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Ruth Lily Poetry Prize, for $100,000, to go to Marie Ponsot
Poet Marie Ponsot will be awarded the Ruth Lily Poetry Prize in June, it was announced Monday. The Ruth Lily Poetry Prize, which comes with an award of $100,000, is given to a poet for lifetime achievement. Ponsot's career began in the 1950s; her book...
Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Allen Ginsberg, Poetry
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The best job inquiry letter ever: Eudora Welty to the New Yorker
Eighty years ago Friday, young Eudora Welty sent a letter to the New Yorker seeking employment. This was four decades before she would win the Pulitzer Prize for her novel "The Optimist's Daughter" and five decades before "The Collected Works of Eudora...
Tags: Fiction, Pulitzer Prize Awards, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Social Media, Awards and Prizes
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Dennis Hopper's carnival ride through life
"I was a beatnik, and then I was a hippie, and before that I was a bohemian," a sky-high Dennis Hopper confided to Merv Griffin on television one night in 1971, in a clip you can see on YouTube. On the opposite couch, Willie Mays uncomfortably refilled...
Tags: Movies, Jim Morrison, Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson, Paul Newman
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Katherine LaNasa adds a taste of New Orleans to tiny Venice bungalow
Katherine LaNasa plays a deliciously hard-edged, evil wife in the new TV series “Deception,” but at home in her Venice bungalow, she showcases a soft side influenced by her native New Orleans. “Being from New Orleans completely...
Tags: Jayne Mansfield, Billy Bob Thornton
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Tiger Woods sells Corona del Mar condo
PGA champion Tiger Woods has sold his condominium in Corona del Mar for $2,213,875.
But like many other residential real estate owners, Woods landed in the rough when it came to selling a place bought before the housing downturn. Public records show he...Tags: Movies, Dave Stewart, Tiger Woods, Condos, Cher
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Tony Scott dies at 68; a film career in retrospective
Director-producer Tony Scott, who apparently committed suicide Sunday in San Pedro at age 68, left behind a lengthy filmography. One of the first directors to make the transition from commercials to features, he helmed movies including "Top Gun,”...
Tags: Tom Cruise, Tom Sizemore, Movies, David Bowie, Samuel L. Jackson
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Dennis Hopper compound is sold
The Venice compound of the late actor, photographer and artist Dennis Hopper has sold for $5 million.
The property includes an industrial-inspired main house of about 5,000 square feet, a pool house, a guest cottage and three two-story condominiums for a...Tags: Easy Rider (movie), Arts, Condos, Photography, Real Estate Buyers
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Around Town: 'Paper Moon' shines on downtown festival
24 FramesThe Los Angeles Conservancy's Last Remaining Seats festival that showcases the historic movie palaces on Broadway in downtown L.A. returns this Wednesday with Peter Bogdanovich's 1973 comedy "Paper Moon."... -
Courtney Love attempts her first gallery show
Celebrity art shows usually don't merit much serious aesthetic consideration. But when the celebrity in question is Courtney Love -- the volatile Hole frontwoman and sometimes actress -- attention should be paid, if only to see how her outrageous...
Tags: Arts, Substance Abuse, Artists, Gore Vidal, Courtney Love
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Craig Kilborn talks his way into a home sale
Talk show host Craig Kilborn has sold his house in the Hollywood Hills West area for $2.9 million.
The Spanish-style home, built in 1927, was owned by actor Dennis Hopper when he was working on the film "Easy Rider" in the late '60s.
Entered through a...Tags: Easy Rider (movie), Talk Shows (genre)
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Bert Schneider dies at 78; 'Easy Rider' producer
Bert Schneider, the iconoclastic producer behind a trio of influential movies — "Easy Rider," "Five Easy Pieces" and "The Last Picture Show" — that captured the rootlessness and discontent of the late 1960s and '70s and became symbols of a new...Tags: Movies, Peter Tork, Car Safety Tips and Advice, Easy Rider (movie), Substance Abuse
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