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    Mar 25, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  1. Happy scandalous anniversary to Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl'

    On this date, March 25, in 1957, Allen Ginsberg helped make literary history. That's because 520 copies of his poem "Howl" were seized by U.S. Customs agents on charges of obscenity. Ginsberg and his publisher, City Lights, would fight those charges -- and win.
    On this date, March 25, in 1957, Allen Ginsberg helped make literary history. That's because 520 copies of his poem "Howl" were seized by U.S. Customs agents on charges of obscenity. Ginsberg and his publisher, City Lights, would fight those charges --...

    Tags: Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Authors, Book, D.H. Lawrence

  2. Jan 11, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  3. Jayne Cortez dies at 78; poet and performance artist

    Before the ashes and the anguish, before the 1965 riots and the spotlight of attention that followed, there was a pocket of people already fighting for Watts.
    Before the ashes and the anguish, before the 1965 riots and the spotlight of attention that followed, there was a pocket of people already fighting for Watts. They fought for the arts and for the black community from a building on Grandee Avenue and...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, Authors, Ornette Coleman, Music, Heart Failure

  4. Sep 6, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  5. Cate Blanchett, Isabelle Huppert teaming up for 'The Maids'

    Some casting news is too intriguing to ignore. Cate Blanchett will team up with French film star Isabelle Huppert in a staging of Jean Genet's  "The Maids"  next year at the Sydney Theatre Company in Australia.
    Some casting news is too intriguing to ignore. Cate Blanchett will team up with French film star Isabelle Huppert in a staging of Jean Genet's  "The Maids"  next year at the Sydney Theatre Company in Australia. The company unveiled its 2013 season on...

    Tags: Sarah Kane, Hugo Weaving, Lincoln Center, Isabelle Huppert, Richard Roxburgh

  6. Jul 24, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  7. Sherman Hemsley dies at 74; star of TV's 'The Jeffersons'

    Sherman Hemsley, who was rooted in the minds of millions of television viewers as Archie Bunker's bombastic black neighbor, George Jefferson, in"All in the Family" and later as the star of his own long-running sitcom, "The Jeffersons," has died. He was 74.
    Sherman Hemsley, who was rooted in the minds of millions of television viewers as Archie Bunker's bombastic black neighbor, George Jefferson, in"All in the Family" and later as the star of his own long-running sitcom, "The Jeffersons," has died. He was...

    Tags: Carroll O'Connor, Television Industry, Sherman Hemsley, Norman Lear, Lorraine Hansberry

  8. Apr 27, 2012 | Los Angeles Times
  9. On Sunday: Alain Mabanckou, Jonathan Franzen and lumber as history

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    In Sunday books: a talk with UCLA author Alain Mabanckou, plus reviews of the latest by Jonathan Franzen, lumber as history and Anne Morrow Lindbergh's letters and diaries....
  10. Feb 23, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  11. 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 New York City. He was 89.
    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: Crime, Law and Justice, University of California, Los Angeles, Freedom of the Press, NPR, Jack Kerouac

  12. Nov 14, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  13. Fashion Diary: Peter Copping on his Nina Ricci collection

    Although several designers have tried to forge a modern identity for Nina Ricci over the last decade, the French fashion house is still better known for the iconic fragrance L'Air Du Temps (launched in 1948 in the Lalique bottle with glass doves) than for clothes.
    Los Angeles Times fashion critic
    Although several designers have tried to forge a modern identity for Nina Ricci over the last decade, the French fashion house is still better known for the iconic fragrance L'Air Du Temps (launched in 1948 in the Lalique bottle with glass doves) than for...

    Tags: Neiman Marcus, Fashion Shows, Keira Knightley, Harry Potter (fictional character), Natalie Portman

  14. May 22, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  15. Five summers, memorable for the reading

    Times Book Critic
    1974: Unhappy at summer camp, I holed up in my bunk and read Philip Roth's "Portnoy's Complaint" and Bernard Malamud's "The Natural." The camp might have been awful, but the books were anything but. 1980: In June, I attended a writers conference at UC...

    Tags: Albert Camus, Philip Roth, Henry Miller, Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts), Walker Percy

  16. Nov 5, 2010 | Los Angeles Times
  17. A moment with Nina Ricci designer Peter Copping

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    Although several designers have tried to forge a modern identity for Nina Ricci over the last decade, the French fashion house is still better known for the iconic fragrance L'Air Du Temps (launched in 1948 in the Lalique bottle with......
  18. Dec 15, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  19. Book review: 'Irrepressible: The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford' by Leslie Brody

    In their time, the daughters of the second Baron Redesdale, better known as the Mitford sisters, were an industry. Their trade, for the most part, was their mere existence &#8212; swanning about British society, leaving scandal and newsprint in their wake. Nancy wrote deliciously acidic novels and gossipy history. (Evelyn Waugh dedicated "The Loved One" to her.) Diana and Unity were avowed fascists. Adolf Hitler was a witness at Diana's wedding to Oswald Mosely, and Unity was so besotted with the <i>F&#252;hrer</i> and chagrined when Britain declared war on Germany that she tried to kill herself. Deborah and Pamela were more reserved, but the tabloids avidly detailed all the sisters' fashions, marriages, politics and real estate.
    Special to the Los Angeles Times
    In their time, the daughters of the second Baron Redesdale, better known as the Mitford sisters, were an industry. Their trade, for the most part, was their mere existence — swanning about British society, leaving scandal and newsprint in their...

    Tags: Journalism, Winston Churchill, Arianna Huffington, Family, Nora Ephron

  20. Jun 4, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  21. Joseph Strick dies at 86; independent filmmaker brought 'Ulysses' to big screen

    Joseph Strick, an independent filmmaker who brought James Joyce's "Ulysses" to the big screen and won an Academy Award for best documentary short subject for "Interviews with My Lai Veterans," has died. He was 86.
    Joseph Strick, an independent filmmaker who brought James Joyce's "Ulysses" to the big screen and won an Academy Award for best documentary short subject for "Interviews with My Lai Veterans," has died. He was 86. Strick died of congestive heart...

    Tags: Republic of Ireland, University of California, Los Angeles, Festive Events, Entertainment, Science and Technology

  22. Aug 4, 2010 | Los Angeles Times
  23. 20 classic works of gay literature

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    Today U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker struck down Proposition 8, ruling that gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry. Proposition 8 was a 2008 ballot initiative that banned gay marriage in California. Both sides had said......
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