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City Lights: Turning on new 'Lights'
This column has moved but will not require a new name. "City Lights" — I originally thought of that title as a play on the city editor position. Now, as I move into the features editor spot, I'm reminded of from where else the inspiration came....Tags: City Lights (movie), Gene Siskel, Modern Times (movie), Movies, Elvis Presley
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Poet Jack Gilbert has died
The poet Jack Gilbert, who had been battling dementia for many years, died Tuesday in Berkeley. He was 87. Gilbert -- who was featured in Monday's L.A. Times -- had been in frail condition at a nursing home for several years before he developed...
Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, Poetry, Pneumonia, Awards and Prizes, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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Karl Rove likes reading Jorge Luis Borges. Yes, that Karl Rove.
Karl Rove: Fox News commentator, conservative who caused consternation on election night, major Republican strategist. And fan of metafictional writer Jorge Luis Borges. Yes, really. The news comes from Rove's own website (via Twitter). Since 2010, Rove...
Tags: George W. Bush, Authors, Patti Smith, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Karl Rove
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Jay Caspian Kang impresses with 'The Dead Do Not Improve'
-------------------- The Dead Do Not Improve A Novel Jay Caspian Kang Hogarth: 272 pp, $25 -------------------- Jay Caspian Kang's debut novel, "The Dead Do Not Improve," demands to be accepted on its own terms. Moving past the era in which...
Tags: Mystery (genre), Bob Dylan, Stomach Cancer, Genres, Chris Isaak
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Louis Simpson dies at 89; Pulitzer-winning poet
"A poet," Louis Simpson once wrote, "should wish for enough unhappiness to keep him writing." Simpson may not have wished for trouble, but he kept writing for 60 years — spare, powerful poems about war, infidelity, suburban alienation and other...
Tags: State University of New York, Columbia University, W.H. Auden, Poetry, Stony Brook
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Of pop & poetry
Jay-Z, Sonic Youth, Guns N' Roses, Ghostface Killah, Slayer, Prince, the Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Britney Spears, The New Pornographers, Mobb Deep, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Prefab Sprout, Pink, The Beatles, Van Halen, Big Star, Bob Dylan,...
Tags: The Beatles (music group), Radio, Ghostface Killah, Phil Spector, Popular Music (genre)
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Ben Foster turning on 'Red Light Winter': 'Contraband' thesp attached to Adam Rapp's indie drama
Variety"Contraband" thesp Ben Foster is attached to star in writer-director Adam Rapp's indie drama "Red Light Winter," which Parts & Labor principals Jay Van Hoy and Lars Knudsen are producing with Scott Rudin. Based on Rapp's bleak play of the same name,...Tags: Kate Beckinsale, Kirsten Dunst, Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara, Peter Berg
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Radcliffe, Kazan uttering 'F Word': 'Potter' star ramps up romantic comedy
VarietyAfter eight "Harry Potter" films and a handful of dark indies, Daniel Radcliffe is ready to tackle a new chapter of his career: the romantic comedy. Radcliffe and "Ruby Sparks" star Zoe Kazan are set to topline "The F Word," an indie pic from No Trace...Tags: Lawyers, Broadway Theater, Elan Corporation Plc, CBS Corp., Literature
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On-set school for helmers: Below-the-Line Impact Report 2012
VarietyWriter/director Todd Berger had a lot to worry about during the slam-bang 14-day shoot for his second film, "It's a Disaster," the story of four couples gathered for Sunday brunch who discover the world might be coming to an end. But what concerned him...Tags: Sylvester Stallone, Tony Gilroy, Celebrities, Simon West, Action (genre)
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Twelve Shining Moments from the 2012 International Festival of Arts & Ideas
SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/chris/Documents/Ten%20shining%20moments%20from%20the%202012%20International%20Festival%20of%20Arts.doc I have no doubt that there were several dozen other such moments. I wasn't at every event in the festival, and...
Tags: Festive Events, New Haven Green, Arts, Yale University, PTA
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Kerouac Before the Road: Early lost work from the Beat icon
The Sea is My Brother: The Lost Novel by Jack Kerouac Da Capo Press, 216 pages, $23 On the Road, the iconic novel by Jack Kerouac that has sent generations hitchhiking across America since its publication in 1957, is coming soon to a multiplex near...
Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Atlantic Ocean, Francis Ford Coppola, Meriden
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88 books that shaped America, at the Library of Congress
Jacket CopyThe Library of Congress' list of 88 books that shaped America includes poetry, novels, nonfiction, a play, a polemic, books of science and grammar, cookbooks and children's books. What's it missing?...
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