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Critic's Notebook: When going from stage to screen, things change in between
The art of adaptation, as the rash of movies derived from plays this season attests, is never easy. The best artistic looters of all time — Shakespeare, the Greek tragedians — recognized that independent vision is everything. Borrowing didn'...Tags: Concerts, Keira Knightley, World War I (1914-1918), Mike Nichols, Coriolanus (movie)
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No laughs but plenty of relevance in 'The Trojan Women'
Now is the summer of our discontent. If you'd like a little theatrical relief from all that's ailing America's body politic, Anne Bogart and SITI Company are probably not your ticket.
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Tragedian's name: The...Tags: Politics, Poetry, World War II (1939-1945), The Getty, Human Interest
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Opera review: 'Heart of a Soldier'
Culture MonsterMark Swed reviews the premiere of Christopher Theofanidis' "Heart of a Soldier," a celebration of the life of Rick Rescorla, who saved 2700 workers at the World Trade Center on 9/11. The audience was moved. But the opera only emphasized the obvious.... -
Patricia Neal dies at 84; Oscar-winning actress found triumphs in a life of tragedies
Her life was marked by professional triumphs, including a Tony Award-winning debut on Broadway in Lillian Hellman's 1946 drama "Another Part of the Forest" and a best actress Oscar for her role in the 1963 drama "Hud."
But for Patricia Neal, the husky-...Tags: Paul Newman, Ronald Reagan, Homes, Literature, A Christmas Story (movie)
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At the intersection of grief and destiny
Special to the Los Angeles TimesRed Hook Road A Novel Ayelet Waldman Doubleday: 344 pp., $25.95 Ayelet Waldman is a worrier. Because she is the mother of four children, ages 7 to 16, that shouldn't be surprising. Her last book, "Bad Mother," a work of nonfiction, outlined many of...Tags: Upper West Side, Upper East Side, Robert Altman, Children, Family
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Tragedy at Germany's Love Parade: As death toll rises, organizers disband event
Pop & HissAt least 19 people reportedly died at the Love Parade, a well-known dance event in the German city of Duisburg, and more than 340 were said to be injured as the apparent closure of a gate resulted in a suffocating...... -
L.A. County dithered, children died
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterBy the time he was rescued last year, the 5-year-old South Los Angeles boy was so malnourished his kidneys were failing. His hands were so badly burned he could barely open them. Child welfare officials traced his history, trying to make sense of what...Tags: Crimes, Society, Social Services, Employees, Los Angeles Police Department
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IRAN: Ayatollah calls government a 'military regime,' calls for clerical revolt [Updated]
Babylon & BeyondAn influential and high-ranking Iranian cleric has issued a scathing denunciation of the Islamic Republic's current leadership, calling on senior Shiite Muslim clergy in the Iranian holy cities of Qom and Mashhad as well as the Iraqi shrine city of...... -
Theater review: 'Peace' at Getty Villa
Culture MonsterThe comedies of Aristophanes???so sanely rebellious, so tastily profane???are perhaps more tantalizing to us moderns than the ancient Greek tragedies. They are also more theatrically elusive, loaded with topical references that require either heavy... -
Does America need more gun control?
Today's topic: Richard Poplawski, the alleged gunman in the April 4 Pittsburgh shootings, reportedly obtained his weapons legally. Jiverly Wong, who killed 13 people in New York state on April 4, also bought his guns legally, having passed background...Tags: Crimes, Politics, Ronald Reagan, Massacres, Death
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'Angels and Ages' by Adam Gopnik
Angels and Ages A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life Adam Gopnik Alfred A. Knopf: 224 pp., $24.95 It is an exploration more than a settlement. Adam Gopnik calls his thoughts about Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln a "short book."...Tags: Democracy, Politics, Death, Charles Darwin, White House
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U.S. Olympic media summit: Time to turn off the cynicism
L.A. Times Olympics BlogReporting from Chicago -- Sometimes we cynical journalists (redundant, I know) moan and roll our eyes when TV networks air those up-close-and-personal features that focus on the incredible obstacles athletes have overcome to reach the Olympics. But...
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