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The Rolling Stones, David Bailey and Taschen's big, pricey book
The names on the walls outside the Taschen Gallery on Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles are freshly painted in bold, rosy shades of pink. “The Rolling Stones,” they declare, and: “David Bailey.” Just as bold are the photographs inside, including many by Bailey, documenting the 50-year rise of an essential band. In the 1960s, Bailey was a rare photographer whose fame rivaled that of his subjects. His life as a young artist in Swinging London inspired Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1966 film “Blow-Up.” He was among the first and most important photographers to shoot the Stones, helping establish them as icons of music, fashion, sexuality and danger. ...
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The Rolling Stones, David Bailey and Taschen's big, pricey book
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'Arguendo' puts a deft, audacious spin on a Supreme Court argument
It seems safe to say that when the U.S. Supreme Court heard Barnes v. Glen Theatre in 1991, it couldn't have foreseen the rampant hilarity, intellectual heft and kinetic amazement of "Arguendo," now at REDCAT through Sunday.
By applying the...
What's really going on in North Korea
It was a news story that read like the plot of a Peter Sellers or Mike Myers picture: Vertically challenged dictator of a starving populace, overweight and addicted to imported Swiss cheese, falls off his high heels and breaks both ankles. He is sent...
Robin Williams ran a comedy marathon at a sprint
Robin Williams was impossible to confuse with any other comedian.
He cited Peter Sellers and “The Goon Show” among his inspirations, but among American comedians, his only obvious forebear (and eventual “Mork and Mindy” costar) was Jonathan Winters,...
'Mortdecai' trailer: Johnny Depp gets into mustached mischief
After a dark, dramatic turn in the sci-fi thriller "Transcendence," Johnny Depp is back to oddball characters and wacky high jinks in the first trailer for "Mortdecai," which Lionsgate unveiled Tuesday.
The teaser, which you can watch...
Beware boomers: What not to do when feeling nostalgic for the '60s
When New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd wrote last week about her “bad trip” -- eight straight hours of paranoia and paralysis -- from sampling a cannabis-laced candy bar in her Denver hotel room in January while reporting on Colorado’s legalized...
A new era of secrets and spies in Hollywood
There is a scene that bookends "No Way Out," the 1987 espionage thriller starring Kevin Costner. He's a naval officer, a hero, being interrogated about the murder of the secretary of Defense's mistress. There are hints that he might be a...
'Dr. Strangelove' at 50
"It remains as outrageously prankish, juvenile, and derisive as ever," writes David Denby in the New Yorker magazine's blog. He's referring to a true monument of 1960s nuclear-paranoid culture, Stanley Kubrick's "Dr....
Marion Cotillard pushes boundaries as actress, crosses them as a star
French-born Marion Cotillard has staked out an enviable international career, with a leading lady's glamour and the versatility of a character actress. Following her breakthrough, Oscar-winning performance in "La Vie en Rose," she has appeared...
New songs from Tune-Yards, Prince, Jack White suggest summer bounty
With spring arrives a fresh blossoming of seasonal metaphors to suggest new birth. A sprouting of unheard music arriving after months of cultivation. Proverbial butterflies crawling out of their cocoons. Bears stretching after deep sleep. In the...
Damien Puckler tries to get his foothold in a land of action heroes
The man in the backyard carries the tattoos and scars of a fighter. He spins and kicks. Dust flies, a punching bag shimmies on a rusted clothesline. Sweat drips around blue eyes and seeps through a thin beard. The lines on the face show, but barely....
Throwback Thursday: 'Dr. Strangelove' released 50 years ago this week
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Saturday Highlights and Weekend Talk: 'Da Vinci's Demons' on Starz
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Seth Rogen joins Bieber bashers, calls him 'ungrateful, obnoxious'
Seth Rogen has thrown in his lot with the Bieber bashers.
The "Neighbors" star, 31, stopped by Andy Cohen's "Watch What Happens Live" on Wednesday, and the host asked him about a tweet he'd posted in January following Justin...
PASSINGS: Ken Thorne, Ben Pesta
Ken Thorne, 90, a television and film composer who won an Oscar for scoring the 1966 musical comedy "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," died of natural causes Wednesday at West Hills Hospital & Medical Center, said his wife,...
Paul Mazursky dies: A 2011 interview with the vivid raconteur
Paul Mazursky, who died Monday evening at the age of 84, was a great interview.
I had the opportunity to sit down with the Oscar-nominated writer/director three years ago at his office in Beverly Hills just days before he received the Los Angeles Film...
Paul Mazursky dies: 5 of the writer-director's most memorable movies
Filmmaker Paul Mazursky, who died Monday at age 84, may not have been as well known as some of his contemporaries — Woody Allen, Robert Altman, Martin Scorsese — but over the course of his career, the five-time Oscar nominee left his mark on cinema as a...
Beatles' 'A Hard Day's Night' gets fab 50th anniversary makeover
Given the sacrosanct aura that's developed around pretty much everything to do with the Beatles over the past half-century, it seems unbelievable that anything related to the Fab Four might have ever gone missing through the decades.
But in coming up...
'Rectify's' Ray McKinnon tries to find what matters
Ray McKinnon, "Deadwood's" doomed reverend and the man behind the Sundance Channel's contemplative character study "Rectify," sits in a dark, windowless room in Los Angeles, working with three editors on three different episodes from...
'Twenty-Seven,' 'Magic Flute' are treats, but on sugary side
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Ricky Ian...
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