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PASSINGS
Gregory R. Dillon Hilton hotel executive Gregory R. Dillon, 86, a Hilton Hotels Corp. executive who was a confidant of company founder Conrad Hilton and chief executive Barron Hilton, died Wednesday at his Los Angeles home, according to a statement from...Tags: Real Estate Transactions, Justice System, Kansas, Portland (Multnomah, Oregon), Crime, Law and Justice
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Coca: It's Spanish for pizza
!["EXPECT the expected" is usually the best slogan when you're invited for brunch, but what a new friend had waiting on his kitchen counter a few Saturdays ago was not just a fresh idea. It could be the greatest thing since sliced pizza.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-08/34870582-24131158-187105.jpg ""EXPECT the expected\" is usually the best slogan when you're invited for brunch, but what a new friend had waiting on his kitchen counter a few Saturdays ago was not just a fresh idea. It could be the greatest thing since sliced pizza.")
Special to The Times"EXPECT the expected" is usually the best slogan when you're invited for brunch, but what a new friend had waiting on his kitchen counter a few Saturdays ago was not just a fresh idea. It could be the greatest thing since sliced pizza. My host, a...Tags: Foods and Beverages, Brunch, Anchovies, Olives, Dining and Drinking
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Chocolatier chic in Barcelona
Times Staff WriterBarcelona — ORIOL BALAGUER'S tiny corner shop on Plaza Sant Gregori looks like a chic jewelry store. But don't be mistaken. The shop is a salon of serious, couture chocolates. In a display case that seems to float in the middle of the room, shiny...Tags: Candy, New York, E-Commerce Industry, Europe, Dining and Drinking
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Movie Review: 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona'
It took a screenplay set among Americans in Spain for Woody Allen to make his most French film yet. "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" plays like a conscious attempt at a freewheeling artifact of the French New Wave, particularly Francois Truffaut's "Jules and...Tags: Francois Truffaut, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Cannes Film Festival, Scarlett Johansson, Movies
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Allen Woos Cruz as New Muse
Zap2It.comIf Woody Allen is shooting his next film in Barcelona, how could he resist casting Spain's hottest leading lady? According to the Spanish newspaper El Pais, Allen has cast Oscar nominee Penelope Cruz in his upcoming untitled comedy, set to begin...Tags: Spain, England, Entertainment, Colin Farrell, Comedy (genre)
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Connecting with the isolated through film
![Nearly a decade ago, Isabel Coixet found herself on an oil rig off the southern coast of Chile. An aspiring if impecunious filmmaker, she was there to shoot an industrial film for Shell Oil. The job was neither glamorous nor idyllic, but in the weeks she spent aboard the isolated platform, she was struck by something extraordinary, even beautiful. "Alone in the middle of the ocean, men open up to each other more and talk about what really matters to them." These days the Catalán-born Coixet, 44, is one of Spain's most honored directors. But the oil rig, and what it embodied, are still with her.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2006-12/27122394.jpg "Nearly a decade ago, Isabel Coixet found herself on an oil rig off the southern coast of Chile. An aspiring if impecunious filmmaker, she was there to shoot an industrial film for Shell Oil. The job was neither glamorous nor idyllic, but in the weeks she spent aboard the isolated platform, she was struck by something extraordinary, even beautiful. "Alone in the middle of the ocean, men open up to each other more and talk about what really matters to them.\" These days the Catalán-born Coixet, 44, is one of Spain's most honored directors. But the oil rig, and what it embodied, are still with her.")
Special to The TimesNearly a decade ago, Isabel Coixet found herself on an oil rig off the southern coast of Chile. An aspiring if impecunious filmmaker, she was there to shoot an industrial film for Shell Oil. The job was neither glamorous nor idyllic, but in the weeks...Tags: Richard Ford, Atom Egoyan, Robert Altman, Dylan Thomas, Sarah Polley
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El Bulli chef wants a piece of the pizza pie
Ferran Adrią, the internationally acclaimed chef whose El Bulli in Spain is revered as the world's premier outpost of gastronomic inventiveness, has ventured to Italy to learn a more humble art, pizza making. And perhaps not surprisingly, some Italians...Tags: Pies and Tarts, Foods and Beverages, Wolfgang Puck, Economy, Business and Finance, Arts and Culture
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Movie review: 'Darkness'
Tribune Newspapers: Los Angeles TimesJaume Balaguero's "Darkness" is yet another horror picture in which a typical-appearing family, seeking peace and tranquility in the countryside, moves into the gloomiest, most remote old house it can find, and then, when things start going bump in the...Tags: Lena Olin, Hospitals and Clinics, Anna Paquin, Family, Movies
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Infected traveler was on 7 flights
From Wire ReportsHONG KONG - In a striking example of how far and fast a virus can be carried in an era of international jet travel, health officials here announced last night that a man infected with a new respiratory disease had flown from Hong Kong to Munich, Germany;...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Hong Kong, Viral Diseases and Infections, Family, Diseases and Illnesses
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Their brotherly spat takes a holiday
Special to The TimesIt's not often that one receives tickets for a luxurious, all-expenses-paid European cruise out of the blue. But that's what happened to me and my brother, Andrian. Our benefactor was Great-Aunt Norma. When she was young, she didn't have the money for...Tags: Peggy Guggenheim, Waterway and Maritime Transportation Industry, Tourism and Leisure, Trips and Vacations, Arts and Culture
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'Balseros'
Times Staff WriterIf you want to make a memorable documentary, you can't be in a hurry. The creators of the magnificent "Balseros" stayed involved with its subject, a group of Cuban boat people who made it to the United States, for a full seven years. If you put in that...Tags: Prostitution, Social Issues, Havana (Cuba), Journalism, Cuba
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'Darkness'
Times Staff WriterJaume Balagueró's "Darkness" is yet another horror picture in which a typical-appearing family, seeking peace and tranquillity in the countryside, moves into the gloomiest, most remote old house it can find, and then, when things start going bump in the...Tags: Lena Olin, Spain, Hospitals and Clinics, Children, Entertainment
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![Jaume Balagueró's "Darkness" is yet another horror picture in which a typical-appearing family, seeking peace and tranquillity in the countryside, moves into the gloomiest, most remote old house it can find, and then, when things start going bump in the night and worse, <I>it doesn't </I><I><I> </I>move out no matter what</I>.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2004-12/15611158 "Jaume Balagueró's "Darkness\" is yet another horror picture in which a typical-appearing family, seeking peace and tranquillity in the countryside, moves into the gloomiest, most remote old house it can find, and then, when things start going bump in the night and worse, <I>it doesn't </I><I><I> </I>move out no matter what</I>.")
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