When American Beauty bowed in September 1999 at the Toronto Film Festival, The Hollywood Reporter wasn't quite sure what the public would make of the pitch-black dramedy.While THR's review acknowledged the "charismatic power" of the performances by its actors — singling out not just stars Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening but also Thora Birch, Wes Bentley and Mena Suvari — it wondered whether audiences might not "tire of [director Sam] Mendes' arch and often condescending style.
Hollywood Flashback: Time Warner, AOL Entered a Doomed $182 Billion Alliance 20 Years Ago
12.01.2020 - 10:01 / hollywoodreporter.com
One anniversary that surely won't be celebrated in Burbank in 2020 is the one that marks 20 years since Warner Bros. merged with America Online.
On Jan.
10, 2000, Time Warner — then the home of Warners, HBO, CNN, TBS, Time Warner Cable and Time magazine — was bought for $182 billion by AOL, which had 30 million subscribers using its dial-up service to access the internet and email. The union combined the world's largest media conglomerate with the world's largest internet provider.
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29.01.2020 / 16:36
Popular playground in Salford deemed unsafe two years ago secures funding for improvements
A popular children’s woodland playground which failed a safety check two years ago will be up and running again.
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27.01.2020 / 00:16
Hollywood Flashback: Patrick Stewart First Came to L.A. — in Tights and a Toupee — in 1968
Fifty-two years ago, The Hollywood Reporter described Patrick Stewart — who stars in Star Trek: Picard, launching on CBS All Access on Jan. 23 — as "dashing" in the role of Duke Senior in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of As You Like It at Los Angeles' Ahmanson Theatre.
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26.01.2020 / 21:26
'30 years ago, I had to ask permission to go to the men’s toilet': Leading women in rail explain how things have changed and call for more diversity
With the uncertainty surrounding Northern Rail and a flurry of broken promises on the expansion of Manchester’s busiest stations , it could be suggested that a career in the rail industry might be a journey that's well worth delaying.
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26.01.2020 / 03:16
Hollywood Flashback: Hitler Comedy 'The Producers' Won an Oscar in 1967
It's been more than 50 years since Mel Brooks' The Producers wrestled with the challenge of courting Oscar for a film offering a comic version of Adolf Hitler, something Jojo Rabbit is facing this year."There are many to whom this brand of humor is more an opening of wounds that can never heal," THR said in its Dec. 28, 1967, review.
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26.01.2020 / 02:11
The Masked Singer fans can't believe Jonathan Ross guessed Daisy was a singer who died five years ago
Fans of the singing contest The Masked Singer were stunned when Jonathan Ross guessed that the Daisy was the late singer Natalie Cole.
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21.01.2020 / 21:16
Jacqueline Jossa shares candid photo of her water birth after welcoming daughter Ella four years ago
Jacqueline Jossa has shared a photo of her water birth after welcoming first child Ella four years ago.The I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! winner opened up on becoming a mother for the first time in 2015, before welcoming her second daughter Mia in 2018.Taking to Instagram, the 27-year-old said the candid photo of the arrival of Ella “made her heart and head explode” as she promoted motherhood social network service Peanut.
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21.01.2020 / 15:11
Police appeal for help following rape of woman by gang in hotel more than 40 years ago
Police are appealing for help after a woman was raped by a gang in a hotel room 42 years ago.