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Julia Mintz at her home in Northampton.

Art People: Julia Mintz | filmmaker

Friday, May 17, 2013

As she talks about Joseph Papp, the famed producer and director who pushed the boundaries of theater and changed its history, Julia Mintz lightly touches hand to heart. “I love everything about Joe Papp,” says Mintz, a Northampton filmmaker who co-produced a documentary about the man who brought Shakespeare to Central Park, broke new ground by creating interracial casts, and, … 0

FILE - This undated photo shows author Francis Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald is back on the big-screen with Leonardo DiCaprio and director Baz Luhrmann's “The Great Gatsby,” a story adapted for film and television more than half a dozen times since the silent-movie era, when it was published to scant sales in 1925. (AP Photo, File)

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Hollywood ending followed sad death

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Has-beens in Hollywood usually stay that way. Yet one writer who died there nearly forgotten 73 years ago had one of the most remarkable posthumous revivals in literary history. F. Scott Fitzgerald is back on the big-screen with Leonardo DiCaprio and director Baz Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby,” a story adapted for film and … 0

Elizabeth Debicki as Jordan Baker and Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway in "The Great Gatsby" AP Photo/Warner Bros. Pictures

Movie Capsules

Thursday, May 16, 2013

42: The life story of Jackie Robinson (Chadwick Boseman) and his history-making signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers under the guidance of team executive Branch Rickey (Harrison Ford). Also stars Nicole Beharie, Christopher Meloni, and T.R. Knight. Rated PG-13. AIN’T IN IT FOR MY HEALTH: A documentary about Levon Helm, a founding member of … 0

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