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Roger Ebert: A look back at five reviews of fan-favorite films
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesFilm criticism lost a singularly significant voice Thursday with the death of Pulitzer Prize winner Roger Ebert, who lost his ...... -
L.A. Philharmonic's young composers program fine-tunes talent
It wasn't B.J. Thomas, exactly, but musical raindrops seemed to be falling in a white-walled rehearsal room next to Walt Disney Concert Hall, courtesy of Milo Talwani, one of the L.A. composers least likely to write melody, let alone ear candy, into a...
Tags: Awards and Prizes, Schools, Cornell University, University of California, Los Angeles, Entertainment Events
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USC journalism school loses new leader after just two days
The search for a new director of USC’s journalism school has taken a confusing turn after a Northwestern University professor accepted the job but then suddenly withdrew two days later. Douglas Foster’s reversal and decision not to head up...
Tags: Journalism, Entertainment Events, Geneva (Kane, Illinois), Northwestern University
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Alan Wood dies at 90; provided Iwo Jima flag in World War II
Alan Wood never claimed to be a hero, but he did play a supporting role in one of World War II's most stirring moments. It was at Iwo Jima on Feb. 23, 1945. Straining into the wind, five Marines and a Navy corpsman planted the Stars and Stripes on the...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Christianity, Anglicanism, Religion and Belief
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Roger Ebert dies at 70; Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic
Roger Ebert, the Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic whose gladiatorial "thumbs-up, thumbs-down" assessments turned film reviewing into a television sport and whose passion for independent film helped introduce a new generation of filmmakers to...
Tags: J.J. Abrams, Ebertfest, Awards and Prizes, Weight, Chicago Tribune
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R.I.P. Roger Ebert! 'Evil Dead' to battle 'G.I. Joe: Retaliation.'
After the coffee. Before trying to find somewhere to hide. The Skinny: One of my favorite things about Roger Ebert, besides his movie reviews and musings on life, was his willingness to go on Howard Stern's show and have a few laughs with the shock...
Tags: Kenneth Turan, The Tonight Show (tv program), Jurassic Park (movie), Television, The Walt Disney Co.
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Roger Ebert: First citizen critic and father to us all
It was fitting that Roger Ebert's death caused Twitter to explode Thursday with film and TV critics, cultural recappers and entertainment bloggers sending their best wishes across the coded universe to mark, and perhaps aid, the passing of the iconic film...
Tags: Journalism, Entertainment Events, Netflix Inc., Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert
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Film critic Roger Ebert dies at 70
Roger Ebert, the Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic whose gladiatorial “thumbs up, thumbs down” assessments turned film reviewing into a television sport and whose passion for independent film helped introduce a new generation of filmmakers...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Chicago Sun-Times, Reviews, Roger Ebert, Obituaries
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Five unexpected ways Roger Ebert changed film journalism
It's hard to sum up one man's achievements in any article or post. It's even harder if that man is Roger Ebert, who in no particular order was critic, TV personality, social-media guru, blogger, scholar, screenwriter and advocate. Still, there are...
Tags: Steven Spielberg, Journalism, Entertainment Events, Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert
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Introducing the Los Angeles Times map of Literary Los Angeles
Just in time for the upcoming Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, The Times' books staff has created an interactive map of Literary Los Angeles, a work in progress. We’ve gathered passages from more than two dozen books set in and around L.A., as...
Tags: Festive Events, Entertainment Events, Arts and Culture, Ray Bradbury, Ernest Hemingway
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'The Burgess Boys' lack compelling main characters
Elizabeth Strout wrote about a small Maine town in her Pulitzer Prize-winning 2008 novel "Olive Kitteridge," a lyrical and heartbreaking series of interconnected short stories that revolve around the overbearing title character. Things happen in "Olive...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Human Interest, Fiction
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Remembering Roger Ebert: Join our video conversation
Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic Roger Ebert died Thursday in Chicago, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. A nationwide audience of movie fans got to know him in the 1980s via the TV show "At the Movies," which he originally co-hosted with Gene Siskel....
Tags: Entertainment Events, Chicago Sun-Times, Holly Robinson Peete, Roger Ebert, Health Treatments
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