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    Mar 30, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. An Appreciation: Richard Griffiths' outstretched hand

    Richard Griffiths was an actor of enormous size. He was physically big — obese to the point of sometimes needing a cane to get around. But his mind and soul were equally large, and his eloquence was so prodigious that playwright Alan Bennett found in him an ideal interpreter of his magnificently articulate art.
    Richard Griffiths was an actor of enormous size. He was physically big — obese to the point of sometimes needing a cane to get around. But his mind and soul were equally large, and his eloquence was so prodigious that playwright Alan Bennett found...

    Tags: Tony Awards, Arts and Culture, Danny DeVito, Richard Griffiths, Daniel Radcliffe

    2. Mar 8, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Why Benjamin Britten's music is ever youthful

    Benjamin Britten, who never in his life thought of himself as gay, might well be dismayed if he could peer down at how discussion of his life and work has come to be dominated by the matter of his sexuality. The latest biography — by Paul Kildea, a serious scholar and by no means sensationalist — made news by suggesting that Britten's heart condition, which brought about his death at age 63, was the result of syphilis.
    Benjamin Britten, who never in his life thought of himself as gay, might well be dismayed if he could peer down at how discussion of his life and work has come to be dominated by the matter of his sexuality. The latest biography — by Paul Kildea,...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, Culture, Heart Problems, Music, Music Industry

    3. Dec 10, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. Review: Ties bind even as brickbats fly in 'Other Desert Cities'

    If like me you come from a mixed family, meaning there are conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats boisterously hashing out their differences at the holiday table, you'll have an easy time recognizing the Wyeth clan gathered to celebrate Christmas at the family's Palm Springs compound in Jon Robin Baitz's grippingly entertaining "Other Desert Cities."
    If like me you come from a mixed family, meaning there are conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats boisterously hashing out their differences at the holiday table, you'll have an easy time recognizing the Wyeth clan gathered to celebrate...

    Tags: Michael Weston, George W. Bush, Parties and Movements, Suicide, Trips and Vacations

    4. Sep 23, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Louis Simpson dies at 89; Pulitzer-winning poet

    "A poet," Louis Simpson once wrote, "should wish for enough unhappiness to keep him writing."
    "A poet," Louis Simpson once wrote, "should wish for enough unhappiness to keep him writing." Simpson may not have wished for trouble, but he kept writing for 60 years — spare, powerful poems about war, infidelity, suburban alienation and other...

    Tags: Columbia University, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Entertainment Events, Vanderbilt University , Adultery

    5. Aug 24, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. Christopher Plummer still has 'A Word or Two' to say

    <em>"First you're young. Then you're old. Then you're wonderful."</em>
    "First you're young. Then you're old. Then you're wonderful." — Alice Roosevelt Longworth STRATFORD, Canada — Christopher Plummer is in the wonderful phase of his career — and at 82 he's seizing the opportunity. In February, the six-...

    Tags: Fishing, Culture, Music, The Sound of Music (movie), Entertainment

    6. Apr 29, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  6. Stagecoach 2012: Steve Martin goes whole hog in Indio

    Pop & Hiss
    It was with some sense of deja vu that Steve Martin pulled into Stagecoach for a performance Saturday that had him and the Steep Canyon Rangers slotted to play immediately after bluegrass music patriarch Ralph Stanley, a situation similar to one for which...
    7. Mar 28, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. Adrienne Rich dies at 82; feminist poet and essayist

    Adrienne Rich, a pioneering feminist poet and essayist who challenged what she considered to be the myths of the American dream and subsequently received high literary honors, died Tuesday at her home in Santa Cruz. She was 82.
    Adrienne Rich, a pioneering feminist poet and essayist who challenged what she considered to be the myths of the American dream and subsequently received high literary honors, died Tuesday at her home in Santa Cruz. She was 82. The cause was...

    Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Columbia University, Civil Rights, Human Rights, Teaching and Learning

    8. Apr 23, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. Music review: Gabriel Kahane's score is conducted by his father

    Gabriel Kahane, best known as an indie singer-songwriter, was his own charismatic singer-songwriter Saturday night in the West Coast premiere of his affecting "Crane Palimpsest" at the Alex Theatre.
    Gabriel Kahane, best known as an indie singer-songwriter, was his own charismatic singer-songwriter Saturday night in the West Coast premiere of his affecting "Crane Palimpsest" at the Alex Theatre. As he does in a club, he used a microphone and wore...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, Hart Crane, Culture, Popular Music (genre), Carnegie Hall

    9. Dec 16, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  9. Christopher Hitchens: In our pages, in our memories

    Opinion L.A.
    Christopher Hitchens' influential life was lived out in public argument on panels, at lecterns, in books, magazines, newspapers and on Internet screens, including the Los Angeles Times. He wrote Op-Eds and book reviews, stretching back to 1990. In our...
    10. Aug 27, 2011 |Column| Los Angeles Times

  10. Patt Morrison Asks: The poet, W.S. Merwin

    An Idaho resort hotel's verdure is not the wild tumble around W.S. Merwin's beloved Hawaiian home, but disciplined grass and orderly stands of trees. Not, perhaps, the sort of trees Merwin had in mind when he wrote, "On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree." But the Sun Valley Writers' Conference bears an annual crop of words and ideas, and Merwin is here as a master gardener of that. He just ended a year's term as the nation's poet laureate. He <a href="http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/merwin/">has to his name two Pulitzer Prizes and more than 30 books of poetry and prose</a>, and a hand-planted forest at home of rare and endangered palms. <a href="http://www.merwinconservancy.org/">The Merwin Conservancy</a> is dedicated to keeping his works green -- the ones he created with words, and the natural ones that exist before and beyond them.
    An Idaho resort hotel's verdure is not the wild tumble around W.S. Merwin's beloved Hawaiian home, but disciplined grass and orderly stands of trees. Not, perhaps, the sort of trees Merwin had in mind when he wrote, "On the last day of the world I would...

    Tags: Dog (animal), Entertainment, Nature, Poetry, Television

    11. Jan 23, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. Reynolds Price dies at 77; author and longtime Duke professor

    In 1984, when he was 51, novelist Reynolds Price learned that a pencil-shaped tumor, about 10 inches long and malignant, had invaded his spine. Several surgeries and dozens of radiation treatments followed, leaving him a paraplegic racked with pain and the uncertainty of his survival. His happy life of teaching Milton at Duke University and writing several hours a day was over, or so it seemed in his many dark moments.
    In 1984, when he was 51, novelist Reynolds Price learned that a pencil-shaped tumor, about 10 inches long and malignant, had invaded his spine. Several surgeries and dozens of radiation treatments followed, leaving him a paraplegic racked with pain and...

    Tags: William Faulkner, Family, Celebrities and Health Issues, Poetry, Dorothy Parker

    12. Feb 23, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  12. This Recording's marvelous writers series

    Jacket Copy
    A blog series on writers from This Recording is a must-read....
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