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Book Review: 'The Eyes of Willie McGee' by Alex Heard
The Eyes of Willie McGee
A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in the Jim Crow South
Alex Heard
Harper: 404 pp., $26.99
In Jim Crow's dark closet, countless skeletons lie moldering and forgotten. For every "cold case" prosecution that brings a doddering...Tags: Sex Crimes, Rape, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, FBI
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Is American fiction dead?
Jacket CopyYes, J.D. Salinger is dead; he died Jan. 27, exactly a year after the death of John Updike. And yes, we lost Kurt Vonnegut and Norman Mailer in 2007. But do four deceased literary lions constitute a death sentence for...... -
Monster Mash: Autry president to retire; Einstein's theory of relativity goes public; LuPone's ballet debut
Culture Monster--Bidding farewell: John L. Gray, president of the Autry National Center of the American West, will announce his retirement today. (Los Angeles Times) --Scientific treasure: The original 46-page manuscript of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity... -
The ladies loved Norman Mailer
Jacket CopyNorman Mailer had been married five rather tumultuous times -- he stabbed his second wife with a knife in 1960, sending her to the hospital -- before getting together with Norris Church in the mid-1970s. Mailer was an outsized character....... -
He's a murderer. He should die.
, district attorney of Clatsop County, Ore., is vice president of the National District Attorneys Assn. and coauthor of "Debating the Death Penalty."There are heartfelt moral and religious reasons to oppose capital punishment, but holding up Stanley Tookie Williams as a symbol of redemption is absurd and obscene. It is especially offensive to his victims' families, whose names the celebrities...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Children, Celebrities, Death, Prisons
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High-minded lowdown
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIn the long and often embarrassing history of intellectuals' attempts to grapple with pop culture, there are, at least, a few high points. One of them is the work of the late Leslie Fiedler, the garrulous and provocative critic of literature who could...Tags: Marshall McLuhan, Jerry Lewis, Elvis Presley, Bessie Smith, Music
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William F. Buckley Jr., 82; author and founder of modern conservative movement
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWilliam F. Buckley Jr., the columnist, novelist, talk show host and tireless intellectual who founded the modern conservative movement and was its articulate voice for nearly six decades, died today. He was 82. Buckley, who had been ill with emphysema,...Tags: Government, Politics, Stamford, William F. Buckley, Death
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Presidential powers don't extend to pop culture.
We're asking a lot of Barack Obama, just to right the sinking ship of American politics. Can we expect him to save American culture as well? Can a president spin that much gossamer from his oratory? Can the American people make better books, movies and...Tags: Thelonious Monk, White House, Documentary (genre), Journalism, John F. Kennedy
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Champion of the American novel
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterApril 10, 2008 NEW YORK -- The late Norman Mailer, a novelist and cultural provocateur who was rarely at a loss for words, was remembered at a memorial service Wednesday as a man whose deep and abiding commitment to the American novel will be his most...Tags: William F. Buckley, Journalism, Don DeLillo, William Kennedy, Death
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Obama: star of his own movie
THE MOST UBIQUITOUS POLITICAL trope of the presidential campaign has been that Barack Obama is not just any old politician; he's a "rock star." (There are 770,000 Google hits of Obama and "rock star" and counting.) He attracts the kind of huge crowds that...Tags: Politics, Colleges and Universities, Robert Redford, Cary Grant, Walt Disney
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Even for Neil Gaiman, 'The Sandman' is a singular dream
Even in casual conversation, British author Neil Gaiman sometimes sounds as if he's narrating some dark fairy tale -- his sentences slither across old stone floors or flit on gossamer wings. He also happens to live in a rambling Minnesota manse that...Tags: Stephen King, William Shakespeare, Tim Burton, Fantasy (genre), Charles Addams
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Jose Torres dies at 72; former light heavyweight world champion
Jose Torres, a former light heavyweight world champion and Olympic silver medalist, died Monday of a heart attack at his home in Ponce, Puerto Rico, said his wife, Ramonita. He was 72. Torres won the light heavyweight title in 1965 by stopping Willie...Tags: Politics, Sports, Death, Radio Industry, 2016 Olympic Games
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