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                    [Title] => Christmas for downbeats: Why the best holiday movies are rarely happy
                    [Summary] => 

I’m not immune to the sentimental charms of a movie like Love, Actually, 2003’s rom-com gone Altman starring Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, and Keira Knightley among many.

[DatePublished] => 2013-12-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135666 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1667758 [AuthorName] => Raymond Ang [SectionName] => YStyle [SectionUrl] => ystyle [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1101761 [Title] => Screen savers [Summary] =>

When I try to visualize a screenwriter, I usually get a mental picture of Dixon Steele, the tortured script hack played by Humphrey Bogart in Nicholas Ray’s In a Lonely Place: smoking, drinking, full of rage and self-loathing.

[DatePublished] => 2013-08-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136008 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804693 [AuthorName] => Scott R. Garceau [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 917346 [Title] => Crazy little thing called love [Summary] =>

We’ve become such experts at the rom-com that it’s hard for screenwriters to surprise us these days. But, every now and then, a film comes along that does exactly that — surprise us. And by the time we realize what is happening, we care too much about the characters to not care about whether the guy gets the girl.

[DatePublished] => 2013-03-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1619846 [AuthorName] => Nicola M. Sebastian [SectionName] => Supreme [SectionUrl] => supreme [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 837215 [Title] => Mel Stuart, director of 'Willy Wonka,' dead at 83 [Summary] =>

Mel Stuart, an award-winning documentarian who also directed "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory," has died. He was 83.

[DatePublished] => 2012-08-11 02:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 810298 [Title] => 5 ultimate summer movies [Summary] =>

I'm just going to put it out there: I stole the idea for this week's Five Most list. It's not even borrowing. It's just flat-out theft.

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Who is the influential 20th century American designer responsible for iconic buildings like the Eames House and the Enteza House in Pacific Palisades?

[DatePublished] => 2012-05-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Modern Living [SectionUrl] => modern-living [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 800746 [Title] => Flats that flatter our feet [Summary] =>

At a recent visit to my nail salon over the weekend, I chanced upon the showing of Sabrina — the Billy Wilder original with gamine goddess Audrey Hepburn and sullen-yet-charming Humphrey Bogart.

[DatePublished] => 2012-04-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135665 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1439758 [AuthorName] => Katrina A. Holigores [SectionName] => YStyle [SectionUrl] => ystyle [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 763407 [Title] => The very definition of self-indulgence [Summary] =>

One of the top five things that everybody did in 2011 was concoct lists.

[DatePublished] => 2012-01-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136008 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804693 [AuthorName] => Scott R. Garceau [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 756380 [Title] => 5 great movies about alcoholism [Summary] =>

Charlize Theron's character in "Young Adult," a divorced, deluded teen-lit writer, wakes up each morning face-down in her bed wearing the same clothes she had on the night before.

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Marilyn Monroe's billowing skirt shows it's possible to catch a nice breeze in the Windy City.

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