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The literary side of Marilyn Monroe
Los Angeles TimesSince her death on Aug. 5, 1962, hundreds of books about Marilyn Monroe have been published by various writers, ranging from famous names such as Norman Mailer, Gloria Steinem and Joyce Carol Oates, to people who worked with her on movie sets. With so...Tags: Arts, Photography, Book, Marilyn Monroe, Arthur Miller
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Book review: 'People Who Eat Darkness' is a masterful true crime tale
People Who Eat Darkness The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished From the Streets of Tokyo — and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up Richard Lloyd Parry FSG Originals: 464 pp., $16 paper Americans have an advantage in reading "People Who Eat...
Tags: Japan, Truman Capote, Book, Etan Patz, England
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Mila Kunis: She is Ashton Kutcher's 'good friend' -- got it?
Liz Smith"I DON'T understand personal salvation. It seems to me a vain idea," wrote the late playwright Lillian Hellman. Hmmm. Something else to ponder. Want to read a really interesting book? Try "A Difficult Woman" by Alice Kessler-Harris, all about the...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Ashton Kutcher, Tom Cruise, Mike Nichols, Mila Kunis
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A tweenager toys with new identity
Tribune NewspapersA funny thing happens when a retired journalist brings his 20-plus years of word craft to fiction writing — namely, the birth of a 12-year-old boy named Max, whose angles are shaped by David Foster Wallace, Norman Mailer and the author himself,...Tags: David Foster Wallace, Book, Car Engine Repair, Maserati, Authors
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Advice from Liza Minnelli: Just relax. Let 'em gossip. Have a hamburger!
Liz Smith"JUST KEEP not taking yourself too seriously. And just remember to go get a hamburger!" That was Liza Minnelli talking to the Wall Street Journal the other day. The "hamburger" reference comes from something her mother told her, when Liza arrived home...Tags: Movies, Justin Bieber, Susan Sarandon, Manhattan (New York City), Liza Minnelli
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'When We Were Kings' to sing: Documentary to be adapted into stage musical
VarietyProducer David Sonenberg has begun work on a legit musical version of "When We Were Kings," the Oscar-winning 1996 doc about the Rumble in the Jungle, the 1974 boxing match in Zaire between George Foreman and Muhammad Ali. Score for the tuner will...Tags: Movies, Entertainment Events, George Plimpton, B.B. King, Muhammad Ali
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Critic's Notebook: Under the influence of Hemingway
Los Angeles Times Book CriticFor much of the 1980s, beginning when I was in college, I used to read a Hemingway book a year. The point was not self-improvement but rather a kind of exploration: What was it, exactly, about his writing that I'd missed? I had read "The Sun Also Rises"...Tags: Albert Camus, Raymond Carver, Jack Kerouac, History, Los Angeles Times
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Maurice Sendak dies at 83, author of 'Where the Wild Things Are'
He had already been proclaimed "the Picasso of children's books" by Time magazine when Maurice Sendak, then in his 30s, wrote and illustrated "Where the Wild Things Are," a dark fantasy that became one of the 10 bestselling children's books of all time....
Tags: Movies, Fantasy (genre), Television Industry, Where the Wild Things Are (movie), Danbury
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Barney Rosset dies at 89; publisher fought censorship
Barney Rosset, the renegade founder of Grove Press who fought groundbreaking legal battles against censorship and introduced American readers to such provocative writers as Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco and Jean Genet, died Tuesday in...Tags: Hugh Hefner, Harold Pinter, FBI, Edward Albee, Companies and Corporations
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The Bad Sex in Fiction Award goes to David Guterson's "Ed King"
Tribune NewspapersDavid Guterson has won 2011's Bad Sex in Fiction Award. The tongue-in-cheek prize was presented at a ceremony in London on Tuesday. As in years past, the award-winning author was not in attendance. Guterson was awarded the prize for writing a marathon...Tags: Stephen King, Bible, Haruki Murakami, Lee Child, Religious Texts
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Go ahead, judge them by their covers
Tribune NewspapersWhen architect and design firm owner Steve Kadlec was asked recently whether bookshelves were becoming obsolete in the iPad age, he wisecracked: "Who reads books? We buy them for pretty!" He was only half-joking. With digital competition, hardcover books...Tags: Bob Dylan, Marilyn Monroe, Batman (fictional character), Apple iPad, Lady Gaga
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Vivid images and words on Marilyn Monroe
Special to Tribune NewspapersThe suite at the Hotel Bel-Air where Bert Stern photographed Marilyn Monroe for her famous "Last Sitting" in 1962 no longer exists. It is now part of the elegant La Prairie Spa — rather apropos, as the often difficult star was well known for...Tags: Lindsay Lohan, Marilyn Monroe, Personal Service, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Greta Garbo
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