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'Game Change' is an old Hollywood story, a la 'A Star Is Born'
24 FramesThe HBO Sarah Palin flm "Game Change" has an eerily familiar narrative, one that dates back to the earliest days of Hollywood: the backstage showbiz drama. It's just the backdrop that's different -- instead of a Broadway theater, or movie backlot, we've... -
Critic's Notebook: Karen Finley slips into the skin of other women
Los Angeles Times Book CriticIn "The Jackie Look," the last of eight monologues that make up her new book "The Reality Shows" (Feminist Press: 256 pp., $17.95 paper), Karen Finley offers a statement that suggests her point of view. "Life," she writes, "is more important than art /...Tags: Domestic Violence, Martha Stewart, Arts, New York University, Television Industry
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Ohio Gov. John Kasich: 'We will not be raising taxes in this state'
Top of the TicketJohn Kasich lists new jobs at top of his priority list in building a new future for his economically-troubled state.... -
A survey of heated rhetoric on Andres Serrano's 'Piss Christ'
Culture Monster'Piss Christ' still stokes anger after all these years... -
Senators take their concerns to the border
The United States does not need to send troops to the border in response to Mexico's drug war, nor is Mexico in danger of becoming a failed state, law enforcement officials told a congressional panel Monday. Witnesses testifying before members of the...Tags: Rick Perry, Crimes, Drug Trafficking, Lawyers, Firearms
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The U.S. must reengage with the International Criminal Court
The arrest warrant issued last week for Sudan President Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir has thrown into stark relief a question the Obama administration and Congress need to address:
What are we going to do about the International Criminal Court?
The desire...Tags: Republican Party, Genocide, Crimes, Lawyers, Central African Republic
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Game on: Pros and big-league politics
Howard Cosell called it "rule No. 1 of the Jockocracy": the idea that sports and politics must never mix. This last election season though, that iron wall separating the two worlds wasn't merely breached, it was flattened.
It has been little reported...Tags: Republican Party, Michael Jordan, Denver Broncos, National Basketball Association, Tyson Chandler
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Former Sen. Jesse Helms dies at 86
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterJesse Helms, the former U.S. senator from North Carolina who for half a century infuriated liberals with his race-baiting campaign tactics and presidents of both parties with his use of senatorial privilege, died Friday. He was 86. Helms, who won...Tags: Jimmy Carter, Local Elections, Obituaries, Richard Nixon, NAACP
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Government officials and politicians
Government officials and politicians Spencer M. Williams, 85; federal judge in San Francisco, appointed by President Nixon, who advocated for judges' interests (Jan. 3) Houston I. Flournoy, 78; GOP assemblyman and controller in California who lost the...Tags: Jimmy Carter, Local Elections, Agricultural Research and Technology, Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Natural Resources
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Shepard Fairey says honesty is essential to his art despite his 'slip' over a disputed Obama poster [updated]
Culture MonsterThe rock 'n' roll references were flying Wednesday evening as Shepard Fairey and Robbie Conal, leading, L.A.-based exponents of political street art -- including posters they sometimes paste up illegally -- sat side by side in a Culver City television....... -
A century of Times editorials on the filibuster
Opinion L.A.Readers sometimes accuse The Times' editorial board of decrying the filibuster -- and other such procedural obstructions to legislative action -- only when it inhibits Democrats from passing their pet projects (such as healthcare reform). As far as the... -
Troubled waters on U.N. oceans treaty
DAVID HELVARG is president of the Blue Frontier Campaign and the author of "Blue Frontier: Dispatches from America's Ocean Wilderness."LEON E. PANETTA and retired Adm. James D. Watkins were on Capitol Hill last week lobbying for a treaty that, depending on how you look at it, is three to 25 years overdue for a Senate vote. As co-chairmen of the Joint Ocean Commission Initiative and...Tags: Lawyers, Mining, Howard Hughes, Judges, Metal and Mineral
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