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Joe Surf: Stand-up paddleboarding in fight against cystic fibrosis
There are surfing fundraising events all over the world that do wonderful things to support worthy causes, but there is no cause that is more directly connected to surfing than the efforts to raise money and awareness in the fight against cystic...Tags: Personal Service, Cystic Fibrosis, Lungs and Airways, Invention and Innovation, Volcom Incorporated
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City Lights: A baby, a slingshot and $1 million
Jonah Folk truly is the Million Dollar Baby. The 1-year-old star of the Doritos ad "Sling Baby" may not officially qualify as a child star yet, having no agent or multipicture deal, but he turned out to be quite a moneymaker for his director, Kevin...Tags: Super Bowl, Movies, USA Today, Online Advertising, Chrysler Group LLC
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City Lights: The Oscar pool is on
Everyone has at least one skill that doesn't have a practical use. Mine is the ability to name every movie ever to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. I absorbed that knowledge from years of reading critical studies of the Oscars, to the point...Tags: Celebrities, Midnight in Paris (movie), Moneyball (movie), The Tree of Life (movie), Bridesmaids (movie)
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City Lights: Movie experience still worthwhile
On New Year's Day, my wife and I saw Martin Scorsese's "Hugo" at the Cinemark at Bella Terra. For those who haven't seen it yet, it's about a young orphan who lives in a train station in Paris and finds escape through the silent movies that play at the...Tags: Taxi Driver (movie), Services and Shopping, Cell Phones, Netflix Inc., Bridesmaids (movie)
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Into the O.C.
One of the most reclusive legends in modern American history will make a rare appearance in Costa Mesa on Oct. 29. Prolific Broadway composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim will speak with American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers head Michael...Tags: Music Theater, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Judi Dench, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Awards and Prizes
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City Lights: Slater handles himself like a pro
I got to be a celebrity once, kind of. It wasn't at Barnes & Noble or the Academy Awards or anything like that, but at Girls Inc. of Orange County. I had covered a few stories there as the Daily Pilot's education reporter, and when I arrived to write...Tags: Huntington Beach, Times Square, here! (tv network), San Clemente (Orange, California), Entertainment
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The Gossiping Gourmet: Hot off the grill: fine food and dessert
If they gave out an Academy Award for "most congenial hospitality in a food service establishment," hands down, the Oscar would go to Maro Wood Grill.
The dramatic makeover of the former site of A La Carte in Laguna Beach has turned the little deli into...Tags: Tomatoes, Lifestyle and Leisure, Movies, Salads, Pears
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On Theater: Going behind closed doors
It's heralded in some critical quarters as the greatest movie of all time, so how did the final script for "Gone With the Wind" really get written? According to playwright Ron Hutchinson, in his comedy "Moonlight & Magnolias," producer David O....Tags: David O. Selznick, Victor Fleming, Margaret Mitchell, The Wizard of Oz (movie, 1939), Long Beach (Los Angeles, California)
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City Lights: Fame takes work
James Cameron was once quoted giving advice to people who seek a career in the movies. "I think the most important thing if you're an aspiring filmmaker is to get rid of the 'aspiring,'" he said. "You shoot it, you put your name on it, you're a filmmaker....Tags: Movies, Chris Armstrong, Elections, Manny Pacquiao, James Cameron
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Where the audience is
David Beatty may someday win an Oscar, headline the Sundance Film Festival or oversee his own TV show, but nothing may ever top the night he first had a movie screened in Huntington Beach.
The Surf City resident's feature-length debut, "Surviving New...Tags: Education, Festive Events, Arts and Culture, Television, University of California, Irvine
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Documents provide new insight into Kathryn Bigelow's Bin Laden movie
24 FramesThe release of government documents has fanned a simmering controversy in Washington over how much access the White House, the CIA and the Pentagon granted director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal for their upcoming movie on the hunt for... -
Cannes 2012: Michael Haneke's 'Amour' feels the love
Consensus at Cannes is about an improbable as a Del Taco at the Louvre. But the numerous critics and wide swath of public filmgoers attending the festival seem to have found common ground on a new movie: the mortality drama “Amour." Michael Haneke&...Tags: Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., The White Ribbon (movie), Constantin Costa-Gavras, Amour (movie), Arts and Culture
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