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Samuel Johnson

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    Aug 7, 2011 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  1. Arts-donation website helps Matt Porterfield turn his new film into a cliffhanger

    "I Used to Be Darker" is meant to jump from the blocks at full speed: A 19-year-old discovers that she's pregnant, grabs a knife and exacts devastating revenge on the cad who knocked her up. After she loses her job overseeing bumper cars at an <a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/travel/beaches/">Ocean City</a> arcade, she high-tails it to Baltimore.
    "I Used to Be Darker" is meant to jump from the blocks at full speed: A 19-year-old discovers that she's pregnant, grabs a knife and exacts devastating revenge on the cad who knocked her up. After she loses her job overseeing bumper cars at an Ocean...

    Tags: Charity, Missing Persons, Hamilton, Documentary (genre), Celebrity Parents

    2. May 17, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  2. Michael Robbins on reviewing

    No one dreams of being a book reviewer when he grows up. You might dream of writing poems or novels or essays or even, if you are perennially picked last for teams in gym class, literary criticism (&ldquo;We don't want Robbins, you can have an extra player&rdquo;; &ldquo;We don't want him, either!&rdquo;). These forms have their glamour, even if only the novelist is much prized by the united malls of America. But as Samuel Johnson almost said, &ldquo;No man but a blockhead ever wrote book reviews, except for money.&rdquo; I have had the rare fortune to see my poetic aspirations realized and then some (though fame is a fickle food), but poetry don't pay the rent. Not that anyone's getting rich from writing about how unputdownable a thriller is.
    No one dreams of being a book reviewer when he grows up. You might dream of writing poems or novels or essays or even, if you are perennially picked last for teams in gym class, literary criticism (“We don't want Robbins, you can have an extra...

    Tags: The Boston Globe, Book, The Washington Post, R Rated Movies, Authors

    3. Jul 25, 2012 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune

  3. So much to see and do in London

    LONDON - The exterior of Westminster Abbey is imposing and grandiose.
    LONDON - The exterior of Westminster Abbey is imposing and grandiose. Our plan was simple: Pay the admission, stick our heads inside to see what it looked like, and then quickly duck out and move on to a museum. The museum never happened. That...

    Tags: Anglicanism, Imperial and Royal Matters, 2012 Summer Paralympics, John Donne, Arts

    4. Oct 5, 2011 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  4. The perils of being a Princess Leia Pez dispenser, 30 years on

    THEATER REVIEW: "Wishful Drinking" at the Bank of America Theatre &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#189; ... Carrie Fisher is a formidable writer, a talent that fellow Tinseltown train-wrecks most assuredly do not share.
    After more than two hours of stories — about the sexual proclivities of dad Eddie Fisher, the Hollywood stylings of mom Debbie Reynolds, the marriage to the cerebral Paul Simon, the demands of the even-more-cerebral George Lucas, the gay second...

    Tags: Bank of America Corp., Banking, Celebrities

    5. Aug 2, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  5. NEH gives $40 million in grants; $3.2 million to California

    Culture Monster
    National Endowment for the Humanities issues $40 million in grants, including $3.2 million to California museums, scholars and documentary filmmakers. Documentaries win the biggest grants; others sponsor seminars aimed to improve college and secondary...
    6. Jan 7, 2011 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  6. Mencken ponders American mediocrity

    There are writers whose books are stacked on my nightstand: G.K. Chesterton, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Babington Macaulay &#8212; writers whom I spend half an hour with before nodding off. They are master prose stylists whose command and fluency of English are the pleasure of reading them, even if the subjects, people and times they write about are unfamiliar and distant to our contemporary minds.
    There are writers whose books are stacked on my nightstand: G.K. Chesterton, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Babington Macaulay — writers whom I spend half an hour with before nodding off. They are master prose stylists whose command and fluency of English...

    Tags: G.K. Chesterton, Newspaper and Magazine, Robert Frost, Discrimination, H.L. Mencken

    7. Jan 31, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  7. 'Congress exceeded the bounds of its authority'--Federal Judge Roger Vinson on Obama healthcare law

    Top of the Ticket
    Full text and selected excerpts of Judge Roger Vinson's federal court decision declaring the new healthcare law unconstitutional....
    8. Nov 21, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. Paperback Writers: James Boswell's 'London Journal 1762-1763'; Michael J. Arlen's 'Exiles' [Updated]

    The handwritten pages of James Boswell's " London Journal 1762-1763" languished forgotten in a trunk in Scotland before being brought to light in the middle of the last century and issued under the auspices of Yale University. This event, together with publication of successive hordes of newly discovered Boswell material, at last separated him from Dr. Samuel Johnson, in whose large and overbearing shadow he had lingered after writing his biography, and established him as a personality in his own right. The "London Journal," now available in an unexpurgated new edition (Penguin Classics: $17 paper) is vivid, intimate, compelling and seemingly off-the-cuff, yet carefully wrought.
    Special to the Los Angeles Times
    The handwritten pages of James Boswell's " London Journal 1762-1763" languished forgotten in a trunk in Scotland before being brought to light in the middle of the last century and issued under the auspices of Yale University. This event, together with...

    Tags: Greta Garbo, Arnold Bennett, Television, Behavioral Conditions, Los Angeles Times

    9. Dec 19, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. 'Prejudices: The Complete Series,' H.L. Mencken

    Prejudices
    Los Angeles Times
    Prejudices The Complete Series H.L. Mencken 2 volume, boxed set Library of America, $70 There are writers whose books are stacked on my nightstand: G.K. Chesterton, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Babington Macaulay — writers whom I spend half an hour...

    Tags: G.K. Chesterton, Philosophy, Newspaper and Magazine, Robert Frost, Physical Fitness and Exercise

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