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Gore Vidal's Novel 'Hollywood' Is Just Out, but the Great Curmudgeon Is Not Celebrating
IT IS DECEMBER, AND THE AIR is a wash of silky light, astringently cool, but sunny enough to allow one to bathe in multiple sensations of warmth. Under white canvas umbrellas in outdoor cafes the beautiful ladies of Rome in their beautiful furs cross...Tags: Bars and Clubs, Rome (Italy), Coca-Cola Co., Pulitzer Prize Awards, Jim Belushi
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Decline and Vidal
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAccording to Gore Vidal, American society has three ways of handling its critics: "One is to black you out altogether, which they did with Noam Chomsky--he can't get published anywhere; he's been made a nonperson. Or they demonize you, which they did with...Tags: Judaism, Biography (genre), Newspaper and Magazine, Entertainment, Truman Capote
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Gore Vidal's "Live from Gologatha: The Gospel According to Gore Vidal"
If God exists and Jesus is His son, then Gore Vidal is going to hell. And if God is a Jew, Vidal is no better off. There's enough to outrage everyone in this audacious and courageous send-up of "the story of Our Lord Jesus Christ as told in the three...Tags: Christianity, Orson Welles, Entertainment, Television, Jesus Christ
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Pages Open for Dunne, Didion
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAs John Dunne sees it, a writer's life has two states: writing and having written. Right now Dunne is in the latter one and relieved. He finished his book, "The Red, White and Blue," on April 6, 1986, at 2:06 in the afternoon, he says with his passion for...Tags: Nora Ephron, Anne Bancroft, Tom Brokaw, El Salvador, West Hartford
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Hollywood Chronicles
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe screenwriter-narrator in Ray Bradbury's new novel, a murder mystery set in Hollywood in the '50s, refers to them affectionately as the loonies, the jerks, the idiots, the goons. They're the starry-eyed autograph hounds who loitered in front of the...Tags: Teen-agers, Ray Harryhausen, Science and Technology, Entertainment, W.C. Fields
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Mila Kunis: She is Ashton Kutcher's 'good friend' -- got it?
Liz Smith"I DON'T understand personal salvation. It seems to me a vain idea," wrote the late playwright Lillian Hellman. Hmmm. Something else to ponder. Want to read a really interesting book? Try "A Difficult Woman" by Alice Kessler-Harris, all about the...Tags: Nicole Kidman, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Liz Smith, Scientology, GQ
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A tweenager toys with new identity
Tribune NewspapersA funny thing happens when a retired journalist brings his 20-plus years of word craft to fiction writing — namely, the birth of a 12-year-old boy named Max, whose angles are shaped by David Foster Wallace, Norman Mailer and the author himself,...Tags: Spaghetti, Maserati, Arts and Culture, Book, David Foster Wallace
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Advice from Liza Minnelli: Just relax. Let 'em gossip. Have a hamburger!
Liz Smith"JUST KEEP not taking yourself too seriously. And just remember to go get a hamburger!" That was Liza Minnelli talking to the Wall Street Journal the other day. The "hamburger" reference comes from something her mother told her, when Liza arrived home...Tags: Entertainment, Newspaper and Magazine, Adrian Grenier, Book, Celebrities
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'When We Were Kings' to sing: Documentary to be adapted into stage musical
VarietyProducer David Sonenberg has begun work on a legit musical version of "When We Were Kings," the Oscar-winning 1996 doc about the Rumble in the Jungle, the 1974 boxing match in Zaire between George Foreman and Muhammad Ali. Score for the tuner will...Tags: Theater, Entertainment Events, George Foreman, George Plimpton, Entertainment
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Go ahead, judge them by their covers
Tribune NewspapersWhen architect and design firm owner Steve Kadlec was asked recently whether bookshelves were becoming obsolete in the iPad age, he wisecracked: "Who reads books? We buy them for pretty!" He was only half-joking. With digital competition, hardcover books...Tags: Biography (genre), Tina Turner, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Led Zeppelin (music group), Apple iPad
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Chicago is 'Boss' star Troy Garity's kind of town
RedEyeAfter filming NBC’s “The Playboy Club” and Starz’ “Boss” in Chicago over the summer, Troy Garity misses the city. “I’m going through total Chicago withdrawal at the moment,” Garity, who also filmed...Tags: Mike Royko, Kelsey Grammer, Entertainment, Journalism, Tom Kane
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The best presents for the book nerds on your gift list
It Chooses You, by Miranda July (McSweeney's, 2011)
The filmmaker/artist/poet/fiction writer Miranda July is well-known for her movies, whose moods share a kind of charming sincerity with that of her other work. Last month, July's first attempt at...Tags: Grandmaster Flash, Entertainment, Miranda July, Joan Didion, Cormac McCarthy
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