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Simone Weil

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    Mar 10, 2011 | Orlando Sentinel

  1. Sarasota Film Fest lineup — Christopher Plummer, Geena Davis, Harry Connick Jr.

    Frankly My Dear - Orlando Sentinel
    This year's Sarasota Film Festival will be star-studded and action packed, with a performance by Harry Connick, Jr. and his orchestra, and appearances by Oscar winner Geena Davis and screen legend and Oscar nominee Christopher Plummer. Their opening night...
    2. Oct 17, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Discoveries: 'Gold Boy, Emerald Girl' by Yiyun Li

    Plus 'At Home With Andre and Simone Weil' by Sylvie Weil; 'Framing Innocence' by Lynn Powell.
    Special to the Los Angeles Times
    Plus 'At Home With Andre and Simone Weil' by Sylvie Weil; 'Framing Innocence' by Lynn Powell. Gold Boy, Emerald Girl Stories Yiyun Li Random House: 221 pp., $25 Some books leave you hungry. Perhaps it is the overwhelming loneliness of many of Yiyun...

    Tags: Children, Photography, Family, Prosecution, Northwestern University

    3. Aug 9, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. The lost art of reading

    Sometime late last year -- I don't remember when, exactly -- I noticed I was having trouble sitting down to read. That's a problem if you do what I do, but it's an even bigger problem if you're the kind of person I am. Since I discovered reading, I've always been surrounded by stacks of books. I read my way through camp, school, nights, weekends; when my girlfriend and I backpacked through Europe after college graduation, I had to buy a suitcase to accommodate the books I picked up along the way. For her, the highlight of the trip was the man in Florence who offered a tour of the Uffizi. For me, it was the serendipity of stumbling across a London bookstall that had once been owned by the Scottish writer Alexander Trocchi, whose work, then as now, I adored. After we got married four years later, we spent part of our honeymoon in Dollarton, outside Vancouver, British Columbia, visiting the beach where "Under the Volcano" author Malcolm Lowry had lived for more than a decade with his wife Marjorie in a squatter's shack.
    Sometime late last year -- I don't remember when, exactly -- I noticed I was having trouble sitting down to read. That's a problem if you do what I do, but it's an even bigger problem if you're the kind of person I am. Since I discovered reading, I've...

    Tags: Culture, Upper East Side, Death, Manhattan (New York City), Philip Roth

    4. Jun 14, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. 'Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone'

    Bitter Spring
    Bitter Spring A Life of Ignazio Silone Stanislao G. Pugliese Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 426 pp., $35 "Fontamara" and "Bread and Wine," Ignazio Silone's passionate novels of peasant life and political awakening, are iconic works for anyone who...

    Tags: Albert Camus, U.S. Department of State, Swiss Confederation, Death, Communist Party of China

    5. Mar 1, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. L.A. Phil gives budding Mozarts 'shock therapy'

    When he was a toddler, Andy Alden would come home from a movie and play its theme on his toy piano. By the time he was 6, he was performing his own songs.
    When he was a toddler, Andy Alden would come home from a movie and play its theme on his toy piano. By the time he was 6, he was performing his own songs. At the same age, Tim Callobre was also making up piano tunes. Soon, he was branching out to other...

    Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Walt Disney, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Music, University of Southern California

    6. Oct 12, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. New in paperback: The pioneers of the police procedural, Iraq by way of Homer and the Crusades through Muslim eyes

    "Immoveable Feast" by John Baxter (Harper Perennial) Baxter, the film critic and biographer of Spielberg, Buñuel and others, fell in love and moved from Los Angeles to Paris some years back, from whence he has dispatched a series of fluent, witty and...

    Tags: Minority Groups, Tupac Shakur, Death, West Point, Kurt Cobain

    7. Oct 16, 2002 |Story| Metromix

  7. Movie review, 'In Praise of Love'

    Beautiful and hermetic, an objet d'art full of poetry and invective, Jean-Luc Godard's "In Praise of Love" is a film, I suppose, for the happy few. To anyone who tries to see it as a conventional movie - or even a conventional art film - "Praise" may seem...

    Tags: Movies, Steven Spielberg, Music Box Theatre, Jean-Luc Godard, Chicago Tribune

    8. Sep 6, 2002 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. 'In Praise of Love'

    Times Staff Writer
    After years spent trying to bury cinema--or at least its more obvious pleasures--Jean-Luc Godard has made a new movie that exalts its glory. A film about history, memory and the distance between the two, "In Praise of Love" is an almost-love story about a...

    Tags: Film Festivals, Canal+, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Religious Conflicts, Nazareth

    9. Dec 28, 2004 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. Author Susan Sontag Dies

    Times Staff Writer
    Susan Sontag, one of America's most influential intellectuals, internationally renowned for the passionate engagement and breadth of her critical intelligence and her ardent activism in the cause of human rights, died today of leukemia. She was 71. The...

    Tags: Leukemia, Patti Smith, Columbia University, Death, Human Rights

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