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Monster Mash: Art critics name top 2009 exhibitions; Tony Kushner's new play; China looking for looted artifacts
Culture Monster-- Best in show: The International Assn. of Art Critics names its best exhibitions for 2009. (Art Info)-- Sidelined: Tony Kushner's latest play no longer appears on the fast track for a Broadway engagement this spring. (Minneapolis Star-Tribune) -- They..... -
Johnny Depp explains how he picked his poison with the Mad Hatter
The Hero ComplexWe have big plans here at the Hero Complex for covering "Alice in Wonderland" and today we have an early exclusive as Rachel Abramowitz talks with star Johnny Depp about the very specific madness of the Mad Hatter. When he...... -
PASSINGS: Warren Vanderschuit, Eva Szorenyi, Eric Woolfson, Robert Kendall, Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Warren Vanderschuit
Character actor in many westerns
Warren Vanderschuit, 79, a character actor who appeared in the John Wayne film "Rooster Cogburn" and dozens of TV westerns and who had an impressive athletic career as a young man in Los Angeles, died...Tags: Television, Heart Attack, Defense, Social Issues, World War II (1939-1945)
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Balloon boy story is right out of Edgar Allan Poe
Jacket CopyThe Balloon Boy story may have been a hoax, but it if was, the Heene family is in good company. No less than Edgar Allan Poe had an entirely fictional account of a balloon voyage published in 1844 in the...... -
Dark Passages: The lesson of a master
Note: This is the second of a two-part column on the current state of contemporary detective fiction. This month: One of the masters of the form talks about the detective story.
In order to understand and properly appreciate contemporary detective...Tags: Genres, Agatha Christie, Jane Austen, Natural Resources, Wilkie Collins
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'Splatter' is vintage Roger Corman, fresh on the Web
The Hero ComplexContributor Susan King brings us some Halloween fun with this piece on the brilliant Roger Corman aiding Netflix with his cliffhanger genius. The result being an interactive three-parter, directed by Joe Dante, called "Splatter." -- Jevon Phillips When it... -
Paperback Writers: Nightmare noir
William Lindsay Gresham's novel "Nightmare Alley" (NYRB Classics: 288 pp., $16) tells the rise-and-fall story of Stan Carlisle, a hustling carnival wanna-be who transforms himself into the Great Stanton, a big-time stage magician, and then into a fake...Tags: Tyrone Power Sr., Times Square, Arts and Culture, Festive Events, Hotels and Accommodations
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Culture Monster's 13 things to do on Halloween
Culture MonsterShould the spirits move you to celebrate Halloween or Day of the Dead, arts offerings in the L.A. area abound, from the mildly scary to the incredibly creepy. Culture Monster has scared up a lucky 13. 1. THEATER OF THE...... -
Bar set low for lifetime job in L.A. schools
Altair Maine said he was so little supervised in his first few years of teaching at North Hollywood High School that he could "easily have shown a movie in class every day and earned tenure nonetheless."
Before second-grade teacher Kimberly Patterson...Tags: Regional Authority, Justice System, Government, Gray Davis, Teaching and Learning
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Ring in 2010 with something different: A sherry cocktail
Sherry cocktails have come a long way from hot sack posset. A custardy Middle Ages concoction of sherry, milk and eggs, popular first in Britain and then the New World, sack posset eventually gave way to the likes of the 19th century Bamboo, a combination...Tags: New Year's Day, Frank Sinatra, Foods and Beverages, Spain, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Who do you write like?
Jacket CopyAre your characters as snazzy as James Bond? Are your sentences lyrical as those in "Lolita"? Pop a few paragraphs into the website I Write Like to find out if you write like Ian Fleming or Vladimir Nabokov. You might......
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