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True stories and other modern-day fantasies
Special to The TimesWE live in a time when reality has evidently trumped fiction. The novel loses readers, as narrative nonfiction and memoirs gain in popularity. Reality television, once derided as a fad, is apparently here to stay. Young people abandon the so-called old...Tags: Invention and Innovation, Arthur Miller, Politics, World War II (1939-1945), Tarzan (movie)
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Broadway's theater schedule for August
Here's what's playing on Broadway through the end of August. Note that although some of these shows' official opening dates aren't until September or later, preview performances are offered. -- Avital Binshtock "A Chorus Line": This lively exploration...Tags: Charles Dickens, Hans Christian Andersen, Palace Theater, World War II (1939-1945), Laurence Olivier
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Highs, if not heights at the Tony Awards
Times Theater CriticFIRST THE good news: Compared to our debt-roiled, war-mired nation, Broadway had a lot to celebrate this year. In addition to luminously acted new dramas and shimmeringly staged revivals, there was something approximating a genuine horse race for best...Tags: Film Festivals, Star Trek (movie, 2009), Arthur Miller, Literature, Wesleyan University
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Natasha Richardson dies at 45
Natasha Richardson, the luminous British actress from one of the world's great acting families, whose performances ranged from the high-brow drama "The Handmaid's Tale" to the lightweight comedy "The Parent Trap" and the Tony-winning Broadway production...Tags: Lenox Hill, Literature, Tuck (tv program), Meryl Streep, Michael Redgrave
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Paul Benedict dies at 70; actor from 'The Jeffersons' and 'Sesame Street'
Times Staff And Wire ReportsPaul Benedict, the actor who played the eccentric English neighbor Harry Bentley on the sitcom "The Jeffersons," was found dead Monday at his home on Martha's Vineyard, Mass. He was 70. Authorities were investigating the cause of death, said his brother,...Tags: Theater, Death, Sesame Street (tv program), PBS (tv network), Entertainment
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A republic reflected in 'Battle Hymn'
In case you missed it, there was a big stage production in Washington, D.C., this week involving symbolic rebirth, stirring rhetoric and sobering evocations of bloody national conflicts, mixed with some lighter touches, all performed near the memorial...Tags: Bertolt Brecht, Barack Obama, Ken Burns, Wars and Interventions, Documentary (genre)
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'Long Day's Journey Into Night' at Theatricum Botanicum
Special to The TimesFame, addiction, fatality: "Long Day's Journey Into Night," now on view at the Theatricum Botanicum, posits the American family as crime scene, echoing back to the Greeks but as modern as Britney's latest rehab lapse. A half-century since its Broadway...Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Health, Family
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Marcia & Lorenzo are real cool geezers
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWHEN was the last time you heard anyone get excited about a new film critic? That was my reaction when "Michael Clayton" director Tony Gilroy began raving to me about the review he'd seen on YouTube. "It was terrific," he said. "I sent it to George...Tags: The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (movie), Protestantism, Tony Gilroy, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Wes Anderson
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National parks in California
Find out about historic and scenic sites as well as programs, fees and directions to California's national parks, monuments and recreation areas: Alcatraz Island, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Ft. Mason Center, Building 201, San Francisco 94123;...Tags: Road Transportation, Mojave National Preserve, National Parks, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, John Muir
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Carla Gugino of 'Watchmen'
March has been declared Carla Gugino month -- or maybe it just feels that way. The actress is in the just-released "Watchmen" and in Friday's "Race to Witch Mountain." And she's soon heading to Broadway for Eugene O'Neill's "Desire Under the Elms."
How...Tags: Watchmen (movie), Tony Danza, Music Theater, Race to Witch Mountain (movie), Women in Trouble (movie)
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'On Moving' by Louise DeSalvo; 'The Winter Sun' by Fanny Howe; 'Salvation Army' by Abdellah Taia.
The Winter Sun
Notes on a Vocation
Fanny Howe
Graywolf Press: 210 pp., $15 paper
"The formation of our relationship to the world (for some of us) is experienced as an unfolding." This is how poet and essayist Fanny Howe has always written about the...Tags: D.H. Lawrence, Death, Minority Groups, World War II (1939-1945), Moving and Storage
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PASSINGS
Albert L. Greene Hospital president Albert L. Greene, 59, president and chief executive of Valley Presbyterian Hospital in Van Nuys since 2006, died Thursday at his home in Calabasas. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in June, the hospital...Tags: Brooklyn (New York City), Diseases and Illnesses, Homes, A Chorus Line (musical), Stock Broking
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