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Cannes Film Festival: Walter Salles' journey to 'On the Road'
CANNES, France — Walter Salles carefully raises the fingers of his right hand and gently strokes the back of his left. "These are characters," he says, explaining the gesture, "who experience things not vicariously but on the flesh. Men and women...
Tags: Viggo Mortensen, Walter Salles, Kristen Stewart, On the Road (movie), Steve Buscemi
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The Reading Life: Interviewing William Burroughs
Jacket CopyA newly published interview of William Burroughs by his friend Allen Ginsberg reminds book critic David L. Ulin of the time he went to Kansas to talk to Burroughs, a notoriously opaque interview subject.... -
Festival of Books fires up tales from the cannabis community
Jacket CopyTaking place, as it did, just one day after the unofficial pothead holiday of April 20, and scheduled to start just 10 minutes past the herb heads' magic moment of 4:20 p.m., the L.A. Times Festival of Books nonfiction panel...... -
Juan Felipe Herrera appointed California poet laureate
Jacket CopyJuan Felipe Herrera was appointed California poet laureate by Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday. His 2008 collection "Half of the World in Light" was a winner of that year's National Book Critics Circle award in poetry.... -
Barney Rosset dies at 89; publisher fought censorship
Barney Rosset, the renegade founder of Grove Press who fought groundbreaking legal battles against censorship and introduced American readers to such provocative writers as Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco and Jean Genet, died Tuesday in...Tags: Censorship, U.S. Army, D.H. Lawrence, Companies and Corporations, NPR
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Dance review: Pennington and Yorke troupes premiere collaboration
Culture MonsterA review from Long Beach as Pennington Dance Group and Yorke Dance Project premiere first collaborative dance "Overlay."... -
Shakespeare & Co. founder George Whitman, 98, dies
Jacket CopyGeorge Whitman, the legendary founder of the Paris bookshop and literary institution Shakespeare & Co., died Wednesday at age 98.... -
In rotation: Dinosaur L's '24 by 24'
Pop & HissNew York by way of Iowa composer Arthur Russell, who died in 1992, worked in an odd intersection of sounds when he started making music in the mid-1970s. A classically trained violinist who ran with Allen Ginsberg, Russell became obsessed with the nascent... -
It Speaks to Me: Diana Thater on Nam June Paik's 'Video Flag Z' at LACMA
Culture MonsterNam June Paik is a wonderful artist. There are some great examples of his work in the Stuart Collection at UC San Diego, but this is the only major Paik I know of in a public collection in L.A. It’s...... -
Book news: Phil Jackson, Largehearted Boy, Goodreads ditches Amazon
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Daniel Radcliffe: Five things you didn't want to know
Ministry of GossipDaniel Radcliffe has a new movie coming out and it isn't about Harry Potter, the boy wizard. "The Woman in Black" star Daniel Radcliffe has revealed some more grown-up aspects of himself that may shock those who fell in love with the cute little 11-year-... -
Book review: 'Beyond Religion' by the Dalai Lama
Los Angeles TimesFor most of his 76 years, the 14th Dalai Lama has been the spiritual light for followers of Tibetan Buddhism, his every word parsed for guidance to living a better, more fulfilling life. Awarded the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize, the Dalai Lama has been an...Tags: Values, Nobel Prize Awards, Entertainment Events, Psychology, Ethics
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