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UCLA series' new leader picks big names, restores plays to mix
While they adjust to a new name for the long-running performance series anchored at UCLA’s Royce Hall, audiences may be reassured by the selection of major names that Kristy Edmunds, the new director who tweaked the title, has included in her...
Tags: Bill Morrison, Trisha Brown, Celebrities, Movies, Concerts
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Review: Jockey biopic 'The Cup' loses its way
"The Cup," the true-life story of jockey Damien Oliver's miracle win atAustralia's2002 Melbourne Cup just a week after the death of his brother, is a tale of heart-wrenching tragedy and uplifting triumph that never quite hits its stride. This modestly...
Tags: Movies, Kentucky Derby, Simon Wincer, Entertainment, Brendan Gleeson
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PASSINGS: Doris Betts, Norman Fruman, Stanley R. Resor, Greg Ham, Maersk Mc-Kinney Moeller
Doris Betts
Southern author of short stories, novels
Doris Betts, 79, a novelist and writing teacher best known for short stories and novels that evoke the geography and mores of the South, died of lung cancer Saturday at her home in Pittsboro, N.C.,...Tags: Teachers, Companies and Corporations, Wars and Interventions, Awards and Prizes, Vietnam War (1955-1975)
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Chris Lilley talks about busting taboos on HBO's 'Angry Boys'
Show TrackerAn interview with Chris Lilley, star/creator of HBO's "Summer Heights High," about his new HBO series "Angry Boys," in which he plays a rapper in blackface, among other characters.... -
Greg Norman hopes pairing helps Tiger Woods, ex-caddie move on
The Fabulous ForumGreg Norman says no one wants the recent controversy between Tiger Woods and his ex-caddie Steve Williams to be an issue at this weeks' Presidents Cup.... -
PASSINGS: John Walker
John Walker, 67, a guitarist and singer who was one of the founding members of the Walker Brothers, a 1960s rock band whose biggest hit was "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)," died of liver cancer Saturday in Los Angeles, according to his personal...Tags: Lawyers, Local Government, George H.W. Bush, Bantamweight, Physical Conditions
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PASSINGS: Lionel Rose, Gunter Sachs, Thomas G. Nelson
Lionel Rose
1st Aborigine to a win world boxing title
Lionel Rose, 62, the first Australian Aborigine to win a world boxing title, died Sunday near Melbourne after being ill for several months, his family said. He had a stroke in 2007 that left him...Tags: Lawyers, Local Government, Bantamweight, George H.W. Bush, Photography
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Bill Hunter dies at 71; prolific Australian actor
Bill Hunter, the archetypal working-class Australian of a multitude of movies including the quirky trio "Muriel's Wedding," "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" and "Strictly Ballroom" died of cancer May 21 in a Melbourne hospice, his...Tags: World War I (1914-1918), Baz Luhrmann, Celebrities and Health Issues, Drama (genre), Celebrities
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Cut Copy reveals details of forthcoming album, gives a shout-out to Ariel Pink
Pop & HissIt's a mantra for many a band seeking inspiration: back to the stacks, back to the stacks, back to the stacks. The Australian trio Cut Copy, whose free-spirited break-out album, "In Ghost Colours," finely plumbed the depths of '80s electropop,...... -
Australia's Taronga Zoo welcomes its first female Asian elephant calf
L.A. UnleashedSYDNEY — Sydney's premier zoo is celebrating the birth of its first female Asian elephant -- a 270-pound (120-kilogram) calf who is doing well. Taronga Zoo director Cameron Kerr said in a statement that the birth Tuesday means that Australia...... -
Qantas to resume A380 flights to Los Angeles, satisfied engine problem is fixed
Money & CompanyTwo months after a jet engine disintegrated after taking off from Singapore, Qantas Airlines announced plans Tuesday to return the double-deck A380 jet to fly routes between Australia and Los Angeles. Flights of the Airbus A380 from Australia have been...... -
Book review: 'Unbearable Lightness' by Portia de Rossi
Special to the Los Angeles TimesSome remarks, like radioactive elements, have a lingering half-life that allows them to poison one generation after another. One that still contaminates our body-obsessed popular culture is the Duchess of Windsor's notorious admonition that no woman can...Tags: Education, Career and Workplace, Ellen DeGeneres, Celebrities, Physical Conditions
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