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Bravo TV's 'Work of Art' favors emo-hipster backstabber Miles Mendenhall
Culture MonsterIf little else, Bravo TV's "Work of Art" -- the new reality series set in the New York gallery scene -- proves that the art world is no different from just about every other profession: It's filled with sleaze, political...... -
Authors & Ideas: A talk with Daniel Clowes about the likable curmudgeon 'Wilson'
He's the kind of guy who waxes rhapsodic about his love for the human race but curses people who don't smile at his dog. He's full of odes to the sweep of life and won't stop sharing them with the strangers he accosts in coffee shops. He has no job and no...Tags: Thora Birch, Culture, Bob Barker, Cartoons, Michel Gondry
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An uneasy accord
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterLAST year, one of Canada's most prestigious museums approached the cartoonist Seth, whose work combines realistic, character-based storytelling with a muted, nostalgic visual style reminiscent of Edward Hopper, about a show of contemporary artists who use...Tags: Art Institute of Chicago, Whitney Museum, David Cronenberg, Soups, Movies
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Achingly drawn conclusions
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe Partisan Review may have folded in the last year, but alienation and ennui are alive and well in American letters. Ironically, at the same time that comic-book protagonists have earned a new literary respect, they have lost the ability to transform...Tags: Jim Belushi, Education, University of Texas at Austin, Palestine, Religious Conflicts
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Hitting a nerve
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterConsumerism and the counterculture collide hard on Telegraph Avenue, where political posters fill the space between chain stores. Three kids in hooded sweatshirts crouch on the sidewalk: "Can you spare some change ... for pot?" Away from the clamor,...Tags: Science and Technology, Movies, University of California, Entertainment, Arts and Culture
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Interview with Zippy creator Bill Griffith
Good thing Bill Griffith did not take Marcel Duchamp seriously. Otherwise, we'd be without Zippy (aka Zippy the Pinhead), the best-drawn daily underground comic strip in America, still running in 300 newspapers. Griffith, at the time a 19-year-old art...Tags: National Lampoon Incorporated, Artists, Cartoons, Newspaper and Magazine, Haddam
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'Bones' Co-Star Having 'Fun' Writing
Zap2It.comWalt Disney and Scott Rudin Prods. are moving forward on the family comedy "Hours of Fun," hiring actor-turned-scribe John Francis Daley and his writing partner Jonathan Goldstein to polish the screenplay. According to The Hollywood Reporter, "Hours of...Tags: Comedy (genre), Entertainment, Walt Disney
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Suplee Draws on Showbiz Smarts for 'Art School'
Zap2It.comAlthough many actors secretly want to be directors, Ethan Suplee gets to play one in Terry Zwigoff's "Art School Confidential." Suplee plays Vince, the obnoxious roommate of protagonist Jerome (Max Minghella) at the artsy Strathmore Institute. While...Tags: Movies, Kevin Smith, Entertainment, Arts, Arts and Culture
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'Art School Confidential'
Times Staff WriterIf a more elegant and succinct explanation of what compels some people to go to art school has ever been filmed, I haven't seen it. Terry Zwigoff's "Art School Confidential" begins with a steady, mostly silent (except for a rhythmic pounding of fist on...Tags: Matt Keeslar, Pablo Picasso, Jim Broadbent, Death, Music Theater
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'Tristan and Isolde'
Times Staff WriterLove stories come and go, but few have the durability of "Tristan and Isolde." Everyone from German Richard Wagner to Briton Richard Burton (who starred in a 1981 version called "Lovespell") have been fascinated by this Dark Ages tale of star-crossed...Tags: Tony Scott, Poetry, Death, Richard Burton, Movies
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Fast-Paised review: Art School Confidential'
Big question: Shy teenager Jerome (Max Minghella) enrolls in a prestigious art school and falls for nude model Audrey (Sophia Myles). Directed by Terry Zwigoff and written by Daniel Clowes, both of whom adapted Clowes' comic "Ghost World," does "Art...Tags: Movies, Matt Keeslar, Jim Broadbent, John Malkovich, Sony Corp.
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Movie review: Art School Confidential'
Tribune movie critic3 stars (out of four) A match made in a particularly clammy suburb of heaven, director Terry Zwigoff and screenwriter Daniel Clowes are masters of a specific worldview: that of daily life as a series of low-key interpersonal train wrecks, plus the...Tags: Crimes, Matt Keeslar, Jim Broadbent, Michael Phillips, Murder
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