acting?”

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  Savannah Morning News

  Georgia's most popular movie is 'Gone with the Wind' — So why wasn't it filmed here?

  While Gone with the Wind is a very Georgia movie, the film was actually shot in California rather than Atlanta where it's set.

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  Entertainment

  Gold Derby

  BAFTAs trivia: What classic Western won the most awards?

  The 76th BAFTAs take place on Sunday, February 19 at the Royal Festival Hall with Richard E. Grant hosting. Germany’s ‘”All Quiet on the Western Front” leads with 14 nominations, followed by 10 for “The Banshees of Inisherin” and “Everything Everywhere All at Once” and nine for “Elvis.” The British Academy of Film and Television […]

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  Entertainment

  The Telegraph

  Why was 1948 the greatest ever year for British cinema?

  Do you remember 1948? I do, just, because it was the year I was taken as a newly toddling infant to see where I would be living alone with my parents. After my grandmother’s house, crammed with objects collected over decades, an empty flat in a different seaside town was a shock. An iron bedstead, unmattressed. A dangling light-socket with no bulb. And outside, a bewildering world – bewildering no doubt even to the adults, whose adjustment to post-war life was not yet complete.

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  Entertainment

  LA Times

  How to watch (almost) every Best Picture winner from 1940 through 1949

  Our guide to streaming the winners of the Academy Awards' top prize, including 'Casablanca' and 'The Best Years of Our Lives.'

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  Entertainment

  The AV Club

  Harry Hamlin locked himself in his Clash Of The Titans trailer until he could cut Medusa’s head off

  Harry Hamlin has had a long and storied career, but his most prominent role may still be his star-making one: Perseus in Clash Of The Titans. The 1981 mythological fantasy blockbuster was a major breakthrough for the actor, but the movie almost fell apart at a crucial moment, Hamlin tells The A.V. Club.

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  Sports

  Rockford Register Star

  Rockford man says 3-day Jeopardy! experience exceeded 'wildest expectations'

  Lloyd Sy, a Rockford native and former Auburn High School standout, earned $55,578 in winnings before his three-day run on Jeopardy ended Thursday.

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