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Tom Cruise To Play An Astronaut; Al Pacino Cashes In On Broadway Play: Biz Break

Tom Cruise To Play An Astronaut; Al Pacino Cashes In On Broadway Play: Biz Break

Also in Thursday morning's round-up of news briefs, Cloud Atlas is being criticized for using "Yellow Face" for white actors. New York salutes the late Andrew Sarris. And an Amy Winehouse play based on her life heads to the stage.
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Farewell, Andrew Sarris

Farewell, Andrew Sarris

I was deeply saddened yesterday to hear of the death of Andrew Sarris, a passionate critic and elegant writer who didn’t just change the landscape of criticism; he changed the way many of us think about movies, challenging, with gentle humor and lots of grace, everything we thought we knew.
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R.I.P. Andrew Sarris: Revisit the Influential Film Critic's Breakthrough Review

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Decades after championing auteur theory and tangling with Pauline Kael, New York-based film critic Andrew Sarris has died at the age of 83, survived by his wife, the film critic Molly Haskell. In honor of one of the most influential careers in American film criticism, revisit one of Sarris's first notable reviews -- his celebration of Alfred Hitchcock's seminal 1960 film Psycho, which the then-32-year-old insisted "should be seen at least three times by any discerning film-goer."
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