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Film Independent announces lineup for Los Angeles Film Festival
24 Frames"Magic Mike," Steven Soderbergh's dramatic comedy set in the world of male strippers, will have its world premiere as the closing night program of the Los Angeles Film Festival next month. The film, which stars Matthew McConaughey and Channing Tatum,... -
Critic's Notebook: Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter share literary legacy
Sometimes you can't put your finger on what you've been missing until you encounter it again. After seeing two fine revivals of plays by Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter — "Waiting for Godot" at the Mark Taper Forum and the British production of...
Tags: Christopher Fry, Jean Cocteau, Poetry, James Joyce, Literature
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Music review: Monday Evening Concerts premieres Kurtag's Beckett
Culture MonsterMark Swed reviews the terrifying and cathartic performance of baritone Nicholas Isherwood in the Monday Evening Concerts U.S. premiere of György Kurtág’s “…pas á pas – nulle part....”... -
Albert Camus died on this day in 1960
Jacket CopyWhen French writer Albert Camus was killed in a car wreck 52 years ago, he was carrying a manuscript that would be published only decades later.... -
Henry Carlisle dies at 84; author, translator helped bring Solzhenitsyn's work to Western audiences
Henry Carlisle, a San Francisco author, translator and former editor who with his wife helped bring two works by Alexander Solzhenitsyn to Western audiences, has died. He was 84.
Carlisle died of complications from pneumonia July 11 in San Francisco,...Tags: Politics, Career and Workplace, Civil Rights, Literature, Human Interest
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C'est vrai? Camus was killed by the KGB?
Jacket CopyDid the KGB cause the car wreck that killed Albert Camus?... -
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Critic's Notebook: Under the influence of Hemingway
Los Angeles Times Book CriticFor much of the 1980s, beginning when I was in college, I used to read a Hemingway book a year. The point was not self-improvement but rather a kind of exploration: What was it, exactly, about his writing that I'd missed? I had read "The Sun Also Rises"...Tags: Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Human Interest, Unrest, Conflicts and War, John Dos Passos
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PASSINGS: Ernesto Sabato, Henry Cooper, Olaf Helmer
Ernesto Sabato
Argentine writer presided over probe of rulers
Argentine writer Ernesto Sabato, 99, a widely admired intellectual who presided over a probe into the crimes committed by the nation's military rulers, died Saturday of complications from...Tags: Muhammad Ali, Abusive Behavior, Science and Technology, Thomas Mann, Buenos Aires (Argentina)
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Five summers, memorable for the reading
Times Book Critic1974: Unhappy at summer camp, I holed up in my bunk and read Philip Roth's "Portnoy's Complaint" and Bernard Malamud's "The Natural." The camp might have been awful, but the books were anything but. 1980: In June, I attended a writers conference at UC...Tags: University of California, Berkeley, Henry Miller, Jean Genet, Joan Didion, Walker Percy
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Happy birthday, Marilyn Monroe
Jacket CopyHappy 85th birthday, Marilyn Monroe, reader of Ulysses and Bertrand Russell.... -
Noah Charney's 'Stealing the Mystic Lamb': Book Review
Special to The Los Angeles TimesBy what measures do we assign "greatness" to artworks? The word of experts? Public acclaim? Monetary value? By these standards, Jan and Hubert van Eyck's "The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb," also known as the Ghent Altarpiece, surely warrants a place in...Tags: Crimes, Politics, Armed Forces, Defense, Adolf Hitler
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