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Gore Vidal dies at 86; iconoclastic author
Gore Vidal was impossible to categorize, which was exactly the way he liked it. The reading public knew him as a literary juggernaut who wrote 25 novels —from the historical "Lincoln" to the satirical "Myra Breckinridge" — and volumes of...
Tags: Cancer, Gore Vidal, Burr Steers, Paul Newman, Orson Welles
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Review: Martin Amis' biting 'Lionel Asbo' has nowhere to go
-------------------- Lionel Asbo State of England Martin Amis Alfred A. Knopf: 256 pp., $25.95 -------------------- He was born Lionel Pepperdine but changed his name to "Asbo" for England's commonly known Anti-Social Behaviour Order, which targets...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Lotteries, Prisons, Lotto, Kentucky Fried Chicken
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Raptors for Jesus
Change of SubjectBy Megan Crepeau Nope, it's not the Pitchfork festival's hottest breakout star, it's a real, live Super PAC: Back in April, Stephen Colbert announced a new form of campaign finance reform satire -- DIY mockery of the Super PAC system....... -
Cartoon Network brings “Black Dynamite” animated series to Adult Swim
Channel Guide MagazineBy Matthew Grimm Cartoon Network’s late-night Adult Swim block goes into lulls where it seems to bide its time between cool new ‘toons, over-hyped one-season wonders and new seasons of its stately franchises (still waiting on Season 5 of One... -
A look inside 'The McSweeney's Book of Politics & Musicals'
-------------------- The McSweeney's Book of Politics & Musicals Edited by Christopher Monks Vintage: 347 pp., $14.95 paper -------------------- Forget the theatrical success of "The Book of Mormon." What about "Palin! The Musical"? You can't help...
Tags: Christianity, Music, Religion and Belief, Mormonism, The Huffington Post
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On Theater: 'Ruthless' a murderous satiric delight in Laguna
It's not exactly true that "Ruthless," the current production at Laguna Beach's No Square Theatre, is the musical version of "The Bad Seed," but there are enough references to that play to cause eyebrow raising among the most casual theatergoers. For...
Tags: Celebrities, All About Eve (movie), Music Theater, Music, Entertainment Events
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On Theater: Musical spoof plays well in Newport
The popularity of musical theater in the middle part of the past century brought with it a few gentle spoofs of the genre — "Little Mary Sunshine" and "Dames at Sea" among the most notable. The satirical art also flowered in England, where...
Tags: Music, Music Theater, Julie Andrews, Comedy (genre), Theater
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Tony Awards: 'Clybourne Park,' 'Once' are big winners
Bruce Norris' "Clybourne Park," a sharp-toothed satirical drama about the vagaries of race and real estate, won for best play, and "Once," a starry-eyed romance centered on an Irish street musician and a Czech immigrant flower seller, topped the best...
Tags: Mike Nichols, Audra McDonald, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Broadway Theater
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Late Night: Jon Stewart clarifies his support for 'socialism'
Show TrackerAccording to Jon Stewart, "A socialist is someone who wants to spend government money on things you don’t like."... -
From Sun Magazine: First look -- 'VEEP' set visit
It's a cold, gray Friday afternoon in a dark and drafty concrete warehouse at an industrial park in Columbia. Not exactly the setting in which anyone would expect to find glamour, wit or the next big thing in pop culture.
But through a series of doors...Tags: Television Industry, Television, Lyndon B. Johnson, Rick Perry, Sarah Palin
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What critics are saying about Baltimore-made 'VEEP'
The Baltimore SunFrom a Sunday magazine cover piece to Page One stories and blogs posts, I feel like I have been writing about the new HBO satire "VEEP" for at least a year. But the series starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Selina Meyer, a former senator who becomes vice...Tags: Matt Walsh, Music, Anna Chlumsky, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Literature
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Digby Wolfe dies at 82; co-creator of 'Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In'
Digby Wolfe, an Emmy Award-winning comedy writer who helped producer George Schlatter develop "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In," a landmark TV series that became an overnight sensation in the late 1960s, has died. He was 82.
Wolfe, who later became a professor...Tags: Television, George Schlatter, Comedy (genre), NBC (tv network), Teaching and Learning
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