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Theater review: 'Hands on a Hardbody' is a fun ride
"Hands on a Hardbody," the new musical based on S.R. Bindler's 1997�documentary film about a nutty endurance contest at a Texas auto dealership, pulls off something most pundits would have considered impossible today: This is a Red State musical that Blue...
Tags: Natalie Portman, Trey Anastasio, Awards and Prizes, Wars and Interventions, Nissan
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Steven Millhauser beats DeLillo, Pearlman for 2011 Story Prize
Jacket CopyThe Story Prize for 2011 was awarded to Steven Millhauser for "We Others: New and Selected Stories."... -
Theater review: 'Cabaret' at UCLA's Freud Playhouse
Culture MonsterCharles McNulty reviews the Reprise Theatre Company revival of "Cabaret" at UCLA's Freud Playhouse... -
A working mother's guide to writing a novel
Los Angeles Times Television CriticA dozen years ago, my editor at the Los Angeles Times asked if I wanted to interview novelist Mary Gordon, who was in Los Angeles on a book tour. Enormously pregnant, I said yes, partly because I love Mary Gordon and partly because her hotel was two...Tags: Oprah Winfrey, Physical Conditions, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Children, Health
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Book review: 'The Love of My Youth' by Mary Gordon
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThe Love of My Youth A Novel Mary Gordon Pantheon: 308 pp., $25.95 How many of us at middle age yearn for the opportunity to reencounter a long-lost love? We show up at school reunions, searching for the ghost of romance past. Or perhaps we settle for...Tags: Rome (Italy), Fantasy (genre), Music, Entertainment, Human Interest
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John Leonard dies at 69; erudite critic was early champion of Toni Morrison and other writers
The Associated PressLiterary and cultural critic John Leonard, an early champion of Toni Morrison, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and many other authors, and so consumed and so informed by books that Kurt Vonnegut once praised him as "the smartest man who ever lived," has died. He...Tags: Obituaries, Reviews, Mount Sinai, Awards and Prizes, University of California, Berkeley
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Everybody’s under one tent as ‘Nightmare Alley’ becomes a musical
Life is a cabaret, old chum — unless, that is, it's a carnival show.
So step right up, ladies and gentlemen, and see the slick, charming salesman Stan Carlisle morph into a carny shyster, a gospel preacher, a human monster! Watch him fall in love...Tags: Sinclair Lewis, Herman Melville, Kurt Weill, Mary Poppins (musical), Sam Shepard
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Theater review: 'Putting It Together' at South Coast Repertory
Culture Monster???Putting It Together,??? the makeshift audience-friendly collage from the early ???90s compiling Stephen Sondheim???s ???sorry-grateful??? love tunes and other melancholy ditties from his astonishing catalog, isn???t a particularly bold way for South... -
Finalists announced for the 2009 Story Prize
Jacket CopyThree first-time authors rose above the competition to become finalists for the 2009 Story Prize, an annual award given to a book of short fiction. Daniyal Mueenuddin’s “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders,” Victoria Patterson’s “Drift” and Wells... -
Theater review: 'Nightmare Alley' at the Geffen Playhouse
Culture MonsterThere’s a moment in “Nightmare Alley,” the Geffen Playhouse’s tepid new musical, when the antihero, a spiritualist preacher, urges his lover to put on a good show for their latest marks: “Give ‘em the mystery, build the tension,” he says....... -
Picking a winner? Harder than you think!
Special to the TimesBy Marianne Wiggins The winners of the National Book Awards were announced this month -- did anyone notice? Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, Tony, Golden Globe: award shows deemed worthy of TV. But what about the poor relation at the table -- books? Anybody want to...Tags: Thomas Pynchon, Dave Eggers, Education, Lawyers, Awards and Prizes
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Vernon, CT Real Estate: Stately And Manicured: The Mansions At Hockanum Crossing
When an apartment complex boasts a name with the word "mansions" in it, I automatically assume it's being used metaphorically. When I arrived at The Mansions at Hockanum Crossing, however, the stately architecture and manicured grounds lived up to its...Tags: Architecture, Manufacturing and Engineering, Bloomfield (Hartford, Connecticut), Electrical Appliance, Entertainment
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