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'El Iluminado' illuminates New Mexico's 'crypto-Jews'
-------------------- El Iluminado A Graphic Novel Ilan Stavans and Steve Sheinkin Basic Books: 208 pp, $24.99 -------------------- Halfway into the graphic novel "El Iluminado," a Spanish literature professor in an Indiana Jones hat wanders into a café...
Tags: Roman Catholicism, Judaism, Christianity, Religion and Belief, Unexplained Phenomena
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Ring in the new year with classic comedies
The American Cinematheque's Aero Theatre has the perfect antidote for holiday blues -- a series of classic comedies from the golden age of Hollywood. "Screwball Comedy Classics for the 2013 New Year" serves up 1947's "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer"...
Tags: Norman Z. McLeod, Jennifer Jones, Miriam Hopkins, Frank Capra Jr., Cannes Film Festival
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Where's LaBeouf? Shia heading to Broadway, with Alec Baldwin
The career makeover of Shia LaBeouf has taken another unexpected turn with the announcement that the young actor will make his Broadway debut in the spring alongside Alec Baldwin in a revival of the play "Orphans," a drama about two brothers who kidnap...
Tags: Lars von Trier, Albert Finney, Steppenwolf Theatre, Transformers (movie), Alec Baldwin
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Timothy Potts has ideas for Getty Museum
When Timothy Potts became the director of the Getty Museum in September, he knew he was stepping into an anomaly of a job, unusual within the ranks of America's most prestigious museums. Other museum heads, bound by tight budgets, must essentially beg...
Tags: Rome (Italy), Religion and Belief, Finance, J. Paul Getty Trust, Museums
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Man About Town: Ejected from home, we're going to Disneyland
The looping line at the Jungle Cruise is almost Euclidean in its use of space. Hundreds of us shuffle across that cramped boathouse entrance — standing, shuffling, standing. We snake upstairs and down, then back across one another, like...
Tags: Tourism and Leisure Industry, Celebrities, Amusement and Theme Parks, Bars and Clubs, Dressing and Stuffing
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Lost hat sparks Facebook quest that evokes a mother's love
This post has been updated. See below for details.She didn’t notice it was gone at first, not in the midnight confusion of a canceled flight, not in the scrum at customer service, not in the sleepy courtesy van ride to an airport hotel where her luggage would not be waiting. The loss didn’t...Tags: Social Media, Health Treatments, Chemotherapy, Breast Cancer, Media Industry
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Western Costume, closet to the stars, turns 100
Los Angeles TimesTo the casual passerby, there's nothing remarkable about the 120,000-square-foot former printing plant fronting a sun-baked stretch of Vanowen Street in North Hollywood. There's nothing to indicate that, just beyond the double doors, gangsters are earning...Tags: University of Texas at Austin, Organized Crime, Concerts, Raiders of the Lost Ark (movie), Rentals
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Ben Burtt on the sound of ‘Raiders,’ ‘ET’ and Spielberg’s inspiration
Hero Complex - movies, comics, fanboy fare - latimes.comThe last few weeks have been a real and vivid trip down memory lane for Oscar-winning sound designer and sound ...... -
‘Princess Bride’ sequel? Inconceivable! says writer William Goldman
Hero Complex - movies, comics, fanboy fare - latimes.comNEW YORK — Twenty-five years after “The Princess Bride” first stormed theaters, director Rob Reiner, writer William Goldman and cast ...... -
Before ‘Twilight,’ ‘Lost Boys’ made vampires fun
Hero Complex - movies, comics, fanboy fare - latimes.comTwenty-five years ago, a summer release from a costume designer-turned-director was moving the needle on vampire movies, forever altering how ...... -
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 ...... -
'Words' can't express on the slowest movie weekend since 2001
This post has been updated. See note below for details.Not even the Sexiest Man Alive could lure moviegoers to the box office this weekend. On the the slowest weekend at the multiplex thus far this year, "The Words," a new film starring Bradley Cooper -- deemed by People magazine to be the most attractive...Tags: The Odd Life of Timothy Green (movie), Harrison Ford, Bradley Cooper, Toronto International Film Festival, Isla Fisher
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