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		<title>‘No Mark Upon Her’: who killed a ‘difficult’ woman?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/meyers/2012/02/11/%e2%80%98no-mark-upon-her%e2%80%99-who-killed-a-%e2%80%98difficult%e2%80%99-woman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Meyers</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA['No Mark Upon Her']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deborah Crombie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Duncan Kincaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gemma James]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[P.D. James]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ruth Rendell]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deborah Crombie is a Texan, but you would never guess that fact by reading “No Mark Upon Her” (William Morrow), the 14th novel she has written about London detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James. Like Martha Grimes and Elizabeth George, Crombie has proven that you don’t have to be British to write a classic police [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Pelham One Two Three&#8217;: New York City at its 1970s worst/best</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/meyers/2012/02/10/rent-it-now-%e2%80%98the-taking-of-pelham-one-two-three%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Meyers</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA['Serpico']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['The French Connection']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['The Taking of Pelham One Two Three']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al Pacino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diane Keaton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jill Clauburgh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Lindsay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joseph Sargent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martin Scorsese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Mazursky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Stone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quentin Tarantino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert De Niro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Shaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sidney Lumet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Walter Matthau]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Woody Allen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[40 years ago, the combination of “white flight” to the suburbs and New York City being on the verge of bankruptcy hurt the image of Manhattan and the other five boroughs around the country. Instead of “Fun City,” wags started calling The Big Apple “Fear City.” Ironically, that gritty period was preserved forever in dozens of movies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘The Lovers’: still erotic, but no longer scandalous</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/meyers/2012/02/09/%e2%80%98the-lovers%e2%80%99-still-erotic-but-no-longer-scandalous/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Meyers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['The Lovers']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeanne Moreau]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Louis Malle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Criterion Collection]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[February always sees the release of romantic dramas and comedies tied in with Valentine’s Day — the new Rachel McAdams/Channing Tatum film “The Vow” is expected to sell a lot of tickets this weekend — but I doubt that any of the new stuff will be as romantic or as sexy as Louis Malle’s 1958 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How some adventurous filmmakers have confronted racism</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/meyers/2012/02/08/how-some-adventurous-filmmakers-have-confronted-racism/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/meyers/2012/02/08/how-some-adventurous-filmmakers-have-confronted-racism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Meyers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['Goodbye]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['Guess Who's Coming to Dinner']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['Mondo Cane']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['Putney Swope']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['Sounder']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['White Dog']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African-American Historical Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black History Month]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bridgeport Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Criterion Collection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Curtis Hanson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Franco Prosperi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gualtiero Jacopetti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kristy McNichol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[L. Llewellyn James]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[L.A. Confidential]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NAACP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Winfield]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Downey Sr.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sam Fuller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncle Tom']]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday, I was very pleased to be asked to host a screening of the controversial 1982 Sam Fuller film “White Dog” (above) at the Bridgeport Library. The film was presented by the African-American Historical Society of Fairfield County as part of a month-long series of screenings marking Black History Month. Rather than focus on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Sing Your Song’: Belafonte&#8217;s life in show business, politics</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/meyers/2012/02/07/%e2%80%98sing-your-song%e2%80%99-belafontes-life-in-show-business-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Meyers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['Carmen Jones']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['Sing Your Song']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['The World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dorothy Dandridge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gower Champion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harry Belafonte]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HBO Documentary Films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inger Stevens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John F. Kennedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marge Champion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martin Luther King]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Petula Clark]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Susanne Rostock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Bijou Theatre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Flesh and the Devil']]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Harry Belafonte has been such a powerful presence in the entertainment world for so many years now that it’s easy to take him for granted. A multi-talent who conquered the recording industry, Broadway and Hollywood, the now 84-year-old icon also played a pivotal role in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s (which fired him [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘The Confession’: a mystery for ‘Downton Abbey’ fans</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/meyers/2012/02/06/%e2%80%98the-confession%e2%80%99-a-mystery-for-%e2%80%98downton-abbey%e2%80%99-fans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Meyers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['Downton Abbey']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['The Confession']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agatha Christie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caroline Todd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Todd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Furnham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ian Rutledge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thames]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Morrow]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The terrible toll that World War I took on several generations of British people &#8211; both in battle and on the homefront &#8212; has powered the PBS series “Downton Abbey” (below) so far this season. If you are as fascinated by this period as I am you will want to read the new Charles Todd mystery, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Meryl Streep (probably) won’t win an Oscar this year</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/meyers/2012/02/05/why-meryl-streep-probably-won%e2%80%99t-win-an-oscar-this-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Meyers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['The Iron Lady']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alzheimer's]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Broadbent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Thatcher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oscar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phyllida Lloyd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Should fine acting in a terrible movie win awards? That’s the question raised by Meryl Streep’s flawless performance as Margaret Thatcher in the really lame Oscar-nominated movie that surrounds her — “The Iron Lady.” I caught up with the picture last week and was shocked by how little screen time is devoted to Thatcher’s life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The B-movie king who gave us Coppola, Scorsese &amp; Nicholson</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/meyers/2012/02/04/the-b-movie-king-who-gave-us-coppola-scorsese-nicholson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Meyers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['Corman's World']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alex Stapleton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bruce Dern]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dennis Hopper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edgar Allen Poe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Francis Coppola]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jack Nicholson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan Demme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martin Scorsese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pam Grier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roger Corman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The story of exploitation filmmaker Roger Corman — and the big breaks he gave to some now-major directors and actors — has been told in many books and Hollywood documentaries. But no one has told the story as well or with as much emotion as director Alex Stapleton in the 2011 documentary “Corman’s World,” which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Have you seen the Nicole Kidman cult film ‘Birth’?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/meyers/2012/02/03/rent-it-now-the-nicole-kidmanalexandre-desplat-cult-film-%e2%80%98birth%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:57:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Meyers</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA['Birth']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['Rabbit Hole']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['The Sixth Sense']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alexandre Desplat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bibi Andersson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cameron Bright]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Danny Huston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Thomson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harris Savides]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Henry James]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IMDB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ingmar Bergman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jean-Claude Carriere]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan Glazer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liv Ullmann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Luis Bunuel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Milo Addica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Film Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Davis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicole Kidman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If I was asked to pick the most unjustly neglected film of the past decade, I would probably cite the 2004 Jonathan Glazer picture &#8220;Birth&#8221; which has remained off most people&#8217;s radar despite a strong cult following. The British critic David Thomson hosted the film in 2010 when the New York Film Festival asked him [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Love Etc.’: looking for romance in New York City</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/meyers/2012/02/02/%e2%80%98love-etc-%e2%80%99-looking-for-romance-in-new-york-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Meyers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['Love Etc.']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brooklyn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debra Monk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jill Andresevic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julie White]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oprah Winfrey Network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott Ellis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Upper East Side]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Valentine's Day]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Director Jill Andresevic delivers a classy variation on reality television in her documentary, “Love Etc.” debuting tonight at 8 p.m. on the Oprah Winfrey Network. Andresevic spent a year tracking five big city love stories — from an elderly Brooklyn couple who have been married for a half century (below) to two high school seniors [...]]]></description>
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