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Resurrecting Leslie Fiedler, a high priest of pop culture
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIn the long and often embarrassing history of intellectuals' attempts to grapple with pop culture, there are, at least, a few high points. One of them is the work of the late Leslie Fiedler, the garrulous and provocative critic of literature who could...Tags: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jerry Lewis, Culture, Bessie Smith, Norman Mailer
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Deconstructing the critic
The "myth is the message," Leslie Fiedler once wrote in a reflective piece on Robert Penn Warren. It is a dictum that served him well. During a 50-year career, Fiedler produced more than 20 books and mythologized himself as the foremost literary and...Tags: Minority Groups, Lenny Bruce, Eddie Murphy, Jerry Lewis, Leonard Bernstein
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Author Kurt Vonnegut Dies at 84
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterKurt Vonnegut, an American cultural hero celebrated for his wry, loonily imaginative commentary on war, apocalypse, technology, materialism and other afflictions in "Slaughterhouse-Five" and other novels, has died. He was 84. One of the last of a...Tags: Road Accidents, Armed Forces, Tom Wolfe, Gunter Grass, University of Iowa
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'Stone Reader'
Times Staff WriterIn his well-regarded documentary "Stone Reader," Mark Moskowitz, an agreeable-seeming director of political commercials, endeavors to track down the author of a novel that he tried to crack at age 18. Some three decades after that initial attempt and...Tags: Al Gore, Santa Monica, Colleges and Universities, University of Iowa, Harry Potter
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Movie review: 'Stone Reader'
Special to the Tribune4 stars (out of 4) The 2002 documentary "Stone Reader," which opens Friday at Facets Multimedia, begins as a search for a mysterious man who wrote a book. Along the way, it becomes a journey through the creative process. Such are the vagaries of art. In...Tags: Emily Bronte, Joseph Heller, New York Times, Robert Goodman, Margaret Mitchell
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