Word: biopic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Jewish family hiding in the cellar of a French farm. One girl, Shoshanna, escapes to Paris, where she runs a movie theater. She meets a young soldier, Frederick Zoller (Daniel Brühl of Good Bye Lenin!) who has become a battlefield hero and starred in his own military biopic, which is to receive its world premiere at Shoshanna's theater with top Nazis in attendance...
...search on amazon.com for “cougar” yields a helter-skelter selection ranging from innocuous merchandise—Washington State football gear, John Mellencamp albums, and a Disney-biopic-cum-Lassie-knockoff about a cub searching for his family—to unrated films and pornographic novels (Hot Cougar Sex and Cougars, Poptarts & One Night Stands, to name a few titles...
MIKE TYSON wants JAMIE FOXX to play him in biopic despite having essentially perfected his own character...
...Paris' Métro stations, where they risk hefty fines if they venture the merest puff. Now, however, even people who support France's crackdown on smoking feel things may have gone too far. This week, the Métro refused to run posters advertising the new Coco Chanel biopic Coco, Before Chanel, which stars Amélie's Audrey Tautou, saying the photo that depicts the fashion legend with her trademark cigarette violates anti-smoking laws...
...self-conscious quirkiness of a career cleaning up corpses could present a trap, but Jeffs (best known for the Plath biopic Sylvia) does her best to steer around it. Rose and Norah have one nose-holding, cringing, slapstick-filled scene in a dead woman's house, but a sense of respect for the departed pervades the movie. "Do you think they loved each other?" Norah asks, surveying the bathroom where a murder-suicide took place. "Yes," Rose says with certainty. The more we learn about Rose and Norah's childhood - their mother died in what Norah dryly terms...