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Hollywood sports movies: Do fans love losers as much as winners?
24 FramesMy pals who are big sports nuts love to heap scorn on Hollywood sports movies, especially when the discussion is unfolding in a bar. Their biggest complaint? The films are squishy, full of more easy sentiment than soul, with the victories being achieved... -
The Reading Life: The nine best baseball books
Los Angeles Times Book CriticFive years ago, on the eve of the 2006 baseball season, I put together a list of nine favorite baseball books — one for each inning, one for every player on the field. Such a list was not meant to be definitive (how could it be?), but since then I'...Tags: Jackie Robinson, Edd Roush, National League, Christy Mathewson, Human Interest
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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: Thomas Mann, Jean Genet, Philip Roth, Walker Percy, Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts)
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Critic's Notebook: In Discover Mode
Times Book CriticFor me, summer reading has always been about freedom. Not the freedom to dumb down with mindless entertainment but the freedom to wise up, to be ambitious, to pursue the passions that, during the rest of the year, often take a backseat to the...Tags: University of Chicago, Philip Roth, Behavioral Conditions, Schizophrenia, Walker Percy
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Batter up! 9 baseball books to kick off the season
Jacket CopyThis list of nine best baseball books by David L. Ulin includes Robert Coover -- and leaves out Boys of Summer.... -
Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated]
The Daily MirrorLos Angeles Times file photo [Update: This photo stumped the brain trust! And perhaps with good reason. It was apparently never published in The Times and is from a somewhat obscure movie called âThe Fixer,â which is not on Netflix...... -
'Backing Into Forward: A Memoir' by Jules Feiffer
Backing Into Forward
A Memoir
Jules Feiffer
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday: 450 pp., $30
Whether newspapers live or die, the prognosis for the comic strip doesn't look promising. The extinction of the form not much more than a century after its birth would...Tags: Greenwich Village, Mike Nichols, Jules Feiffer, Entertainment, Activism
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"Blockade Billy" by Stephen King
It's hard to write good baseball fiction. The game is so unlikely, so bizarre at times, that it's a challenge to the fiction writer's imagination to do it justice.
Who, for instance, could have invented Johnny Damon's at-bat in the ninth inning of Game 4...Tags: Johnny Damon, Baseball, Philip Roth, Philadelphia Phillies, All Stars
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Catching up with the National Book Awards
Jacket CopyHave you read all the National Book Award-winning novels above? If, like me, you haven't -- and it might take some time to get through them all -- the National Book Foundation has been posting helpful mini-reviews and essays on...... -
Joel and Ethan Coen's latest brings the oy vey
Brand XThe latest film from Ethan and Joel Coen has the unmemorable title 'A Serious Man,' but thatâ??s about the only unmemorable thing about it. Like so much of their work, it straddles comedy and sheer grimness; while the tone is substantially lighter than... -
Writers and editors
Writers and editors George MacDonald Fraser, 82; author of the "Flashman" series of historical adventure novels (Jan. 2) Gilbert A. Harrison, 92; editor of the New Republic, helped launch new talent (Jan. 3) Philip Agee, 72; former CIA official wrote...Tags: Biography (genre), Journalism, Jackie Robinson, Mahmoud Darwish, Religious Conflicts
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High-minded lowdown
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIn the long and often embarrassing history of intellectuals' attempts to grapple with pop culture, there are, at least, a few high points. One of them is the work of the late Leslie Fiedler, the garrulous and provocative critic of literature who could...Tags: Greenwich Village, Biography (genre), Marshall McLuhan, French Literature, Culture
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