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Goldberg: Voter apathy isn't a crime
It's a sure sign someone is losing when he demands that the rules be changed. That might explain the renewed interest in making voting mandatory. Peter Orszag, President Obama's former budget director and now a vice chairman at Citigroup, recently...
Tags: Politics, Barack Obama, Voting, Democratic Party, Crime, Law and Justice
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Ryan Reynolds selling home he bought with Scarlett Johansson
Actor Ryan Reynolds has listed for sale the Los Feliz hills house he bought with his then-wife, actress Scarlett Johansson, in 2010.
Priced at $3.65 million, the 1969 Buff & Hensman-designed Wong House has walls of glass that capture views of downtown...Tags: Rachel Zoe, Samantha Who? (tv program), Peggy Lee, Eric Davis, Sports
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Home built for Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann available for lease
A gated home in the Pacific Palisades/Brentwood area built for Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann is available for lease at $15,500 a month.
Constructed in 1939, the 5,266-square-foot house on an acre of property has been updated to enhance the...Tags: Entertainment Events, Nobel Prize Awards, Awards and Prizes, Peggy Lee, Awards and Prizes
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Christa Wolf dies at 82; celebrated German writer
Christa Wolf, one of Germany's most celebrated writers for her depictions of life in the former communist East, but who was later damaged by revelations she collaborated with its secret police, has died. She was 82.
Wolf died Thursday in Berlin,...Tags: Germany, Politics, Arts and Culture, Literature, Christa Wolf
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German author Christa Wolf has died
Jacket CopyChrista Wolf, a significant voice in German literature, has died.... -
Book news: Salman Rushdie, tattoos, and Thomas Mann on Hollywood
Jacket CopyHow the controversy over Salman Rushdie looked in Jaipur, the continued health of Politics & Prose, Jackie Collins' letterhead, and what Thomas Mann wrote about Los Angeles.... -
Happy birthday, Gabriel Garcia Marquez!
Jacket CopyGabriel Garcia Marquez turns 84 today. Celebrate and read his interview with Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa.... -
The Reading Life: Notes from underground
Jacket CopyBook critic David L. Ulin on reading underground.... -
Jerry Leiber appreciation: A songwriter who helped change pop music
Pop & HissAn appreciation of Jerry Leiber who, writing for Elvis Presley, Peggy Lee, The Coasters and more as the lyricist half of the Leiber and Stoller songwriting team, helped change pop music and set the template for future artists.... -
Five summers, memorable for the reading
Times Book Critic1974: Unhappy at summer camp, I holed up in my bunk and read Philip Roth's "Portnoy's Complaint" and Bernard Malamud's "The Natural." The camp might have been awful, but the books were anything but. 1980: In June, I attended a writers conference at UC...Tags: Henry Miller, Walker Percy, Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts), Joan Didion, Bernard Malamud
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Linda Ronstadt remembers Kenny Edwards: 'A beacon to me'
Pop & HissLinda Ronstadt spoke with me Thursday, generously sharing many memories of guitarist-singer-songwriter-producer Kenny Edwards, who died Wednesday at age 64. Edwards was a founder of the Stone Poneys, the band with whom Ronstadt first surfaced nationally... -
Theater review: âTales From Hollywoodâ at the Odyssey Theatre
Culture MonsterBertolt Brecht, Heinrich and Thomas Mann, and their expatriate literary cohorts may have chalked up a hit or two in Europe, but did they have what it takes to make it in Tinseltown? The story of how talented writers fleeing......
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