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Avedon photo exhibit worth a thousand words
What does power look like? What does it do to people? How can you tell who has it and who doesn't? No one has all the answers, of course, but valuable lessons can be gleaned from a timely, illuminating and, yes, powerful, new exhibit at Washington's...Tags: Charlie Chaplin, Dorothy Parker, Richard Avedon, Malcolm X, Photography
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GOP spins the hits of the '60s
Since Nixon and 1968, Republicans have painted their rivals as soft on defense and out of touch with America. Will it work again, or will Democrats shake the tag? Hubert Humphrey is dead. The International Amphitheater, home to the 1968 Democratic...Tags: Defense, Harry S Truman, Richard Nixon, Barack Obama, 1968 Democratic Convention
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New on Video
Zap2It.comBy Jay Bobbin, Zap2it.com ++++++++++++++++++++ || || || || "WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS": It actually doesn't stay in Vegas in this slight comedy, as Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher play New Yorkers who go to the gambling haven to escape respective...Tags: Robert Urich, Chris Cooper, Smart Car, Danny Glover, Christine Lahti
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'Tropic Thunder' brings issues about cinema and race back to the fore
Special to The TimesWHAT IS going on in the zeitgeist when an African American is poised to become president and Robert Downey Jr. is in blackface? In the new comedy " Tropic Thunder," Downey plays actor Kirk Lazarus, a Russell Crowe-ish Aussie who is cast as a black soldier...Tags: Star Wars, Quentin Tarantino, Sidney Poitier, Celebrity Mothers, Jon Lovitz
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Fiction editor at Esquire for 30 years
Tribune NewspapersL. Rust Hills, the former longtime fiction editor at Esquire who was known for publishing the work of the best American writers during his 30 years at the magazine, has died. He was 83. Mr. Hills, a resident of Key West, died of cardiac arrest Tuesday...Tags: Key West, Periodicals, Magazines, Newspaper and Magazine, Philip Roth
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Founder of journal for 'new literary audience'
New York Times News ServiceTheodore Solotaroff, who in 1967 started The New American Review as a showcase for a rising generation of writers, including Philip Roth, William Gass and Mordechai Richler in just the first issue, died Friday at his home in East Quogue, N.Y. He was 80....Tags: Sylvia Plath, Henry Miller, Quogue, Donald Barthelme, Newspaper and Magazine
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New in paperback
Miami and the Siege of Chicago By Norman Mailer New York Review Books, $14.95 The 40th anniversary edition of the Pulitzer Prize winner's take on the 1968 Democratic and Republican National Conventions. A Month of Summer By Lisa Wingate New American...Tags: Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Freedom of the Press, Edward Steichen, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine
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The women of 'Mad Men'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIN ITS first season, "Mad Men," AMC's glossy series about a group of guys on Madison Avenue, received critical raves for its finely drawn portraits of the employees of Sterling Cooper Advertising Agency. Set in 1960, it focused on Don Draper, a...Tags: Dermot Mulroney, Clothing and Textiles Industry, NBC, Hope Davis, Donna Reed
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Timely Tales Of Politics, War
Los Angeles TimesJust when you thought the presidential race was hitting the summer doldrums, here come the dueling political paper backs: Random House Inc. is releasing mass market editions of Sen. Barack Obama's "The Audacity of Hope" (Vintage) and Sen. John McCain's...Tags: Terrorism, International Military Interventions, John Lewis, The Fall, Barack Obama
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'Mad' women go beyond stereotypes
Tribune NewspapersIn its first season, "Mad Men," AMC's glossy series about a group of guys on Madison Avenue, received critical raves for its finely drawn portraits of the employees of Sterling Cooper Advertising Agency. Set in 1960, it focused on Don Draper, a...Tags: Jon Hamm, Mad Men, Claudette Colbert, Celebrity, Celebrity Mothers
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Due in paperback: Obama's 'The Audacity of Hope' and McCain's 'Why Courage Matters'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterJuly 12, 2008 Just when you thought the presidential race was hitting the summer doldrums, here come the dueling political paperbacks: Random House Inc. is releasing mass market editions of Sen. Barack Obama's "The Audacity of Hope" (Vintage) and Sen....Tags: Terrorism, International Military Interventions, John Lewis, Barack Obama, Political Candidates
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Mailer and mayhem
Chicago Tribune criticDon't skim. You'll be tempted to do just that, of course, because his sentences tend to stretch out sinuously like cats in the sun, and because a culture more at home with the rhythms of blogs—quick hits, short takes, lists and nuggets—than...Tags: Robert F. Kennedy, New York Times, Assault, Richard Nixon, Richard J. Daley
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