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Courtney Love attempts her first gallery show
Celebrity art shows usually don't merit much serious aesthetic consideration. But when the celebrity in question is Courtney Love -- the volatile Hole frontwoman and sometimes actress -- attention should be paid, if only to see how her outrageous...
Tags: Concerts, Artists, Tony Curtis, Arts, Dennis Hopper
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Kinsley: Romney, born to succeed
"I am being sunk by a society that demands success when all I can offer is failure," says the ruined theater impresario Max Bialystock in Mel Brooks' "The Producers." Mitt Romney sees things differently. As he sees it, he is offering success to a society...
Tags: Republican Party, Politics, Parties and Movements, Mitt Romney, Elections
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Monster Mash: Louvre, Leonardo; Meryl Streep, women's museum
Culture MonsterThe Louvre Museum in Paris is facing accusations that it overcleaned a painting by Leonardo da Vinci -- "The Virgin and Child With Saint Anne." Meryl Streep talks about her effort to help establish a women's history museum.... -
Christopher Hitchens dies at 62; engaging, enraging author and essayist
Christopher Hitchens, the engaging and enraging British-American author and essayist whose polemical writings on religion, politics, war and other provocations established him as one of his generation's most robust public intellectuals, has died. He was...Tags: Lymphatic System, Thomas Paine, Throat Cancer, Literature, Human Interest
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Book review: 'My Father at 100: A Memoir' by Ron Reagan
Special to the Los Angeles TimesMy Father at 100 A Memoir Ron Reagan Viking: 228 pp., $25.95 "Hinckley had loaded his pistol with a type of exploding bullet charmingly marketed as a Devastator," writes Ron Reagan, describing John Hinckley Jr.'s 1981 attempt to assassinate his...Tags: Republican Party, Crimes, Politics, Ronald Reagan, Happiness (state of mind)
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Hot Property: Gore Vidal lists Sunset Strip-area home for $3,495,000
Prolific author and playwright Gore Vidal has listed his Sunset Strip-area home for $3,495,000.
The 1929 Mediterranean villa of 4,782 square feet has a living room with a walk-in fireplace, a meditation room, a music room and an office. The main house...Tags: Homes
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Monster Mash: 'Rent'-heads rejoice; music man Anthony Hopkins; Michael Maltzan's big moment
Culture MonsterBroadway hit "Rent" will return off Broadway; Anthony Hopkins tests the musical waters; architect Michael Maltzan may have his big moment... -
Remembering Owsley "Bear" Stanley (1935-2011) [Audio]
Pop & HissThe obituary for Owsley "Bear" Stanley ran in the news pages of the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday, but it spiritually inhabits the music section. Though he never received the cult of his contemporary, Timothy Leary, the eccentric Stanley did...... -
Book review: 'The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham' by Selina Hastings
The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham
A Biography
Selina Hastings
Random House: 640 pp., $35
The story of William Somerset Maugham, the stammering young boy who became a doctor and then the world's most famous writer since Dickens, has often been told,...Tags: Crimes, Dorothy Parker, Bette Davis, Death, World War I (1914-1918)
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Bunny hops onto the trail
"Money Walks," a serial novel by 16 Los Angeles writers who will be appearing at this year's Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, runs Monday through Saturday until April 24. The festival takes place on April 25 and 26 at UCLA.
Bunny guided the old...Tags: Festive Events, University of California, Los Angeles, Death, Arts and Culture
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James Purdy dies at 94; writer best known for underground classics
From The Associated PressJames Purdy, a shocking realist and surprising romantic writer who in underground classics including "Cabot Wright Begins" and "Eustace Chisholm and the Works" inspired censorious outrage and lasting admiration, has died. Harold Associates, his literary...Tags: Dorothy Parker, Tennessee Williams, Death, Brooklyn (New York City), Susan Sontag
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Reviews are in: B'Way cast recordings
Curious about the changing sound of the Great White Way? Times Theater Critic Charles McNulty weighs in on five noteworthy cast recordings from the year on Broadway -- four from new shows that couldn't be more wildly disparate and one from a classic that'...Tags: Bette Davis, Film Festivals, Movies, Entertainment, Minority Groups
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