People: Tony Curtis; Ricky Gervais; Susan Sarandon; Usher; Tom Atkins

People: Tony Curtis; Ricky Gervais; Susan Sarandon; Usher; Tom Atkins
Celebrities, fans, friends and family members said goodbye to Tony Curtis during a Las Vegas funeral service Monday celebrating the movie star’s life. The 85-year-old died Wednesday of cardiac arrest at his home in Henderson. A crowd lined up Monday outside Palm Mortuary & Cemetery well before the funeral.
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Living Life on a One-Sixth Scale in Marwencol
Exactly the sort of mysterious and almost holy experience you hope to get from documentaries and rarely do, Jeff Malmberg’s Marwencol is something like a homegrown slice of Herzog oddness, complete with true-crime backfill and juicy metafictive upshot. It begins with context: In 2000,…
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‘Waiting for Superman’ takes on teachers unions, but film’s critics defend public schools
The documentary “Waiting for Superman” doesn’t open in the Detroit area until Friday, but it’s already generating national buzz, even as it kindles debate about how to improve public schools.
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