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TV's dynamic trio: 'Fringe,' 'Life on Mars,' 'Enemy'
verne.gay@newsday.com; DIANE WERTSYears ago, some bright soul thought up a term to describe TV shows that made absolutely no sense. The term seemed to embrace almost anything that was not a "sitcom" or a "drama," while also issuing a warning to viewers that they should prepare to fasten...Tags: Twilight, Battlestar Galactica, Christian Slater, Grey's Anatomy, Fringe
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'Early Bright' by Ami Silber
Early Bright
A Novel
Ami Silber
Toby Press: 350 pp., $24.95
KINDA blue is the shelf of jazz lit, where few writers have managed to keep their cool when engaging with the music. Jack Kerouac championed a spontaneous bop prosody, but plotted out or...Tags: Charles Mingus, Fraud, Family, Echo Park, Jack Kerouac
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U.S Lit Gets Dissed
Chicago TribuneThese days the world is peering at the United States, shaking its head and muttering, "Didn't you used to be, like — important?" The latest indignity came last week, courtesy of Horace Engdahl, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, which...Tags: John Updike, Awards and Prizes, Toni Morrison
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Cuarenta días para apreciar buen cine en S. Florida Festín visual en los cines de Ft. Lauderdale
ESPECIAL PARA EL SENTINELQuienes estén buscando una oportunidad para escapar de las producciones de Hollywood, no deben perderse la programación del Festival Internacional de Cine de Fort Lauderdale, evento que llega a su edición número 23. Considerado como uno de los...Tags: Danny Glover, Giancarlo Esposito, Oakland Park, Angela Bassett, Andy Griffith
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TODAY'S PICKS
MACY'S PASSPORT CELEBRITY CATWALK CHALLENGE (7 p.m., NBC/4) - Celebs undergo rigorous training and put their reputations on the runway in Macy's signature Passport fashion show; the Pussycat Dolls, Fall Out Boy, Ne-Yo and JabbaWockeeZ perform....Tags: Bank of America Corp., Alec Guinness, Patricia Neal, Cinderella, Russell Crowe
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Le Clezio -- who's he?
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIf the selection of French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio as the 2008 Nobel literature laureate has anything to tell us, it's that Horace Engdahl means what he says. Last week, Engdahl, the Swedish Academy's permanent secretary, called American...Tags: Pearl S Buck, Carlos Fuentes, Awards and Prizes, Culture, Wine, Beer, and Spirits
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'The Snowball' is a richly detailed story about the Sage of Omaha
Special to The TimesIT IS difficult to imagine better timing for the publication of a Warren Buffett biography, and not just any biography but a nearly 900-page authorized tome. For more than five years, Alice Schroeder, a former securities analyst, spent countless hours...Tags: Bill Gates, Book, The Goldman Sachs Group Incorporated, Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway Incorporated
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Le Clezio of France wins Nobel prize in literature
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersJean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, a globe-trotting French author of books exploring indigenous and nomadic cultures in Latin America, Africa and Asia, on Thursday won the Nobel Prize in literature. Le Clezio, 68, has written about 50 books. He has won...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Culture, Joseph Conrad, Nicolas Sarkozy, Mario Vargas Llosa
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Ebony Repertory Theatre aims to set 'a high bar'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWren T. Brown recalls growing up in the 1960s in a modest South Los Angeles neighborhood off a lively Washington Boulevard corridor, invigorated by popular night spots, such as the Ebony Showcase Theatre, the It Club and the Parisian Room. "It was a...Tags: In Treatment, Culture, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Gymnastics, Clubs
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Humor saves 'M. Butterfly' from geopolitical changes
It's been two decades since David Henry Hwang's Tony-winning "M. Butterfly" first hit Broadway. Hwang based his drama on the true-life case in which a French diplomat passed state secrets to his Chinese lover, actually a man in drag, a fact that escaped...Tags: Assault, Frank Zappa, Max Williams, Santa Monica, North Hollywood (Los Angeles, California)
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Writer 'moved' by Nobel Prize
The New York TimesJean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, whose work reflects a seemingly insatiable restlessness and sense of wonder about other places and other cultures, won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday. In its citation, the Swedish Academy praised the...Tags: Society, Awards and Prizes, Culture, Ceremonies
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Exploding myth of 1970s global cooling "consensus"
Maryland WeatherWhen global warming skeptics set out to undermine the current scientific consensus that the planet is warming up, they often point to a 1975 article in Newsweek magazine that was titled 'The cooling world.' The story cited research on increasing......Tags: Research, Weather Science, Conservation, Ecosystems, Global Change
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