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'A New Literary History of America' by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors
Daunting as it may be to assemble a centuries-spanning assessment of any country, even one with a fairly linear march through history, how does one approach a culture as unstable, contradictory and contested as ours? Where do you start? Where do you stop?...Tags: Elvis Presley, Los Angeles, California, Toni Morrison, University of California, Berkeley
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With 'Avatar,' 'District 9' and 'Trek,' Hollywood 2010 is a space odyssey
The Hero Complex"Avatar" has become the highest grossing movie of all time, surpassing the Oscar-winning film "Titanic." Will "Avatar" make a big mark on Oscar night too? We talked earlier to Rebecca Keegan, the author of "The Futurist: The Life and Films...... -
Old School “Eye of the Storm” has Down Under Appeal
Frankly My Dear» Orlando Sentinel – Frankly My DearFred Schepisi had his greatest acclaim as a director came early in his career, as part of the Australian “New Wave” of the 1970s and '80s. He was a great favorite of critic Pauline Kael, at least for a while. But he hasn't made a film in his... -
The movie magic is gone
Neal Gabler is the author of many books, including "Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination" and "Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality."TONIGHT'S Oscars will be awarded, most likely, in the usual atmosphere of solemn self-congratulation and decorous chest-thumping. But for all the outward celebration, the truth is that the industry is in a state of ongoing disquiet. It is hardly news...Tags: Gaming, Mass Media, Television, George Lucas, Movies
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Bullitt: Chasing the detective's mystique
![Not to go all Pauline Kael on you, but "Bullitt" -- the 1968 crime drama starring a Ford Mustang GT390 and some guy named Steve McQueen -- is a fairly tedious bit of Aquarian cinema: the chicka-chicka-waah soundtrack, the inscrutable plot, the anaerobic dullness of every second that McQueen is off-camera.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-02/36103914-27181357.jpg "Not to go all Pauline Kael on you, but "Bullitt\" -- the 1968 crime drama starring a Ford Mustang GT390 and some guy named Steve McQueen -- is a fairly tedious bit of Aquarian cinema: the chicka-chicka-waah soundtrack, the inscrutable plot, the anaerobic dullness of every second that McQueen is off-camera.")
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterNot to go all Pauline Kael on you, but "Bullitt" -- the 1968 crime drama starring a Ford Mustang GT390 and some guy named Steve McQueen -- is a fairly tedious bit of Aquarian cinema: the chicka-chicka-waah soundtrack, the inscrutable plot, the anaerobic...Tags: Tom Cruise, Eyewear, Drama (genre), Movies, Dan Neil
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Contempt for the hometown
!["Los Angeles … has never recovered from the inferiority complex that its movies nourished," Pauline Kael once wrote. James Sanders uses Kael's quote in "Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies," a persuasive demonstration that film artists created a magical New York City on studio lots in Hollywood, Burbank and Culver City, inspired, at least in part, by the disdain and contempt they felt for the city in which they worked and lived. The real Los Angeles was no match for their mythic Manhattan.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2006-05/23495606.jpg ""Los Angeles … has never recovered from the inferiority complex that its movies nourished,\" Pauline Kael once wrote. James Sanders uses Kael's quote in \"Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies,\" a persuasive demonstration that film artists created a magical New York City on studio lots in Hollywood, Burbank and Culver City, inspired, at least in part, by the disdain and contempt they felt for the city in which they worked and lived. The real Los Angeles was no match for their mythic Manhattan.")
Special to The Times"Los Angeles has never recovered from the inferiority complex that its movies nourished," Pauline Kael once wrote. James Sanders uses Kael's quote in "Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies," a persuasive demonstration that film artists created a...Tags: Los Angeles, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), California, Social Issues, New York
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Marcia & Lorenzo are real cool geezers
![WHEN was the last time you heard anyone get excited about a new film critic? That was my reaction when "Michael Clayton" director Tony Gilroy began raving to me about the review he'd seen on YouTube. "It was terrific," he said. "I sent it to George [Clooney] right away." On Ain't It Cool News, Wes Anderson made a point of singling out a review of his film "Darjeeling Limited" from the same YouTube site.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2007-12/34506376-31152404.jpg "WHEN was the last time you heard anyone get excited about a new film critic? That was my reaction when "Michael Clayton\" director Tony Gilroy began raving to me about the review he'd seen on YouTube. \"It was terrific,\" he said. \"I sent it to George [Clooney] right away.\" On Ain't It Cool News, Wes Anderson made a point of singling out a review of his film \"Darjeeling Limited\" from the same YouTube site.")
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWHEN was the last time you heard anyone get excited about a new film critic? That was my reaction when "Michael Clayton" director Tony Gilroy began raving to me about the review he'd seen on YouTube. "It was terrific," he said. "I sent it to George...Tags: Los Angeles, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Eugene O'Neill, Bob Dylan, Documentary (genre)
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Where's Weldon?
![The poet <b>Weldon Kees</b> was born in Beatrice, Neb., in 1914, though what's best known about him is that on July 18, 1955, his car was found abandoned with the keys still in the ignition in a parking lot on the Marin County side of the Golden Gate Bridge. Kees had often spoken of killing himself and had once planned, with James Agee, to write a book on famous suicides; together they came up with a wonderful title, "How-Not-To-and-Why-Not-To-Do-It," though the project came to nothing. Both men were too busy plotting their own deaths.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-08/41614964-14132813.gif "The poet <b>Weldon Kees</b> was born in Beatrice, Neb., in 1914, though what's best known about him is that on July 18, 1955, his car was found abandoned with the keys still in the ignition in a parking lot on the Marin County side of the Golden Gate Bridge. Kees had often spoken of killing himself and had once planned, with James Agee, to write a book on famous suicides; together they came up with a wonderful title, "How-Not-To-and-Why-Not-To-Do-It,\" though the project came to nothing. Both men were too busy plotting their own deaths.")
The poet Weldon Kees was born in Beatrice, Neb., in 1914, though what's best known about him is that on July 18, 1955, his car was found abandoned with the keys still in the ignition in a parking lot on the Marin County side of the Golden Gate Bridge....Tags: Susan Sontag, Conrad Aiken, Ken Kesey, Documentary (genre), Kenneth Rexroth
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'Jaws' Star Roy Scheider Dies at 75
Roy Scheider, the jagged-nosed actor who brought complexity to tough-guy roles in such films as "The French Connection," "Jaws" and "All That Jazz," and was also known for political activism off the set, died Sunday afternoon at a hospital in Little Rock,...Tags: Celebrities, Hospitals and Clinics, Bob Fosse, Academy Awards, Documentary (genre)
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Actress Anne Bancroft dies at 73
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAnne Bancroft, the versatile, husky-voiced actress who won an Academy Award for portraying Helen Keller's teacher in "The Miracle Worker" but will forever be remembered as the coldly seductive Mrs. Robinson in "The Graduate," has died. She was 73....Tags: Patty Duke, Celebrities, Neil Simon, Los Angeles, Anne Bancroft
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John Leonard dies at 69; erudite critic was early champion of Toni Morrison and other writers
The Associated PressLiterary and cultural critic John Leonard, an early champion of Toni Morrison, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and many other authors, and so consumed and so informed by books that Kurt Vonnegut once praised him as "the smartest man who ever lived," has died. He...Tags: The New York Times, California, Toni Morrison, Radio Industry, University of California, Berkeley
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Oscar winner Charlton Heston Dies
Charlton Heston, the Oscar-winning actor who achieved stardom playing larger-than-life figures including Moses, Michelangelo and Andrew Jackson and went on to become an unapologetic gun advocate and darling of conservative causes, has died. He was 84....Tags: Kenneth Branagh, Gun Control, Cinema Industry, Folklore and Mythology, Social Issues
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