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'Mickey Mouse Club' star Annette Funicello dies at 70
Annette Funicello, the dark-haired darling of TV's “The Mickey Mouse Club” in the 1950s who further cemented her status as a pop-culture icon in the '60s by teaming with Frankie Avalon in a popular series of “beach” movies, died...
Tags: ABC (tv network), Arts and Culture, Frankie Avalon, Obituaries, Annette Funicello
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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 ...... -
Only in death will Margaret Thatcher speak -- in an authorized bio
Margaret Thatcher signed a contract for an authorized biography more than 16 years ago. For reasons that will soon become clear, she granted writer Charles Moore an exclusive series of interviews and access to her papers on the condition that the book...
Tags: Government, Politics, Authors, Arts and Culture, Nelson Mandela
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Broad Stage announces 2013-14 season, jazz initiative, fundraising
For its 2013-14 season, the Broad Stage in Santa Monica will present appearances by actress Patti LuPone, opera singer Bryn Terfel, violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and the Los Angeles dance group Bodytraffic. Members of the Simon Bolivar Symphony...
Tags: Julian Sands, Music, Jane Austen, Quincy Jones, Patti LuPone
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Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz to star together on Broadway
Hollywood power couple Daniel Craig (a.k.a. James Bond) and Rachel Weisz (most recently in "Oz: The Great and Powerful") are to head to Broadway in the fall, costarring as husband and wife in Harold Pinter's "Betrayal." Tony Award winner Mike Nichols is...
Tags: Tony Awards, London Theatre, Rachel Weisz, Arts and Culture, Oz the Great and Powerful (movie)
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Kate Atkinson's 'Life After Life' is a clever creation
There's a bit of Edward Gorey-esque glee in the way Kate Atkinson keeps knocking off her main character in "Life After Life." And yet, she manages to invest these repeated deaths with poetry and emotion. This ingenious narrative conceit — the...
Tags: Authors, Arts and Culture, Bird Flu, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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A celebration of all things books at USC
Since background-check legislation was voted down in the Senate on Thursday, Adam Winkler, author of "Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America," expects a "lively" conversation at his panel on guns in America at the 18th annual Los...
Tags: Jamaica, Politics, Public Transportation, Ender's Game (movie), Music
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Review: Tom Cruise's 'Oblivion' a sci-fi adventure to remember
"Oblivion" will make you remember, not forget. This Tom Cruise vehicle is a throwback to the days when on-screen science fiction was about speculative ideas rather than selling toys to tots — think of it as the most expensive episode of "The...
Tags: Tron Legacy (movie) , Oblivion (movie), The Matrix (movie), New York Public Library, Life of Pi (movie)
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‘House of Secrets’: Steven T. Seagle reflects on his haunted past
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesWriter Steven T. Seagle and artist Teddy Kristiansen are best known in the comics world for their collaboration on Seagle's ...... -
The funniest books in Britain? Wodehouse Prize shortlist announced
The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction announced its shortlist Thursday, with five novelists competing for the title of Britain's funniest author with the book that "best captures the comic spirit of P.G. Wodehouse," the author of, among...
Tags: French Literature, David Campbell, Justice System, Authors, Crime, Law and Justice
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Haruki Murakami to make rare speaking appearance -- in Japan
Haruki Murakami tends to stay out of the public eye. The author of the novels "1Q84," "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle," the memoir "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running," and a dozen other books has not made a public appearance in his home country,...
Tags: Authors, Arts and Culture, Steven Soderbergh, Japan, Book
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'Follow Her Home' to Marlowe territory
Raymond Chandler is among the undisputed masters of crime fiction, especially for stories set on the mean Southern California streets. His influence on crime fiction helped expand the genre's settings from sunny vicarages to gritty urban centers, set a...
Tags: Human Interest, Social Issues, Crime, Law and Justice, Adultery, Arts and Culture
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