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Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, short story writer, editor and literary critic and is described as the father of the modern detective story. Some of his most famous writings of mystery and the macabre include "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Cask of Amontillado," and "The Pit and the Pendulum." "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is widely recognized as the first mystery-detective story. Among his most cited poems are "Annabel Lee" and "The Raven." Born in 1809 in Boston, Poe's parents died when he was young and he was raised by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Va. Poe's publishing career began in 1827 with an anonymous collection of poems, "Tamerlane and Other Poems." On Oct. 7, 1849, Poe d...
Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, short story writer, editor and literary critic and is described as the father of the modern detective story. Some of his most famous writings of mystery and the macabre include "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Cask of Amontillado," and "The Pit and the Pendulum." "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is widely recognized as the first mystery-detective story. Among his most cited poems are "Annabel Lee" and "The Raven." Born in 1809 in Boston, Poe's parents died when he was young and he was raised by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Va. Poe's publishing career began in 1827 with an anonymous collection of poems, "Tamerlane and Other Poems." On Oct. 7, 1849, Poe died at the age of 40 in Baltimore. The cause of his death is undetermined and has been attributed to alcohol, drugs, cholera, rabies, suicide, tuberculosis, heart disease, brain congestion and other conditions. The bar in which Poe was last seen drinking still stands in Fells Point in Baltimore. Known today as The Horse You Came In On, local lore insists that a ghost they call "Edgar" haunts the rooms above. The earliest surviving home in which Poe lived is in Baltimore, preserved as the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum. Since 1949, a mysterious person -- the so-called Poe Toaster -- has visited the writer's grave behind Westminster Hall near the western edge of downtown Baltimore every Jan. 19 (Poe's birthday) and leaves a half-bottle of cognac and three roses.
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Plenty of laughs, camp in 'Mystery'
Baltimore Sun reporterThe only mystery in "The Mystery of Irma Vep" is how the two actors who dash, hop, limp and swirl through the Everyman Theatre staging of Charles Ludlam's inventive and amusing play are still standing at the end. Portraying at least three characters...Tags: Music Theater, Carol Burnett, Celebrity
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Bacall, Corman among early Oscar honorees
And the Oscar goes to ... Lauren Bacall.
The 85-year-old actress who made her film debut in 1944's "To Have and Have Not" opposite Humphrey Bogart (whom she later married) was honored Saturday in Los Angeles at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and...Tags: Roger Corman, Woody Allen, Academy Awards, Lauren Bacall, Celebrity
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Early Oscars are presented to 4 honorees
A who's who of Hollywood -- Alec Baldwin, Warren Beatty and Steven Spielberg among them -- turned out Saturday night for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 2009 Governors Awards.
The academy bestowed its honorary awards during a three-hour-...Tags: Francis Ford Coppola, Woody Allen, Executive Branch, Cinema Industry, Steven Spielberg
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Cate Blanchett captures faded-flower essence in 'Streetcar'
Baltimore Sun reporter"So many people have condemned the play for its sordid theme," Vivien Leigh said in a 1950s interview about Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire," the vehicle for one of her most indelible achievements as an actress. "To me it is an infinitely...Tags: Liv Ullmann, Celebrity, Vivien Leigh, Tennessee Williams, Cate Blanchett
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Blanchett's star power a big draw in D.C.
Baltimore Sun reporterWASHINGTON -- Cate Blanchett and Liv Ullmann conducted an impromptu lesson over the weekend in the duties, delights, and hierarchies of star power -- with the help of the Australian embassy. Blanchett is starring in, and Ullmann is directing, the...Tags: Sydney (Australia), Cinema Industry, Ingmar Bergman, Celebrity, Liv Ullmann
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Shticker shock
BloombergUnder the Dome. Stephen King. Scribner. $35. 1,074 pp. Under the Dome, Stephen King's vast new novel, chronicles the events after small-town Chester's Mill, Maine, becomes trapped beneath a giant, impassable force field. The creators of The Simpsons...Tags: Iraq War (2003), Assault, Barbie (fictional character), Stephen King, Warren Zevon
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10 underrated depictions of the apocalypse
1839: Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion." A comet passed too close to Earth. People were in awe until oxygen was sucked from the atmosphere and everyone exploded. As recounted by two dead men. 1937: Picasso's...Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Roland Emmerich, San Francisco, Cormac McCarthy, Y: The Last Man (movie)
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Founder of Dead Poets Society visits bards' graves, resurrects their works with readings
Associated Press WriterCUNDY'S HARBOR, Maine (AP) — On the big screen, the leader of the Dead Poets Society at an all-boys prep school was an inspirational teacher played by Robin Williams. In real life, it's a balding amateur poet who drives around in his "Poemobile,"...Tags: Walt Whitman, Poetry, Documentary (genre), Death and Dying, Grateful Dead (music group)
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POE PROJECT: Single Carrot Theatre, 120 W. North Ave., offers four free performances of an interactive work in progress based on the writings of Edgar Allan Poe. The show takes place today and Friday at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. Call... -
Saluting Sherlock Holmes with 'Hound of the Baskervilles'
Sherlock Holmes fans antsy with anticipation for the forthcoming extravaganza starring Robert Downey Jr. as the great detective and Jude Law as his sidekick, Dr. Watson, can settle down this weekend with the 1939 version of the most famous of all Holmes...Tags: Monsters (legendary creatures), Bob Hope, Frankenstein (movie, 1931), Mongolia, Holidays
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Macabre movies miss the mark
Baltimore Sun reporterBaltimore's an Edgar Allan Poe kind of town, never more so than in 2009 with the Poe House, a football team named for his most famous poem, and a year-long celebration honoring the macabre author's death. Naturally, Baltimore's repertory movie house would...Tags: Cinema Industry, James Whale, Frankenstein (movie, 1931), Ingmar Bergman, Boris Karloff
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