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Megan Ellison is energizing indie film world
She's a 26-year-old former party girl with social anxiety issues, a motorcycle-riding iconoclast who dropped out of USC and attends meetings in Led Zeppelin T-shirts.
Megan Ellison is also the most powerful new producer in Hollywood, running a burgeoning...Tags: Finance, Companies and Corporations, There Will Be Blood (movie), Battleship (movie), Media Industry
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Centrist GOP candidates may offer chance to end California gridlock
SACRAMENTO — For years, running for office as a Republican in California boiled down to one core pledge, bound by a candidate's signature and enforced with a vengeance: no new taxes.
Not anymore. The state's new political landscape, scrambled by...Tags: Republican Party, Politics, Justice System, Parties and Movements, Jerry Brown
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The Siren's Call: Where's Rimbaud?
Los Angeles TimesIn the worlds of myth and literature, plenty of figures have had their "lost" years. There are, to name a few, Sherlock Holmes (after the plunge from Reichenbach Falls), the wizard Merlin (was he imprisoned in a cave or was he killed?), Shakespeare...Tags: Bob Dylan, Poetry, Literature, Dorothy Lamour, Bali (Indonesia)
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Kinsley: Overvaluing the free market
The people at the New York Times Magazine must think that nobody has ever read Ayn Rand, or maybe even Adam Smith. Their cover story on Sunday — misleadingly titled, "Are the Rich Worth a Damn?" — reports breathlessly that there is this fellow...
Tags: Finance, Jamie Dimon, Periodicals, Media Industry, Bain Capital, LLC
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McManus: Mitt Romney stays put
If you've been holding your breath to see whether Mitt Romney would pivot to the center now that it's a two-man race between him and President Obama, you can exhale; he won't. Romney made that clear in his victory speech after last week's primaries in...
Tags: Politics, White House, Health Insurance, Mitt Romney, Tea Party Movement
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Don Delillo's 'Cosmopolis,' via David Cronenberg [video]
Jacket CopyTwo masters, David Cronenberg and Don Delillo, have come together to create the film "Cosmopolis." Is it possible that's a bad thing?... -
McManus: Don't close the GOP show
We in the mainstream media harbor a dirty little secret: Most of us are rooting for Rick Santorum. It's nothing personal, although Santorum is a reasonably appealing guy. And it's not ideological; most of us aren't yearning for Bible-based social...Tags: Republican Party, Politics, Ronald Reagan, Rick Santorum, Sarah Palin
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Jon Fleischman's FlashReport is little-read but much-feared
Like so many budget sessions in Sacramento, this one had stretched late into the night. When the four leaders of the Assembly and Senate finally agreed on a package of spending cuts and modest reforms, a six-week standoff — which had forced the...Tags: Republican Party, Ronald Reagan, Jane Goodall, Media Industry, Local Elections
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Patt Morrison Asks: Robert Reich, Pre-Occupied
Robert Reich has worked in a lot of big white buildings -- in the Senate, as an intern to Robert F. Kennedy; in the office of then-Solicitor General Robert Bork; in the Ford and Carter administrations; and as labor secretary to President Clinton. Now...Tags: James Stewart, Civil Rights, Sociology, U.S. Senate, Charles Dickens
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'Atlas Shrugged Part 2' to start production in April
24 Frames"Atlas Shrugged Part 2," the second film in a proposed trilogy adapting Ayn Rand’s 1957 capitalist epic, is scheduled to start principal photography in April in Los Angeles and Colorado, with an eye toward an October 2012 theatrical release.... -
Tony Blankley dies at 63; press secretary to Speaker Newt Gingrich
Reporting from Washington -- Tony Blankley, who gained notoriety as press secretary for Newt Gingrich during the Republican takeover of Congress in the 1990s and later as a conservative commentator on radio and television, has died. He was 63.
The...Tags: Republican Party, Politics, Stomach Cancer, Ronald Reagan, Radio
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'Atlas Shrugged': Exclusive DVD excerpt and sequel plans
24 Frames“Atlas Shrugged Part I,” the first film of a proposed trilogy adapting Ayn Rand’s 1957 capitalist epic, arrives on DVD today....
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