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Oscars 2013: 'Zero Dark Thirty' is undeserving victim of politics
If you're keeping score this Oscar season — and who isn't? — chalk up this year's nominations as a victory for the bullying power of the United States Senate and an undeserved loss for "Zero Dark Thirty" in general and director Kathryn Bigelow...Tags: U.S. Senate, Anna Karenina (movie), Lawrence of Arabia (movie), Peter O'Toole, Entertainment
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Steven Bach dies at 70; United Artists executive, author
As a studio executive at United Artists, Steven Bach presided over one of the most notorious debacles in movie history -- the making of 1980's "Heaven's Gate" -- an experience he would later write about in what would become a classic in the Hollywood...Tags: Michael Cimino, Manhattan (New York City), Entertainment, David Thomson , Woody Allen
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Art review: Natalie Bookchin at LACE
Culture MonsterChristopher Knight reviews Natalie Bookchin's video installation, "Now he's out in public and everyone can see," at LACE.... -
Zhang Yimou remakes the Coen brothers' 'Blood Simple'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIn the autumn of 2008, China's best-known filmmaker, Zhang Yimou, found himself at a career crossroads. The multiple Oscar nominee had spent the previous two years away from movies, orchestrating the opening and closing ceremonies for Beijing's Olympics,...Tags: True Grit (movie), Defense, James Cameron, University of California, Entertainment
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'The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers'
![When the final chapter closes on Peter Jackson's adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings," the whole extravaganza -- three features, nine hours and a catalog of characters as seemingly infinite as the films' crew -- may well be heralded as one of the more heroic ventures in commercial cinema. Launched last December to enormous success with "The Fellowship of the Ring," the ongoing epic has now entered an awkward adolescence with its middle feature, "The Two Towers," on its way to its concluding volume, "The Return of the King." Slated for completion next year, the entirety of the "Rings" looks auspicious even if in its present manifestation this once and future landmark is a bit of a yawn.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2002-12/5896713.jpg "When the final chapter closes on Peter Jackson's adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings,\" the whole extravaganza -- three features, nine hours and a catalog of characters as seemingly infinite as the films' crew -- may well be heralded as one of the more heroic ventures in commercial cinema. Launched last December to enormous success with \"The Fellowship of the Ring,\" the ongoing epic has now entered an awkward adolescence with its middle feature, \"The Two Towers,\" on its way to its concluding volume, \"The Return of the King.\" Slated for completion next year, the entirety of the \"Rings\" looks auspicious even if in its present manifestation this once and future landmark is a bit of a yawn.")
Times Staff WriterWhen the final chapter closes on Peter Jackson's adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings," the whole extravaganza -- three features, nine hours and a catalog of characters as seemingly infinite as the films' crew -- may well be heralded as...Tags: John Rhys-Davies, Gaming, Dog (animal), Dominic Monaghan, Andy Serkis
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Book review: Charlotte Chandler's 'Marlene: Marlene Dietrich, A Personal Biography'
![It hardly seems possible that there could be room for yet another important biography on so iconic a star as Marlene Dietrich, already the subject of a remarkably candid yet detached memoir by her daughter Maria Riva and of the late Steven Bach's thoughtful and exhaustively researched "Marlene Dietrich: Life and Legend." Both were published not long after Dietrich's death in Paris at 91 in 1992. Yet Charlotte Chandler's "Marlene: Marlene Dietrich, A Personal Biography" proves invaluable. As with such self-protective, image-conscious legends as Katharine Hepburn, Joan Crawford and Mae West, Chandler has again demonstrated her unparalleled ability to get major figures of Hollywood's golden age to talk about their lives with unprecedented openness.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-05/61652960-16170610.jpg "It hardly seems possible that there could be room for yet another important biography on so iconic a star as Marlene Dietrich, already the subject of a remarkably candid yet detached memoir by her daughter Maria Riva and of the late Steven Bach's thoughtful and exhaustively researched "Marlene Dietrich: Life and Legend.\" Both were published not long after Dietrich's death in Paris at 91 in 1992. Yet Charlotte Chandler's \"Marlene: Marlene Dietrich, A Personal Biography\" proves invaluable. As with such self-protective, image-conscious legends as Katharine Hepburn, Joan Crawford and Mae West, Chandler has again demonstrated her unparalleled ability to get major figures of Hollywood's golden age to talk about their lives with unprecedented openness.")
Special to the Los Angeles TimesIt hardly seems possible that there could be room for yet another important biography on so iconic a star as Marlene Dietrich, already the subject of a remarkably candid yet detached memoir by her daughter Maria Riva and of the late Steven Bach's...Tags: Josef von Sternberg, Documentary (genre), Mae West, Entertainment, Music
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Paging Disney's Rich Ross: Whatever you do, don't read this 'Secretariat' review!
The Big PictureEven though Salon's Andrew O'Hehir manages to call "Secretariat" "a work of genius" at one point in his new review, I don't think we'll be seeing Disney putting O'Hehir in its blurb ads this weekend. In fact, I suspect that...... -
Sports Legend Revealed: Was a cigarette lighter once used to re-light the Olympic Flame?
The Fabulous ForumOLYMPIC LEGEND: A cigarette lighter was once used to re-light the extinguished Olympic Flame. STATUS: True. While the interlocking rings that make up the Olympic flag are undoubtedly the most recognizable symbol of the Olympic Games, the Olympic Flame is.... -
Dance review: Pat Graney Company’s 'Faith' at REDCAT
Culture MonsterA still life with moving bodies. Olympians at play. Knock-kneed models in red patent leather stilettos. These are but some of the tableaux that Pat Graney Company evokes in “Faith,” seen at REDCAT Thursday in the first of four performances....... -
Roman Genn's refined palette
MOSCOW-BORN, Los Angeles-based artist Roman Genn has come a long way from drawing Communist propaganda cartoons as child. His incisive caricatures have appeared in magazines and newspapers across the country, often generating controversy with what he's...Tags: History, Ariel Dorfman, Cartoons, Newspaper and Magazine, Entertainment
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His wit was hard-boiled
![WE think we know Damon Runyon, and we might think we're pretty jaded about him, but a fat new anthology, <b>" 'Guys and Dolls' and Other Writings" </b>(Penguin: 636 pp., $18 paper), introduced by <b>Pete Hamill </b>and edited and annotated by Cornell professor <b>Daniel R. Schwarz</b>, makes us see afresh a writer whose hard-bitten and ironic point of view prefigures the fictional worlds of "The Godfather" and "The Sopranos." There's much more to Runyon than Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra looking sharp and talking cute in the 1955 film version of "Guys and Dolls."](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-06/39176063-20141135.gif "WE think we know Damon Runyon, and we might think we're pretty jaded about him, but a fat new anthology, <b>" 'Guys and Dolls' and Other Writings\" </b>(Penguin: 636 pp., $18 paper), introduced by <b>Pete Hamill </b>and edited and annotated by Cornell professor <b>Daniel R. Schwarz</b>, makes us see afresh a writer whose hard-bitten and ironic point of view prefigures the fictional worlds of \"The Godfather\" and \"The Sopranos.\" There's much more to Runyon than Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra looking sharp and talking cute in the 1955 film version of \"Guys and Dolls.\"")
Special to The TimesWE think we know Damon Runyon, and we might think we're pretty jaded about him, but a fat new anthology, " 'Guys and Dolls' and Other Writings" (Penguin: 636 pp., $18 paper), introduced by Pete Hamill and edited and annotated by Cornell professor Daniel...Tags: Pete Hamill, Caves and Caverns, San Francisco, Frankenstein (movie, 1931), Juvenile Delinquency
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Teach the controversy?
Today, Shermer and Lukianoff discuss efforts to include "intelligent design" and other such hypotheses in classroom curricula. Previously, they weighed allegations of instructor bias in college classrooms and debated what roles a school might have in...Tags: Science and Technology, Crimes, Entertainment, Politics, Colleges and Universities
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