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Relativity Media deal opens film door to China
Independent studio Relativity Media is jumping into the fast-growing Chinese film market with a deal that gives it a stake in a local production company and a means to release its own movies in the country.
Relativity said Sunday evening that it was...Tags: Relativity Media, Entertainment, Culture, Snow White (fictional character), Arts and Culture
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Robert Gates warns: 'We are now in uncharted waters' with our dysfunctional politics
Top of the TicketRobert Gates speaks candidly about the troubles in the nation's Capitol.... -
John Payton dies at 65; prominent civil rights attorney
John Payton, a leading civil rights lawyer who defended the University of Michigan's affirmative action policy before the Supreme Court and led the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, has died. He was 65.
Payton died Thursday at Johns Hopkins...Tags: Lawyers, Culture, Minority Groups, University of Michigan, Bill Clinton
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Acting Getty Museum director David Bomford is leaving
Culture MonsterDavid Bomford, who has been acting director of the Getty Museum since the 2010 departure of former director Michael Brand, will leave the Getty and return to London, where he will "pursue research, scholarship and writing." He will leave Feb. 1, 2011.... -
Wynton Marsalis named 'cultural correspondent' for CBS News
Culture MonsterThe trumpeter-composer Wynton Marsalis adds to an already busy schedule with a network TV gig that begins in January 2012.... -
Reading L.A.: Admirers of Los Angeles, warts and all
Culture MonsterChristopher Hawthorne's "Reading L.A." series considers books by Richard Longstreth, John Chase and William Alexander McClung.... -
Chinese will hear Ai Weiwei's appeal on tax evasion
World NowIn a possible softening of their stance toward a leading dissident, Chinese authorities are allowing artist Ai Weiwei to appeal a fine for tax evasion, Ai’s representatives said on Friday.... -
Simpsons dolls banned in Iran as 'promoters of Western culture'
World NowSorry kids: The Simpsons are now forbidden in Tehran. An agency tied to the Iranian government has banned dolls of the cartoon characters, an Iranian newspaper reported Monday. According to Shargh, an independent newspaper, the Simpsons were banned to... -
Renato Dulbecco dies at 97; 1975 Nobel Prize winner in medicine
Dr. Renato Dulbecco, an Italian American virologist who shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for demonstrating how certain types of viruses invade mammalian cells to cause cancer, died of natural causes Sunday at his home in La Jolla....Tags: Obituaries, Viral Diseases and Infections, Preventative Medicine, Nobel Prize Awards, Culture
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'Simpsons' to Iran: 'This means war!'
Show TrackerIran has banned the sale of "Simpsons" dolls within its borders. In response, Al Jean, executive producer of "The Simpsons" has declared, "This means war!"... -
Wait! Isn't that Marge Simpson behind that veil?
Opinion L.A.D'oh! I shouldn't have sent that Maggie Simpson doll to the orphanage in Tehran! The Associated Press is reporting that the Iranian government is banning the sale in Iran of Homer, Marge, Lisa and Maggie Simpson dolls. An official of...... -
Al Pacino, Andre Watts among National Medal of Arts winners
Culture MonsterAl Pacino and Andre Watts are among the National Medal of Arts winners announced Friday. President Obama will confer the awards on Monday at the White House....
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