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    Mar 30, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. An Appreciation: Richard Griffiths' outstretched hand

    Richard Griffiths was an actor of enormous size. He was physically big — obese to the point of sometimes needing a cane to get around. But his mind and soul were equally large, and his eloquence was so prodigious that playwright Alan Bennett found in him an ideal interpreter of his magnificently articulate art.
    Richard Griffiths was an actor of enormous size. He was physically big — obese to the point of sometimes needing a cane to get around. But his mind and soul were equally large, and his eloquence was so prodigious that playwright Alan Bennett found...

    Tags: Entertainment Events, Daniel Radcliffe, Arts and Culture, Tony Awards, Richard Griffiths

    2. Mar 15, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  2. Review: 'The Book of My Lives' by Aleksandar Hemon

    Aleksandar Hemon, the 48-year-old Bosnian refugee who has become one of this city's literary rock stars, can amuse and he can devastate. That he does both in his second language, wielded with precision and elegance, has earned him comparisons to Nabokov and Joseph Conrad.
    Aleksandar Hemon, the 48-year-old Bosnian refugee who has become one of this city's literary rock stars, can amuse and he can devastate. That he does both in his second language, wielded with precision and elegance, has earned him comparisons to Nabokov...

    Tags: Immigration, Authors, Chicago Tribune, Arts and Culture, Health Treatments

    3. Mar 8, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. Why Benjamin Britten's music is ever youthful

    Benjamin Britten, who never in his life thought of himself as gay, might well be dismayed if he could peer down at how discussion of his life and work has come to be dominated by the matter of his sexuality. The latest biography — by Paul Kildea,...

    Tags: The New York Times, Arts and Culture, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Music, Heart Problems

    4. Feb 20, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  4. Oh the nerdity

    The Baltimore Sun
    W.H. Auden trawled the Oxford English Dictionary for old and obscure words, some of which he employed in his poetry. He was so fond of the OED that he often took a volume of it to bed at night. We here in Wordville understand that. Thus there is joy...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, University of Oxford, Literature

    5. Feb 8, 2013 |Column| Allentown Morning Call

  5. What Abraham Lincoln learned from Richard III

    Viewed from the American side of the water, the fanfare about the discovery of the bones of the last Plantagenet monarch probably seems a bit quaint. Having determined that the remains found in Leicester, U.K., a few months back are indeed those of...

    Tags: George W. Bush, Abraham Lincoln, Richard Nixon, Elizabeth II, Yale University

    6. Dec 10, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. Review: Ties bind even as brickbats fly in 'Other Desert Cities'

    If like me you come from a mixed family, meaning there are conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats boisterously hashing out their differences at the holiday table, you'll have an easy time recognizing the Wyeth clan gathered to celebrate Christmas at the family's Palm Springs compound in Jon Robin Baitz's grippingly entertaining "Other Desert Cities."
    If like me you come from a mixed family, meaning there are conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats boisterously hashing out their differences at the holiday table, you'll have an easy time recognizing the Wyeth clan gathered to celebrate...

    Tags: George W. Bush, Long Island, Democratic Party, Travel, Holidays

    7. Sep 23, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. Louis Simpson dies at 89; Pulitzer-winning poet

    "A poet," Louis Simpson once wrote, "should wish for enough unhappiness to keep him writing."
    "A poet," Louis Simpson once wrote, "should wish for enough unhappiness to keep him writing." Simpson may not have wished for trouble, but he kept writing for 60 years — spare, powerful poems about war, infidelity, suburban alienation and other...

    Tags: Entertainment Events, The Washington Post, State University of New York, Saul Bellow, Pulitzer Prize Awards

    8. Sep 21, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  8. Lyrical centennial

    Arguing over poetry's cultural relevance is a little like debating the potential effects of drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, says Poetry magazine editor Christian Wiman. “For many people, poetry will remain remote, inaccessible and on the same plane of perception as that Arctic refuge,” Wiman contends. “But who knows by what unconscious routes poetry is reaching into lives that seem to have nothing to do with it?”
    Arguing over poetry's cultural relevance is a little like debating the potential effects of drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, says Poetry magazine editor Christian Wiman. “For many people, poetry will remain remote,...

    Tags: Chicago Tribune, Charity, Book, Wildlife, Ernest Hemingway

    9. Aug 29, 2012 |Story| Hartford Courant

  9. Gabriel Kahane's "February House" Recording Available

    <span>It&rsquo;s no secret how more I greatly admire <strong>Gabriel Kahane</strong>&rsquo;s terrific score to his new musical <strong>&ldquo;February House&rdquo;</strong> when its had its world premiere earlier this year at New Haven&rsquo;s<strong> Long Wharf Theatre</strong>. It subsequently had a run at off-Broadway&rsquo;s <strong>The Public Theater.</strong></span>
    Hartford Courant
    It’s no secret how more I greatly admire Gabriel Kahane’s terrific score to his new musical “February House” when its had its world premiere earlier this year at New Haven’s Long Wharf Theatre. It subsequently had a run at...

    Tags: Brooklyn (Windham, Connecticut), Carnegie Hall, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Brooklyn Heights, Long Wharf Theatre

    10. Aug 24, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. Christopher Plummer still has 'A Word or Two' to say

    <em>&quot;First you're young. Then you're old. Then you're wonderful."</em>
    "First you're young. Then you're old. Then you're wonderful." — Alice Roosevelt Longworth STRATFORD, Canada — Christopher Plummer is in the wonderful phase of his career — and at 82 he's seizing the opportunity. In February, the six-...

    Tags: Entertainment Events, Ceremonies, Fishing, Richard Harris, Michael Caine

    11. Apr 29, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  11. Stagecoach 2012: Steve Martin goes whole hog in Indio

    Pop & Hiss
    It was with some sense of deja vu that Steve Martin pulled into Stagecoach for a performance Saturday that had him and the Steep Canyon Rangers slotted to play immediately after bluegrass music patriarch Ralph Stanley, a situation similar to one for which...
    12. Mar 28, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. Adrienne Rich dies at 82; feminist poet and essayist

    Adrienne Rich, a pioneering feminist poet and essayist who challenged what she considered to be the myths of the American dream and subsequently received high literary honors, died Tuesday at her home in Santa Cruz. She was 82. The cause was...

    Tags: Customs and Tradition, Teachers, Obituaries, Reviews, Bill Clinton

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