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Eiko Ishioka, designer for 'Spider-Man' and Cirque, dies at 73
Culture MonsterEiko Ishioka, the celebrated Japanese designer, has died at age 73. Her work included Broadway's "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," Cirque du Soleil's "Varekai" and the movie "Bram Stoker's Dracula," for which she won an Oscar.... -
Philip Glass to perform film, opera works at Hollywood Bowl
By the 1980s, Philip Glass had earned a healthy reputation working in the concert hall, art films and the theater. That didn't mean he slid easily into Hollywood.
"When I first started doing Hollywood films," Glass, 72, said by phone from his home in New...Tags: Education, Johannes Kepler, John Adams, David Byrne, Theater
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Kyoto mixes modern and ancient with success
KYOTO, Japan — The videos fill up space on YouTube, the photos running for page after page on Google Images. Japan as a place of death and destruction, massive brown-blue waves, shaking high-rises, collapsed cities.
The earthquake in March 2011 has...Tags: Dining and Drinking, India, Egypt, Sculpture, Foreign Exchange Market
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Theater Review: Theater lauded for multicultural offering
Demonstrating once again its dedication to multicultural theater, Glendale's Luna Playhouse presents a fairly successful set of Japanese one-acts billed as "Two Plays by Yukio Mishima."
It's an intriguing evening for which the only real complaint lies...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Celebrities, Health
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'Spider Woman' Screenwriter Schrader Dies
Times Staff WriterLeonard Schrader, who was nominated for an Oscar for his screenplay adaptation for the 1985 film "Kiss of the Spider Woman" and headed the graduate screenwriting program at the American Film Institute, has died. He was 62. Schrader, who had suffered from...Tags: University of Southern California, Organized Crime, Death, Paul Schrader, Dancing
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The School of Flesh
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday February 26, 1999 France's Isabelle Huppert has one of the most direct, penetrating gazes of anyone on the screen, and the secret of its strength is that Huppert frequently turns it inward. This is especially true in Benoit Jacquot's superb...Tags: France, Entertainment, Fashion Shows, Minority Groups, Isabelle Huppert
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Theater review, 'Madame de Sade' by European Repertory Company at Storefront Theater
Tribune theater criticWithout blowing the lid off the mythic depravities allied with the name Marquis de Sade, European Repertory Company's "Madame de Sade" adds a physical, tactile dimension to a verbally dense play. It helps. The rarely produced 1965 Yukio Mishima drama...Tags: Marquis de Sade, Michael Phillips
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Recent openings: 'Madame De Sade,' 'The Cherry Orchard' and 'Whispers Want To Holler'
Special to the TribuneA rarity that opens Friday, Jan. 10, "Madame De Sade"—the 1965 drama from Japanese writer Yukio Mishima, the right-wing, self-made martyr who committed ritual suicide in 1970—bluntly chronicles the women in the Marquis de Sade's life before the French...Tags: Marquis de Sade, Comedy (genre), Revolutions, Arts and Culture, Literature
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