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She Nails The Marilyn Role Right Down To The Mole
Fox 61Rub your eyes and pinch yourself all you want; you'll still swear that you're in the presence of Marilyn Monroe herself. "Marilyn: Forever Blonde" is playing at the Ivoryton Playhouse, and you can color this writer convinced. "Marilyn: Forever Blonde" is...Tags: Janis Joplin, John F. Kennedy, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe
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'Slumberland' by Paul Beatty
Slumberland
A Novel
Paul Beatty
Bloomsbury: 244 pp., $24.99
I first heard of Paul Beatty in the 1990s, when Europe was awash in young black rebels trying to forge a new identity against the backdrop of insidious racism. We wanted to be black and...Tags: University of California, Book, Arts and Culture, Crime, Law and Justice, Langston Hughes
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Hope lives sparingly in wounded community
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe sun splashed onto the roof of a church, filling the faces of two golden statues of angels who opened their arms to the sky. It was the first light of the morning, which made everything look pretty, even the hardened heart of South Los Angeles. Don'...Tags: Punishment, Duke Ellington, Crime, Law and Justice, Mario Martinez, Crimes
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New CDs: Charlie Haden, Kings of Leon, TV on the Radio
Charlie Haden Family & Friends (Decca)
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The stereotypical disconnect between the worlds of jazz and country music was beautifully crystallized many years ago when celebrated drummer Buddy Rich was in the hospital. Just before going into surgery,...Tags: Family, Country and Western (genre), Wynton Marsalis, Crime, Law and Justice, Crimes
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Reardon Victim Goes Public, Blasts St. Francis Hospital
Courant Assistant Features EditorOn a Sunday afternoon in March 1970, Dr. George Reardon photographed me in degrading, sexually provocative poses in his office at St. Francis Hospital. It was just another day for the doctor. Afterward, he stopped at Arthur Drug on Farmington Avenue...Tags: Values, Family, Crime, Law and Justice, Neurosurgery, Jimi Hendrix
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Leaving art out of history
How did George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" reflect both the Jewish and African American experience in America? Why was Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises" so influential for modern fiction and journalism? What was Abstract Expressionism, and why did...Tags: California, International Military Interventions, Sociology, New Mexico, George Gershwin
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'All You Need Is Love' finally arrives in U.S.
![British documentary maker Tony Palmer called his 17-hour TV series exploring the origins of American popular music <a href="http://www.happybirthdayamerica.us/">“All You Need Is Love,”</a> because John Lennon told him it would make a great title. But in the three decades since he made it, it's become evident to Palmer that he could justifiably have named it "Nick of Time."](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-07/40642590-02165727.jpg "British documentary maker Tony Palmer called his 17-hour TV series exploring the origins of American popular music <a href="http://www.happybirthdayamerica.us/\">“All You Need Is Love,”</a> because John Lennon told him it would make a great title. But in the three decades since he made it, it's become evident to Palmer that he could justifiably have named it \"Nick of Time.\"")
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterBritish documentary maker Tony Palmer called his 17-hour TV series exploring the origins of American popular music “All You Need Is Love,” because John Lennon told him it would make a great title. But in the three decades since he made it, it'...Tags: Muddy Waters, Lifestyle and Leisure, Jerry Lee Lewis, Television, Entertainment
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Jack Nimitz dies at 79; baritone sax player
Times Staff ReportsJack Nimitz, a jazz baritone saxophonist who played in the Woody Herman and Stan Kenton big bands and in the group "Supersax," died Wednesday of complications from emphysema at his home in Studio City. He was 79. Born in Washington, D.C., in 1930, Nimitz...Tags: Benny Carter, Washington, DC, Death, Woody Herman, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California)
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PASSINGS
Edward V. Hanrahan Ex-Illinois prosecutor Edward V. Hanrahan, 88, a former Cook County state's attorney in Illinois whose political career was ruined when Chicago police assigned to his office killed two members of the Black Panther Party in 1969,...Tags: California, World War II (1939-1945), Crime, Law and Justice, Prosecution, Lawyers
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Los Angeles Times bestsellers for June 21, 2009
++++++++++++++++++++ || Fiction || weeks on list || || 1. || The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown: $27.99) A recently downsized reporter investigates a serial killer who uses his computer job to find his victims. || 2 || || 2. || Shanghai...Tags: Family, Gaming, Twilight (book), September 11, 2001 Attacks, Entertainment
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Delray Beach exhibit shows works of watercolorist Dean Mitchell
South Florida Sun-SentinelLike most artists, Dean Mitchell always painted what he knew. Cypress trees. Tobacco barns. People. "My uncle Ben and stuff like that." Then, as now, his artistic influences were Rembrandt, Edward Hopper and Andrew Wyeth. The people he knew and painted...Tags: Arts, Delray Beach, Arts and Culture, Wynton Marsalis, U.S. Postal Service
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Saxophonist Donaldson redefines reality show
Tribune arts criticSooner or later in any Lou Donaldson show, the great alto man will arrive at the same line, and on Wednesday evening it came early: "Tonight, you're going to hear some real jazz--no Kenny G, no Najee, no any-G," Donaldson told the crowd at the Jazz...Tags: Television Industry, Kenny G
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