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The Morning Fix: Ticketmaster and Live Nation newlyweds. Viacom and CBS, still broken up. A Simon-Simon-Tommy love triangle.
Company TownAfter the coffee. Before fishing out the umbrella ... again! Ticketmaster and Live Nation get DOJ green light. The Justice Department approved the controversial merger of Ticketmaster and Live Nation, a marriage that brings together the biggest... -
State Supreme Court rules no pension for jailed George Ryan
Clout StPosted by Ray Long and Michelle Manchir at 5 a.m.; last updated at 1:53 p.m. with Thompson, Madigan reaction SPRINGFIELD --- The Illinois Supreme Court today ruled that imprisoned ex-Gov. George Ryan should not get get any of his state...... -
Hutton Wilkinson fabric line pays homage to Tony Duquette
![To launch a collection of his luxury textiles by manufacturer Jim Thompson, designer Hutton Wilkinson opened the doors last week to Dawnridge -- his Beverly Hills residence that he purchased and preserved as a living museum to the extravagant vision of legendary Hollywood decorator Tony Duquette (1914-99). Wilkinson's fabric line, shown here at Dawnridge, includes archival Duquette prints that emulate two of the designer's favorite materials, malachite and coral, as well as new patterns by Wilkinson, including the silk iridescent Fireworks, $214 a yard, and the vividly patterned Tibetan Sun, $182 a yard. "The sun is a recurring motif in Tony's visual vocabulary," says Wilkinson, who is working on a sequel to the bestselling 2007 book, "Tony Duquette," published by Abrams. The fabric can be purchased through the Kneedler-Fauchere showroom at the Pacific Design Center, 8687 Melrose Ave., West Hollywood, (310) 855-0402. A collection of 19 Duquette furniture and lighting designs can now be found at Baker, 360 N. La Cienega Blvd., (310) 289-0074.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-02/45292270-27132804.jpg "To launch a collection of his luxury textiles by manufacturer Jim Thompson, designer Hutton Wilkinson opened the doors last week to Dawnridge -- his Beverly Hills residence that he purchased and preserved as a living museum to the extravagant vision of legendary Hollywood decorator Tony Duquette (1914-99). Wilkinson's fabric line, shown here at Dawnridge, includes archival Duquette prints that emulate two of the designer's favorite materials, malachite and coral, as well as new patterns by Wilkinson, including the silk iridescent Fireworks, $214 a yard, and the vividly patterned Tibetan Sun, $182 a yard. "The sun is a recurring motif in Tony's visual vocabulary,\" says Wilkinson, who is working on a sequel to the bestselling 2007 book, \"Tony Duquette,\" published by Abrams. The fabric can be purchased through the Kneedler-Fauchere showroom at the Pacific Design Center, 8687 Melrose Ave., West Hollywood, (310) 855-0402. A collection of 19 Duquette furniture and lighting designs can now be found at Baker, 360 N. La Cienega Blvd., (310) 289-0074.")
To launch a collection of his luxury textiles by manufacturer Jim Thompson, designer Hutton Wilkinson opened the doors last week to Dawnridge -- his Beverly Hills residence that he purchased and preserved as a living museum to the extravagant vision of...Tags: Book
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Hollywood rarely did Donald Westlake justice
One of the enigmas in the long and rich career of Donald E. Westlake was that this author of more than 100 novels, many of them popular, accessible and plot-driven works of crime fiction, both grim and comic, received such a spotty handling by Hollywood....Tags: Celebrities, Anna Karina, Stephen Frears, Crime, Law and Justice, Elmore Leonard
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Mystery author Donald E. Westlake dies at 75
Donald E. Westlake, a prolific mystery writer who won three Edgar Awards and an Academy Award nomination for screenplay adaptation in a career spanning five decades, has died. He was 75.
Westlake collapsed and died of an apparent heart attack on his...Tags: Trips and Vacations, The New York Times, John Boorman, Los Angeles Times, Travel
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Charlotte, Oscar & Co.
![Where better for a writer to turn for inspiration than to reality? This is especially true of the mystery fiction micro-trend in which authors fashion real-life figures into detectives. It's tricky territory because the margin of error is so tiny. For every "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution," the 1974 novel in which author Nicholas Meyer brought Sigmund Freud into the orbit of Sherlock Holmes, there is "Dead, Mr. Mozart," Bernard Bastable's less-than-stellar 1995 book in which the famed composer becomes a detective, or the perplexingly popular Queen Elizabeth I crime novels by Karen Harper.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-05/38681255-09103613.gif "Where better for a writer to turn for inspiration than to reality? This is especially true of the mystery fiction micro-trend in which authors fashion real-life figures into detectives. It's tricky territory because the margin of error is so tiny. For every "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution,\" the 1974 novel in which author Nicholas Meyer brought Sigmund Freud into the orbit of Sherlock Holmes, there is \"Dead, Mr. Mozart,\" Bernard Bastable's less-than-stellar 1995 book in which the famed composer becomes a detective, or the perplexingly popular Queen Elizabeth I crime novels by Karen Harper.")
Where better for a writer to turn for inspiration than to reality? This is especially true of the mystery fiction micro-trend in which authors fashion real-life figures into detectives. It's tricky territory because the margin of error is so tiny. For...Tags: Jane Austen, Elizabeth I, World War II (1939-1945), Book, Mystery (genre)
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'Vacancy'
![The unhappy marrieds who stray off the interstate in "Vacancy" think that the most unpleasant thing awaiting them is a night in the same bed. But when their car breaks down on a quiet rural road, the only place to stay is a run-down motel with some particularly creepy amenities. Mattress stains and untraceable smells aren't the half of it.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2007-04/29185870.jpg "The unhappy marrieds who stray off the interstate in "Vacancy\" think that the most unpleasant thing awaiting them is a night in the same bed. But when their car breaks down on a quiet rural road, the only place to stay is a run-down motel with some particularly creepy amenities. Mattress stains and untraceable smells aren't the half of it.")
Special to The TimesThe unhappy marrieds who stray off the interstate in "Vacancy" think that the most unpleasant thing awaiting them is a night in the same bed. But when their car breaks down on a quiet rural road, the only place to stay is a run-down motel with some...Tags: Luke Wilson, Budapest (Hungary), Television, Entertainment, Hotels and Accommodations
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'The Dead All Have the Same Skin' by Boris Vian
The Dead All Have
the Same Skin
A Novel
Boris Vian, translated from the French
by Paul Knobloch
TamTam Books: 120 pp., $18 paper
Imagine an intellectual, astutely French, who hangs out with the likes of Jean-Paul Sartre, has a child's sense of humor...Tags: Book, New York, Murder, Crime, Law and Justice, Children
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Mind games
![Thomas Harris has a lot to answer for. Before he created Hannibal Lecter, the mere idea of a multiple murderer was enough to scare people into locking their doors and avoiding anyone remotely suspicious. Seemingly ordinary, many serial killers lived "normal" lives with wives and children, masking monstrous deeds with a placid veneer. Novelists Dorothy B. Hughes, Jim Thompson and Robert Bloch evoked these chilling figures to outstanding effect, respectively, in "In a Lonely Place" (1947), "The Killer Inside Me" (1952) and "Psycho" (1959).](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2007-09/32867570.jpg "Thomas Harris has a lot to answer for. Before he created Hannibal Lecter, the mere idea of a multiple murderer was enough to scare people into locking their doors and avoiding anyone remotely suspicious. Seemingly ordinary, many serial killers lived "normal\" lives with wives and children, masking monstrous deeds with a placid veneer. Novelists Dorothy B. Hughes, Jim Thompson and Robert Bloch evoked these chilling figures to outstanding effect, respectively, in \"In a Lonely Place\" (1947), \"The Killer Inside Me\" (1952) and \"Psycho\" (1959).")
Thomas Harris has a lot to answer for. Before he created Hannibal Lecter, the mere idea of a multiple murderer was enough to scare people into locking their doors and avoiding anyone remotely suspicious. Seemingly ordinary, many serial killers lived...Tags: The New York Times, Stranger Than Fiction, Book, Murder, FBI
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Patrick Fitzgerald profile (March 2007)
Tribune staff reportersPatrick Fitzgerald has been living a dual life. As the top federal prosecutor in northern Illinois, Fitzgerald has solidified a reputation as a no-nonsense corruption buster--"Eliot Ness with a Harvard degree," as a friend once described him.In his other...Tags: Lewis Libby, Political Corruption, Terrorism, Dick Cheney, Misdemeanors
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NBC's Dick Ebersol gets Lifetime Achievement Emmy
WatchdogCongratulations to NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol, who was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 30th annual Sports Emmy Awards Monday night. Ebersol received the award in a ceremony featuring from Muhammad Ali and the commissioners/CEOs of...Tags: Chris Gray, Bob Smith, Kevin McHale, National Hockey League, Major League Baseball
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Gibson still carving out his corner of cyberspace
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterVANCOUVER, Canada -- Back then, it didn't seem like a great career move. "I don't think anyone told me that I was crazy," William Gibson recalled last week, sitting on the leafy patio of a Creole restaurant near his home. "But they didn't read science...Tags: Canada, Los Angeles Times, Harlan Ellison, Science and Technology, YouTube
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