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Jeff Lemire on ‘street-level’ Green Arrow, superhero inspiration
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesSuperheroes were never in Jeff Lemire’s plans. The Canadian cartoonist read DC and Marvel comics as a boy, but when ...... -
Jewish legend sets stage for superheroes in ‘The Thirty Six’
Hero Complex - movies, comics, fanboy fare - latimes.comAccording to ancient Jewish mysticism, there are 36 people, called lamed-vavniks, who are divinely chosen to save the world. This ...... -
Paul Kurtz dies at 86; secular humanist philosopher
Philosopher Paul Kurtz was called many unflattering names during his long career, including "Satanic free-thinker" and "dangerous corrupter of young minds." But the name some of his critics considered most damning was the one he most prized. They called...
Tags: National Football League, Obituaries, Judaism, Trinity College, Union (Tolland, Connecticut)
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Goldberg: The false modesty of 'nerds'
Washington is full of nerds. I know. I speak nerd, not fluently mind you, at least not anymore. But I certainly know more than a few phrases memorized from a Berlitz nerd-to-English phrase book. I can talk Dungeons & Dragons (both D&D and AD&D). I know...
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Book review: 'While Mortals Sleep' by Kurt Vonnegut
Special to the Los Angeles TimesWhile Mortals Sleep Unpublished Short Fiction Kurt Vonnegut, foreword by Dave Eggers Delacorte: 272 pp., $27 It was in the 1950s that Kurt Vonnegut, then in his early 30s, quit his job as a publicity man for the research department of General Electric...Tags: Dave Eggers, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fiction, General Electric Company, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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PASSINGS: Glenn Shadix, Lucius Walker, LeRoy A. Beavers Jr., Mike Edwards, Larry Ashmead, Corneille
Glenn Shadix
Character actor worked with Tim Burton
Glenn Shadix, 58, a character actor best remembered for his portrayal of the portly, pretentious interior designer Otho in director Tim Burton's 1988 ghost comedy "Beetlejuice," died Tuesday at his...Tags: Economic Sanctions, Arts and Culture, Heart Attack, Family, Celebrities
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Astral Weeks: A sci-fi master's beginnings
Special to the Los Angeles Times"I am submitting the enclosed short story 'LIFE-LINE' for either 'Astounding' or 'Unknown,'" Robert A. Heinlein wrote to editor John Campbell in 1939, "because I am not sure which policy it fits the better." The former magazine published science fiction,...Tags: Fritz Lang, Arts and Culture, Children, United States Naval Academy, Social Issues
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Frank Herbert's 'Dune' holds timely - and timeless - appeal
Half a century ago, a middle-aged newspaperman with a few obscure books to his name sat down to pursue a pet obsession based on a story that had never sold.
The ensuing 1965 novel -- in which his agent had no confidence -- sagged at first. But within a...Tags: District 9 (movie), Peter Berg, Peter Jackson, Sting, Charles Laughton
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Kim Stanley Robinson maps the future's gray areas
In science fiction, there's dystopia and there's utopia.
There are the dark wizards of apocalypse, terrifying us with visions of humanity's grim comeuppance. And the starry-eyed fantasists, insisting how much better the future will be than the messy,...Tags: Ecosystems, Gary Snyder, Fiction, Global Change, Weather
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Isaac Asimov was born 90 years ago today
The Hero ComplexHere it is, 2010, and I still don't have my flying car. When I was a youngster I was certain that the 21st century would live up to its bookshelf hype and that I would be visiting domed cities on...... -
'Android Karenina' writer says Tolstoy might not like remake: 'He seems to have taken himself very seriously.'
The Hero ComplexFIVE QUESTIONS: BEN H. WINTERS Ben H. Winters shares the author credit on his new book with literary lion Leo Tolstoy, who died 100 years ago this November. The book is called "Android Karenina" and, yes, that's right, it reimagines...... -
Who do you write like?
Jacket CopyAre your characters as snazzy as James Bond? Are your sentences lyrical as those in "Lolita"? Pop a few paragraphs into the website I Write Like to find out if you write like Ian Fleming or Vladimir Nabokov. You might......
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