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5 things to do today: Wednesday

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

1) A Christmas Carol closes at Alliance Theatre.

2) School House to White House continues at the Jimmy Carter Library & Museum.

3) Synchronicity Performance Group’s The Snow Queen continues at Actor’s Express.

4) I’ve Loved You So Long continues at Landmark Midtown Art Cinema.

5) The Sound of Music continues at Center Stage Theatre.

(Photo by Greg Mooney)

Air Loaf: Holiday movie roundup

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

Max Arbes and CL’s Curt Holman chat about movies opening this holiday season that have Oscar buzz surrounding them, including Doubt, I’ve Loved You So Long, The Reader, and Valkyrie.

Air Loaf is broadcast weekdays on 1690 WMLB-AM at approximately 8:10 a.m., 12:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m.

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Kristin Scott Thomas gives liberating performance in French drama

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

FEMME FATALE: Kristin Scott Thomas as Juliette

In screen roles such as her Oscar-nominated turn in The English Patient, Kristin Scott Thomas personifies aristocratic elegance — like a U.K. equivalent to Katharine Hepburn. In reality, Thomas may be English more by birth than by choice. She’s lived and worked in Paris since she was 19 and speaks perfect French. For decades she’s worked in French films such as I’ve Loved You So Long, where her role as Juliette Fontaine still qualifies as casting against type: Thomas plays an ex-con who served 15 years for a crime that seems like the stuff of Greek tragedy. (more…)