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No shrink could devise a more effective treatment for “Downton Abbey” withdrawal than “Parade’s End,” HBO’s five-hour miniseries about sacrifice, Tory love and stiff upper lips in Edwardian England.
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Actress Natalie Portman ’s fiance -- who had a minor role in “Black Swan” and masterminded her moves -- shows off his best work at Sadler’s Wells .
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Shakespeare cast boy actors to play girls dressed as boys in love with boys. Peter Hall casts his beautiful daughter Rebecca in the same way, with mysterious and alluring results.
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“Hyde Park on Hudson,” starring Bill Murray as Franklin Roosevelt, chronicles a visit the king and queen of England (Samuel West and Olivia Colman) made to FDR’s Hudson Valley, New York estate in 1939 to enlist support in the coming war with Germany.
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U.K. national treasures Penelope Keith and Peter Bowles were last seen sparring in the popular sitcom “To the Manor Born.” They now have been reunited on stage for an evening full of mistakes.
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Ben Affleck ’s new film, “ The Town ,” oozes Boston flavor. The sophisticated crime thriller features nasal accents, the Bunker Hill Monument , a shootout at Fenway Park and local lingo such as “Toonies,” which is what natives of traditionally blue-collar Charlestown call newcomers who have gentrified their neighborhood.
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Woody Allen , Robert Redford , Clint Eastwood and Ben Affleck head the list of actor/directors who will be showing their new movies at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival , which opens tonight with a musical about hockey.
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“Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” opened as the No. 1 movie in U.S. and Canadian theaters this past weekend, earning $19 million in ticket sales for News Corp. ’s Twentieth Century Fox.
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“The Social Network,” a movie chronicling the rise of Facebook Inc. founder Mark Zuckerberg , opened at No. 1 in U.S. and Canadian theaters, logging $22.4 million in ticket sales for Sony Corp.
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In “ Harry Brown ,” Michael Caine does a surprising turn as an elderly British widower seeking revenge for the murder of his best friend by teenage punks terrorizing their rundown apartment complex.
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