Picket signs greeted director John Huston’s at the Fox Wilshire Theater in Beverly Hills. The protesters were identified as members of the 17th District American Legion Un-American Activities ...

LOS ANGELES, May 18 -- Few movies these days are better than their trailers or TV commercials. Fortunately, "Moulin Rouge," Baz Luhrmann's peculiar but ambitious and entertaining musical, is funnier ...

Baz Luhrmann's frenetic musical was named best film of the year by the National Board of Review. That may be stretching things a bit but it's still a movie worth seeing. Nicole Kidman stars as Satine, ...

You might think people would have enough silly love songs by now. One look at Baz Luhrmann's odd neo-musical Moulin Rouge might convince you that isn't so. Moulin Rouge is that rarest of summertime ...

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CANCAN dancers, red-scarved showmen, absinthe bars, slumming aristocrats. . . . Few images are more familiar than Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's posters of Montmartre and its demimonde. He, his subjects ...

After two seasons dancing with the Orlando Ballet, Deonte Hansel has gotten much closer to his Gwinnett dance roots -- the 22-year-old is now performing with the Atlanta Ballet in its season opener ...