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Lerner also appeared in several bigger blockbusters over the years, including 'Godzilla' 'X-Men: Days of Future Past,' and 'Mirror Mirror.'

Michael Lerner, the Brooklyn-born character actor who played a myriad of imposing figures in his 60 years in the business, including monologuing movie mogul Jack Lipnick in “Barton Fink,” the crooked club owner Bugsy Calhoun in “Harlem Nights” and an angry publishing...

Lerner also appeared in several bigger blockbusters over the years, including 'Godzilla' 'X-Men: Days of Future Past,' and 'Mirror Mirror.'

Michael Lerner, a prolific character actor with credits that include Eight Men Out, Barton Fink and X-Men: Days of Future Past, is dead at 81.

The actor received an Oscar nomination for his performance as studio executive Jack Lipnick in the Coen brothers' feature

Now streaming on: Its not so much that the Earth is destroyed, but that its done so thoroughly. "2012," the mother of all disaster movies (and the father, and the extended family) spends half an hour on ominous set-up scenes (scientists warn, strange events occur, prophets rant and of course a family is introduced) and then unleashes two hours of cataclysmic special events hammering the Earth relentlessly. This is fun. "2012" delivers what it promises, and since no sentient being will buy a tic...

CANNES, France--Going to see "Godzilla" at the Palais of the Cannes Film Festival is like attending a satanic ritual in St. Peters Basilica. Its a rebuke to the faith that the building represents. Cannes touchingly adheres to a belief that film can be intelligent, moving and grand. "Godzilla" is a big, ugly, ungainly device to give teenagers the impression they are seeing a movie. It was the festivals closing film, coming at the end like the horses in a parade, perhaps for the same reason. It r...