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'Auguries of Innocence' by Patti Smith
Who would have guessed, in the mid-1970s, that Patti Smith would end up as the visionary poet-mother of rock 'n' roll? Smith's brilliant early career seemed likely to end in burnout; as she intoned, memorably, at the start of her 1975 debut album,...Tags: Book, Poetry, Death, Patti Smith
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Total Eclipse
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday November 3, 1995 "Total Eclipse" is the art-house equivalent of "Casey at the Bat." Considerable ability has gone into a potential home run scenario, but the result is a big whiff all the way around. Written by Christopher Hampton,...Tags: Poetry, Jim Carroll, Agnieszka Holland, David Thewlis, Leonardo DiCaprio
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Illuminating performance from Upshaw
Tribune music criticDawn Upshaw's local fans, no doubt sorely disappointed over the singer's defection from the cast of Lyric Opera's "The Great Gatsby" last fall, got a chance to bask in another facet of her vocal art Thursday night at Symphony Center. The widely admired...Tags: Music Industry, Arts and Culture, Arthur Honegger
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Movie review: 'Copying Beethoven'
Tribune movie critic3 stars (out of four) Agnieszka Holland's "Copying Beethoven"--a bio-drama on the great composer and musical hero Ludwig van Beethoven--is a movie with some flaws but also with moments of beauty and intensity most other films can't match. A fanciful...Tags: Phyllida Law, Michael Mann, Literature, Music Industry, Philip Seymour Hoffman
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When famous writers feud
Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald are not the only literary friends to see their relationship go cold. Indeed, the history of literature is a history of betrayals, of writers turning on each other and collaborations falling apart. Below, we give...Tags: Jack Kerouac, Punishment, Crimes, Crime, Law and Justice, Mario Vargas Llosa
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Remembering Jim Carroll
Jim Carroll, who died Friday of a heart attack at 60 in Manhattan, was a legend by the time he was 13. That's when the poet Ted Berrigan took him to visit Jack Kerouac, who took a look at some of Jim's writing and said, "Jim Carroll writes better prose...Tags: Jack Kerouac, Death, Frank O'Hara, Patti Smith, Larry Rivers
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