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Baltimore County schools spent $5 million on textbooks, curriculum despite warnings
Baltimore County school leaders disregarded advice from state officials and forged ahead to overhaul the teaching of English, spending more than $5 million over the past few years to buy textbooks that mostly sit unused and to rewrite a curriculum that...
Tags: Vaccines, Teaching and Learning, David Marks, Standards, Colleges and Universities
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Two for the show
The family that works on plays together, stays together.
OK, so that's not exactly the old adage. But it might become a new one if the husband-and-wife acting team of Jason Odell Williams and Charlotte Cohn continue on the same artistic road they've been...Tags: Baz Luhrmann, New York City, Racism, Opera (genre), Aphra Behn
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On 'Company Men': Losing their jobs wasn't the half of it
The arrival this week of the new Tommy Jones movie "Company Men" on DVD raises the question: Is there anything less entertaining than watching middle-aged men coming to terms with unemployment?
How about following each step in the dissolution of a...Tags: Arthur Miller, DVDs, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams
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Performance Workshop gets new home, Artists' Initiative debuts
It's a big weekend for two organizations devoted to bringing more people into the local theater community.
Performance Workshop Theatre, a nonprofit company and theater arts training school, just moved from its Federal Hill location to new digs in...Tags: Federal Hill, Edgar Allan Poe, Celebrities, Luigi Pirandello, Harford Road
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Herman Maril: Baltimore artist painted what he saw
Herman Maril had two worlds, and each provided him what something the other lacked.
The artist, who was born in Baltimore in 1908 and died here in 1986, spent his life painting some of the grittier aspects of the city. Invariably, his astute and...Tags: Arts, University of Maryland, College Park, Museum of Modern Art, Libraries, Mark Rothko
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'Greatest actor of his generation,' Brando dies at 80
Times Staff WritersMarlon Brando, a two-time Oscar winner whose riveting performances transformed acting from a remote craft to a naturalistic art form, has died, the Associated Press announced today. He was 80. An actor's actor whose skill was envied by generations of...Tags: Al Pacino, Anthony Quinn, Jessica Tandy, Sean Penn, Laurence Olivier
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Brando revealed the soul of his characters
Sun Movie CriticMarlon Brando's extraordinary emotional intelligence expressed itself in every inch of his body for every second - the phrase "being in the moment" might as well have been coined for him. Of course, other actors in New York and Hollywood had been as...Tags: Al Pacino, Arts, Eva Marie Saint, Richard Linklater, Barbara Stanwyck
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A Lion in Winter
Sun movie criticPart I An American hero -- and antiheroBeyond anything else, Marlon Brando is the towering original who came out of the Midwest 58 years ago and electrified Broadway and then Hollywood with the visceral excitement and veracity of his acting. He exploded...Tags: Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Biography (genre), DVDs, Dancing
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2003 Emmy nominations for major categories
The Associated PressFor major categories: Drama Series "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS "Six Feet Under," HBO "The Sopranos," HBO "24," Fox "The West Wing," NBC Comedy Series "Curb Your Enthusiasm," HBO "Everybody Loves Raymond," CBS "Friends," NBC "Sex and the City,"...Tags: ABC (tv network), Bryan Cranston, Alias (tv program), Megan Mullally, Jennifer Aniston
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Richard Ford finds his place in 'Canada'
It's tempting to call Richard Ford a writer of place. Beginning with his first novel, 1976's "A Piece of My Heart," the 68-year-old author has tended toward the border among landscape, language and character, using setting to help drive his narratives....
Tags: Eudora Welty, Walter Benjamin, Carson McCullers, Literature, Flannery O'Connor
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Actor Blair Underwood On Starring In Broadway's 'A Street Car Named Desire'
PIX11.comActor Blair Underwood is the first African-American man to star in a Broadway production of "A Streetcar Named Desire." He stopped by live to talk about this Tennessee Williams classic which has has extended its Broadway run to Aug. 19. This season,...Tags: Daphne Rubin-Vega, Golden Globe Awards, Entertainment Events, James Earl Jones, Awards and Prizes
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Word power
Earlier this year, when Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a 100-book required reading list for his compatriots, it provoked anxiety, rekindling memories of Soviet-era censorship. The furor underscored an important point: that literature plays a...
Tags: Arthur Miller, Biology, Vladimir Putin, Lone (music group), Sherman Alexie
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