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Man About Town: Valentine's candyland at Sweet! Hollywood
I'm in my traditional Cupidian buying frenzy leading up to Valentine's Day, my major organs bursting with good intentions, not knowing quite where to turn, getting a little angry about it actually — the frustrations of unbridled romance, bordering...
Tags: Marilyn Monroe, Herbalife Limited, Marshmallows, Boxing Day, Holidays
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Book review: 'Holidays in Heck' by P.J. O'Rourke
Tribune NewspapersP.J. O'Rourke has written so many books of humor that no one is quite sure how many. I have it on good authority that it's 15, but since I finished writing this sentence, he may have written yet another. That's how fast he is. I've enjoyed O'Rourke's...Tags: Hemorrhoids, P.J. O'Rourke, Dave Barry, Travel, Cancer
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This Sunday: James M. Cain minus the noir
Jacket CopyJames M. Cain's lengthy essay "Paradise" is reprinted this week. We also include some faces to watch in 2012... -
Rodriguez: The 'Mad Men' mystique
Who the heck would want to be like Betty or her ad man ex, Don?
That's what I asked myself recently when I passed a Banana Republic window display featuring the retailer's new "Mad Men"-inspired clothing collection.
"Are you a Betty?" read a poster with...Tags: Culture, AMC (tv network), Television Industry, Civil Rights, Justice and Rights
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Book review: 'Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned' by John A. Farrell
Special to the Los Angeles TimesClarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned John A. Farrell Doubleday: 400 pp., $32.50 For five stormy, pivotal decades, Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) was a towering figure in U.S. jurisprudence and politics. He served as defense lawyer for the people...Tags: Prosecution, Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation, Juvenile Delinquency, Civil Rights
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Boomers vs. Gen Xers: Who's had it better?
Opinion L.A.Age doesn’t define us the way it did for baby boomers, wrote Alene Dawson in a recent Image feature about Gen Xers now rounding 40. Thanks in part to progress made by boomers -- especially the activists among them who...... -
Michele Bachmann and me -- like twins!
Opinion L.A.Michele Bachmann, my political soul sister! I've been saying for weeks that Democrats are missing a huge opportunity if they don't make these six words the centerpiece of their economic campaign: "Bring back the Reagan tax rates." And now I...... -
$100,000 Kingsley Tufts poetry prize accepting nominations
Jacket CopyKingsley Tufts smoked a pipe and wrote poetry about martinis. His widow sold their house to establish a $100,000 poetry award in his name.... -
A Hollywood Riddle: Why do we always think current movies are worse than ever?
The Big PictureIn the middle of Woody Allen’s “Midnight in Paris,” Owen Wilson’s character finds himself mysteriously transported to the Paris of the 1920s, which is populated with a host of cultural icons, including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott... -
From the Stacks – 'Facts You Should Know About California'
The Daily MirrorSince March, when I examined Louis Adamic’s “The Truth About Los Angeles,” I have been hunting the other pamphlets he wrote for E. Haldeman-Julius. A box of a dozen musty tracts arrived Friday, courtesy of EBay, and I immediately dug....... -
The Morning Fix: 'Hangover II' cures Hollywood blues. PBS hacked! Dauman made how much?
Company TownAfter the coffee. Before pretending to be excited about going back to work. The Skinny. I went into "Hangover II" not expecting much and I wasn't disappointed. I walked out after about an hour. My rule is: You may steal...... -
Book review: 'At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing,' edited by George Kimball and John Schulian
Special to the Los Angeles TimesAt the Fights American Writers on Boxing Edited by George Kimball & John Schulian Library of America: 517 pp., $35 Part freak show, part sitcom, part mortal combat — ah, yes, behold the world of professional prizefighting, the face-break...Tags: Mark Twain, Ring Lardner Jr., Jane Austen, Damon Runyon, Book
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