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Friday, July 14, 2006

`Crash’ fight moves to the small screen

Entertainment | By Greg Braxton | July 14, 2006
The clash over “Crash” rages on. Read more
 

Thursday, June 29, 2006

Crash’ gets Humanitas pat

News | June 29, 2006
The Oscar-winning “Crash” picked up another honor Wednesday as writers Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco won the feature film category of the annual Humanitas Prizes for movie and TV screenplays that entertain, engage and enrich the viewing public.” Read more
 

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

`Crash’ Suit Hits Hurdle

Business | By Robert W. Welkos | June 13, 2006
The legal skirmish over who deserves credit for producing the Academy Award-winning film “Crash” has taken a new twist. Read more
 

Wednesday, March 8, 2006

The Best Picture Misses the Big Picture

California | Local | By Steve Lopez | March 8, 2006
Standing cautiously but bravely at the intersection of Beverly and Normandie, I could feel the racial tension in the air. Read more
 

Tuesday, March 7, 2006

`Crash’ Takes the Award for Best Oscar Campaign

Business | By James Bates | March 7, 2006
At one point during his Oscar monologue Sunday night, host Jon Stewart rattled off the names of some of the actors he spotted in the Kodak Theatre who were in the movie “Crash”: Sandra Bullock, Matt Dillon, Don Cheadle, Terrence Howard, Brendan Fraser and Ryan Phillippe. Read more
 

Monday, March 6, 2006

`Brokeback’ dreams crash and burn as the academy’s voters play it safe

Entertainment | By Kenneth Turan | March 6, 2006
SOMETIMES you win by losing, and nothing has proved what a powerful, taboo-breaking, necessary film “Brokeback Mountain” was more than its loss Sunday night to “Crash” in the Oscar best picture category. Read more
 

Sunday, March 5, 2006

Typecast in an urban drama

Entertainment | By Christopher Hawthorne | March 5, 2006
AS Hollywood sees it, there are two and only two kinds of big cities in America: dense, vertical ones in the New York mold, and sprawling, atomized ones such as Los Angeles. Read more
 

Saturday, March 4, 2006

Credits on a collision course

Entertainment | By John Horn | March 4, 2006
It’s a tale of the forces that bring people together and tear them apart – a contemporary drama set in Los Angeles, overflowing with trust and betrayal, exhilaration and recrimination, hope and despair. Read more
 

Thursday, March 2, 2006

Credit and Cash Fuel Clashes Over `Crash’

Business | By John Horn | March 2, 2006
Just days before an Academy Awards ceremony in which it could win a best-picture Oscar, “Crash” is triggering a messy pileup at the courthouse. Read more
 

Crash’ takes profanity honor

News | March 2, 2006
It’s up for several honors at Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony, but already “Crash” has taken first prize when it comes to the most curse words in a movie nominated for a best picture Oscar, according to the movie tracking group FamilyMediaGuide.com. Read more
 

Differing Views of Race in L.A. Collide in `Crash’

California | Local | By Cara Mia Dimassa | March 2, 2006
Los Angeles Police Chief William J. Bratton has seen the film three times, and encouraged the deputy chief in charge of LAPD’s professional standards to pass copies around the department. Read more
 

Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Film editors honor ‘Line’ and ‘Crash’

Entertainment | February 21, 2006
Crash” and “Walk the Line” shared top honors at the American Cinema Editors’ 56th annual awards. Read more
 

Friday, February 10, 2006

`Crash’ Producer Loses His Bid for Oscar Credit

Business | By John Horn | February 10, 2006
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences rejected Thursday an appeal by Bob Yari, the financier of best-picture nominee “Crash,” ruling that the film’s Oscar-night producer credits would exclude Yari in favor of director Paul Haggis and Yari’s estranged producing partner Cathy Schulman. Read more
 

Wednesday, February 1, 2006

Crash’ producers collide with new rule

Entertainment | By Robert W. Welkos | February 1, 2006
Mark R. Harris has a question. Read more
 

Saturday, December 31, 2005

Crash,’ Singleton win critics awards

Entertainment | By Rene Lynch | December 31, 2005
The African American Film Critics Assn. Read more
 

Monday, May 30, 2005

Cultural ‘Crash’ at the water cooler

Entertainment | By Chris Lee | May 30, 2005
With its depiction of multicultural Los Angeles as a city riven by racial strife, urban ennui and class warfare, “Crash” has sharply divided film critics. Read more
 
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